Local Brevities

LOCAL BREVITIES

From Wednesday's Daily Argus.

Major John P. Kirk has been appointed assistant mustering officer.

Capt. McKeand, of the Ypsilanti company, is dangerously ill with typhoid fever.

City Treasurer Seyler collected $3,227.66 in taxes yesterday. He collected about $3,200 this forenoon.

A wind and snowstorm prevailed in Milan yesterday and the wind attained a velocity of 40 miles an hour at times.

the Y.W.C.A. will be at home to its friends Monday, Jan. 2, from 3 to 10 o'clock. Music and refreshments and a pleasant social hour.

The January session of the board of supervisors, which occurs every second year, will commence at the court house next Tuesday morning.

A committee of the board of supervisors is at the jail this afternoon taking an inventory of county property preparatory to changing sheriffs.

Both Michigan senators have endorses Rufus W. Thayer, a Washington lawyer, formerly of Plymouth, for the position of postmaster of Washington.

Mrs. Ben Fall, mother of Dewitt C. Fall, of Jackson, and Charles Fall of Pasedena, Cal. died in Jackson. Her remains will be brought here for burial tomorrow.

James Berie, of Boston, Mass., and Mrs. Annie Harmon of Ann Arbor took out license to marry this afternoon. Both have had previous matrimonial experience.

The Ann Arbor railroad has purchased the Wisconsin & Michigan railway and will extend the line to a big tract of pine land in Forest and Vilas counties, Wisconsin.

William C. Manchester, a young Detroit lawyer, and Miss Margaret McGregor, of Bay city, were married in Bay City yesterday afternoon. They both graduated in the university in '96.

The condition of Col. Gardener, of the 31st Michigan, who is ill with pneumonia, is improving. Instead of coming to Detroit as at first intended, he is being cared for at a Louisville hotel.

The W. C. T. U. will hold its next regular meeting, Thursday, Jan. 5, 1899, at 3 o'clock in the rooms over the post office and wishes to see a large number at this first meeting of the new year.

Jacobus & Son, the contractors for the new Northside church, have commenced putting up the framework and the building will now be rapidly pushed to get it finished within the contract time.

All the Christmas packages received through the mails from Canada were examined by the custom house officers and some of our citizens have been called upon to pay duty upon their Christmas presents.

Philip H. Fohey this afternoon filed a declaration in the circuit against the Toledo Ice Co., claiming $1,000 damages. Fohey claims that about Oct. 1, '97, the Toledo ice company ejected him from certain lands he owned in fee on Whitmore Lake.

The children of the sewing school are to be given a dinner on Saturday of this week. Miss Brown, who has charge of the school, desires that all friends of the school send in sandwiches, cake, fruit or money before 1 o'clock on Saturday.

The annual St. Valentine's Kettledrum, given by the Ladies' Library Association, occurs Saturday, Feb. 14. Owing to the size of the hall the number of tickets sold will necessarily be limited and no tickets will be sold at the door. Admission for the afternoon, 25 cents for adults, 15 cents for children over 10 years of age, 10 cents for children under 10 years of age. Evening admission 50 cents. tickets may be obtained from any of the patronesses, a list of whom will be published later.

Jason Berry, of Stockbridge, and Mrs. Jane Geraghty, of Lyndon, were married this morning at Chelsea by Rev. W. P. Considine.

Deputy Sheriff Wackenhut moves back to Chelsea next Saturday evening. He will wast no time around the city after he is out of work.

The Anti-Tramp Society has discontinued its wood yard for the present. It appears that in spite of the efforts of the society our citizens continue to feed tramps so freely that there is little inducement for them to work.

The seventh day of actual trial of the Webb will case is nearly finished and it is thought that the evidence may all be in today. Both parties to the suit will have spent all they can realize out of a favorable judgment by the time the suit is disposed of.

Marriage licenses have been issued to Charles Milton Vines, of Howell, and Miss Martha Ann Gleson, of Dexter; Albert Lynch and Miss Maria Frazer, both of Ann Arbor; Seward Cramer, of Ann Arbor, and Miss Luella Marie Sherman, of Ypsilanti.

Sheriff Judson is getting ready to move. He will move to the home of his son-in-law, John Schlee, on Ann st., until next spring. He will turn over the jail and residence to Sheriff Gillen on Saturday, but will let him put his carpets down and partially move in on Friday.

