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Day
7
Month
October
Year
1898
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The city offices are being overhauled and repainted. Marriage license issued: Geoi-ge V. Rowe, of Northville, and Kittie Bell Gridley, of Ypsilanti. Granger's academy has been rented by Mrs. Tyler and Mr. Austin, who will conduct their dancing school there during the coming season. It is said that Sousa's band will appear here this year after all, the Wuman's League having secured the organization for a concert. Minna Molkentin has ha3 her sisterln-law, Anna Molkentin, arrested for slander. She alleges she was acccused of false swearing in the Howard trial. A young man in this city who was married here two months ago, has not yet paid the preacher who perfi.rmed the ceremony. Has the young Benedict forgotten his first duty? Upon complaint of Richard Johnson, his son George has been sentenced te the Industrial school at Lansing until 18 years of age. Ann Arbor is getting quite a colony in the Lansing school. "Bud" "Williams has been arrested upon complaint of George Lawson for assault and battery, Lawson claiming Williams threw a piece of coal that cut the side of his face open. The case will be tried Oct. 28. Oswald Herz, son of William Hera, met with an accident Tuesday on State st. He was riding horseback, when Lhe spirited animal could no longer be controlled and ran away. Herz was thrown off and a broken arm resulted. The third annual oommencíment of the training school for nurses associated with the homeopathie hospital oí the University of Michigan will be held Saturday evening, Oct. S, in the building of the homeopathie medical college. The subject to be discussed at the T. M. C. A. meeting next Sunday aftemoon will be "The Philosophy of Eterna I Life." Mr. Fred Esslinger will have charge. Special muslc will be provided for this meeting, and all men are ïnvited to come. The four new fronts now being put in in the opera house block is the largest number of fronts ever constructed in this city at one time. The residente of the north end of town will, no doubt, appreciate the efforts of the opera house management in making an effort to beautify North Main st. The city having blown in all the money it had in the treasury and all it could borrow under the charter, it seems' that the only way Contractor Clancy will be aWe to get che balance of nis money on the paving job this year i.s to sue the city and then go to ti;e Supreme court and secure a ruandamus compelling the city to spread the amount on lts tax rolls. The vote for teachers' special prizes given by Schumacher & Miiler, Lhe druggists, resulted as follows: Laura Mills received the prize for teacher in country school, and Anna Shannon the prize for teacher in city school. Prizes, $3 package of perfume. Miss Laura Mills having received the highest number of votes, receives the prize given by M. Schaller, a set of books, value $5. So many depredations have been committed at the Michigan Central by tramps fhat Tuesday George Amers, Frank Thayer, Frank Baker and John' Dourcy, who were strangers here, were gathered in on a charge of vagrancy. All but Amers plead guilty and were sentenced to flve days in jail. Amers' trial is set for Oct. 10, which will make five days he will spend in jail anyway. Peter Hines, of Ann Arbor, and Mrs Martha Smith, of this ;ity, were married at St. Mary's church this morning at 6 o'clock by Rev. P. A. Baart. Mrs Smith is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Patrick Woods, of this city. Mr. Hines is a brother of Mrs. Eugene Haley of this city. They leáve this evening on the 7:51 train for Ann Arbor, where they will reside.- Marshall Daily Chronlcle. Marshal Sweet made a good capture Wednesday. He arrested G. Hurst, colored, who is wanted in Windson for norse stealing last spring. Hurst was tracked to this city, but had flown when the officers went aiter him He returned here a couple of days ago and Marshal Sweet inquired of the Wmdsor pohce if he was still wanted. Receiving an amrmative answer the officer locked him up. Nina E. Olliver has filed a bilí for divoree against her husband, Thomas H Olhver. Her narrative of domestic trouble is that she has been married for about ten years. About a year ago she fiied a bilí for divorce, charging her husnand with drunkenness and cruelty An interview was shortly aftervards held and upon his promises to reform and do better she discontinued the suit These promises, she claims, he falled to keep and she renews her application for a divorce. The American Board of Missions is m session at Grand Rapids. In a Free Press dispatch appears the followingProf James B. Angelí, oí Ann Arbor arrived this afternoon and he was lionJzed when he appeared in the church. He Is the most interesting of all the many noted men present, because he CTeS á?Zect from 'Turkey, the field in which the missionaries have had so much trouble and with which he is probably more familiar than any other man in the world today. He wa given an ovation as he entered the church i TnS the afternoon the delegiiei grreeted him enthusiastically Ie is suffering from a bad throat and did not make any address today, althouirh promising to do so tomorrow eveninTarief In' t'ha'k UPn the Sn LJcyusednf=LmneghlhaeSk:ub! tiïJnVïT COmedieS " throadSeit flna 0" tO bGing Olle Of the bigfon anj f"fIal successes of the past seaoapftv- ofStheS ÏT UhOUt Sayin that the SOunccetB0y WantLd" S a anuearo1 Contractor Koch has made a eount of the new residences erected in this tuty slnce April, and repons the number as just 200. Hereafter persons can buy money orders at the postoffice which can be paid io persons living in the same place as the sender. "Jimmie" Hogg, captain at Ar.n Arbor last fall, is coaching the Carleton college eleven, which won the minor college championship of Minnesuia last year. The D., Y. & A. A. electric railway will probably soon open an office and waiting room in the Duffy block, opposite the postoffice. The location i.