Local Brevities

Tbe new Bethlehem ohnreh is to be frescoed. . j Euler & Pipp will bnild O. M. Martin's new blook. Ross Granger is the introducer of a "Trilby" two step. James L. Duffy is about to remove his law office from Bay City to Detroit. Eugene Gilmore and Charlotte Clark, of this city, have been married in Chicago. A teachers' exainination for second and third grade certificates was held yesterday. Dr. D. A. McLachlan is about to prepare a texfc book on the eye for a Chicago firm. E. V. Hangsterfer is to open a confectionery store at Ypsilanti in the new opera house block. Wm. Campbell, of Pittsfleld, bas been drawn asa juror for the November term of the United States oourt at Detroit. The Seventh Day Adventi sts of Battle Creek have invested $5, 000 in a lot. corner of South División and Liberty streets. The Seventh Michigan Cavalry had a reunión at Saginaw last week. Col. B. M. Thompson and J. Q. A. Sessions were elected president and secretary respectively. The next reunión will be held here. A committee was appointed by the supervisors this week, consisting of Messrs. Oesterlin. Hunter and Forsythe, to ascertain the necessity if any, of building vaults in the court house for the safe keeping of public records. Max O'Rell.the doughty Prenohman, who desired to fight a duel with our own Mark Twain beoause ïankee repartee was a little swifter than the Frenoh article, has au article in the current North American Review, entitled "A Study in Wives." Mr. O'Rell viu joke one evening tliis winter for the S. L. A. Thf Sunduy traiu north on the Ann Arlxir roflld bas been discontinned. A concert and organ recital will be givein the Methodist church by Professor Stanley, Ootober 24. Arch bishop Ireland of St. Paul will lecture in one of the leotnre coursea to be given in Ann Arbor this wnteis Mrs. Harriet A. Monroe, aged 57 years, died Sunday ïnurning af lier home in the Unity blcok. Her interment was made at Romeo. The man in the moon had his faee iii eclipse last night, totallv disappearia;.; froui view at eleven o'clook. He vviH be ou duty again to night. Hattie Wise, Sarah Hopkins aml Lulu Smith will have a hearing lief. hm Justice Pond next Tuesday on a o barga of koepiug a d-isorlerly house. The twenty-econd annual meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the Adrián dis trict M. E. ohnrch was held at Chelsea this week. The piïce of coal in Ann Arbor is $5, and in the neighïoring cities it is $5.50 and $fi. A coal man told the Argus this week that he was losing money. E. J. Ottaway, who left the Argus to accept a position on the Detroit Free Press, "did" the big Masotiic meeting at Grand Rapids for his paper this week. Mrs. Annie Schneider died Sunday morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. John Haupt, 23 Miiler avenue, after a week's illness, of malaria. Burial took place at Forest Hill cemetery Tuesday. Mrs. Fannie Drake, wife of Frank Drake, of Lodi, died Saturday last of consumption.aged 56 years. The funeral services were held Tuesday and the remains laid to rest in the Lodi cemetery. The Choral Union board has fixed the price for the eoncerts the coming season at $3. Tickets for the May Festival aloue will cost L3. Reserved seats will be sold for May Festival week for the noinnal sum of one dollar. Some comment has been made upon ;be light fines imposed in the circuit court against offending saloonkeepers. [t is rumored, and not without foundation, that saloonkeepei s in the future will not receive the lenient treatment of the past. John Bell, employed by the Ann Arjor road as watchman at the sink hole, uorth of Howell Junction, was found out in two on the track by trainmen Wednesday. morning. It is supposed hat he feil asleep on the track. He eaves a wife and tbree grown children. Mis Florgnce Bnggs, of Saline, is aching' in 'the Smurthwaite distriet in Pittsfield this fall. Miss Briggs is ;he first teacher to wield the biroh in the splendid new school hor s 5 erected during the snmrner. This is oue of the ïnest school buildings to be foundjin the rural districts of the county. Albert H. Yale, a student in the high school, died Monday niht at his room on North State, of typhoid fover. He was about 20 years of age and had a Drother in the medical departmenf and a. second brother living in Battle Creek. The two left Tuesday morning for Waöo, Slebraska, their old home, with the remains. President Angelí says that during ;he snznmer montbs rnembers of the egislature brought patients to enter the lospitals, fürgetting that their niggardinerss.rnade the closing of the hospitals :or the summer months imperative. It s but fair to the president to say that he did not use as strong a word as niggardliness but that is the word most any one else wtrald use. Hubert Woodward, formeriy of this city, and now of Flint, has strnok it rich in a gold aud silver mine in Colorado. The mine, called the "Big Fonr," is putting out ore assaying $200 and $300 a ton in the precious metal. Col. Wm. B. MoCreery, of Flint, is Mr. Woodward's partner in the concern. Mr. Woodward has just returned from a trip west and is jubilant over his good fortune. . JRoss Granger, the well known dancing master.wasthe victim of a genuino and much enjoyed surprise party last Friday evening, when about forty of his friends took posRession of his home. in honor of his 36th birthday. The Chequamegon orchestra furnished music for dancing and A. J. Sawyer presented Mr. Granger with an arm chair in the name of the assembled friends. I Fred Williams stole a horse and buggy belonging to Charles Goodspeed of Superior township from off Liberty street the night of Ootober 5. The horse ran away on State street and smashed the buggy agaiust a post. Williams was found later in the neighborhood and was arrested on a charge of horse thieving. He waived examination in