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Day
7
Month
October
Year
1898
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First there comes the rumblingr, mumblms, . And the acrobatic tumbling . , .. , On the part of 'all the shouting. yelling mob, Then the sea of loutl dissension Settles down to a convention . For the sacred White goatee's begun to bt Comes it there and hangs befóte them- ' Power that's great enough to floor them- And a thousand hearts exhale a mighty sob, Like a party that is dying Past the time of toil and trying- When the sacred white goatee begins to bob. By the mouth that opes above it. They're adjured to worehip, love it, If they do upon their shoulders fall the jobs. Boots are lfcked and party feelmg Goes a-soarins; through the ceilinK' When the sacred white goatee begins lts bobs. Of their fates 'tis the arbiter, And they recognize the mlter, That is governed by the awful whisker s throb, So they salaam low before it. Id ecstatic love adore it- , ' ' y When the sacred white goatee begins to bob. For the sake of some position; On its altar of ambition Every sacrifice is offered.by the mob. And it cries, "Oh, great is Allah Mighty Allah! Wondrous Allah! When the sacred white goatee begins to bob. There's a tribe that thinks a river Is the one all powerful giver - Of the great and good arounu them mat tney see; And as idols are the fashion, It is well that with a passion Overwhelming, we should worship a goalee. -Karl E. Harriman in Detroit Free Press. Arbor bive will Celebrate ts seventh anniversary with a banquet Thursday evening, Nov. 10. City Elimineer Key has been instructed to prepare an estimate of the proposed paving on Washington st. Rev. P. V. Hawley, of Jackson, will occupy the unitarian church next Sitaday. After that Rev. 3. H. Crookei will be here to take charge of his pastorate. A golf club is talked of at the ü. o! M. A preliminary meeting, presided over by Prof. R. M. Wenley was held Tuesday afternoon and the club will be organized tomorrow. About $700 of the Main st. paving tax has already been paid. George W. Moore was the first man to pay his tax amounting to $108.22, on the building in which the Eutopia Millinery store is located. James L. High, the distinguished Chicago jurist, who was for a nombe of years a lecturer of the law department died in Chicago Monday, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, which developed from a malarial fever conttacted a Montauk Point, where he and Mrs High went to nurse their son Shirley High, who' was one of the Santiago invalids. He was graduate of the la department, class of '66, and was well known for his writings on legal subjects. Oontractor John Koch puts the nurnaer of new residences erected in the city since April at 200. A baby girl was born Monday to gladden the hearts and home of Mr. and Mrs. George Dengler. The vacant corner store in the Duffy block is to be opened up as an office and waiting room of the D., Y, & A. A. eleetrio roarl. James Brown, a tramp, was sentenced to 65 élifvs in the Detroit house of correction yesterday for stealing tinware from the store of Miss M. Eisele, 218 Detroit st. There are eight women students in the dental department this year, three of them being from Germany. The total enrollment in the dental department so far, is 208, as against 223 at the olose of last year. Dr. W. B. Smith. was married Wednesday at Hulbertson, N. Y., to Mias Jennie Phillips, of that city. They arrived in Ann Arbor the same evening and will, reside at the doctor's residence on E. Huron st. Mrs. Ross Granger has rented the academy on Maynard st. to Mr. Austin and Mrs. Tyler who will condjact their dancing school there tb is winter. Mrs. Granger and her children will join Capt. Granger at Knoxville, Tenn. A. L. C. Atkinson, who graduated with the law class last Jane, and who was a prominent figure in athletics during his stay in college, has been appointed assistant attorney general of the Hawaiian provisional government. Atkinson's father is a man of prominence in Hawaiian affairs. This is nice weather for a trip to Chicago and the Michigan Central offers the putalio a chance to take the trip at a very cheap rate. On Monday next, Oct. 10, they will sell tickets to Chicago good on any regular train for $5 for the round trip limited to return nn t.n and innlndini? Fridav. Oot. 14. [L yon want to go to Chicago you ihould take this in. Tadge Hammond, of the United States court, has decided for the Ann Arbor railroad in the case of Ashley s. Qníutard. Ashley sued Quinrard and other stookholdera of the Ann Aror for a large sum of money to wind up the receivership of the ïoad. ?ho stockholders being non-residents he Ana Albor road was garnisheed. Che stockholders moved to quash, olaimine the stock was not looated in he state. Seventeen fawns were initiated into Ann Arbor Lodge, B. P. O. Elks, last evening. Visitors were present from other lodges including Chas. H. Smith, exalted ruler of Jackson Lodge, No. 113, Rev. F. V. Hawley, Jas. Boardman and F. B. Taylor, also of Jaokson, and Ed. Thurber, of Detroit. After, the lodge work.a banquet followed at which speeches, songs and danoes were the order. The remarks of Exalted Ruler Smith and Rev. F. V. Hawley were most eloquent and pleasing. The attention of the Times, which doubted the