Local Brevities

LOCAL BREVITIES

Mr. and Mrs. John Sachs rejoice over the birth of a son.

Prof. Mark W. Harrington, formerly of this city, is in charge of the weather bureau service in Porto Rico.

Sheriff Judson won $1,250 of Grand Rapids money, betting on Pingree's majority. The bets were made on 32,000, 35,000 and 40,000 majority.

Hon. D. M. Ferry has given $150 for prizes for the preliminary University Oratorical contests in which the debaters for the Michigan-Pennsylvania debate will be picked out.

John B. Brooks, a democratic law student who graduated in '95, has been elected to the New York assembly from republican Erie county, in which Buffalo is situated, by 800 majority.

Geo. W. Hurrell, of Ann Arbor town, and Miss Grace M. Roadman, of Pittsburg, Pa., were married last Thursday evening by Rev. W. L. Tedrow at the residence of Clyde Kerr.

Dean Staffer, who is doing cooking at 500 Thompson st., was held up and robbed of $1.50 Friday at midnight on Ann st. The thief was pursued, after he got the money and captured four blocks away, but was released after giving the money back.

Harry West died last Friday of lockjaw. He was the son of Charles H. West and was employed in draying by Archie Miller. He stepped upon a rusty nail but the wound which was slight was not thought dangerous until blood poisoning set in. He was 16 years of age.

Rev. John W. Bradshaw during his 10 years' pastorate of the Congregational church in this city has welcomed 398 new members, and dismissed 238. Fifty-four have died. The present membership is 430 an increase of 102. During the 10 years the benevolent contributions of the church were $17,480.

From Wednesday's Daily Argus.

Washtenaw has eight inmates in the home for the feeble minded at Lansing.

About $500 worth of new books covering the subject of general literature have been received at Harris hall.

The football game on the athletic grounds with Beloit is the last home game of the season of the U. of M. eleven.

Privates E. S. Bastin, Perry C. Church and O. D. Juttner, of Co. A, 31st Michigan have received their discharges.

The Detroit alumni of the University has decided to hold their annual banquets hereafter on the third Friday in November.

McCurdy C. LeBeau, an old Ann Arbor boy, is building a $7,500 brick residence in Ferry st., Detroit, between John R and Bursh sts.

Mrs. T. C. Owen, of Ypsilanti, had her pocket picked of a purse containing $40 at the corner of Michigan and Woodward aves., in Detroit.

Messrs. Clarken & Clancy completed the laying of the main pipe of the storm sewer on E. Washington st, from Main to Fifth ave., today.

W. L. January, formerly in the office of John F. Lawrence, is a candidate for the republican nomination for circuit judge of Wayne county next spring.

The citizens of W. Huron st. are still complaining that they are traveling in the mud, with no prospects for a sidewalk west of the crossing of the Ann Arbor road.

Prof. Henry C. Adams gave a talk on foreign railway systems at the railroad Y. M. C. A. rooms in West Detroit, Tuesday evening. The talk was a practical one.

The Good Government Club are making an effort to secure an address from Gov. -elect, Theodore Roosevelt on civil service reform. It is thought that he will come west to attend the Michigan Club banquet in February and that he may be secured about that time.

Today was the last day of hearing claims in the Eliza Bird estate, in the probate court.

It is unnecessary to state that S. W. Beakes is not a candidate for probate judge and never dreamed of being.

Dr. Angell is down for a speech on the program of the Grand Rapids board of trade banquet, to be given Friday evening.

The Northside church will have a meeting this evening to be addressed by Mrs. Lottie Bradfield, recently of London, England.

Charles Simons has been requested to deliver his prize oration on "John Brown" before the Chicago Alumni next Tuesday evening.

The Ann Arbor Workingmen's Society will have a raffle in their hall next Friday evening. Turkeys, geese, ducks, chickens, bear, quail, partridge, etc.

Guy Mullison has been promoted to the position of train dispatcher on the D. Y. & A. A. Ry. and incidentally has charge of the new waiting room in the Duffy block.

The oldest will now on file in the probate office, never having been probated, is that of John Wilson, and is dated Nov. 11, 1839. Mr. Wilson is unknown at the probate office.

The cottage of James Harkins, at Base Lake, was broken into a few days ago. Mr. Harkins will not know the extent of his loss until he has taken an inventory of what the thieves left.

The Ladies' Aid Society, of St. Andrew's church, planned their work for the coming year at a meeting held yesterday afternoon. There was some talk of starting an organ fund sometime in the future.

At the fall meeting of the Western Michigan Congregational Club to be held Monday evening, Nov. 21, at the Park Congregational church, in Grand Rapids, Alvin E. Ewing will read a paper on the late judge Thomas M. 1 Cooley.

Hon. A. J. Sawyer yesterday presented to the supreme court the resolutions on the death of the late Chief Justice Thomas M. Cooley, passed by the Michigan Bar Association. He made an eloquent address eulogistic of Judge Cooley 's life and character.

