In And About The City

If youwant to buy, sell or trade use the local columns oí the üemocrat. Mr?. B. M. Thompson and daughter Ethel will leave l'aris for home on the first of the coming month. Attomey Frank Stivers left last night for lndianapolis on business. He expects to be away for several days. The health officer reports a number of case3 of measles about ihe city. Marshal Sweet is kept busy flagging Jfte cases. The fli-ê cómmissioners have ordered parties near the postoffice block to stop putting up a frame building, since it is within the flre limits. Mis.s Bessie Stevens returned to her school wurk at Albion, N. Y., last night after spending her spring wicatiun with her parents in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Shirley, of Hamiltün, desire to return their sincere thanks to their many friends who so kindly assisted them in their late berea vemen t. BIr Knights W. W. Watts and Chas. E. Hiscock of this city and J. B. Colvan, of Ypsilanti, leave Saturday for Pittsburg, Pa., to make arrangements for the Ann Arbor Commandery, K. T., to attend the next annuai conclave at thaf. city. D. Burhans, of Owosso, is quartered at the Arlington. He is one of the bondsmen for the con tractor who built the dormitory at the U. of M. hospital. The painters, carpenters and boüer makers, of the Ann Arbor road, have gone to Frankfort where they will make the spring repairs on Ann Arbor car ferry No. 1. Fred Martin, aged 14 years, was ordered taken to the Lansing school this furenoon to remain until hls lSth birthlay. Marshal Sweet will take hiin to Jansing tomorrow. Mrs. G. M. Case of Helena, Montana, who has been spending the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Wm. F. Dains, at "27 Broadway, leaves this forenoon enroute for Clyde, N. Y. A. Stevens, proprietor of the Lake House at Whitmore Lake, is in the city. He says he is prepared to accommodate nis old friends. He has made many improvements in his hotel. David D. Bird, of Jackson road, Ar.n Arbar town, died Wednesday aged 85 years, 1 monlh and 6 days. The fuB( ral and interment will be at Williarnsville Sunday. The deceased leaves two .--i ns and a daughter. Cari M. Green, as U. of M. manager 'i [nterscholastic athletics, has sent formal invitations to the high schools "f the state to take activo part in the pomlng Jnterscholastic athletic meet and field day to be held in this city .May 11 and 28. At ihe annual meeting of the Ladies' Aid society of St. Andrew's parish in Harris hall, the offlcers for the ensuing year were elected as folio ws: President, Mrs. Arthur G. Hall; vice-president, Mr?. W. N. Brown; secretary, lírs. L. 1'. Jocelyn; treasurer, Mrs Alice Woodbridge. The Odd Fellows of the city will attend religieus services Sunday forenoon, April 24, at the First Baptist hureh, by invitation of Rev. and Bro. T. W. Young, who will preach a sermón appropriate to the occasion. All members of the order in or near the city are invited to be present. M. J. Lehman left yesterday for Landing on lega! business. He will argue the appeal case of Hattie M. Bond vs the Lake Shore railroad in the supreme court today. It will be remembered that Hattie Bond was given a judgment in the May term of court in 1896 for ÏI.üOO. In 1894 she was injured by a i-ake Shore train near Saline. The first annual contest of the High .School Oratorical association will be held In High School hall on next Monday evening, April 25. Five of the best speakers In the school have entered so that the contest is sure to be very close. Music will be furnished by the High School Mandolín club. Admission is 10 cents, except to members of the Oratorical association, who will be adA moyement is on fooi to remodel the entire front of the Main street buildings ocoupled by L. Gruner and Eterbach & SoO. It would very matenally help the appearance of the strec-t ii similar improvements were made in the entire block, wherever needed Mam street with its new paveniPnt' modern store fronte and bustling buslproudeotrP WÍ" be a street to be '■iCbank' CvI:lrkson' of the First National bank, has received a letter from banf S f the CoIdwat N-atlonS KofAnïVï V-6ry coraP'imentary -er mi, of Ann Arbor's new superintendboard nf ? Secretary Mills, of the ooard of education. ha= ,.L,„„!,.„.■. .... iriemls of the city school expressinir hn?orArvr CUrier: A eardener who fc-Hrr1--1' ai rlíá return to the earth fh 1 Wintër and -"- been veTíp e EwdaSi Wm.' B nP1Címond' IrvIl8 sllfS Webster , f lUy c1,v 'Sr,father' Jude 1 3 ril a beautlfuj drive by Lunn , Ten thousand pounds of cabie have arrived for the New State telephonc, and a gang of men will begin work tomorrow morning putting it in. The estimated earnings of the Ann Arbor road for the second week of April were $26,695.70, being an increase of $478.37 over the corresponding period of 1897. The Michigan Mftnthly Bulletin of Vital Statistics, just receK'ed, reports 75 deaths in Washtenaw county during the month of March. Of these Ann Arbor had 33, Ypsilanti 10. The Port Huron Gas company, in which several Ann Arbor capitalista ai e ir.terested, has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state, with a capital stock of $150,000. Judge Kinne has granted Florence Palmer, of Tpsilanti, a c'ivorce from Jay J. Palmer, on the ground of extreme cruelty, giving her the eurflody of the youngest child, Benjamin Palm. er. The other three children wil) remaln with their father. Acting-IJrflSident Hutchins, of the Universlty, will speak at the next meeting of the Alumni Associatlon of Macomb county, whieh takes place April 22. This association is large and flourishing and has been in existence a number of yeara. It supports a scholarship at the University. The body of James Foley, the Lan'-g business man who has