Local

It cost the city $72.51 to care for its poor last month. Thrce car loads of rails for the new street car tracks have arrived. Nine candidates were taken in to the Presbytenan church last Sunday. There are G47 boxes rented at the postoflice for the 2d quarter paylng $207.80. Among the orders for Dr. Chase's Ilcceipt book received Monday was one from the Argentine Republic. The goud work of beautifying our cily by building out lawns and stone coping U going on at a surprislng rate. Aid. Milier, of the 4th ward, presided at the council meeting Monday eveniDg, President Howlett being out of town. The boys are so eager to get the bounty on eparrows In thia city tliat they climb up to the nests and take the scalps of the young ones. The moncy to build Ihe chancel of St. Andrew's church has been nearly all raised, and it is hoped the work will menee soon. The awning of Watts & Co. 's stora was burned last Thursday night by a fire cracker being dropped into the folds by so.ne careless lad. The Aun Arbor faces íq the streets of Dexter last Fndiiy wore very numerous. All seemed to have a jolly time, and catne home foellng glad that they went. The next uieeting of the Ann Arbor Business Meu's Association will be held at the common council room in the court house, on Tuesday evening July 2Ut. Mayor Manly bas appointcd Gottlob Luick, VV. E. Walker and Herman Krapf as a board of building inspector?, and the cutincll bas confirmed the appointment. Some of the awnings In the city are too Iovv. None of thetn should hit the hradgear of ordinarily tall people walking alongthe streel, wbich many of them do. For the quarier ending June 30th there were 4,268 lbs.of paid matter sent through the Aan Arbor postoflïce, a total of tiearly ten tons. Tlie postage collected whs $155.1!. At the Schutzenfest at the park last Fridny, Herman Annburster, of thls city, won about $200 in prizes. Fred Graf won a second prize of $25 n gold on the uu ion tiirget. The bilis allowed by the council at its meeting Monday evening ainounted to $3,227.19, of which the water tax wus 2,555. There is now on hand $7,906.91 In the city treasury. Among the exprcss packages that went out of the city Monday was one weighing 300 pounds, for Kandolph Rogers, Rome, Italy. It costs $9 a hundreil to seud by expreas to that city. One of our prominent butchers in thls city tells us that the summer exodus of Uniyeraity people, and others able to hie themselves to summer and pleasure resorts, has reduced his sales $25 per day Teachers' Institute for Washtenaw county will be held in this city, commenciug August llth. Prof. Hinsdale will be the conductor, and will be assisted by the county board of school examiners. The electric street car gong ringing at every street crossing is very annoying to the boys playing ball on the streets. They have trouble in hearing themselves yell sometimes. The gong should be muffled. The flrst meeting of the members of the boy choir of St. Andrew's churcli will be held in the chapel Friday even. ing. Rev. Mr. Waters will at once set about training them and getting tliein In readiness. The Farmei's Picnic will be held at Whitinore L;ike as usual this year, the date belng fixed for August 23d. Get your lunch baskets In order for ererybody fjoes to this picnic. Speakers not yet announced. On Saturday afternoon a lïttle four years old daughter of Airs. Beckwlth, of Ionia, who is vislting Mrs. F. F. Beckwith on Churcli street, feil into a clstern, and but for timely ald would have been drowned. An open cistern is a dangeroua thing. A building owned by Weil Bros. on W. Hurón st., loeateii just eastof tbe T. & A. A. track?, was damaged slightly by tire lu.st Thursday evening. The origin of the flre Is supposed to have boen Incendiary. The prompt response of the lire department saved considerable loss. A young lad named Wiegand had liis face badly burned wlth powder on the Stil. He was Uring the exDloslve In a ban el, and a charge of it went off prematurely. At first it was thoiight the boy's eyesight would be ruined, but Dr. Kapp says it will corae out all riglit. David Henning asks the city, through the common councll, to pay him $7,500 for inproving his lots on Pontiac st. by the building of the bridge and its approaches over the M. C. R. R. tracks. The sum ií a veiy modest one. but the councll will probably think twlce before it gives away that much or the city's money for what many conslder was really an irnprovement Instead of a damage lo those lots. Collection íur missioiis at tlie Presby terian church laBt Sunday was $65. Miss Ada Gilbert has been appolnte to a place n the Auditor General' offic al Lansing. Paul V. IVrry is now not only a nicm ber of the Waslitenaw bar but is a work in the office of a law firm in De troit. Tlie honorary dej?ree of LL. D. wa conferred on 'Prof. Henry Wade Roger by Wesleyan University, MIddletown Conn., at its last commencement. Among those who were passed upon a reglstcrcd pharmacists by the state board at their meeting last Thursday, wcre O F. Schmld D(1 VV. Palmer, of Ann Ar bor. Jacob Suthard recently appoiuted by M:iyor Pingree as a mem ber of tlie boarc of public -vork?, Is a former Ann Arbo boy. Hls fiither lives at Bridgewater Station. Stewart Millen received a liandsome pold medal for proficiency in drill at the Kenyon Military Academy, at Gambria Ohio. He will be entitled to a commis slon when he returns tliere next fall. The sale of the Irish estáte property conslsting of three houses and nearly three lots, on the corner of Fifth ave and Jcil'erson st., for about $4,000 was a bargain for the purchaser Mr. J. Lewls Any soldier or soldier's widow not now recemng a pension, or who is recelvinsr one of less than $G will do well to cali upon W. K. Cliilt'.s in the court house basement. All soldier's widows are enJtled to a pension uuder the new law. On our table is a specimen brick, taken eident Keecli of the Board of Public works tells us tbat of tbe 38 crossings put In last year, five were placed in the first ward,(three of which wero on South Main st.) 9 in the ld, 9 In the 3d, 10 in the 4th, 3 in the 5th, and 2 in the 6th. That doesn't look niuch as if the board were dlscriminating in favor of any one part of the city, especially the eustern part. More money was expended on West Iluron street last year, than upcm any other street in the city. News reached this city yesterüay of the death, from malaria fever, of F red Crane, son of Mr. anil Mrs. B. P. Crane, for muny years residents of this city. He died at Dallas, Texas, where he liad been for the past year n company with hU brottier Harry. The deceased was a member of the literary class of "Ül, but left college last year for business. Diiring '89 he was a member of the Glee club, and will be retnembered by many as taking the part of Juliette, in the famous "Romeo and Juliette" song. He was a member of the D K. E. fraternity, and Iiis friends are very numerous in university and city circles, fur he was one of the finest young men who ever went to college licre. His remains are rxpected to arrtve in the city to-morrow, aconipanled by his father and raother, who are on their way here from their home in S'. Paul, Minn. Funeral services ftotn Kn, Waldron'g residence Thureday p. m. This item will be sad reading lor many people who knew and greatly respected Mr. Crane.