Local Brevities

The city aldermen are now supplied with monthly repoits of the doings of the poor commissioner. Mrs. Catherine Kuebler, wife of John Kuebler, sr., of 432 W. Second st., died Monday afternoon. George Suott, of this city, has been elected grand guard of the graad lodge of Royal Templara of Tempéranos. Juliau JB. Trojanowski, who has been laid np with a broken leg for the past two raonths, is able to be in bis barber eh op again. A nnnober of Ann Arbor Forestara attended the meeting of the High Court of Michigan Foresters in Detroit Tuesday and Wednesday. Wm. .1. Scanlon, the well known singer and charaoter aotor, who has been an inmate of an insane asylum for such a long time, is dead. M. C. Peterson, while in Ann Arbor last week, announoed bimself as a oandidate for the democratie nomination for sheriff at the uext connty convention. Ann Arbor Oddfellows will visit Hnrou Lodge, I. O. O. F., Dexter, next Monday evening and confer the first and third degrees on some candidates. Rev. E. D. Kelly is receiving many favorable replies to the letters sent out by him the first part of the month urging upon th Catholio alumni of the U. of M. the importance of organiing into a strong alumni association. The Washtenaw Evening Times says : "The friends of J. E. McKoue, township clerk of Sylvan, will present nis name for register of deds on the democratie tioket. He is a popular young man." Snelden Stebbins, of Azalia, who had his arm torn off in a ooru sheller last falJ is at the üniversity hospital and will have to have his arm reamputated, it Jiaving been dressed so badly at Jthe time of the accident. David Saxton, father of Silas Saxton, of this city, died at his home in Ypsilanti.Tuesday night, at the advauced age of 8G years. Besides the son tuentioned he leaves three other children, Jesse SaxtoD, of Chicago, Mis. Paine, of Ypsilanti and Mrs. Gardner, of Saginaw. Wednesday evening next, Match 2, is the date for the grand concert to be given by the Lyra Singing Society, and the Harmonie, of Detroit, at the Athens Theater. Tiokets can Le reserved at Wahr's bookstore commencing tomorrow and olosing Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Born to Mr. and Mr. Elmer E. Beal, Wednesday morning, an 83 pound boy. Mother and child doing wel!. The C. M. B. A. danoe at the armory Monday evening was well attended and tnuch enjoyed. Mnio was furnished by the Chequainegon. .1. T. Jacobs Camp, S. of V., was treated to a chicken pie supper Monday evening by Ihp flrst and second lieutenants of the itornp, J. L. Cox and E. J. Rookell. Mr. Delo V. Wilcox, ]it '94, and Miss Mina May Gates, both well known in Ann Arbor, were married here on Tuesday. They will reside in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Barton S. Taylor, aged 70 years, and for 16 years librarian of Albion college died in Albion, Tnesday. He was the father of Prof. Fred M. Taylor, of the university. The explosion of a gasoline stove in a honse on Geddes ave. Friday morniug oalled out the fire department. The blaze was extinguished before mucb daruage was done. Glen V. Mills has donated one of bis Aon Arbor direotories for 1898 to the Y. M. C. A. It is a great convenience and tbe young men are correpondingly grateful to Mr. Mills A special students' car has been put on the electrio line beween here and Ypsilanti, leaving the court house at 7:10 p. ra. Tbe car is a "smoker" and if it proves popular will he a permanent feature. At. the anuual meeting of tbe State Plutnbers' Association held in Lansing last week Titus F. Hutzel was elected altérnate delégate to the national association to be held at San Antonio, Texas, in April. Mrs. Sunderland's leotureon "A Trip Through Italy" given at High School hall Monday eveuing for the benefit of the Perry memorial fuud.was of a most instructive and interesting nature. The hall was crowded. Tbe lecture on the " Wonderlauds of the Rockies" at tbe Trinity Lutberan cburch, Monday evening, by Rev Dr. Leeper, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was fairly well attended. It was illustrated with sorne very fine stereopticou views and was a pleasiug leoture throughout. Mrs. Frances E. Burns, of St. Louis, Mich., Mrs. Lillian M. Hollister, Detroit, Mrs. R. A. Bailey. Hastings, and Mrs. Susie S. Graves, Port Huron, Great Hive oflicers of the L. O. T. M. were in tbe oity Wednesday bolding au exeoutive sessioa with Great Record Keeper Ernma E. Bower. The Hay Todd Mfg. oompf.ny has found it necessary, in order to aocomïaodate its eastern trade, to establish a permanent New York office in the New York Life building, Broadway and Leonard streets. The office