The City

Crop of measles at Geddes. H. J. Brown's five-year-old boy is eick with diphtheria. Miss May Donnelly, aged 14 years, died yesterday morning. Judge Kinne is holding court in Monroe this week, bis first term. Officers of the Knights of Pythias were installed Monday evening. Daisy Britton on Monday asked for a divorce from William Britton. Lovina E. Cuoper, of Ypsilanti, asks for a divorce from Abram E. Cooper. Dr. A. C. Nichols has a branoh dental office in the rooms vacated by Dr. Jenkins. Herman Wanzeck, of Ann Arbor, died isst evening of inflammatory rheumatism. M. C. Sheehan will give a leap-year matinee r.ext Saturday ingtead of the usual order of things. A certain gentleman in Ann Arbor has a device for economizing spaee in dwelling houses, which he will get patented. The Philharmonic club appeared, last Friday evening, in another ot the Chamber concerts, and lost none of its popularity. The State horticultural society has broken loose from the state agricultural society, and will not take part in the state fair again. School meeting tomorrow at 7 p. m., to decide whether the school board shall have power to sell one or two rods front on State-st. Adelbert Collins, Feb. 1, was before Justice Pond for being drunk ; fioed $5.25 costs. James Lucas, Feb. 3, also drunk, 25 days in jail. Dr. Otis Haven, a son of the late President Haven, died in Evanstón, 111., Feb. 3. His wife is a daughter of Andrew J. Sutherland, of Ann Arbor. Married, on Feb. 7, by Dr. W. W. Ramsey,. at the parsonage in Ann Arbor, Alden G. Cooper, ot Laingsburg, and Miss Augusta E. Dorr, cf Sharon. The Register hopes to present its readers, next week, with a story, written by a resident of Ann Arbor, entitled "Indiscreet Maud Bangs, of Ann Arbor." John McOmber, of Toledo, was in town Monday talking over the project of establishing a iáctory in Ann Arbor for the manulacture of ciiurns and washing-machioes. The Unity club musicale, Monday evening, under the direction of R. Q-. Cole, was veiy successlul and drew a fine audience. It closed with the Marseilles hymn by an octette of male voices. Mary B., wife of Oscar Ide, of Jackson, died in Jackson, Feb. 2, at the age of 45 years. The remains were brought to Ann Arbor Monday for interment, and the funeral was held in St. Andrews church. M. M. Green carried 6ve sleigh-loads of Freshmeo to Ypsilanti last Friday night. There is talk about a big suit for damages to be commenced against Green, for it is alleged that his patent lantern and cutter hoater is the direct cause of the snow melting last week. At the Cocker league reception, Monday evening, Mr. Vestal, the cornetist of the Chequamegons, and the Zither club, composed of Messrs. Haller, Vie?sel, and Stark, set the audience fairly wild with delight. ___ Last Friday night a horse was stolen from August Seabolt, of Scio. The same parties probably took a harness from a Mr. Jedele. Sheriff Walsh got track of the horse at Onondaga, in Ingham county, on Tuesday. The Register has a chance to crack the ancient chestnut, "What's in a name?" having called the fortúnate Dr. Hamilton E. Smith, of Detroit, Dr. Hamilton E. Fish, perhaps through some association with Grant's secretary of state. Mrs. E. A. Cooley, of Bay City, a daugh;er-in-law of Judge Thomas M. Cooley, died suddenly Feb. 1. She attended church the preceding Sunday evening in her usual good haalth. She leaves a husband and four small children. Alian Webb and Robert Taylor, colored boys, 15 and 11 years old respectively, were ordered sent to the reform school last Thursday, by Justice Frueauff. Judge of Probate Harriman approved of it, and they were taken on Monday. it was for general truancy. The question for debate in lyceum No. 1, of the high school, tomorrow evening, is Resolved, that the U. S. senators should be elected by a popular vote. Messrs. Southmayd and Osborne will talk tor the affirtnative, and Messrs. Hossack and Tichnor for the negative. John C. Schmid, of Ann Arbor, last Friday filed a bilí in chancery asking that Jacob F. Stabler be restrained from cutting and selling any more timber from his farm in Lodi, on which Mr. Sohmid has a mortgage. Circuit Court Commissioner MoKernan granted an injunction. Dr. Edward Batwell, of Ypsilanti, was chosen as physician to the county poor house Tuesday. Several bids were put in. They will want the physician, by and by to work for nothing. Dr. Batwell will not receive much, if any, over $80 per year, besides some fees. The Keek trouMes are sgain stirred. Martin Keek, oí Chicago, a brother of John Keek, on Tuesday, through his attorneys, Sawyer & Knowlton, filed a bilí in the court of chancery, praying the court to corapel Wm. Aprill to render an account of the seouriiies placed in hia hands. Mrs. Kunigunde Schade, of Ypsilanti, formerly Mrs. Schlaek, of Ann Arbor, died at her home in Ypsilanti Saturday morning. Her remains were deposited in the vault