The City

The Carpenters' unión will meet th g vening. Wm. Deuble, of Ypsilanti, will run t! e Swift milis. Mrs. Yale has renied the cottage of Capt. anes, on Monroe-st About a dozen eyclists went to Cbelsea and back, on Sunday lust. A sixtetnpound pickerel wa8 causjht at Wüitmoie Lake, on Saturday last. Albert Steffen was 6ned $9.95, yesteray, for uamercifully beating hia cow. The unión Sunday-school excursión will ake place between toe fifth and twelfth f next month. A prr.gressive euchre party took place t the Clifton house, on Tuesday eveninj. Tred Ülp won the head prize. The Welch Post, G. A. R., will hold a meetiDg tomorrow night. Comtuander acobs requests a full attendance. A night blooming cereus opened at the house of Mrs. Josenhaua, on Tueeday vening. It has three more buds. The alligator belonging to G.W.Cropsey, which was stolen by some miscreant laBt week, has been returned - dead and harm;s. The Unitanan church library will be open for the drawing of books, each Sunay, during the vacation, Irom four to ix r. m. The misfion circle of the Methodist lmrch will hold en ice cream social, this vening, at the residence of. Mrs. McKenzie, on Liberty-st. Herbert Prescott entertained a party o bout fifty young people, on Tuesday ight. Dancing was the leading feature f the evening. Wilhelmina Niederer, of Manchester, ïas filed a b II, asking for a divorce from ler husband. John J. Niederer, on the round of adultery. Judge Kinne hs served an injunctiou on the Switt estáte and the Cornwell .lanufacturing Co., s requested by Mack, Schmid and Hiscock. Frank Iloward has rented hia house, on Sast Catherine-st, to Thomas Hanfi rd, of Aurora, 111., who will remove to this city about the first cf next month. Diphthena has brougbtto the death-bed another child, Pauline Haneisen, who died recently at her home near the Kyer mil). She was nearly twelve years old. Geo. Gale, throu?h nis horse-trainer, B. Pierce, has been offtred 500 for a twoyear-old filley. The colt's sire is Barney Wilkes and dm Minnelaus mre. Russen Van Kirk, ot Chicago, rode on his bicycle from Whitmore Lake to A. L. Noble's etore, in 59 minutes Sm Kinne made the trip in just an hour longer. Mary, the nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John O'Mara. of the fourth ward, died on Monday last. Her funeral was held, Saturday, at the Catholic church. Dr. Heneage Gibbes, oí this city, was elected president of the county medical 6Ociety, at their last meeting held on Friday last. Dr. C. G. Darling was elected 8ecretary. Allmendinger & Schneider, yesterdav, received the Srst wheat ot the season f rom Fred Staebler, of FoRter's. It was of a hybrid variety and weighed 61 pounds to the bushel. The trains going east on the Michigan Central have been recently changed, as follows : 5:29, instead of 5:32 ; 6:80, instead of 6:29. The 558 train west will hereafter arrive at 5:55. The unión Bervices of the Presbyterian, Baptist, Coogregational and Methodist societies are to be continued. Service will be heid next Sunday evening at the Methodist churcn, with preaehing by Dr. Studley. . At the Bapnst church, on Friday evening, M. tí. Iïarutun, a native Synan and a student of Richeater university, will speak on the Manners, Customs and Religión of Syria. Admission will be free, but a collection will be taken. The annual meeting and picnic of the Pioneer Society of Washtenaw conntv will be held in a grove, on the farm of E. A. Nordman, in the township of Lims, on Wedneeday, September 3. Mr. Nordman is president of the society and will give the old settlers and alt members of the society a hearty welcome. The Ann Arbor Turnverein celebrated íts twenty-firsi anuiversary. on Sunday last, at Relief Park. Music was furnished by the Allmendinger band. President C. Gauss made a few appropriate remaiks and was followed by Me'srs. Liesemer and Suekey, the orator of the day. Theygave a number ui fl-u-aut reminiscences and bestowed much praise upon a very worthy organization. Ypsilantian: "The approximate population of the city of Ypsilanti is given out by the censuó authorities as 5,950, whioh ig a gain of 19 38 per cent since 1880, w'jile Ann Arbor's gain in the same period is 15.99 per cent." Quite true! But how about the increase during the last six years? Ann Albor has increased in