will be under the management of Fred E. Showerman. The Knights Templar party Monday evening thongh not snob a brilliant and elabórate afïair as others that have preoeded it, was still a most enjoyable occasion for the 100 couples who attended it. Musio was furnished by Frank Minnis' orcbeotra and Mrs. Nellie L. Tyler and her assistauts. Light refreshraents were served by E. V. Hangsterfer. At the next meeting of tbe coinmon oouncil Marcb 7, tbe annual roport of the doings of tbe board of public works for 1897-98 will be presented to that body. It oontains some pretty heavy items, arnong them one of uearly $2,000 for biiok orosswalks. They como bigb, bnt we must have them, and they are bigh as any oue who goes cutter ridiug will voucb. At the third quarterly meeting of the Y. W. C. A. it was shown by reports of the offioers tbat the work was never in a better oondition, but the financial statos is not so good there being $50 less in tbe treasury now than there was at the same time last year. It is neoessary to raise $275 between now and Sept. 1, to pay the rent, secretary's salary and other running expenses. The Greek editor of the Times must have been oonsiderably off his base wben he allowed such a oonfusion of names as appeared in its columns on Wednesday eveniug. Two items about the "Xi Psi Phi" fraternity appeared, in which the name oconrred three times and it was spelled no two times alike and not ouoe was it correct. The spelling being as follows: Xi Sli Phi, Xi Chi Pi, Xi Shi Thi. Wake up, there. The Ann Arbor road has a cew yard engine at this point. It was built by the Pittsburg locomotive works. The board of regenta has ordered the two bospitals and the power huuses to be eqnipped with íelephones of the New State Telepone Co. at oooe. Mr. W. A. Campbell, of ByroD, aDd Miss Cora B. Boillat, of Anu Arbor, were married in Owosbo Wednesday of last week by Justice McBride. Tbe supreme oourt has bandeó down a deoision in the case of Charles F. Kayser vs. the Farmers and Mechanics Bank reaffirming the deoision of tbe lower oonrt in favor of the defendants. E. J. Helber yesterday sold his farm of 130 acres in the township of York, bordering on Saline township, to Charles Guthard, for $40 per acre. It is a good farm and brought a fair prioe the way farms go these times. The invitation oommittee for tbe Light Infantry reoeptiun and bal] of April llth are anxioas to compile an invitation list at once, and all names sent to the aommittee, nare of Captain Ross Granger, member ex offieio, will be given due oonsideration. The Oddfellows' entertainment Friday evening was so largely attended that the hall was taxed to its utmost capaoity to hold them all. The program as puhlished in last week's Argus had several additioiis to it and the dance that folJowed was mnch enjoyed. Aojther entertainment is t&lked of to take place very soon. The concert given by tbe vested choir of St. Andrew's ohurcb Thnrsday evening of last week, in Harris hall, for the benefit of the choir, was a most enjoyable affair. Tho program was an exoelleut one, the applanse was frequent and the enoores hearty. After the concert coffee was served to the boys and their friends by the ladies. Ben Jones, of Saline, wbo was awarded the contract for carrying the mails between the post office and depots at Aon Arbor for $548 per year, has thrown np the job. When he saw that he had 16 traius to attend to in the daytime and seven trains at uight, besides taking oai'e of the transfer mail, he made op his mind that he had bitten off more than he oould cbew. A farmer oonsiderably nnder tbe inflnence of liqnor tried to drive hiá team of horses throogb a private yard on N. Main st., Friday evening abont 8 o'olock. He had a $75 roll of bilis and said three yonng fellows wbo had been riding with him had tried to rob him and he was driving aoross lots to head them off and have them arrested. He waa fiually indnced to go hume. On Friday John O'Grady, Frank Hiil and Albert Parsons, wbo stole a penny-in-the-slot maobine one day last week and gave tbs officers suoh a chase before they were arrested, bad their trial before .Tnstice Duffy. Tbey were eacb given 65 days in tbe Detroit house of oorrection. Hill and Parsons are "doing" their time but O'Grady appealed the case to the oircnit oourt and is out on bail. The total uomber ofdeathsin Wasbtenaw oounty duriug the month of January was 49, divided as follows: Ann Arbor oity 16, Ann Arbor town 1, Bridgewater 2, Freedom 2, Lima I, Lodi -i, Nortbfield 4,Pittefield 2, Salem 11, Saline 1, Scio 1, Sharon 1, York 2, Ypsilanti city 7, Ypsilauti town 1, Chelsea 1, Manchester 1, Milan I. No