Local Brevities

From Friday's Daily Argus.

Marriage license issued:  Will R. Scadin, 22, and Miss Millicent McColl, 29, both of Webster.

The case of Cecelia L. Lellis vs. the M. C. R. R. will come up for hearing during the October term of the circuit court.

A trunk has been left at the Ann Arbor depot by one of the late soldiers of the Spanish-American War. He can claim his property. 

The Detroit, Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor Railway Co. have three suits in the supreme court for the October term:  Sarah L. Wallace, Edward M. Vining and Alfred Rice are the plaintiffs against the road.

Matthias Lutz, of M. Lutz & Son, furniture manufacturers, has had a second experience with his whittler. The first time he lost a portion of the thumb and index finger of his right hand. This time the other fingers of the same hand touched the revolving knives. Luckily no bones were injured, only flesh sliced off. 

From Saturday's Daily Argus.

The new uniforms for Co. 1 have been received and the rifles are expected soon. 

William Herz has finished his job of painting the normal school buildings at Ypsilanti. He received $1,300 on the contact price and did extra work amounting to $140 more.

The Lyra Singing Society will open the season with a concert Thanksgiving night. The rehearsals have begun and the choir now musters 16 men. Prof. P. H. Kempf will again act as director.

The Ann Arbor Fruit & Vinegar Works began operating this week with 25 hands and is employing 75 now. The season will probably be very short as the draught will force all the fruits on the market at once. 

Tobias Diekhoff, '93 lit, instructor in German, who has been abroad two years, is expected home on Monday. He received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of Leipzig.

Heirs to the late Anton Schiappacasse are hunting up his will. It is known that he had one drawn up in the Italian language before an Italian notary in Detroit and it was left in the care of the latter. But it has not yet been found.

Herman Zeitz, last year in charge of the violin department of the University School of Music, has accepted a fine position in the Conservatory of Music at Quincy, Ill. Mr. Zeitz's friends in Ann Arbor wish him much success.

Bernhart Sodt has had Caroline Koffberger of Freedom, arrested on a charge of criminal slander. He alleges that she called him a corn thief. She pleaded not guilty and the trial is set for next Wednesday before Justice Duffy.

Daniel Brown, of S. Main St., in spite of being 94 years of age, is one of the model farmers of Washtenaw County. He has raised five acres of corn which he thinks is the finest in the county. The ears of the corn are very large and run from 700 to 965 kernels to the ear. Mr. Brown counted the kernels on a number of ears.

Charles Fischer, with his father, John G. Fischer, the W. Huron St. butcher, says this year's vintage of chickens will be very large. The country is full of chickens. They will be cheaper than beef. Last year at this time they sold from farmers' hands for eight cents a pound dressed. This year the price offered is 10 cents.

It is understood that J. A. C. Hildner has been recommended as instructor in German in the university for the ensuing year. He has spent the past two years in Leipzig, where he received from the university there the degree of doctor of philosophy. He is a graduate of the Michigan University and always has been a hard working student.

J. M. Perkins, janitor of the Waterman gymnasium, met with a very painful accident yesterday. Workmen were removing some boards from a scaffold. A lot of plastering had lodged on the boards. Mr. Perkins happened to look up just at the moment when a cloud of lime dust was coming down. It struck his eyes almost blinding him. Dr. Schulyer, who lives close by the campus, immediately gave him all the relief possible before he was taken home. It is hoped by his many friends that he will receive no permanent injuries from the accident.

 From Monday's Daily Argus.

Rev. C. E. Clessler will resign his pastorate at Bridgewater on account of ill health.

Prof. T. C. Trueblood spoke before the M. E. Conference at Ionia Saturday on behalf of the Wesleyan Guild.

Mrs. Mary O. Bennett has applied for administration papers in the estate of Lawrence Olsaver, of Webster. She sets forth that she is the sole heir of the estate which is valued at $20,000.

Louis C. Boyle, who graduated from the law department some 10 years ago, and entered upon the practice of his profession in Fort Scott, Kansas, and was subsequently elected attorney-general of the state of Kansas, has removed to Kansas City, Mo., where he will practice.

Herman M. Marsh, son of Jonas Marsh, of Scio, died yesterday, aged 65 years. The immediate cause of his death was a tumor. The funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock at his late residence. The interment will take place in Jackson. The deceased leaves a wife and two children.

Librarian Joseph P. Vance, of the law department, is hunting for information about Arthur T. Wilcox at U. of M. '59 lit. He enlisted in the 8th Ohio. He was taken prisoner and spent a year in Libby prison. On his return home, he re-enlisted in the 44th Ohio. He is reported to be living in Leadville, Colo. Mr. Vance would like to know the gentleman's present address.

Maj. Harrison Soule, treasurer of the university, is well known as an expert deer hunter and trout fisherman. "I don't think much of these patent fishing rods," said Mr. Soule. "I recollect when once I went fishing with a $6 rod. I broke it and had to stop to fix it up. Then I broke it again and gave it up. I went into the brush and cut a pole with my pocket knife. Then the fish began to bite and I caught them. They did not take any more stock in my patent fish pole than I did."

On the second floor of the university museum are a mounted Tamaran bull and calf loaned to the institution by the curator, H. S. Sargent. They are two of the seven specimens brought back from the Philippines by Prof. Steere on the island of Celebus in 1888. Up to that time, the animal was only known by tradition. There is another specimen in the museum, two of the others in the Columbian museum in Chicago and two in Europe. Unless some public spirited man purchases these two specimens for the university, they will probably pass into the hands of some other institution.

Dr. Paul L. Menzel, D. D. of Richmond, Val, who spoke in the Bethlehem Church yesterday, was during his stay in Ann Arbor the guest of Rev. John Neumann, of S. Fourth Ave. Dr. Menzel is not only an interesting speaker in the pulpit, but a delightful conversationalist. He is the president of the board of directors that governs the American educational institutions of the German Evangelical church and is pastor of St. John's Church in Richmond, Va. He is a friend of the reporters, and remarked to two Ann Arbor newspaper men that he was under many obligations to the press and appreciated its work.