in Ann Arbor. She was 69 yearg old. She was the owner of considerable property in Ypsilanti, and had a life lease of the Schlaek estáte here. The Ann Arbor council of the Bay State beneficiary association, Tuesday evenine, elected J. T. Jacobs, president; Prof. M. E. Cooley, vice-president ; Geo. H. Pond, local secretary; Dr. C. G. Darling, examining physician ; board of trustees, A. Kearney, H. Randall, W. A. Tolchard, H. J. Brown, and S. W. Beakea. Contrary to what might be expected, the story, ''Indiscreet Maud Bangs of Ann Arbor," which The Registee will print next week, is not the greatest story ever written. It is quite equal to "Sealskin and Shoddy," and like stories appearing in the Detroit paperg, and has as much literacy merit as the Bachelor columns of the Evening News. Harry L. Cole, Gottlob Stark, Edwin Garter, John Armbruster, and August Ditz have filed their answer as part of the defendants in the case of Sellick Wood against Albert Sorg et. al., in which the city is a party. They are painters employed by Sorg, and say that their claims against him have preoedence under act No. 94 lawg of 1887, which protecta labore rs. The Detroit Evening News speaks of Rev. H. M. Curtís, of Flint, who preached in the Presbyterian church last Sunday, as one of the able6t pulpit orators in Michigan. The Jefferson avenue Presbyterian church of Detroit have their eyes on him, and may get him. The Presbyterian society of Ann Arbor evidently hope to induce Dr. Eddy to come to them again in the spring. One paper has the following to say of Frank Jones, who appears at the opera house, Saturday evening, as "Si Perkins:" '"Si Perkins' was great, the house was full, and so, we guess, was the audience, by the way they rolled around in their seats and shook with laughter and clapped their hands, and stamped their feet with applause. Frank Jones is a very clever actor, and takes the character of Si Perkins to perfection. Miss Alice Montague is an easy, graceful actress, and at once won the good will of the audience. The whole company was excellent, and well deserved the crowded house that greeted them." The Washtenaw county Republicanclub held a meeting in Ann Arbor last Saturday, adopted a new constitution, and chose the fellowing gentlemen as delegates to the convention of the state league: J E. Beal, Wm. Campbell, J. E. Sumner, J. T. Jacobs, J. F. Lawrence, A. J. Sawyer, E. D. Kinne, J. C. Knowlton, G H Pond, E. E. Beal, H. S. Dean, and E. K. Abel of Ann Arbor, Evart H. Scott, F B. Braun, I. N. S. Foster, and J. C. Mead of Ann Arbor Town, J. C. Bemis, Dr. VV. H. Hall, Samuel Post, Wm. Osband 3. Evart Smith, J.B.Wortley, Dr. F. H.Owen, E. D. Morehouse and Henry Boutelle, of Ypsilanti, Emil Zenke and Henry Huehle of Freedom, Norman Redner and Wm. Dansmgburg of Augusta, John W. Blakeslee and Dr. Pyle of York, Chas. CanSeld, of Lyndon, A. F. Freemnn, of Manchester, Wm. Judson, F. Vogel, and J. L. Gilbert, of Sylvan, O. A. S her and J A Wilbur, of Superior, H. D. Plstt, M. G. Case and Andrew Campbell, of Pittsfield Thomas Birkett, of Dexter, E Leiand W. P. Groves and A. D. Groves, of Northfield, L. E. Briggs, Harris Ball and J. L. L. Smith, of Scio, W. E. Boyden and E S. Cushman of Webster, G. S. Rawson' of Bndgewater, E. Aldrich and Mat Seeger, of Saline, M. S. Rymond, of Sbaron G. S.Wheeler, of Salem, G. H. Mitchell of Lima, A. A. Wood and Geo. L. Hoyt, of Lima. Mrs. C. E. Mitcheli, formerly Miss Msggie Morton, of Ann Arbor, died at her home in Ludiugton last Saturday morning, leaving her husband and a babe four days old. She was the sister of Dr. Morton and E. J. Mirten, of the Argus. As Miss Morton in Ann Arbor, she was extremely well liked, and a large circie of friends here will regret her unümely death. She graduated in the U. of M. lit departraent in 1881, and was also a gradúate of' the Ann Arbor high school. Oi Monday the remains were brought to Ann Arbor, and the funeral occurred Tuesday at the re9idence on the S. Ypsilanti road. John J. Robieon was the happiestmanin Ann Arbor on Monday, owing to the following which appeared in Monday's Free Press. (The youngster referred to was born in Ann Arbor about 17 years 8go, and John J. ii his grandpa.) "At the regular semiexamination of cadet tnidshipmen, which has just cloaed at the Annapolis Naval Academy, John K. Robison, een of Prosecuting Attomey Robison, ranks No. 1 in a class of nïnety-five, standing ninety-four points ahead of the next highest ir. the class. Ynung Robison has met with a series of fiattering successes, having passed No. 1 at the cornpetitive examination in this city ; No. 1 upon the examination for admission to the academy in which he entcred into competition with a number of students who had already been through the Qrst year's course at the academy ; and has held the rank of one in bis class for each monthly examination with but one exception when his rank was No. 3."