Gleanings Of A Week

Jno. Oliver, '99 L., winner of the shot put in '97, died of tuberculose at Santiago. Marriage license issued: Wni. T. Merritt, of Salem, and Pauline Kehrel, of Ljon, Mich. ilrs. George B. Mills is visiting her mother, who is very siek at her home in Morrice, Ind. The annual meeting of the board of supervisors will open at the court house Monday, Oct. 10. A number of arrests will be made of persons who jumped the fair grounds fence during the fair. The Ann Arbor Railroad compaiiy -will build a new depot at Elsie soon and will use the oíd one for a freight house. L. A. Pratt and Merritt Hawxhurst have purchased a controlling interest in the InUnd Press from Franklin Parker. A marriage license has been taken out by Thos. S. Burr, of this city. and Mis Carrie S. Coleman, medie, '98, of Center, Ind. Misses Blanche Cushman and Carrie Fleming will attend the Ann Ai"boi school of music again this year. - Dexler Leader. Harry McGee, '00 E , has secured his discharge from the Thirty-flrst Michigan and will take up his work ín coilege again. W. D. Hickey. '00 M., was in tlie Sixth Ohio Volunteers at Chlckamauga this summer, but secured a discharge in time to return to college. Volney M. Spalding, professor of botany, af ter spending a few months al his summer home in New York will go abroad on leave of absence, becaust of ill-health. Dr. P. C. Cooley, of Detroit, is conducting the clinics at the homeopathie hospital in the absence of Dr. Oscar Le Seure, who went to Chickanisuga as a brigade surgeon. The Oracle, the annual publication of the sophomore class, has opened its year's work by offering $25 in prizes for the best frontispieee, story and poem centributed by students. The election of new offlcers for the Washtenaw Fair Association last Friday resulted as follows: President. Henry S. 'Dean; vice-presHent, Ben Kelly, of Ypsilanti; secretary, F. E. Milla,; treasurer, F. H. Belser The city engineer estimates that it will cost $3,247.50 to bring th3 sidewalks to grade in paving district No. 1, and Í400 for those in paving district No. 2. The matter of compelling th3 property owners to pay for the same is being looked into. The board of public works have recommended to the council that enough plank be purchased to cover bridge No. 1, on Broadway. They also directed the Street commissioner to construct the walks advertised for and upon which no bids were submitted. The following lecturers have been engaged for Henry Martin Loud Wesleyan Guild course: Jesse B. Young, of the St. Louis Christian Advocate, Oct. 30; Dr. James R. Day, chancellor oí the Syracuse University, Nov. 20; Dr. J. B. Coleman, of Albany, N. Y., Dec. 18. There has been quite a ehange in the figures of the pa'ing job, the sum of $2,531.76 being transfered from the assessments to adjoining property to the general street fund in district No. 1. City Engineer Key states that this will make the ra te $4.79 per running foot. The fraternities are doing some tall hustling to get new men, but the co-eds are doing even more rushing. One girl freshman has been taken driving nearly every day, has received several boxes of flowers and has had callers hourly. She has been "rushed" by six of the eight fraternities. Scusa's Band wiH not be one of thp attractions on the S. L. A. course this year. Although Sousa was offered a larger price tlian he got last year he declined and it is said his grounds for so doing were the adverse criticisms of some people in Ann Arbor musical circles against popular music. Secretarj' Prentiss, of the Alumn association, has not sent out 5,000 invi tations to members of the assoclatio for the annual alumni football game The game will be played on Regents neld Oct. 29, and among the old men who will line up against the 'varsity are Henninger and Jimmy Baird Febert will play half. Dr C. E. Burchfleld, of St. Joseph, brother of Sara Burchflel.l, the tailor of this city, was elected seeretary of the Bi-State Dental Association at its annual session held at South Bend, Ind