population 18 17 per cent. gince the census of 1884, and Ypsilanti only 12.24 per cent. And, pray, in which ot the two places is there more building going on, just now? James Robison's new house on Fifth-ave is under headway, and will be completed ty October 1. The Corunna base ball nine defeated the Ann Arbor high school nine, Friday, by a score of 12 to 3. At the Lake Minnetonka summer f chool, near Minneapolis, Prof. Hinsdale delivers a daily morning lecttire. Nelson Stevens caught three pickerel at Whitmore Lske, last Sunday, weighing respectively fitteen and a half, eight and seven pounds. Next I E. C. Webb, of the Park-üavis Co., Detroi', has rented T. F. Hill's house on East Uoiversity-ave, and will remove to tlis city about August 1. The Register is indebted to A. L. Colton, of the observatory, for the weatber report wbioh appears on this page. Jt will be published, with changes, every week. _ The refrigerator company decided upan a site for their new building, last evening. Plans have been accep'ed which cali for a on story structure 285 feet long and 80 "eet wide. John B. Atchinson, the alleged horse thief, was committed to the county jail, ast Friday, in default of $1,000 bail, and will come up tor trial, to-morrow, before Justice Pond. Miss Catherine McNally, tormerly of Northfield, died at Mrs. Cole's old residence on Catherine-st, Friday last, and her funeral was held at St. Thomas' church on Saturday. The cause of her death wís blood-poisoning. Mrs. Josie M. Kellogg, formerly of Ann Arbor, was married on July 14, at Clint, Texas, to Mr. W. II. Kinnon, of Dakota. Their home will be in Mexica, where Mr. Kinnon holdj the position of chief train diepatcher of the Mexican Central railroad. Contrary to previous nnouncement, there will be service at the Baptist church, next Sunday morning. Mr. F. S. Retan, of Colgate Theological Seminary, N. Y., will speak en "The Student Volunteer Movement in Foreign Missions," of which be is a representative. The city attorney has nled wilh the county clerk a petition asking that the circuit court take action with regard to the wideciBg of Division-st. It is proposd to condemn propertv belonging to Henry Cornwell, William Deubel, Nathan E. Sntton, Carrie A. DeF.irest and Allie S. Johnson. About forty members ot C. A marched down to the Michigan Central depot, yesterdav, to take the 11 o'cleck train for the west.' They expect to t e gone at Gogut c Lake, abiut a week. A number of the brve soldier boys, who went, did not intend to do o, but Capt. Armstrong Fent corpDral guarda arouod for the delinquents and they were compelled to gn. A disastrous colusión oceurred near Hamburg Junction, about 11 o'clock, on Saturday evening last. Two (reight trains, 21 and 24, which were running at a rate of tweoty-five mile an hour, came together frora opposite direotions with a crash. The engineers and firemen jurnped out of their cab9 and thus escaped injury, but both engines and about half a dozen cars are a total wreek. The trouble was caused by a mistake in signáis. Dr. H. R. Watson, one of the oldest residents in the county, died, on Sunday evening last, at bis home near Saline. For 8everal years he has been suffering from Bright's disease, whioh, together witn heart trouble, caused his death. Dr. Watson was for many years a prominent physician at Saline, but a few y6ars go he retired to his farm, between Saline and this city, where he has since resided. He leaves a wife and four children, the youngest of whom is only two weeks old. Geo. Green, a farmer living on the Glazier road, met with a serious accident last Saturday. He was nding on a load of hay along the Dixboro road, when in some manner the load lurched and he feil to the ground. The' man who was with bim at the time jumped and alighted safely, but Mr. Green landed on a pile oi' stones. As a result of his fall, his knee was shattered ond his thigh was badly fractured. So seriously was the leg injured that amputation became necessary, and the operation was performed by three Ann Arbor physiciana. This new aflliction has all the greater weight in Mr. Green's case, for of lal e years he has sufTered many bereavements and misfortunes. An absrtive burglary took place at Worden station, on Friday evening last. Greorge Davis, who is evidently an