-í an excellent one. James Brown, a tramp, was seineneed to 65 days in the Detroit house ol correetion yesterday for stealing .ume tinware from the store of Miss Magdalena Eisele, 218 Detr.ui st.. Charles J. Dougherty, a deputy sheriff from Hammond, Ind., and Miss Kathirine Evans, a teacher of the saine place, took out a marriage licen.se ii. this city yesterday. Thirty members from the Hives in Ypsilanti attended the meeting of Arbor Hive Tuesday evening last. Lemonade and cake were served and a delightful evening spent. Jesse Sebring was Wednesday acquitted of larceny of Dr. Darling's horse by the jury after they had been out for over two hours. Sebring had been in jail for flve rnonths awaiting trial. The condition of his health has compelled Manager Pulcipher, of the Western Union telegraph office, to take at least a month's vacation. He goes to the lake today on a short trip. The football team of Company A, Thirty-flrst Michigan Volunteers, has apked for a game with the U. of M. The management has offered them one of the middle of the week dates. The October jury panel was discharged by Judge Kinne last Thursaay all criminal cases and issues oL fact having been tried in two days. That is, ail cases whieh were not put over the term were tried. J. T. Jacobs was invited by Governur Pingree to be present at the unveiling uf the Blair monument at Lansing on the 12th inst. Mr. Jacobs'will not attend as he is ealled to New ïork on business next week. Shigeru Matsuyama Is' one of the three Japanese students studying in the TJniversity of Michigan this year. tsy," as he has been dubbed by hls fellows, is senior engineer, 21 years old, and hails from Tokio. Married at Hulbertson, X. V., Wednesday, ex-Mayor Willard B. Smith, of this city, and Miss Jennie Phillips, of Hulbertson. Dr. and Mrs. Smith returiK-d late last evening and have gor.e to keeping house at 318 E. Washington st. Considerable attention was attracted this morning in front of one of the stores by the orowd watching a mouse crawl up the cloth curtain in the v.iadow and capture lazy or stupefied flies. He would catch one, run down with it and return again for another mouthLul. In fact he was very "fly" at the wprk. Mrs. Fred Chapell and daughier, Ethel, left this morning for Ann Arbor, where the latter will take treatment in the University hospital for the last time, her knee having nearly recovered from the infection which compelled her to seek the services of the Ann Arbor physicians for a cure. - Owosso American. Jacob Schwartz, of this city, and Johanna Belfranz, of Arm Arbor, were married Wednesday by Rev. Heyn, of St. Stephens Germán Lutheran chureh. The newly married couple were attended by George Schwartz, a brother of the groom, and Miss Lulu Sharpsteen. The wedded pair will make their home' at No. 52 Elm st. - Adrián Telegram. A number of eastern oapitalists have been making an inspection of the proposed line of the Dexter, Ann Arbor & Lansing electric railway this week. As a result of their inspection it is sunnounced that a portion of the road will be constructed this falj. The route will be shortened a few miles Dy cutting through hills, so that it will not exceed sixty miles in length. For the flrst time in years a department in the University will offer a prize for scholarship. A medical publishing company has written Dr. Carrow that they would dónate a series of twelve volumes of a standard work for some student, and today the profesor announced that the set would be given to the senior medical student who will have passed the best set of exarninations during the year. Judge Hammond, of the United States court, has decided for the Ann Arbor R. R. in the case of Ashley vs. Quintard. Ashley sued Quintard and other stoekholders of the Ann Arbor for a large sum of money to wind up the receivership of the road. The stoekholders being non-residents the Ann Arbor road was garnisheed. The c-tockholders moved to quash, claiming the stock was not located in the state. a gentleman from Manchester was in the city today and said: "Rev. Dan Snier, of our place, is somewhat of a Rough Rider himself. Not keep an eye on him and you will see that if Pingree is elected (which he will e) the Reverend Dan will be made chapla" ?, the state's Vrison at Jackson. Mr. Shier has done some good work for ïngree and Judson, and I have got it straight that he is slated for the Jackson job." Here's congratulations to Kough Rider Shier! Half of the jur3rs for the Ootober term of court reached the court room at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, the others an hour later. Two sets of blanks have been used by Clerk Schuh in summoning the jurors, the time being diferent in each. No great harm was done but it cost the captain a whole box of good cigars to make the matter right with the attorneys and jurors -Courier ihe joke is on the Courier. The clerk rtnf n.' sumum(n Jurors, which is the duty of the sheriff.

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