Dr. Burchfleld is a gradúate of the tiental department of the U. of M. and is getting a growing practico. He has many friends in Ann Arbw who wlsh lum suecess, The rain Priday somewhat marred the pleasures of the fair, and the races had to be postponed until this afternoon. The following was the paid admissions the four days of the fair: Tuesday, 646; Wedp.esday, 2,627Thursday, 6,128; Friday, 1,097 Tot]' 10,462. This includes 437 fifteen-cont tickets and 1,322 school children's tickets on Wednesday. The total receipu at the gate were wnile last year they were $2,766.15 Among those who were pioneera of Washtenaw county and whose names ït was desired to have inscTibed on the walls of the log house were Solon and Arm Cook, who at the time the flrst fair was held in Ann Arbor kept Cook's tavern, now known as the Cook house. The matter looked somewhat difficuk of aecomphshment until Fred S Avery landlord of the Avery house, Mt. Clemens and a grandson of Mr. and Mr Cook stepped into the breach and sent íí V Babbitt' the necfssary check ror ïo to do honor to hls grandparents. City Attorney Butterfleld says he is gomg to draw up another bilí to be introduced in the coming leg-islature It is none other than to revise the Justloo Court practice in the city of Ann Arfnr;, ?e main feature "il be a change In the jury system and he contempla tls having a general panel of jurors drawn the same as in the circuit court and on certain days this jury will be bróught together and selections are to be made by opposing attorneys to try tiieir oases The present justice jury system is ai fie?kT n"f íarCe ancl ButL" fleld s bill will do much toward securmg the desired ends of Justice. The paving fever is getting very conand,Ui!: TUli0n has been drcuto?ëd and signed by a majorit üf erty owners on Washington st. to have that thoroughfare paved with asphalt luteO"tíSeef(?hbeine:KClrcUlated t0 W Mr. Waldo Taylor, of Detroit, was a guest at A. M. Doty's over Sunday. G-eorge N. Beekner died Saturday at hi.s home, 1211 Broadway, of laryngeal phthisis. Holmes has just received a new tallyho and it was out at the football game Saturday. Harry Moore, instructor in the ungraded school at Lansing, was in the city over Sunday. The street railway people should label their local cars so that persons will know whether they are ' going on X. State st. or S. State st. A delightful little party was given at Granger's academy Priday evening, chaperoned by Mrs. Cushman and Mrs. MbNeal. .Mrs. Tyler furnished the music. An audience that completely fillei Newberry hall greeted Dr. Angelí Sunday morning upon the occasion of his opening address to the Students' Christran Association. Ben. M. Austin has returned from a summer in New York and Boston. Mr. Austin will discontinue the University school of dancing, and the coming season will assist Mrs. Granger. Monday Franeis E. Allen sold the 300 acre "Allen farm" on the Whitmore Lake road to the Towar's Wayne County Creamary Co. for $18,000. The title of the grantees gives the reason of the purchase. Saturday afternoon Dr. Burr, who Is acting as assistant to Dr. Darling, and Dr. Carrie S. Coleman were united in marriage at. the Methodist parsonage by the pastor. Both are graduates of the U. of M. class of '98. Thomaa Barhyart and son Ernest Barhyart have been arrested upon complaint of Mrs. Sáleme T. Gardner for the larceny of some chiekens. The deiendants plead not. guilty and were left in the care of the offleers. The month of October was u.shered in Saturday night with some excitement. A razor cut some figure and a man's face in a Main st. scrap, while a Roug-h Rider emptied his revolver and a saloon of its erowd in a well known resort. Lee Ilaell, a Chicago Chinese, feil from a Main st. car Sunday, injuring himself quite severely. A Hurón st. Celestial, with whom the injured brother is staying, was asked this morning how his countryman was getüng alonand replied, "Lee Haell sick, Lee yeli üke 'Haell!' " At the homeopathie hospital this summer a very difficult