The City
Did you go to the circus ? Tae Presbyterian church raised $65.75 for the Johnstown sufferers, last Sunday. Julián Trojnoski has opened a new barber shop at No. 26 East Washington street. The "keep off the grase" signs on the court house lawu were of no avail Tuesday. . Mrs. T. B. Knapp will address the temperance meeting at Cropsey"B Hall Sunday at 3 o'clock. Many of out citizens and students took advantage of the reduction and went to Detroit Saturday. The fire commissionerg have purchaaed a handsome matched team of horses for the use of the department. The young Miss Sukey, daughter of Editor Sukey of the Hausfreund, is just a week old this morning. The Board of Review closes today. The property in the let, 2adand6th wards shows a rise in valuation this year. The recital in room 24, University Hall, this evening, by Miss Kate Jacobs and others will be free and all are invited. Henry Bürgraph is confined in the county jail by order of Justice Pond for 30 days, he having plead guilty to being drunk. Regular monthly meetine of the Womnn's Home Missionary Society of the M. E. church thig afternoon at 4 o'clock, in tho church parlors. , Prof. Stanley gave an orean recital at the Plymouth Congregational church, Lansing, last evening for the benefit of the Johnsto wn snfferers. Marshal Walsh arrested two tramps and ran seven more out of the city last night. They were drunk and raised a disturbance near the Michigan Central depot. A young colored boy was sentenced to the Detroit House of Correction for ninety days by Justice Pond yesterday, the charge agaicst him being begging and vagrancy. Saturday night one of the dynamos at the electric light works burned out, destroying both the regulator and dynamo. The coils had to be rewound, taking over two miles of wire. The Omega, the annual publication of the graduating class of the High School, was placed on eale this morning. The volume is a creditable one and is fully to the standard. Clara P. Laraway hs filed a bilí for divoree againBt her husband, Guy L. Laraway, on the ground of non-support. The parties were married in Superior in 1885 and are well known here. John Miller paid $5 fine and $5.95 costs for being drunk Monday by order of Justice Pond. He wag fined a little extra because he had a revolver with him which he was flourishing around. S. A. Moren, of Ann Arbor, has been invited to read a paper before the Shorthand Section of the American Business Educators' Afsociation at the annual meeting in Cleveland, July 9. Thomas Batemati, a stone-cutter, was drunk last Saturday and went out to Scio to sober off. He was found lying in the road there and brought to jail, Justice Pond sentencing him to jail for ten days on Monday. One of the base ball players from Lansing neglected to obey Marshal Walsh's order to keep off the gras s on the court house lawn, Saturday. He was inarched before Justice Pond, where he was let off after receiving a lecture. Hon. Oliver S. Smith, of Owosso, a member of the present legislature, who became insane last week, wag sergeant of Company D., 4th Michigan Infantry, organized in Ann Arbor, and known as Captain Randolph's company. Why would not the fair grounds make a good location for the new hospital? The association could sell off the front part, keeping the rear and buying the adjoining land. Iu this manner the society's iudebtedness could be deoreased. The fakirs and confidence men reaped a rich har vest Tuesday. It is claimed that several of our citizens lost from $5 to $40 each on a "swing bal!" game. The country people were more careful about being caught than those living in the city. The supremo court rendered a decisión last Friday against Mrs. F. E. Yale, of thig city, in a suit which was to decide her right to dower in the estáte oL Francis Crawford, herformerhusband. The court held that she had no dower interest. Next Sunday morning's service will be the last at the Unitarian church until after vacation. Rev. and Mrs. Sunderlandexpect to start forEurope on Friday of next week, sailing from Montreal, July 2, on the steamer "Lake üatario," for Liverpool. Latham Miller, of Chelsea, charged by the insurance department of the state with violatinp the icsurance lawe, was before Justice Pond last Thursday. He waived examination and was bound over for trial at the October term of the circuit court. The Lansing council has just concluded to contract with the electric light company to light that city every night and all night at $100 per light peryear. The contract in Ann Arbor runs out soon and our council is figuring to follow the example of Lansing. "Bob" Kearney came in to see the circus Tue8day,and one of the men connected with the show managed to get $30 of his money. Marshal Walsh succeeded in getting the money back for Kearney through a Pinkerton detective who travels with the circus. Eliza J. Burnham has filed a cross bill in the suit for divorne brought against her by herhusband, William H. Burnham. She denies that she ever committed adultery as charged by the complainant. She charges him with cruelty and non-support and asks that a divorce be granted to her and that complainant be ordered to provide her with permanent alimony. The case of tbe estáte of R. A. Beal Tg. James Congdon, Thomas Wilkinson, et al., has been deoided by the supreme court against the complainant. The suit grew out of mongage deal between Beal and Wilkinson in which the former claims that he was defrauded by a false sale. At h meeting of the Michigan Furniture Co. heid last evening, it was decided to erect a new buildmg in addition to those already in use. The new building will be used as the main factory building. It