justice court and pleaded guilty before Judge Kinne last Saturday aternoon. He was sentenoed to two years in the Ionia reformatory. Williams had just flnished aSentence in an Ohio penitentiary. The MsMillan hall gymnasium is uow open for the ensuing year. Two competent instructors have been secured, Mr. W. H. Hutchings and Miss Alice Y. Snyder. Mr. Hutchings has beeu conneoted with the Waterman gymnasium and is too well known to need further introducton here. Miss Snyder is a gradúate of the New Haven School of Physical Culture, and has taught with great success at Chatauqua and Nashville. Both instrnctors are students ín the medical department. Tickets and information as to the honrs can be obtained of the librarían at McMillan hall any afternoon from two to five, or any eveniag from seven to nine. There were two deaths in the city from typhoid fever this week. Frank Parker has purchased tho Reg ister plant, disposed of at public veudue. The street cars will be vestibnled. Robert Hnuter lias the contract fo doing the work. The Salvatiou Army is coming to towu, having rented the store forinerly occupied hy the Chicago shoe flrm. Miss Sopha. East says the shoes givou by Wahr &, MilJer as a preminm are fine ones. It is just the place to get good shoes. Miss Louise Weitbrecht, of Springfleld, Ohio, who has been visiting relatives and friends here for the past six weeks, returned home yesterday. Jacob Baessler, of 69 North Main street, died Wednesdav morning of typhoid fever, aged flfty years. Burial took place in tho fifth ward cemetery. Mr. and M'S. EarJ Ware have returned from a 500 mile buggy ride embrapiDg the counties of Oakland, Geuesee, Saginaw, Livingston. Midland and Tuscola. George Clapp, father of Mrs. T. J. Keech, died Wednesday evening at his home in Lanoaster, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. Keech left yesterday to attend the funeral. Charles Eaton, of Pittsfield, lost two of his toes by having his foot drawn into the gearing of a threshing machine on ihe Mann place, out South Main street. The remains of Captain ,T. W. Condon were brousht here today from Buffalo. He was a forrner resident of this city snd had sailed the lakes for a nrtmber of years. Rev. C. M. Cobern wiiï preach next Svmday evening on the subject "Some new discoveries and the Bible. " His morning topic will be "How to read the Bible. " Sermons under his course on the Bible. Anothñr case of winter lingering in the lap of spring ! Louis Carson, aged 75, and Mrs Melinda B. Long. aged 27, of the fifth ward, were united in marriage yesterday morning at the home of the groom by Justice Gibson. Hugh McGnire desires to hereby accept the challenge of Clarence Sweet to .run a foot race with anybody in Ann Arbor. Mr. McGnire also says that his opponent eau bet his Rweet life he won't win, or any amount between $10 and $50 that he will win. The Y. M. C. A. lyceum conrse was opened last evening at the Presbyterian chuerh by the Laura Dainty oompany. There was a fine audience present, and they were well entertained. The Y. M C. A. boys are to be oongratulated upon their very aaccessful start. Abut half the members of the senior class in the new dep irtment of technolgy gt together Tnesday night and decided to gradúate independent of the literary departmeut. Members of the class oppnsed are inaking an effort to have another meeting and vote such acion down, claiming that there was no 'uil representaton of tho class. Fire in Joe Clay's house on Oak street, oflf Geddes avenue, accounted for the ; two alarms of fiie yesterday. In the j morning the roof caught fire from a ' fective flue, and the department got that out without much damage. In the afternoon the roof again got afire from the same cause and was damaged a bout $50 worth. The dates of the Ghoral Union entertainments have been decided upon as folllows; Theodore Thomas 'orchestra, November, 19; Clementine De VereSapio, song recital, Decembñr 2; Elijnh Choral Uniou, January 17; Achille Rivarde, violiriist, February 1 1 ; Theodore Thomas, orchestra, April 6. An imperial order froru the Sublime Port in Contantinople has been sent to Aziz Pasha to massaore in one night all the Christians inhabifcing the WilayeC, ' men, women and children, the Turks still defying all the powers of the civilized Christian world and anunlling all efforts to bring these outrag.is to an end. They seem absolutely determued to crush and annihilate the Christian element from the snrface of the earth. The lecturer of the Syrian Soentific Academy and Educatonal Clnb, Dr. N. Sallurue, native of Tnrkey, and an eye witness of these outrages, who has recently been banished from Turkey, will give - dressed in native costume - a f uil account thereof in the Presbyterian church tonight at 8 o'clock. Chas. W. Ricketts was in the University in 1893 and was liked by everybody. He went to the theater a good deal and spent money with a prodigal hand. He was secretary of the 8. L. A. course.aud it is claimed, had abont 500 extra tickets printed and sold, the money for which went into his wallet and to pay for the theater tickets. When the other members of the board found out his perfidy Ricketts kept a stiff upper lip and did not leave the city until the end of the year. He went to the Chicago University from here and got into troublo for some irregularities with the financial end of a magazine. For some past he has been acting as agent for the Western Supply Co., at Terre Haute, Ind., and now he has been arrested on a charge of changing a school warrant from $390 to f590. Ricketts was a member of the high school here also, was president of the senior class, and could have been president of his freshman class in college had he so desired. His downfall here was acecranted for in his desire to dress better and be in society more than his purse would allow.