The City

Yute i'or mayor. Workmen are busy repairing the dam near ílie Swift mili. Che inter-urban road uuiled 13,000 passengers last mouth. J. J. (libí-on has a very fine display cf work in the Sager building. A ilanghter was born to Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Chadbourne on Monday. The Algonquin club gives a party next Wednesday evening. Two new motor cara for the electrie railway have been ordered. The city treasurer.lastmonth.received $19,844.12 and disbursed $7,965.37. The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist ctiurch give a social this evening. Tuesday morning there were three runaways within three minutes on Main-st. William Butler, convicted of straling a watch, has been sentenced to Ionia for two years. The finance eommittee of the council. audited bilis during Febrnary, amountingto $2,1 17.63. A party of young people surprised Miss Minnie Frank at the Germanhi hotel last night. The marshal made but three arresta last month, two for drunkenness and one for vagrancy. Willian E. Moon, of Ypsilanti, has fcecured a divorce fiom his wife on the ground of desertion. Sixteen teamsters on Monday uight last asked the council to pass an ordinance licensing teamsters. Thomas Williams and Frank Canada went to jail on Monday for a term of four days. They were drunk. Krnil Baur has been contributing to Der Christliche Apologete a series of articles on The Farmer's Lot. Confirmation services at Zion'schurch will be held on Easter Sunday this year. There are twenty-six candidates. The ordinance relative to disorderly houses passed to a tliird reading Monday night and was unanimously passed. There were eight initiates into the Ann Arbor Lodge of Good Templars last Monday evening and two ihe week before. Miss Sarah Wright has purchased of H. M. Taber a lot on Terrace Hill, and will erect a fine residence thereon in the spring. Tickets will be placed on sale today by the street railway. They can be had six for twenty-five cents, from the motor men. Rev. J. W. Bashford, of the Ohio Wesleyan University, speaks at the Methodist church next Sunday morning and evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade entertained at tea, Tuesday evening, some fiftv ladies and gentlemen. A very enjoyable time was had. John Bell and G. W. Parker, convicted of arceny, have been sent to Ionia for fourteen months and six months respectively. Miss Jessie Allmand was supprised on Friday evening by a party of thirty young people. The occasion was her eighteenth birthday. The lecture which wasto be delivered next Sunday in University Hall by the Rev. M. P. Dowling has been postponed until Sunday, March 15. Murgaret Eister, of the fourth ward, died on Thursday last ai the age of 65. Her funeral was held at the Catholic church on Saturday last. D. J. Campbell, a carpenter in the employ of Geo, Scott, died on Monday last of pneumonía. His remains were taken to Walton, Ontario. The council has authorized C. EL Manly to make a map of the city with the proposed extensions, for the use of the eommittee at Lansing. The members of the high school ('hristian association enjoyed a pleasant social in the parlors of the Congregational church last Saturdav evening. At the Unity club next Monday evening, March 9, Miss Jennie Bement will read a paper on "The Ober-Ammergau Passion Play," and Dr. J. C. Wood will present a paper on " Epochs in Medicine." The Wolverine Cyclers gave a very pleasant party at their club rooms on Thursday evening last. Dancing and card playin were the principal amusementg. Henry Tower wishes to correct a mistake which appeared in the local columns of The Rf.c.ister last week. A divorce was granted to him and not to his wife. The seven raen charged with the killing of Dennison were arraigned on Monday afternoon and pleaded not guilty. It waa decided to continue the case over to the May term. John A. Foster, the alleged student, suspected of stealing some articles from the house of Nelson Sutherland, has been discharged, on the recommendation of the prosecuting attorney. Efforts are beina made to raise fiinds for the eompletion of Newberrv Hall. A. E. Jennings lias taken charge of the work and is meeting wilh very fiattering BUCt'fcSS. Truinari Wmiliams, of Dexter; Charles Alber, of Saline, Roberl Christman and Miss Libbie Mogk, of iliis city, have accepted [lOfiiinns in tin store ■ I ■'. T. .1 coba & Co. Aid. Manu, al ihi' I. si connril uicrti 1 1 1_' , ii'irndii cd ;i rrsi'lution protesling fi-imst ili buililinji of the new Street railway line, on (round iliat Parkard-8'. iabnl sixty feel wlde. Several of the ealoon-keepers are complaining beeahsé, as ibey uilege, Mosea L'joie has heen selling liquor without a I Ícense al the old Diehl house. It is rumored that he will tke out a beer