operation was performed. A six-year-old boy was terriDly burned under the arm in July, 1ÍS96, and when the arm was bandaged H was left in contact witn the body and grew fast to the elbow. It was released and several hundred skin grafts made, restoring the use of the limb. Masakazuh Stehachi Toyama y ho was a student in the literary departm?,nt7c0f "e University of Michigan in 18-76 and received the honorary degree of master of arts from the same Instttuticm in 1886, is now minister of pubhc instruction of Japan and a memoer of the Japanese cabinet Mr Toy ama was formerly dean of the College of Letters at Tokyo. Col. Mapes, the projector of the Lanlung, Dexter & Ann Arbor railway, was M As t0 the SU? said he: 'We will be here in Ann Arbor working on the construction of Lne fío 'f 'de f 30 w will buid frora Ann Arbor to Dexter and früIn Lansing to Mason thiS faii, and the vo Dexter nex; spring." C00ley' of the Univerty,oí Michigan, is still in the service of the navy department. A lettaí e oí iiaiti. The steamer had been nut in reserve and all the crew i-ave two offi cers and hiraself discharg-ed $16svi t l be an verdraf t of C" SS Arbor has This inc.udss about $15,000 on avW iÜPsi álfHiifi gure this fall VI , n Prom'nent :;y? ttetnonr fr chavn: caíendar 6 W6re 66 ases on the thehtraiínf aï"U,ai comn'eno&ment of wHhtiTerSaTof Saturday evening-, October 8 in the and Miss LtIlian Peltier, of Mt Clrm ens Mich. FoIlowin& jhe eomnSnI ment exercises proper there win be a At the opening of the Circuit cou-t was anaigned on a charge oL iarcenv The defendant had consuUed wUh "ne acrrrfl AS he hacl no money to law the court was to apPoint . someone to defend hlm. Judie Kinne turned to the lawyer and in qmred whether Smith had any money" whateve?" f1116 ha3 no s "rtM t ï: said Judge Kinne auLinht:dhaJi!na?4en flrSt SOt - Mary E. Battin, widow of the late JUdge of probate of SteubenvUl owoe who was arrested on a charge of lar SEJ" 'U and which he acknI edged was done while under the iñflunce of mtoxicating liquors, plead gCiUy n the circuit court. Judge Kinne hel, a ong uit with her and ' l?LL hrinVo b" 'T"1 da'lying aund tïe hP'uTu coendauacriOCethexUK continue his work in the medical do SwaralssaHís vi ent to Cooperstown, N. Y. with sev 1 er Piay from the same club' w ere ffi enlto Chatham, Ont neie ne flnished his engaeerrent in anst%wnenter the UniversyEeF0? tl" ast two seasons he has coached the U e wilr and " is to bs hoped that The board of supervisors will eommence tlieir annual session next week. George E. Moore is out with a handsome new oil wagon, a product of Walker Bros.' shop. John Tice has resigned his position with J. J. Goodyear and has entered the employ of H. J. Brown. Work has commeneed on tearing out the store fronts of the opera house bloek and new ones will be put in. Mr. Ben Angus, the well known carpenter of the Ann Arbor road, is in Dundee, where he will complete several jobs of repair wurk. Trinity Lutheran Sunday school will give a social and supper at the chureh parlors on Saturday evening of this week. All are eordially invited. Thomas Ninde, who shot Millie Young at Ypsilantl Sunday night, was brought to the jail in this city yesteivy afternoon. He refuses to say anything. Edward MeMahon, who was brought back from Knoxville, Tenn., in a very sick condition, is improving slowly. He is still weak, due from jonstant perspiration. Thomas Barhyat was convicted in Justice Duffy'c court Monday of allowing his horses to pasture on the road and was fined $5 and costs. He will appeal to the circuit court. Hon. Joe T. Jacobs sent in his resignation today as a member of the school board. Had Mr. Jacobs served out his term he would have been a member of the board eighteen years continuously. Warrants have been served upon William Campion and Andrew Schiappacasse for jumping over the fence into the fair. They plead "not guilty" and the cases were set for trial for Oct. 18. The U. of M. football team will play Kenyon college team next Saturday and the