been missing since December 14, was found last Thursday in a swamp hole in Eaton county. "The supposition is that Foley lurnmitted suicide. The body was identified by his son-in-law, C. A. Maynard, the Ann Arbor grocer. Charles Tessmer ñas duiu nimscii a. model boat-house just above the Ann Arbor road trestle and Is preparing tor a busy season. lie has some thirty boats, sail and row, and a eurious water bicycle. The last narned is a great curiosity, c arries two persons and makes pretty creditable speed through the water. Sunday forenoon members of the household discovered Mrs. Lena Qsborn lying dead on the floor of her room at Ü26 Kingsley street. No. one had seen her since early the day before and no one had suspeeted her to be in poor health. An inquest was held Monday morning, the verdict arrived at being death by apoplexy. Mrs. Caroline M. Loomis, agtd 89 years, 7 months and 16 days, died Saturday at her home, 311 Ann street. The funeral occurred Monday afternoon at the house, Rev. Tatlock officiating. Interment at Forest HUÍ. The deceased was the widow of the late AVm. Loomis and leaves three sons, Frank, George and Dudley Loomis. Miss Emma E. Bower, great record keeper of the Michigan L. O. T. M., was in Detroit Tuesday at a session of executive committee of the great hive. It Is the intention of the committee to witness on Wednesday the xemplification of the work of the convention hive, as it will be given before the biennial review in Detroit in June. The U. of M. baseball team was defeated by Notre Dame Monday by the score of 4 to 2, the Ann Arbcr team gettlng but three hits off Gibson. Lehr held the Notre Dame nine to seven hits, and Condón at flrst and Captain Butler in the field distinguished themselvés. Wolff, the third basen, an, was out of the game because of a lame knee. A. C. Anson umpired. President Chauncery M. Depew announces that the directors of the New York Central & Hudson River railroad have decided to offer to the Michigan Central railroad to exchange their 3V2 per cent. debenture bonds for the stock of the Michigan Central, on the basis of 115 for Michigan Central. These terms have been accepted by the Vanderbills for their holdings and the sanv? terms are offered to holders of Michigan Central. The 'Varsity baseball team won the flrst game of its spring trip at Champaign, 111., Saturday. defeating the University of Illinois by the close score of 4 to 3 in a ten-inning1 game. Michigan is reported to have played a "streaked" game nearly losing several times by poor playing. The batteries were Michigan - Lum and Miller; Illinois - McGill and McCullom. Michigan gained 9 hits and recorded 8 errors; Illinois 3 hits and 3 errors. The team plays Notre Dame tomorrow. The members of Company A, M. N. G., are congratulating themselves upon the f act that they belong to the battalion under the comrr.and of Major Seymour Howell, of Adrián. Major Howell is recognized all over the country as a thoroughly educated and upto-date military man with practical experience. Those patriotic citizens and University students who wish lo enlist in case war is declared, can do no better than join Company A. There wil! be room for 70 as soon as war is declared, and the armory will be the place to enlist. The faculty oí the University do noi indorse the action of the house of representatlvee in recommending the frecdom of Cuba, says the Detroit Tribune. Prof. B. M. Thompson says it places us in such a. position that war is inevitable. He says that when our AngloSc.xon forefathers contemplated war, they got drunk, sobered up and Uien acted. In the present case they got drunk and acted without sobering up. Prof. McLaughlin, of the literary f,iculty, thinks the independence of Cuba should not have been recognized. A rnment, he says, eannot be recognized until it is well enough established to be the de facto governmeot of the country. Members of the faculty, he says, have just as much right to' protest to congressmen against war as other constituent? have to urge war. Adrián Times: An ir.teresting specimen of the old-time newspaper "extra" Is possessed by Henry Chittenden. It is merely a prlnted slip issued by the Michigan Argus, of An.n Arbor, on August 16, 1858, announeing the Atlantic teiegraph cable to be in order, together with the message of Queen Victoria to President Buchanan, and nis reply Among other things the president said: May the Atlantic teiegraph, under the blessings of heaven, prove to be a bond of perpetual peace ar.d fricndship between tlje kindred nations, and an instrument to diffuse religión, ization, liberty and love throughout the world. In thls view, .vill not all natlons of Christendom unite spontaneously on the declaration that it shall be forever neutral and that its eomrr.unications shall be held sacred in their passage to their places of destlnation, even in the midst of hostilities." The Detroit Journal is responsible for the statement that Charles BaiM has ff? ,aPPinte1 gradúate director of athletlcs at the University of Michigan, and that he is to take his place at the head of the athletic ársociatloñ of the i mversity next September, at the beginning of the sehool year. The appointment .-f Mr. Balrd is a recogiiltiuE of hls efficiënt services in hanflling Uhletic eventa at Ann Arbor when he was a student in the clasa oL '95 He was flve years a director and esecretarv .1. the Stuaenta' Athletic aasiSaUon vuile m BChooI, and in the vears of ;. 84 and '96 Was íootball manager The three years of his management of he football ttam were the most buc essful years in the records of football at Ann Arbor. He will have the m7LaOt, decidin the policies to be -ursued in each branch, the selection f coches and trainers, and the making of sehedules for games. 1