residence of William H. Murruy, deinooijatio oandidate for cironit oourt commissioner, as beiug in York, as stated by the Argus is called to items in tbr Milan Leader, pnblisbad in York township. One of these is a Milan looal wbiqh says"Will H. Mnrray, of Co. A, Sist regiment, is at home and quite sick." The other is a reoapitulation of the residences of candidates which says that York 'has but one connty nomination on either tioket that on the demooratio tioket for oirouit court oommissioner. President Angelí made bis annnal address to tbe fiesbmen at Newberry hall Snnday morning and the plaoe was crowded. Usually the older studeuts give the ftesbinen tbe first opportunity to attend the servioe, but the faot tbat Dr. Angelí has been absent for so long ]eut au unusual interest to tbe meeting and tbe fresbmen who were late had to stand np or fail to bear the good things the president had to say. In the oourse of his address the president corupliniented tbe assooiation on its suocessfnl year's work and said tbere is hardly a natiou in wbioh sotne rnen and woruen from the Students' Christian Assooiation are not to be found. Of tbe six lady rnJsaiouaries who were in China while I was there, five of them were from tbis university and this association. With regard to the newoomers, it is the desire of this assooiation to enlist every person in its work wbo has religions inolinations. The city offioea are in a great state of isorder oansed by a muoh neéded leaning jujd overhaaling. The camtaon conncil has aooepted an nvitatióno attend the carnival of fnn it Qraniï;apid8, Oet. 25-28. It is said that the Woman's League aas defled all olassioal musical critiism and engaged Sousa's Band to give ooncert here this year. One of the rooms on the first floor of he law building bas been set aside for ;he use of the board of regents. It will be known as "Regents' room." Oswald Herz, son of William Herz, fell from a horse on which he wás ridng and of whicb he had lost oontrol, on Tuesday, and broke his arm. "Bnd" Williams will be tried Oot. 28 on a charge of assault and battery preferred by George Lawson, who claims that Williams [threw a pieoe cf ooal at him which ont his faoe open. Jabez Loakes, of Dover. Mich., is at the homeopathic hospital where be has undergone an operation for the removal of a cataract from his eye. He is father of John Loakes, of Lincoln ave. The Sunday school of Trinity Lutheran ohutch will give a social and snper at the church parlors tomorrow evening. All invited. An interesting program will be rendered. Supper 10 cents. Dr. Thomas S. Mann, of St. Joddí, a son of John S. Mann, of Ann Arbor town, and Miss Noia E. Wandel were united in marriage at the M. E. parsonage, on Tuesday, by Rev. B. L. Mc Elroy. George Amers, Frank Thayer, Frank Baker and John Doroy, strangers, were arrested on a charge of vagrancy at the Michigan Central Tuesday. All bnt Amers plead gnilty and were sentenoed to five days in jail. Amers' trial is set for Oot. 10. The Y. P. S. C. E. -wil! have charge of the regular services at Trinity Lntheran ohurch next Sunday evening at 7:30. The subject is "Patriotism." Don Staïk and other of onr soldir boya will take part. It will be an iateresting service. The Ann Arbor Brewing Co. hae just added.to its plant a fine 80-horse power boiler built by Stephen Pratt, of Detroit, which is set up in a new house. The need of the boiler was oaused by the rapidly inoreasing bnsiness of the company. The funeral car bearing the remains of Dr. R. A. Todd, of Owosso, passed through here Friday. Dr. Todd died in Chicago of hydrophobia, caused by his being attacked by a rabid dog oo the lawn of the Ohio state hospital for the insane, of wbich he was assistant snperintendent. On Wedneday Marshal Sweet arrested Garry Harst, oolored, wbo was wanted in Windsor, Ont., for borse stealing last spring. Hurst was traeed to this oity bnt had got away when the offioers arrived. He retarned the other day. After ooiamunicatiog with the WiodsorJ polioe authorities Sweet arrejted hiru. The vote for teachers' speoial prizes (given, by Schumacher & Miller, the druggists) resulted as follows: Miss Laura Mills received the prize for teaoher iu country school aod Miss Anna Shannon the prize for teacher in city school. Miss Laura Mills having received the highest number of votes cast also receives the prize given by Martin Schaller, a set of books, valne $5. Three trainps were rusbing the oan at a lively rate iu "Dutchtown," Ypsilanti, Monday night aud were niakiug considerable noise over it. Constable Fletcher was oalled on to arrest thern. He ordered them to throw np their hands when they turned on birn and kioked hiru several times also firing thi-#e times at him. They then fled eastward on the railroad track. Two of them were subseqnently captured and lodged in jail by a posso who went af ter them. Mrs. Mary E. Battin, who was on trial in the circuit conrt for the larceny off 11 from Mrs. Sears, has about$2,000 worth of property in Stenbenville, O., bnt she is nnder guardianship and oannot use it aa ahe wishes. Wheu the case was to oome on her guardián was written to suggesting that he furnish means for her defeose, bnt he deolined to do so. His unfeeling reply was: "If Mrs. Battin has transgressed the laws of Miohigan in any way, she mnst suffer for it. " New píate glass fronts are being pnt iato the stores in the opera house biook. That handsome new oil wagon which George E. JMoore now drives was made in Walker & Co. 