amateur, broke in'o the depot and was coming out triumphaatly with an armful of thingi wbich did not belong to him, when he euddenly took a notion to stop. Someone who had disoovered the would-be burglar in the act had notiSed Frank Duncan, and it was a Winchester rifle in the hands of the latler, which caused Davis so quickly to change bis mind. Duncan escorted the burglar to this city, in Irue policeiuan stvle, and on Saturday, Davis was brought before Justice Butts. In default of $500 bail he was sent to jail, to await hia trial at the next term of the circuit court. Ambitious house-breakers will do well to look out for Winchester rifles in the future. A certain grocer of this city has just discharged a very enterprising delivery cletk. Some time ago, the latter applied for a position and promised nis employer to bring in enough extra trade to inake up for the salary of $39.50 a month, vhich was to be paii him. The grocer jumped at the chance, and for eeveral inonths his trsde has been on the boom. The clerlc, it appears, has used a very ingenieus method, in compassing this object. He would take the grocery bilis, made out by his employer, present them to the debtore, allow a liberal discount and ihen receipt the bilis for the full amount. Naturally enough, customers fljcked to a place where they ould buy goods so cheaply. The grocer himself was highly elated over his growing trade and was preparing to take an extensive trip when, alus, he discovered the fraud. At last accounts, the clerk is looking up a new job, and the grocer is atill spending his summer in Ann Arbor. Harvesting ie nearly over and trade will soon piek up. Mrs. Luther Wood, who died at Chicago last Saturday, was buried on Monday in Forest Hill Cemetery. The board of public works, last evening, let the contract for building the new culvert on Seventh-st to John Cook for $437. The Ann Arbor Browns will play at Owoseo, July 31, and at Corunn, August 1. Their new uniforma, which are now ready, are very neat and tasty. Clarkson S. Pack, one of Ann Arbor's oldest resident?, died at five o'clock this morning. He was 71 years of age and very highly esteemed. His funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at four o'clcck, from his residence at No. 79 N. Ingalls-et. The Hurón river has claimed another victim. A little four-year-old foa of Mr. Bucklin, who lives near Delhi Mille, was playing in a boat on the bank of the river, on Tuesday last, when in some way the boat glided into deep water. Toe boy tried to gain the shore by jumping but he did not st cc ed in doing thie, and was drowned before assistance could be rendered. There is no longer any doubt about it. The electric railway is a fact. Barly yesterday morning a forcí) of about a dozen men, under the supervisión of Jacob Slorkell, beean laying ihe ties at the northern end of Detroit-st. The men found the gtreet rather hard to dig, inasmuch as it has about six inches of cobble-stone on the eurface. They tried to excávate with a plow, but finally gave up the attempt in despair, after having ruined one plow. The .ties, which ure of hemlock and vey durable, are laid at intervals of three fett. Supt. Fail is looking for moré men and will push the road as f ast as possible. Be says it will surely be finished by September 1. And now, let the skeptical be convinced. E. T. Welker, ot Salem, has filed an answer to the recent peiition of the Toledo & Ann Arbor railroad. " He claims that the abandonment of ihe South Lyon branch would reduit in a pecuniary loss to himelf. In 1880, it ie stated, he donated $100 to the railroad eompany, oncondition that the road would be built to Pontiac. Two years later the T. Sc A. A. put in what is known as Walker's siding, in consideration of which Mr. Walker did all the grading, furnii-hed the ties and advanced the money for the frog acd swi'ch, at an expense of $200. He also built a ehipping-house and set up scales, worth, it is claimed, $200. Mr. Walker, who is a large snipper, says that the railroad has rever given shipping rates from either Walker's siding or Worden station, and that he has always, with great inconvenience, tmnsacted business with the eompany. For these reasjns, and others, he ask9 that the petkiou be refused. or that reasonable costs be granted to him self.