Local Brevities
s having a fine ctnck j boat built. An elevator has been put in the American jiouse. föhn Martin is now one of the cönductors on the Street car line. Nelson Rogers will open a (lour and feed store on Broadway. Rev. Dr. Ryan will lecture in the Epworth league course, April 26. GermaníndgeTD H- give an entertainment next Monday evening- Prof. James A. Craig speaks before the"S. C. A. next Sunday afternoon. : charity concert will be held at Frieze Memorial hall, Wednesday evening. The Ferguson cart company have just shipped another car load of carts to St. Louis. A tea and social will be held at the Presbyterian church, Thursday evening at six o'clock. Rev. A. W. Mann addresses the deaf mutes in the chapel of St. Andrew's church this evening. . E. N. Bilbie and Francis L. York give a pupil's recital in the Church of Christ next Thursday night. f. J. Quincy has built a large greenhouse on Forest ave to raise vegetables for the early market. Rev. T. W. Young is conducting a series of services1 in the Baptist church every evening this week. Airs. Trueblood has presented the !. E. church society with a handsome set of lable ware and linen. Justice Pond was declared reelected by two majority. Saturday, after the fourth ward was recounted. The regular annual meeting of Si. Andrews' church will be held next Tuesday at ten o'clock in the chapel. Mrs. Trueblood gives a dramatization of George Eliot's "Silas Marner" in the M. E. church, Thursday evening. The U. of M. base ball team beat the Albion college team in the first game of the season here Saturday, by a score of 21 to 3. Wm. R. Schmidt, a law student, was before Justice Pond, Saturday, for assaulting another student, and was fined #5 and costs. The Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the M. E. church meets with Mrs. W. J. Booth, of William street next Friday evening. The spring election cost the city of Ann Arbor $535.45. Of this $79.50 is chargable to the republican partisanship exhibited in creating the seventh ward. Henry E. Krehbiel who was born at Ann Arbor has become one of the most famous musical critics and composers in the world today. Hear him in the Inland League course next Tuesday night. Reserved seats may be secured without extra cost for the Krehbiel lecture before the Inland League next Tuesday night. Boards are now open at the Ann Arbor Organ Co., 51 S. Main st. The Woman's Auxialiary, of St. Andrew's church have elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. C. B. Nancrede; vice-president, Mrs. C. S. Millen; secretary, Miss Carrie Frieze; treasurer, Mrs. W. G. Doty. A. C. Richards died of consumption at his home on the corner of Fifth avenue and Jefferson street, Sunday night, aged thirty years. He leaves a wife. The funeral will be held at the house at three o'clock this afternoon. He was a member of Cantón Xo. 30, I. O. O. F. The many music loving people in Ann Arbor should feel very greatful to the Inland League for inducing Mr. Henry E. Krehbiel to come to this city and deliver his splendic lecture on "How to Listen to Music." The League has gone to great expense and has run consider able risk in engaging Mr. Krehbiel The people of Ann Arbor will see the League through liberally after i has shown such enterprize in bring !ng so famous a musician to Ann Arbor. Jefferson Davis has been gra a pension of Si 2 a mon Mrs. Jerome H. Freeman has been granted a widows.pens; n. Two trustees of Trinity Lutheran church will be elected to-morrow evening. Uniyersity hall was crowi terday afternoon at the Mme. Rhea reception. There will be a Faculty Concert in Frieze Memorial hall, Thursday evening, April 1 1. The five year old daughter of William Clark, of Division Street, broke her arm Sunday. A class of forty-five raembers was confirmed in St. Andrew's Episcopal church by Bishop Davies, last evening. George Marsden, of the Miller avenue greenhouse, was thrown from a delivery wagon Saturday morning and sustained a very severe shaking up Prof. H. B. Hutchins, the new dean of the law department, has purchased the residence ot H. M. Tabor on the corner of Monroe and Packard streets for $6,800. Andrew Muehlig has taken Frederick Schmid into partnership with him in the hardware business under the firm name ot Muehlig & Schmid. This will make an exceedingly strong hardware firm. Mrs. johason, mother of Mrs. Dewitt C. Fall, George and John Johnson, died in Albion last week and her remains were brought here Saturday for burial in Webster. She was 81 years old. A. C. Schumacher, Ottmar Eberbach and J. O. Schlotterbeck have been appointed a research committee of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical association to meet with the national coinmittee to revise the U. S. Pharmacopcda. Mary J., only daughter of Evart H. and Sarah E Scott, died at twenty-five minutes after twelve o'clock this morning, of pneumonia, aged sixteen years, one month and vverity days. lier death is a sad )Iov to her bereaved parents. The seventh annual convention of he Woman's Christian Temperance Jnion, of Washtenaw county wil! )e held on Thursday and Friday of his week, at Ypsüanti. On this account the regular meeting of the ocal W. C. T. U. wil! be held Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock at McMillan hall. The Athletic association of the Jniversity elected the following officers yesterday: President, James H. Jrentiss; vice-president, Harry V. Saint; financial secretary, John Condon; recording secretary. Marquis 3. Eaton; treasurer, Walter FrjLtz. The receipts last year were $5,613.17; the expenses, $4,600. There has been an increase of 35 n the membership of the Baptist church during the past year, the jresent membership being 449. The receipts were $2613,58 and the expenses contracted during the year were $198.94 greater than the receipts. An effort is being made to aay off the last debt of the church, amounting to $550. The announcement at the meeting to take steps towards securing $15,000 for the woman's gymnasium, Saturday, that Jacobs & Allmand would dónate $50 was received by the young ladies with great enthusiasm. As was stated at the meeting, Mr. Jacobs had been largely instrumental in raising about 2,000, first and last, for the gymnasium. The New York Dry Goods Economist says: "Walter C. Mack, one of Michigan's prominent and wide awake merchants, has been buying his usual spring stock in this market during the past week. Mr. Mack's customers can rely upon his selections as being the best styles bought at the very lowest prices and his new stock well worthy of attention." The Charitable union desires to give public expression to its sense of loss, occasioned by the death of Mrs. N. G. Butts, who for twelve years had been a most active worker in the union. Her services so freely given, were highly valued, and the poor families, whom she was ever so ready to assist, will greatly miss her frequent visits and generous sympathy. By order of the union, Mary W. D'Ooge, Secretary. News has been received of the death of Mrs. Abbie Tomlinson, for many years a resident of Arm Arbor, at Brockway, Mich., on Wednesday, April 3. She was over eighty-seven years of age, having been born in Connecticut, November 24, 1807. She moved to Ann Arbor in 1863 and resided on North State street until about four years ago when she joined her granddaughter, Mrs. Abbie Cowie. The remains were taken to Springfield, Mass., for burial. The W. C. T. U.; of fhe county, hold their annual in Ypsilanti, Thursday and Friday evening of this weck. The Ann Arbor gas company elected the following (irectors yes-' terday: E. D. Kinne, S. T. Döu; II. VV. Douglas.Williárn Wagner, Myses Seabolf. Thu directors i ed ot'iicers as follows: Ë. D. K (ent; S. T. I ' and treasurer, and IK -W. Do'i superintendent.