Local Brevities.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
From Friday's Daily Argus.
President Angell was yesterday reappointed regent of the Smithsonian Institution by the house at Washington. The soldiers' relief commission of the county is now solid republican since the appointment by Judge Newkirk of John J. Fischer to succeed Capt. C. H. Manly.
The Western brewery has secured its supply of ice of excellent quality. Messrs. Martin & Fischer, the proprietors, have over 3,760,000 pounds stored in their two ice houses. Representative George S. Wheeler has introduced a bill in the legislature to return the costs and make compensation to innocent persons who have been or may be prosecuted for crime.
The grand lodge, A. O. U. W. will hold its regular meeting in Ann Arbor, Feb. 21. A comraittee was here the other day making the necessary arrangements. The headquarters will be at the Cook house. Ernest Cook who owns the rink which has been used so long as an armory by Co. A, has decided, now that it is to be used no longer as an armory, to change it into a boarding and livery barn and work is being done inside to fit it up for this purpose.
Miss Sarah A. Matthews, of 318 S. Ashley st., died at the hospital this morning between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock, of heart failure. She had been in poor health for a long time but recently was greatly improved until the attack of a week ago today when she was removed to the hospital. Date of funeral not yet announced. The Daughters of the Revolution elected the following officers yesterday : Regent, Mrs. James B. Angell; vice regent, Mrs. Wm. N. Brown; recording secretary, Mrs. Huldah Richards; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Alice Woodbridge; treasurer, Mrs. Caroline D. Loving; historian, Mrs. W. G. Doty; executive committee, Mrs. H. B. Hutchins, Mrs. J. L. Babcock and Mrs. Josephine H. Murfin.
Ex-County Treasurer Rehfuss is making some decided improvements on his Ashley st. property, across the street west of the American house. He has the walls of a large brick stock barn 33x70 feet up one story now and he proposes to commence work at once on two stores. These will be put up between the new barn and the house now occupied by Mr. Rehfuss. The frontage of the stores will be 44 feet and they will extend back 70 feet. They will fill the entire space between the new barn and the rear of the house. Mr. Rehfuss will use these stores for packing purposes. Work will be commenced on them at once.
Yesterday afternoon from half past four until six, the teachers of the Philip Bach school gave a reception to the members of the board and their wives, and the teachers of the city. It was their house warming for the new school. Shades were drawn and banquet lamps and Japanese lanterns were artistically disposed throughout the building. Rugs and easy chairs, cut flowers, palms, ferns and other plants helped to transform the school into a real rcception hall. Delicious refreshments were served at attractive little tables, and an informally good time was enjoyed by all. The Philip Bach school is one that Ann Arbor may well be proud of, and the teachers of the building have done everything possible to make a handsome school still more attractive, by pretty decorations.
From Saturday's Daily Argus.
One of the Detroit cars broke an axle near the city limits last night. Max Wittlinger and Chas. M. Banfield, who were left at Knoxville on the sick list, rejoined the 31st Michigan at Savannah yesterday. Mrs Wm. Morton left her purse containing $20 and some valuable papers on a Detroit car last evening and had it returned to her by the conductor who found it.
Porter J. McCumber, who was yesterday elected to The United States senate in North Dakota, to succeed Senator Roach, is an old time graduate of the law department of the U. of M. Charles T. Tryon, the senior literary student, who was burned while acting as Santa Claus at the Baptist church Christmas entertainment, has so far recovered that he will be able to leave the hospital next Monday.
John Mulheron was fined $2 and $5.35 costs for being drunk on the streets yesterday afternoon. He paid. He was a big fellow, who lives about (50 miles from here and was visiting a son in tho hospitals and the officers were obliged to get a hack to take him to jail. He also paid 75 cents for a foot rest belonging to M. HalIer, which he broke.
From Monday's Daily Argus.
The game of football was introduced in Michigan University about 1870. Chas. A. Sauer & Co. have prepared plans for a $3,500 residence for Eugene J. Koch. Mrs. Catherine A. Young, of this city, has been granted a widow'a pension of $12. Major John F. Kirk has been granted a leave of absence from his regiment until Jan. 31, by which time his resignation will undoubtedly be accepted. Among the subscribers to the fund for the Detroit bicentenary at the meeting Saturday night were the following former citizens of Ann Arbor: W. W. Hannan, $500 ; S. T. Douglas, $500; James A. Robison, $100; J. T. Jacobs, $50; W. L. January, $50.