reports frorn Augusta, Lyndou or Sylvan. Next Friday evening, Maroh 4, at the Baptist churoh, a concert will be given for the benefit of the Y. W. O. A. It will be a Mendelssohn evening, under the direction of Miss Elsa Liebig. An excellent program bas been prepared, inolnding numbers by Miss Minnie Davis, Mis. Kernpf, MasterFred Daley, Miss Liebig and Miss Emma Fisoher's chorus. Price of admission 15 cents. Dr. Camden M. Coberu's lecture on "Bible Etchings of Immortality," at the First M. E. ohurch Sunday nvening, was a spleudid one. He talked for over an hoor and his andienoe listened interestedly to his wonderful and original word piotures of inciients in the Holy Scriptures which proves conclusively the existenoe of a life beyond the torub. At the olose of tbe service a great nnmber of people preseed forward to the front of the ohnrch to clasp the hand of one of the most popular olergymen that ever ministered in Ann Arbor. JMichael Greening, of Ann Arbor, has been granted an original pensión of $8 a montb. C. H Major & Co., have fltted op tbeir store on E. Washington st., in flne etyle to show goods, with new shelving and other fixtures. The concert by Sousa's Band at University bail tomorrow evening wil] not comaienoe 8:15 o'olock. The doors, however, will be open at 7 :30. Assessments acoording to age will now be tbe order of tbe day in the A. O. U. W., instead of the straight f 1 assessment as heretofore. The matter was deoided at the meetiDg of the grand lodge last week. James H. Brewster, of thiR oity, and D. P. Suliivan, of Ypeilauti, are two of the moinbere of the state mernbers' conneil of tbe Micbigau Brotherhood of St. Andrew, elected at the reoent meeting in Bay City. A clnb for social jjnrposes was orgauized Friday eveuing at tbe C. M. H. A. hall by the youDg men of the Catbolio ohorcb. The members number about 60. Rev. E. D. Kelly was present in the capacity of adviser. A. E. Plindt, general secretary of the Bay City Young Men'e Christiaa Assooiation, will speak to men Snnday afternoon at 2:45 in the Y. M. C. A. rooms, 109 S. Main et., npstairs. Sid Martin will sing at tbis meeting. All students and yonng people areinvited to hear Rev. John M. Reid, D. D., of the Fort st. Presbyterian cbnrch, Detroit, wbo will give the annnal addiess before the Young People's Society of Cbristian Endeavor at the Presbyterian choren next Soniay evening at 7 :30 o'clock. Christian J. Seyfried was tried before a jury in Justice Pond's oourt Monday afternoon on the charge of allowing and cousenting to a cook fight being held in tbe cellar of a vacant house on Phillips st. , owued by him. The testimony as a wbole was of a very unconviuoing nature, toth for the proseoution and the defense, and the jury dis agreed. Dr. Geo. W. Grey, superintendent of the "Forward Movement;' Chicago, wbo lectured before the Good Government Clnb a few weeks ago, will preach at the First M. E. church Snnday morning, Feb. 27, and in the evening at 6:30 will address the Epworth League. His 'morning subjeot will be "The Christ life as a reformatory power in the betterment of society." On the seventu page of tbis paper will be found the advauce pages of the premium list of the Washtenaw Fair to be held in Ann Arbor, Sept. 27-30, 1898. The matter oontains much interesting information relating to the sohool exbibit by the ward, village and distriot sohools of the county. Teachers, scbulars aDd parents alike are interested in the school exhibits and shoold give it carefol attention. Maggie E., wife of W. S. Bennett, died at their home, 202 S. State st., Sunday night of quick consumption. She was 28 years old at tbe time of her death, and leaves a husband and three children, the youngest child being only a few weeks old. Brief funeral services were held at the house Monday afternoon, after which the remains were taken to Lisbon, Kent county, where they were interred on VVednesday. Germania ball was too small to accommodate the crowd that attended the masquerade party Tuesday evening and many had to be tnrned away. Tbe D. O. H. are to be congratnlated on the great iUccess attained. The prizes for oostumes, whioh were better than the average, were won by Miss West and Wm. Hiller for the best costnmes and by Miss Eugene Gauss and Theodore Apfel fur the most comioal oostumes. The benefit concert for Graoe Lutheran church given in Germania hall last Friday evenlng was well attended and an attractive program was given. Those wbo took part in it under the direction of J. G. Kurtzwere: E. F. Kurtz, G. Novak, Sid Bangs, Sam Healy. Phoenix Singing Society, Ernest and Marie Schaeborle, Ann Arbor Mandolin Club, F. C. Oase, George