The Common Council

All the inembers of the common council were present, Mondayevening, and a lively time was ei j yed. F. G. Sohleicher petitioned that the tile Crossing Main st. from Liberty, north side, be removed. Referred to etreet committee. Gottfried Sctöttle askeó for $75 to pay for expenses incurred from a frac ured leg which hia wife sustained because of an improperly guarded railing to sidewalk on W. Liberty-st, on the Friz property. Referred to finance commitlee. Health Offioer Breakey reported n re gard to the sanitary inspection which the board of health has carried on. The expense has been kept wilhin the $100 appropriated for the pu.pose, and the inspectiou resulted in exposing over 200 nuisances endangering public health. A more detailed report will be made later. A communication from Ex-Mayor W. B. Smith was received in which he agreed to build a stone walk on Lis property on Ann st., before May, 1889, if the city would drop the suit against him. The council graciously acceded, provided the doctor will pay the costs of the suit. There was a great big bear dance when Aid. Wine8 offered the löllowing, and Aid. Almendinger supported it by a long speech : Resolved, That the suit against Fred Miraele and Jualin Bullís iu Juslicc Frueaufi's court be aisco ntiuued. Miraele and Bullis are the students who were atreBted on the night of the large Democrat demonsiralion for raising a disturbance. Aid. Almendinger thought it ought to be dropped because the ous cases in which Republican processions were disturbed had not been puniehed. Myor Beakes opposed the resoluiion, and there was a lively time. Aid. Sutherland and Ware were excused from voting on the resolution, but they had to vote ünally, as there was a tie. Aid. Miller moved to lay the resolution on the table, and it was carried, 8 to 6, by the followiDg vote: Yes - Aid. Sutherland, Mrtin, Herz, O'Mara, M lier, Ware, Mayor Beakes, and Recorder Bacn. Nj - Aid. Almeadinger, Ksarn8, Spokes, Hammond, Winea and Barker. Aid. Ware offered tbe tollowing, which was oarried : Resolved, That the streef commlttee be lnstructed to build a bridge overttie run on the new road on Mr. Lennon' land at once, the same not 10 exoeed $1 0. warrants for the sflme to be drawn after Feb. 1, 1889; same to De accordiug to the plans of city engineer. Tne Sorg matter again bobbed up in the shape of a proposiiion to discharge the mortgage iL Mr. S rg would pay 50 per cent; but tbe resolution was not even supported. Section 4 of an ordinance relativo to breache8 of the peace and disorderly conduct, pa:-sed in 1856, was amended so as to read a follows: Sec. 4. No person shll ralse or fly any kite in any of the streets or lanes or alleys or withiu the liniitsof theci'y of Ann Arlior; and no persons under the age of 21 years shall col lect or srand in bodies or crowds of more than three persons unless accompanied by their pnrents or guardians, up ui the streetsor sidewalks or in the postoffice building, court-house, engine house, or any church or place of orehipor any public building or elsewhere in said cily. under a penalty lor each offence not exeeeding Ï2(). or confinemeut in the couuty jail, not exeeeding ten days, and costs of prosecution. O F. Ingalh, W. K. Childs, T. E. Thompson, Ed. Clancy, je, J. H. Claney, and others, complained of an oíd barn 8tuated on Maynard-st, near Willisms, and belonging to J. H. Nickels. It was referred to the street committtee, after much protesting from that coinmittee who don't want to get mixed up in the aff-iir. Dr. G-eorge put in a eommunication calling attention to how the view is obscured by cara and lamber piles at the T. & A. A. crossing on S. Miin-st. It is dangeroua to those passing with teams. The couneil voted to cali the attention of the state railroad commissioner to it. The mayor presented a statement showing the amount expended in eleven months to be $2G,325 11, and that thc amount for the year would probably be $28,000. The pnor report showed an exoenditure of $15C 46 for November. Orders to the amount of $3,400 were ordered paid. The committee on draf 'inga new charíer was allowed to secure a clerk. The draft of the proposed new charter is neary completed. The couneil will meet again Dsc. 17. Ed. S. Perry was appointed special poce at the M. C. R. E. depot and yards without exoense to the city. Jas. B. Davis, W. E. Walker, and G. juick, were appointed building inspector?.