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. will serve supper, Saturday, Nov. 19, from 5 to 7 at the armory. A creamed chicken supper for the small sum of 15 cents. Music for the supper is kindly furnished by the Mandolin Trio, Messrs. Steinbaur, Parsons and Fenton.

L. E. Howlett, a nephew of Fred A. Howlett, of this city, has just been reelected prosecuting attorney of Livingston county, without opposition. Only one other democrat on the county ticket pulled through. The fact that there was no opposition to Mr. Howlett was a high compliment.

Henry Bierman who was severely wounded in the arm by the accidental discharge of a shot gun is getting along nicely. It was necessary to cut out a section of the bone and unite the several ends, thus making the arm somewhat shorter than before the accident. He is under the charge of Dr. Lee Kapp.

Those who have occasion to use the streets these moist November days not only appreciate the change from the unpaved streets to the Main st, pavement, but they are also learning that the contractors, Clarken & Clancy, have done a job on Main st. which is not excelled by the pavement of any other city in the state.

B. J. Angus, of Owosso, carpenter of the Ann Arbor road, who is making repairs to the pumping station in this city, this morning picked up a ring at the depot. His friends estimate the value of the ring, which contains sparkling white stone or piece of glass, at from 3 cents to $3.50. He is quite modest in speaking about the ring as he does not wish to be held up on some dark night.

The total number of officers and men furnished by Michigan as its quota of Uncle Sam's forces in the recent war with Spain was 245 officers and 6,707 men, including naval reserves. Washtenaw's contribution to this number was 11 officers and 229 men. This is a larger number of soldiers than was furnished by any other county in the state, excepting by Wayne, Kent, Saginaw and Ingham counties.

Gustave Hinz has purchased the Wesley Howe property on S. Fourth ave.

Arbor Tent, No. 296, K. O. T. M. serves a bachelor supper spread after their review Friday evening.

An effort is being made to get up a big minstrel show composed of student talent of which there is said to be considerable in the university.

Coroner elect Benjamin F. Watts will be presented at 4 o'clock this afternoon with a certificate of election, richly engrossed with pen sketches of birds, owls, etc.

When that fish trust which has just been formed in Chicago gets into smooth working order Fred Schleicher and Major Millard will find a ready market for fish stories.

Jacob Kaercher died at the residence of his sister Mrs. M. Keck, of Lodi, yesterday. The funeral services will be held at the house tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. Interment in Scio cemetery.

The hearing of the annual account of F. A. Graves, administrator of the Mollie Bennett estate, is set for Saturday at 10:30 a.m. There promises to be some scrapping over the account.

The Ann Arbor high school eleven were to play the Detroit high school in Detroit this afternoon, but were unable to reach that city in time for the game by way of the electric line as had been planned.

A telegram has been received from Mr. Herbert Welsh, of Philadelphia, saying that his visit to this city and his lecture under the auspices of the Good Government Club, of the university, will be delayed until January next.

"Joe" Pingree, the governor's son, will not return to the university this year but will enter the commercial department of his father's shoe business in January. He is convalescing from a fever contracted in Camp Montauk.

F. W. Britten, of Brighton, has hauled 1,755 bushels of potatoes to this city this fall. He is the man who found on returning from one of his trips, a bright little baby boy his wife had presented him with in his absence.

The Ann Arbor Railroad is hauling gravel upon its roadbed about its warehouse. The warehouse is to be elevated about 18 inches and the sidetracks enough so that the bottom of the freight cars will be on a level with the floor of the warehouse. This will place the sidetrack on a level with the main track.

T. J. DeForrest has gone as a delegate from the second congressional district of Michigan to the National Farmer's Congress which meets in Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. DeForrest goes by the way of Denver, Colorado, where he will leave his daughter. Miss DeForrest will remain in Colorado for a year for the benefit of her health.

Two young men from Dundee, who gave their names as George Lane and Bill Duyou were taken off an Ann Arbor passenger car last night, by Deputy Sheriff Wackenhut and officers Isbell and Armbruster charged with stealing $11 and a ring from a young lady in Ypsilanti, with whom they had been joking. On giving up the ring and money they were allowed to go by the telephone request of the girl.

H. E. Riggs, of Toledo, civil engineer, formerly chief engineer of the Ann Arbor road, who was in the city Monday, reports that he and his partner have been awarded the contract to furnish the plans and supervise the buildings to be erected for the Ohio centennial at Toledo. Mr. Riggs superintended the work of straightening the Ann Arbor railroad in Northfield and through the Northside of this city. He is consulting engineer of the street paving in Owosso and Marshall.

The Unity Club announces a change in its lecture course. Because of a journey to Cuba, Rev. R. A. White, is unable to fill the engagement Nov. 21. But the club has secured Prof. Jacob E. Reighard of the university to fill the engagement on the date named. He will speak on "The Biology of the Great Lakes," and the lecture will be illustrated with stereopticon views. It is the same lecture he delivered in Chicago last week. Prof. Reighard is well known here as an entertaining lecturer.