's shop. L. A. Prátt and Merritt Hawxhnrst have pnrohased from Franklin C. Parker a eontrolling interest in the Inland Presa office. William Albrecht, of Adrián underwent an op6ration for the removal of a oataract from bis eye at the University hospital Wednesday. J. T. Jacobs sent in his resignation as a member of the school board Tnesday, having served fur 17 oontinnons years in that capaoity. George Johnson bas been sentenoed to the Industrial school at Lansing until he is 18 years of age on oomplaint of bis father Richard Johnson. Mr. Peter Hinee, of this oity, and Mrs. Martha Smitb, of Marshacll, were married at St. Jdary's obnrch, Marshall, Tnesday, by Bev. P. A. Baart. Mrs. Margnerite Early died at ber home in Milan Wednesday, aged 70 years. She was born in Iieland and oame to this country ie its early days. A social will t8 held at the Northside churoh this evening at 7:30 o'clook to deoide who won the quilt which was to be disposed of on the fair gronnds. All intereted are requested to attend. Archie Miller, of 618 N. Main st., reported to the pólice Monday niebt that he had had two horse oollars and two blankets stolen from his barn. It was a false alarm, a man had simply borrowed them. E. M. Walsh, wbo was for some time a resident of this oity and a stndent at the U. of M., ia one of the board of directors of the Hawaiian Commeroial and Sugar Co. formerly contraled by Rudolph and C. A. Spteokeís. A lawn sooial for the beneftflt of Edward MoMahon, of the 31st Miob. Vol., who ís home on a forlougb beoanse of sickness, will be held at 617 N. Fourth ave. this evening. The Athena Mandolin orobestra will fnrnish mnsic. Lehman Bros. & Stivers, representing Miss Ida Gollneok, of 134 PMlip st., have filed a claim for $3,000 against tbe city, for injuries alleged to have been reoeived thron(?h falling into a hole in the sidewálk on Hill st. , on Aug.' 1, which laid her up for Beveral weekfe . Rejcently two lads oaraed Balfranz nd Hahn were arrested for stealing ome honsehold goods. On Taesday morning Habn was disoharged becanse Coonty Agent J. Lehman had not been otified of the trial as the statute reuires. The oase against Balfranz will be dropped for the same reason. Mrs. JNina E. Oliver has filed a bilí for divorce from Thomas H. Oliver. A year ago she filed a bilí for divorce on the ground of Thomas' drunkenness and cruelty but acoapting his promises of atuendment and reform she withdrew the snit. The pledges were not fnlfllied and Mrs. Oliver has again preferred her request for freedom from the marital bond. C. D. Webster, of the 33d Michigan, is very sick at the home of his grandparents Dr. and Mrs. C. Howell, on Geddes ave., of 'Cuban fever. His father lives in Bay City Tbe yonng soldier carne here on a visit two weeks ago and went to Jaokson last Satnrday to acoept a position with the electrio lighting oompany, when he was takeD down with the fever. A petition whioh had been oiroulated and signed by the majority of tbe property owners on Washington st. betweeD Ashley st. and S. Fifth ave. to have the street paved with brick or asphalt was presented to the comnion counoiJ .Monday eveniñg and' was referred to the board of pnblio works. The preliminary work in the way of water, sewer and gas connections is to be done this fall. Coí. MapfiB, the projector of the Lansing, Dexter & Ann Arbor electric railway, wben in the city Monday said tbat witbin 30 days his men will begin construoting the line from Aun Arbor toward Dexter. The latter will be oonstracted from Lansing to Masón, and next spring from Mason to Dexter. This was corroborated by Director Thomas Birkett, who was in the oity Wednesday in company with an enginer, they baving been ont loofeing over the clay bilis ñn the proposed route of the lin and which they desira to avoid if possible. Maj. F. S. BouinR, snrgeon CJ. S. Volnuteers, well known in tbis city where he formerly resided, and who bas been doing duty on Gen. Merritfc's staff as iuterpreter, etc. owing to his familiatity with the dialeots of the Pbiliipine Islandfirs, is especially mentionad by Gen. Greene in his official report for services performed at the battle of Manila. The offioial report of Gen. McArthnr shows tbfit tbe Astor Battery, of whiob Cari Winer, son of John R. Miner, of this qity, is a member, took a foremost part in the battle of Manila. George É. Blies, oï this oity, who is a baggageman on tbe Michigan Central running from Detroit to Chicago, acqnired oonsiderable notoriety in Cfiioago Saturday by his captnre of William Bauin who was wanted on tbe obarge of attempted mnrder. Tbe crime was oommitted Aag. 27, and ever sinoe then Baum had elnded the offioers. Satnrday they looated hitn, and four deteotives wers sent out for him. At the approach of tbe offioers, Banm ran and tbe detectives togetber with a policeman started in pnrsuit. Altogether eight shots were fired at him but all missed the mark. Banm jumped over into tbe Illiuois Central tracks and wonld have esoaped had it not been for Bliss, who grabbed a Winchester rifle from the oars, and orcfered Baam to throw np his hands Baum surrendered to Bliss who held him covered until the offiers arrived.