Prof. E. F. Johnson took part in the discussion before the school commissioners in Lansing yesterday on the free text book law. With Supt. Hammond and ex-Supt. Pattengill he strongly favored a compulsory free text book law. The association passed a resolution favoring a compulsory free text book law.

From Yesterday's Daily Argus.

Eight cases of smallpox are reported in Detroit.

Mrs. Geo. Morton fell down stairs this morning and broke her wrist.

General Manager Ashley denies that the Ann Arbor road has purchased the Michigan & Wisconsin railroad.

Another report comes from Washington that the 31st Michigan is on the list of volunteer regiments to be mustered out.

The annual meeting of the grand lodge of the A. O. U. W. will take place in this city Feb. 21. There will be about 400 people in attendance.

A company has been organized to build an electric railway between Adrian and Jackson, and they expect to have such a road finished by midsummer.

The total amount of taxes collected by City Treasurer Seyler yesterday amounted to $4,304.80. Many small taxpayers have been paying their taxes today.

Street Commissioner Ross is waiting for a fall of snow to show how much more effective the new and heavy snow plows will clean the sidewalks than the old plows.

Marriage licenses were granted yesterday afternoon to Charles Lester Canfield and Miss Jessie Walker, of Ann Arbor, and to John Max and Miss Frances Veit, of Ypsilanti.

The Ann Arbor road is having trouble with snow along the upper part of the road. A snow plow and three engines were stuck in the snow between Cadillac and Benzonia the greater part of Tuesday night.

The remains of Mrs. Ben Fall, of Albion, will arrive here tomorrow at 10:10. The funeral procession will start from the Michigan Central depot and the remains will be interred beside those of her husband in Fair View cemetery.

Deputy Sheriff Lester Canfield and Miss Jessie Walker were married last evening at the residence of the bride on Miller ave., by Rev. W. L. Tedrow. The wedding comes as a surprise to the friends of the newly married couple, yet nevertheless they are the recipients of the heartiest congratulations.

The Rt. Rev. P. T. Rowe, Bishop of Alaska, is expected to address the meeting of the Michigan Branch of the Women's Auxiliary, in St. John's Parish building, Detroit, Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 3, at 2:30 o'clock. It is desired that the members of the St. Andrew's parish branch, of Ann Arbor, attend this meeting.

Herman Miller met with an accident in a peculiar manner this morning. He was sitting in a rocking chair with his hands in his pockets when his chair suddenly went over backwards throwing him to the floor and cutting a gash in his scalp nearly two inches long. He was unable to get his hands out of his pockets in time to protect himself.

The Schwaebischen Untersteutzungs Verein have elected the following officers for the ensuing year: christian Wichtermann, president; Gottlob Gross, vice president; John Volz, recording secretary; Jacob Katz, financial secretary; Enoch Dieterle, treasurer; Fred Steeb, John Koch and Fred Walter, trustees; Dr. Martin L. Belser and Dr. John Kapp, physicians.

The mayor has approved the license ordinance so that now all bowling alleys and billiard halls must pay a license of $5 per year. They must also be closed between 10:30 p. m. and 7 a. m. Merry-go-rounds and whirligigs will pay a license of $3 for the first day and $1 for subsequent days. A circus and menagerie will pay $50, a circus alone $25, a menagerie alone $10.

Detroit news: Capt. E. P. Allen, of Ypsilanti, poised himself an instant on one foot in the Russell house corridor today and looked reflectively over the array of lawyers and politicians. "I'm out of politics," he said, in a voice that was a reminiscence of the cue that used to reverberate in congressional halls and that was irreverently dubbed "foghorn' by the democrats at old-fashioned barbecues.

The Forester elected officers last evening as follows: P. C. R., Ed. Hoelzle; C. R., Frank Warren; V. C. R., Chas. Edwards; secretary, Thomas Coburn; treasurer, S. Rosenthaler; S. W., R. M. Wooden; J. W., James Willis; S. B., Geo. Voelker; J. B., Louis Schueirle; chaplain, A. C. Nichols; C. D., L. C. Weinmann; delegate to high court, L. C. Goodrich. These officers will be installed tonight.