license on May 1. Twenty-one residente of this city have petitioned the Ann Arbor Street Rai'way Company to extend its hnes from Washtenaw-ave east on Geddesave to E!m st, thenre south to South University-ave, thence south to State-st. Mra. Kliza Robinson died on Saturday last at the resideneeof her daughter,Mrs. P. B. Rose. Funeral services were held at the house on Tuesday. She was eight--eiglit years old and has lived in this city since 183. She leaves four chi dren. At the council meeting last Monday evening, Aid. Walker offered a resolution authorizing the board of public works to open High-st at the proper width. and to tnake necessary repairs. It was referred to the street committee and board of public works. The board of public works has recommended to the council that sidewalks be built on the following streets: On both sides of Fifth-st from Jefferson to Madison-st; east side of Traver-st from Brown to Fuller-st; east side of Packard-st in front of Mrs. Hallock's property. Mrs. Abby Cook, widow of the late C. B. Cook, an old resident of this city, died on February 25 at Sault St. Marie, where she has lived for the past ten or twelve years. Her remains were brought to this city Tuesday and on the following morning were interred in the cemetery at Dixboro. "The Soldier of the Union" will be presented al the opera house tonight and tomorrow night, underthe auspkes of the Sons of Veterans. Olea S. Dailey and F. E. Dailey, of Pittsburg, will play in the leading roles. The Brighton Beach quartette and Andrew Johnson, of New Orleans, will render some musical selections. Ernst Strausburger, charged with theft, wasarrested on Monday afternoon by Deputy-Sheriff Peterson. He was in the employ of S. Volland and had, it seems, made way with many pieces of harness. A search warrant was issued and the missing articles were found in the residence of Strausburger. On Saturday last a number of gentlemen met at the office of J. F. Lawrence for the purpose of organizing a driving club. The capital stock was fixed at $5,000, divided into shares of $25 eacli, and the following directors were elected : J. F. Lawrence, George Orcutt, Patrick Irwin, Nelson Sutherland, A. H. Pattongilland J. A. Dell. An illustrated addre.ss on iife and mission work in India will be delivered by G. W. Leitch, of Ceylon, in the Congregational church next Sunday evening. One hundred photographs, taken in the country and beautifully handpainted, representing the daily lives of the people, beautiful natural seenery, heathen temples and scènes of mission work, showing the wonders of India, and (nmisbin striking object lessons on the miracle of missions, will be brought out on a canvas about sixteen feet square by the dissolving view stereopticon. At the regular annual conclave of the Ann Arbor Commandery No. lo Knights Templar, held Tuesday evening, the followine oificers were elected for the ensuing year: Eminent commander, John R. Miner; generalissimo, L. C. Goodrich; captain-general, M. E. Cooley; prelate, L. D. Wines; senior warden, G. W. Millen; junior warden, A. C. Nichols; treasurer, D. C. Fall; recorder, J. W. Bennett; standard bearer, R. A. Cuthbert; sword -bearer, A. W. Gascer, recorder, W. II. Dorrance; sentinel, T. Taylor; trustees, C. E. Hiscock, W. W. Nichols. B. F. Watts. The new offlcers will be installed next Monday night. August Kajuska died in the jail early Saturday morning. During the previous afternoon he was in Exinger's saloon and was seen vomiting on the fioor. Marshal Murray was summoued and took the sick man to the jail. At the inquest held over his remains on the same day it was shown that Kajuska had bought some Paris Green during the day. He left a memorandum saying that he had taken his Iife on account of his wife, from whom he was divorced about five years ago. He leaves five children. He was a member of the Arbeiter Verein and had paid his dues up to June let. He was formerly a resident of Ann Arbor but of late has been working in Toledo, where he was seriously injured in a railroad accident not long ago. Jiulge Kinne refused to grant the injiuiction against the Ann Arbor street railway, which was aeked by the residents on Packanl-s!. In the opinión he maintaina I bal it U nol the province of thecourts to overtarn the acts of legislativa bo liea unless tbey ure clearly ïllcii.il or unconstitutional. As to the claim thatitbe electricroadiaanuisance thejaii( uye: "Tlietlieory of tho bill in the cübo is (hal rhe electric railway, '-r te an invasitin of the 'ightsof the aliuttinjC "NiTs. Anv btreet railway niay lie se operated ihat ii tnay ben me u ublir uuieancf; but nutil the fect fipear:-, il heuns to me ihat the electrice Kysifm of street railways occnpies the Küiiit' foot'ng as the railways operated liv animal power."