Richards, a mixed chorus and a chorus of girls. Dr. David Ziuimerman, who bad been confined to his bed by a long illness from paralysis, died at his home ou W. Huron st., Friday. The funeral services huid at the house on Sunday afternoon were private. Before coming to reside in Aun Albor Dr. Zimmerman's home was in Wayne. He was a genial, kindly gentleman and during his residence here had made a large circle of friends, both in business and social circles. His wife and one j son survive him. Mr. Hugh S. McRoy, of Detroit, and Miss Cora May Allmendinger were married at the home of the bride's parents Mr. and Mrs. George D. Allmendinger, Tuesday evening, by Rev. T. W. Young. Fully 70 relativos and friands of tbe yonng couple witnessed the interesting ceremony. Albert Allmendinger, a brother of tbe bride, acted as best man, while Miss Mollie Seybold was bridssmaid. After the oeremony a bountiful wedding supper was served. The future home of Mr. and Mrs. McRoy will be in Detroit. Cliarles H. Major, the art decorator has just finished some handsome work at the Pbi Kappa Psi house, the interior of wbich bas beeD completely remodeled. Notable ainong his doorations in the house are tbe walls of the diniug room whiob are fiuished in white, yellow aud gold; also tbe smoking room and parlorswhicb are finished in new crepe green. The floors are polished and the house presente a ruuoh improved appearanoe. Other frat houses whioh Mr. Major has had a haDd in beantifying are the Alpha Delta, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Psi U and Delta U. Dr. D. W. Nolan has left Aun Arbor to take up his residence in Owosso. Milan correspondenoe was reoeived too late for insertion in this week's issue. ,T. B. Boyle has purchased Bert E. Holmes' interest in the Hard-HolmeB Co., agricultura] irnpleuient dealers on Detroit st. Two sleigh loads of Ann Arbot folks went out into Pittsfield to Alfred J. Paui's, Tuesday evening, and had a jolly good time. Sealed bids are asked by Postmaster Beakes, np to and incltiding Maroh 5, for carrying the mails between the post offioe and the railroad depots. Dou Mclntyre bas been put in charge of the geuts' furnishing department of L. L. James & Co., 111 S. Jiain st., and would be glad to greet his friends j there. The calendar for the Mareb term of ihs circnt oonrt wbicb commences Maron 7, shows a total of 58 cases divided as follows: 10 criminal, 19 issues of fact, 4 issues of law, 10 fonrtb class ohancery, 15 fitst class chancery. The Anu Arbor Higb Sehcol bas received an invitation from Prof. Sfcagg fco tase part in the big athletio meet, at Chicago, Marcb 5. The team will be the guests of the üniversity of Chicago from the time tbey arrive ontü tbey return. L. J. Lisemer, manager of the Atbens Theater, will hereafter insist od order being maintained in tbe gallery of the house at every performance. With that accomplisbed the noise made by rowdies who invade the parqnet wil) be au easy matter to suppress. The city board of health in its report for the year ending December 31, 1897, records 116 deatbs on an eetiinated population of 14,000. This places the death rate at less tban 13 per 1,000. The board speaks of tbe water supply of the city as effioient and wholesome, and suya tbat all nnisauces bave been abated promptly and without litigation or expense. Kittie Henderson, colored, wbo was airested Friday night for being drunk and disorderly was released from cnstody on promising to leave the city. The fickle damsel did not keep her word, however, and yesterday moroi ing she was taken before Tustice Dnft'y on a like obarge. Sh admitted the oftense and paying the costs tbe case was dismissed. Albert and Jacob Red, of Dean's Mills, Livingston connty, six miles I from Whitmore Lake, are engaged in I an interesting experiment in cattle i feeding. Thny have 60 head of cattle to which tbey are feeding IS busbels of cnlled white beans per day. They boil or steam the beans until they are perfectly soft and then feed them. They say that the oattle thrive better ou the beans than tbey do on corn. Mrs. W. ö. Dieterle ieached het 40th biithday Priday and was surpiised in tbe evening by a nnmber of her lady friends who carne in to help her oelebrate it. In the party were Mesrtames Ernest Dieterle, Enoch Dieterle, Simon Dieterle, Herman Hotzel, David Allmendinger, Titus Hutzel, John iachmid, Wesley Seabolt, Jacob Laubengayer, John Heinzmann, Wm. Rehfuss, B. F. Schumacher, Martin Haller, J. Lindensobmitt, Mary Graff, M. Branner, E. Q. Mann, Andrew Reule, Jacob Keck, John Saner, of this city, and Miss Laura Garrison, of Bay City. It was strictly a "dove'' party.