management of the opera house has issuèd complimentary tickets for both teams for "Pudd'nhead Wilson" for the evening. Col. Mapes, of the L,., D. & A. A. road, says he will commence work on construction in the city inside of 30 days. Perhaps it would be just as well for him to get a franchise from the city before commencing the work. Mike Griffith, who was recently injured between the couplings of an Aun Arbor train in this city, is now a brakeman on passenger trains Nos. 2 and 3. He will work in that capacity until he is strong enoug-h to begin firing on a freight train. A dispatch from Morgantown. W. Va., announces that Rev. C. A. ïoung has been elected president of Bethany university. Mr. Young was formerly pastor of the Church of Christ in this city and preceded Prof. G. P. Coler as head of the Ann Arbor Bible chairs. In the school exhibit at the Washlenaw county fair the Saline villagë school won nearly all the flrst and some second premiums in the city and viliage school división. Saline school had no ccmpetition in many exhibits. Rural schools had a fine exhibit of map drawing. Ihere are eight woman student1 in the dental department this year. Three of them are from Germany, the old country prejudice against eo-e&ucation driving them to America. The total enrollment in the dental department stood at 206 yesterday morning, as against223 at the close of last year. A car was broken into on the Toledo & Ann Arbor road Saturday nig-ht and a quantity of underwear and boots and shoes taken. Some of the plunder was found near the Northern brewery Just how much stuff was appropriated cannot be told until the shippers check up with what was left in the car. TV those who saw " Pudd'nhaad AVilson," when it was produced here last season, and to those who have read the story, to attend the Athens Thatre next Saturday night wiil be llke renevv ïng old acquaintances; and to those who have never seen the play, or read the book, a novel treat is in store ' The two young lads, Belfranz ar-d wann, who were arrested for the larceny of some household goods belonsing to Mr. Groves, on W. Huron st have escaped a trial. It was discovered tfcis morning that the county agent P J. Lehman, had not been n'otified as to the trial, which the statute requires, and Hahn was discharged. This mean the same disposition will be made of the case ag-ainst Belfranz. Detective Roser, of the Michigan Central, was in the city Monday looking up a case which happened Saturday night. A man, whose name was not earned, was groing: east on a freight La,n with a large quantity of chicltens He stepped off the train ncar this station to see if the poultry was all right when somebody knocked him down with a club and robbed him of all his money He succeeded in getting on the train and telegraphed the facts to the Michiïïnr,Ce,ntral authorities from St. Thomus, uut. A very unique and original course is being offered this semester in the UniHousehold Economics." The course takes up the buying of a house, the furmshing of it, the precautions to be taken to secure the best hygienic ar rangementa, the preparationof mea!s, etc the aim of the course being to give a httle practical work with a view to ttnS ïl thSe wh0 contémplate setkefr l?fP keePing at SOme Penod of their hfe. The course is a disünct dp LarcoUlïeegefrom USUal COUrses rhe offlcers of the U. of M. Republican ft m7n fvldent]y a not aware what it means to run up against Col Jud n Lef,in t6naw County cmmittee in refusing to supply a part of the means to get Senator Burrows to soeak here Saturday night. The offlcerSPhad all arrangements made but Sheriff Juctoon and Chairman Butterfie ld thought in the interests of haimony and Pingree that Nat. McKay's TfrieSd had better be kept away. The Univer anl raTstTn'1 actÍndently anTt'y rohe'anyway8 ' get Se"atOr Bur" toAw?r álM nOt necessarily have to g-o S Vee JEUStBtr!f Pacein' foe?" on fgodii Sa uSruerer8 ,S bvTi' Was wantei very badw by the Chicago pólice for a m-mo 7 fellow stopped and m de a move J i Hm