The Keystone club has purchased an ice boat and placed it on Zukey Lake where the members expect to get lots of good sport out of it. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schneider, of Ypsilanti, are the happy parents of a boy. Mrs. Schneider is a sister of Mrs. Sid W. Millard of this city. Dr. Nolan removed a 14 pound fibroid tumor from the breast of a valuable horse belonging to Wm. Holzapfel, of Lima, yesterday. The animal seems to be doing well.
Alva Garbeth, aged 21, was the first visitor at the court house this morning and he applied for a marriage license to Louise Kalmbach aged 22. This is the couple in whose presence Alva Ragar committed suicide at midnight a week ago Saturday night. Rev. J. T. Sunderland, of Oakland, Cal., recently of this city, preached against the adoption of the treaty with Spain a week ago Sunday. He said : "If a republic adopts imperialistic principies it ceases to be a republic. It passes from the ranks of freedom to the ranks of tyranny."
The Detroit Free Press says that a number of important beet sugar plants will be under way in this state by spring and mentions as localities where there is but little doubt the success of the projects, Mt. Clemens, Rochester, Pontiac, Saginaw, Bay City, Lapeer, Ann Arbor, Caro, Owosso and Bad Axe.
Justice Beatcher, of Springwells, has commenced suit for $100 damages against the D., Y. & A. A. road, because the motorman did not stop the car at his residence when he rang the bell, but carried him a mile past it, compelling him and two members of his family to walk back in a rain storm. President C. K. Adams, of Wisconsin, formerly professor of history here, is out in an address favoring expansion. He says that instead of being imperialism, 'it is simply the benevolent substitution of republican method for the government of a people that have never known anything but the dominance of cruelty."
James A. Robison, secretary to Mayor Maybury, of Detroit, formerly deputy county clerk, has just received 50 pounds of French documents on paving in Paris, in reply to a letter of inquiry he sent a year ago. Jim must be a better French scholar than he was when here, if he extracts much information from the documents. Rev. Mr. Crooker in his sermon in the Unitarian church last evening gave an eloquent presentation of his views on expansion. He believed in that expansion which comes from business trade and commerce, fearing that expansion by conquest would be disastrous to us materially, demoralizing politically and weaken the moral influences of the great republic among the nations of the world.
Prof. Dean C. Worcester has selected P. L. Sherman, Ph. D., who has been instructor in general chemistry in the University since 1895, for secretary of the Philippines commission. Dr. Sherman graduated from the U. of M. in 1891 and the same year went to Munich where he took his doctors' degree in 1895. He is an intimate friend of Prof. Worcester and this together with his special knowledge of mineralogy secured the place for him. When not occupied with his duties to the commission he will act as private secretary to Prof. Worcester. While the salary has not been fixed it will be sufficiently large to make the position desirable. The commission will sail from Seattle on Jan. 30.
Brave Men Fall
Victims to stomach, liver, and kidney troubles as well as women, and all feel the results in loss of appetite, poisons in the blood, backache, nervousness, headache and tired listless run-down feeling. But there's no need to feel like that. Listen to J.W. Gardner, Idaville, Ind. He says: "Electric Bitters are just the thing for a man when he is all run down and don't care whether he lives or die. It did more to give me new strength and good appetite than anything I could take. I can now eat anything and have a new lease on life." Only 50 cents at Eberbach & Son's, Ann Arbor, and Geo. J. Hauessler, Manchester, drug store. Every bottle guaranteed.
Death of C.M. Osgood.
Cassius Marcus Osgood died at his home in Ann Arbor township, Sunday evening at 6 o'clock, of heart disease. He was a well known farmer and was born in Ontario county, N.Y., in 1830. At the age of six years he came to this state with his parents who located near Adrian. He received a common school education there and in 1862 entered the law department of the university from which he graduated in 1864 and was admitted to the bar. He spent a year in Minnesota and on his return purchased the farm on which he resided until his death. In 1865 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Twitchell, of Hamburg. He leaves a son and a daughter. The funeral will be held at 9 o'clock on Wednesday and interment will be at Hamburg.
About Catarrh.
It is caused by a cold or succession of colds, combined with impure blood. Its symptoms are pain in the head, discharge fro the nose, ringing noises in the ears. It is cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla which purifies and enriches the blood, soothes and rebuilds the tissues and relieves all the disagreeable sensations. HOOD'S PILLS cure all liver ills. Mailed for 2 cents by C.I. HOOD & Co., Lowell, Mass.
CASTORIA.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Hitcher.