Local Brevities

The annual meeting of the Bethlehem congregation will be held this evening at 7 o'clock, in the church. John Goetz & Son had their store burglarized on Sunday. Besides cigars, about $8 in momey were_ taken. The regular monthly meeting of the Ann Arbor Schutzenbund will be held this evening at 8 o'clock, in the D. O. H. hall. E. V. Hangsterfer expects to occupy his new store in the Behr block, on E. Washington street, about November 1. Officer Collins yesterday took John Murphy to the Detroit house of correction, where he was sentenced by Justice Pond. The Si Plunkett company last evening gave a performance in the opera house to a fair sized audience. The music was good, and many old chestnuts were applauded. Mrs. Eliza R. Sunderland will this evening give an illustrated lecture on the famous old castles of Europe, in the Second Baptist church. Admission 10 cents. The Ann Arbor Y. M. C. A. gave a rally in the Presbyterian church Sunday evening which was well attended. Rev. Mr. Barker, of Detroit, delivered an earnest address. The funeral services of Mrs. Anna Schultz were held this afternoon at the residence of her daughter on Summit street, Rev. Conrad Boechlin officiating. She was 88 years of age. A large crowd gathered in front of Schairer & Millen's store last evening, to watch the performance of a slight-of-hand man. It will be repeated each afternoon and evening this week. Choir-master H. S. Houghton, of St. Andrew's, is engaged at present in filling the vacancies in the boys' choir. Two of his pupils, Masters Brown and Elliott, on Sunday raorning sang unusually well, and received universal praise. Orrin T. Hoover, of the Chelsea Standard, and his son Clare, were in Ann Arbor yesterday, on business. He says. that the prospects for the fair to be held next week are excellent. Much advertising has been done, and a big crowd is expected. The two-year-old son of City Engineer Key yesterday afternoon wandered from home. He was accompanied by a pet dog. After several hours search he was found at the home of a colored family near the hospitals, who had taken care of the little fellow. The prize offered by the Eberbach Drug and Chemical Co. was won by Mrs. Ralph Rice, of Ypsilanti, she having guessed that there were 10,599 grains of sponges in the globe exhibited at the county fair. The sponges weighed 10,660 grains. The Young Men's Club of the Congregational church, of Ann Arbor, was organized last night, in the church parlors, with twenty-five charter members. The following üfficers were elected: Tohn E. Travis, president; Prof. R. Kempf, vice-president; W. M. Sturgeon, secretary; H. A. Williams, treasurer. All young men not identified with other churches are invited to attend, and will be made welcome. The first number of the U. of M. . Daily, issued since the beginning of the college year, is before us. It is highly creditable to the business and editorial management. A notice on the editorial page announces that "the editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions or statements of correspondents, appearing in the Daily." No; that would be too much. But they do hope to convince the probate court that they are responsible for their own opinions. John Shadford, an employee of the Electric Street Car line, on Sarurday narrowly eseaped losing his Ufe by being knocked off the elevated wagon used by the company. He was engaged in drawing up a wire and the dog gave way, the slack wire striking him and knocking him over backwards. He was taken to his home on the north side in an unconscious condition. For a time his lower limbs seemed to be paralized, and his spine injured. He is resting more easily and his physician has hopes that he may recover. Yesterday morning a very lively runaway took place on West Huron street, the horse of the Ann Arbor Organ company succeeding in wrecking the buggy to which he was attached, and almost killing a child. He was standing before the factory door on S. First street, when without apparent cause, started up. Herman Allmendinger, in whose charge he was, tried in vain to stop him. The horse turned on W. Huron street, ran into a fence, which freed him from the buggy, and narrowly missing a woman with a baby carriage ran down the railroad track. Dr. A. K. Hale, the receiver of the Water Co., yesterday received a letter from a friend in Jerauld county, S. Dakota, giwing a very discouraging report of affairs in his vicinity. He writes that the farmers are almost discouraged. The wheat erop was only good in patches The millers only allow them 22 pounds of flour and five pounds of bran in exchange for a bushei of wheat weighing 60 pounds. He thinks the country is only good for grazing. He believes, however, hat if the Popuhsts' money theories be carried out they would, in pite of poor crops, live very comortable. Prof. Steere replies caustically to he reasons given by the board of egents, for dispensing with his services as naturalist in the University. The professor evidently regards the board as an aggregation of horned pecimens from the zoological gardens, and believes he sees a "cloven hoof" in the lot. Prof. Steere is igainst "horns" and has therefore accepted the nomination of state enator on the prohibition ticket. f he succeeds in securing the elecion he will endeavor to have passed a liquor limit law, so large that the mouth of a hippopotamus will fit he thirst of the regents before they ind any good, red liquor to drink n Michigan. When the board reads his it will see what it has done. The 34th annual convention of he Michigan Sunday School Association will beheld in Grand Rapids rov. 13, 14, and 15. The first meeting will be on Tuesday evening n Lockerby Hall, and will be addressed by Maj-Gen. 0. O. Howard, 'J. S.A. The subsequent sessions will )e held in the First Baptist church. The program will be rich and varied, and ably sustained by representative talent both in and out of the state. We ask you to note the rowing popularity of our state conventions. The attendánce at the Lansing convention, in 1890, was about 500; at Muskegon, in 1891. 736; at Bay City, in 1892, 820; at Piillsdale, in 1893, 1,050. The representations in our state conventions ïeretofore have excelled those of Ohio. At their last convention they enroiled 1,521 delegates. At our ïorthcorning meeting we want to register 2,000 delegates. We can do it.