will be built of brick and will be put up at once, Armstrong & Roath having been awarded the contract. Tbe Pomological Society will meet June 29:h, at 2 p. m., in basement of Court house. Preparations for shipping must be made at this meeting. All shippers of fruit should promptly attend, as there will be a large erop ot berries and other fruit. Other topics will be discussed. Strawberry and flower exhibit. Martin Hoek, of Lodi, drank too much and was placed in jail Monday night. He was given the choice of paying $2 fine and $5 25 costs or going to jail for ten dayg. He ehose the latter and was placed in jail rather than let bis friends know the circumstacces, but hip brother found it out, paid the fine and he was released. The third annual meeting of the Michigan music teachers' association will be held at Detroit, June 27-29. Prof. Stanley is a member of the progratnme committee. Among the participant in the entertainments to be given will be Miss ld Belle Winchell, Miss Kate Jacobs, Prof. A. A. Stanley and F. L. York of this city. The baard of public works has contracted with George Weeks for grading and curbing fifty rods between the center row of trees on State street ia front of the campus. Tho plot is to be 13 feet wide, curbed on both sides, and the price agreed upon is $5 per running rod. This will make a handsome improvement in that part of the city. Last fall T. B. Pratt, of Selby, Col., was robbed of $600 at Ypsilanti, while under the influence of liquor. He charged E. J. Lemley and another man with the thef t and they both left the city. On Monday, sheriff Dwyer went to Ypsilanti and arrested Lemley, who had returned. He went alter the other man Tuesday but could not find him. He is also trying to hear from the complaining witness, but cannot find his whereabouts. ForepaHgh's "hayseed" who drives by the side of the procession caughtseveral of the patrolmen Tuesday. Murray, Carroll, Campion and Gidley each stopped him and ordered him to drive on another 6treet. The man would argüe for a minute and then make a sign to his trick horse, which would start on a run, leaving the officer to be laughed at by the crowd. The other officers charge that Marshal Wahh stopped the man, but he denies it emphatically. The arrangement for the meeting and banquet of the alumni of the High School to-morrow evening have been about completed, but the full list of responses is not yet finÍ8hed. There will be eight or ten regponses and short addresses by several others. The banquet will be furnished by Mallory, of Detroit, which is authority enough for stating that it will be fine. The cost will be but 3ö cents a píate to the members, although undoubtedly the society will pay more than this amount. Six of the officers of company A - Capt. S. W. Millard, Lieut. B.. D. Merithew, Sergeants John Fiseher and S. Henne, and Corporals Frank Feiner and Jacob Gwinner went to Lansing Saturday to attend the funeral services oL W. W. Staley, Major of the lst Reg't, M. S. T. They carried with them a handsome floral knapsack as an offering from company A. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon, the non-commissioned officers from this city acticg as pallbearers. Louis V. Dowdigan, aged 17 years, son of Mra. Mary Dowdigan of Williams st., died suddenly at Yates City, 111., last Friday night. The trouble with him was rheumatism of the heart, the immedi tte cause of his death being a blood clot on the heart. He was taken sick the Monday previouc. He had been visiting his sister at Yates City for six weeka and intended returning home this week. The remains were brought to this city Sunday evening, the funeral being held Monday afternoon at his mother's house. Ann Arbor Commandery, K. T., has had the subject of a choice of routes for their trip to Washington nexi, fall under consideration for the past two weeks. Passenger agents from all parts of the country have beer. here advocating their routes. The committee, afterhaving examined all the others, have chosen the route via the Michigan Central to Buffalo. Brie to Waverley, Lehigh Vaüey to Phila'delphia and Baltimoreand Ohio from there to Washington, and a contract has been made with these roads. This route carries them through the most pieturesque parts of the country. Stops will be made at several places to give them an opportunity of viewing the beautiful sceney at Niagara Falls, Mauch Chunk and other places. The company from here will consist of from CO to 70 people, and will go with other Michigan Commanderies in firstclass Pullman cars. The members contémplate a glorious trip. Lieut, W. H. Smith, of the First Michigan Infantry, on his return from Gettysburg passed Sunday in Jackson with his friends, the Messrs. Marshall and S. M. Isbell. He is one of the Stockbridge boys who went into the army in 18G1, remaining in the service until the close. He wag mustered out here July 21, 1865. He is a cousin of U. T. Foster, one of the pioneers of the Central City, where he is well and favorably known. For the past fifteen years Mr. Smith haa been a resident of Gaylord, Otsego cosnty, Michigan, where he has done his full ehare in developing that newer portion of our lower península. Mr. Smith has always voted the way he shot during the war, and in him the Republican party has a faithful ally and a hard worker. - Jackson Citizen. Lieut. Smith belongs to a pioneer family of Washtenaw county. Lemuel Foster one of the earliest settlers of Geddes was an únele, while his grandfather, Elias Smith, settled at Scio at about 183C. His own father, William Smith, was one of the early of Stockbridge, Ingham county.
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