The City

Work on the new School of Music building progresses nicely. Ann Arbor bas been well represented at the Milan camp meeting. Three M. C. freight cars went off a switch at the city milis Monday. Heard on the Street: Helio, do you boil the city water before using?" "No I bake it." Regular services will be resumed in the Presbyterian church next Sabbath morning. The Toledo road is rebuilding the North Bide end of their bridge across the Huron. There is a strong demaud for cheap houses for rent this summer, $10 to $15 per month. The Maccabee picnic at Whitmore Lake last week was a gorgeous and glittering success. L. D. Loomis, of Cheleea, lias filed a bilí for divorce from his wife on grounds of cruelty and desertion. Mildred, the four months' oíd cbild of Mr. E. M. Wilson, died Monday of inflammation of the lungs. John Sohaeffer, of Dexter ave., gave his berry pickers, two buss loads, a picnic at Wbitmore Lake Saturday. City Clerk Miller was authorized to advertiee for bids on the Sewer Bonds by the council last Monday evening. Rev. E. M. Duff will conduct services and preach at the school house at Geddes next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Eli Manly nearly lost a barn on account of a fire in the grass alongside the T. & A. A. track oo the North side laet week. A delegation of thirteen members of the Diamond Wheelmen of Detroit, led by Capt. C. M. Hobart.struck Ann Arbor Sunday. Mre. Fanny Wheeler, widow of the Anson Wheeler, of Northfleld, was buried yesterday, the services being held at the residence. Arbor Tent K. O. T. M. has made Sid Millard its delégate to the Great Tent at Grand Eapids September 12, with Chas. Mills for altérnate. The oíd wooden pipe line of the university, conveying water froin a spring south of the city, has made its presence fait by bursting on Hill street. The Union Shade Pull Co. has become the Ann Ar,bor M'f'g Co. They will extend the scope of their busineBS and go into new quarters very shortly. Henry Waláron, of Salem, entered seven Percheron horses at the World's Fair and will tak e them up to Chicago about the micldle of this month. Last week it was learned that Twelfth street had thirteen widows in two blocks. Thayer street claims second place with ten in the same space. Fifth ward Sunday School held a picnic at Rhodes' Island Tuesday afternoon. Nearly flfty people were present and thoroughly enjoyed the occasion. Several factories have closed down, and others are running on short time. The Michigan Furuiture Company has started up again after several weeks of rest. The reinains of the eight-day old infant of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Kern, of the north side, were interred Sunday afternoon, Rev. John Neumann officiating. Pres. T. J. Keeeh of th e Board of Public Works and City Engineer, Geo. Key, were in Detroit Tuesday and secured the right of way across the M. C. tracks for the sewer. Three fires in one day last Saturday; the fatal one at Crawford's, another at John Goetz's saloon and a third out by the athletic field in the grass alongaide the T. & A. A. road. Mail Carrier Donnelly whoae route is up in the Sixth ward says that duriDg the year from Ag. 1, '91 to Aug. 1, '92 there were 29 buildings put up on that beat. Th is last year there were but two Edward K. Curtis, of 83 Washington street, died of typhoid fever last Monday at his farm in Dixboro. His remains were brought to the city Tuesday, the funeral services being held at the residence. Three candidatos for the position of mail carrier were examined by the borrd of civil service examiners last Saturday at the high school building. The examiners were G. H. Blum, J. O'Kane and Edward Taylor. The Ann Arbor Light Infantry departed for the Island Lake encampment yesterday morning. They began their trip by marching around the Court House at a slow gait so that the revolution would not inake any of them dizzy, or snap Sergeant Bach off the tail end in going around corners. They presented a very military appearance and jerked their legs in unisón in animposing marmer. They marchedsometimes by fours and sometimes by twos presenting asit were a pair of spectacles to the admiring citizens. 2ièiÊÉtilÉÉÊUf& The investigation of the coroner's jary ehowed that it was really gaaohne that Mrs. Crawford was using to start her fire with, the can having been filled with that fluid instead of kerosene by Geo Peters, who drives the oil wagon, hrough a misapprehension of what was wanted. Some drunken and burglarious individuáis entered St. John's parsonage Ypsilanti, last week and carried off various articles of small value. Fr. Kennedy was called ou at the muzzle of a revolver to "fork over" but he failed to produce a fat roll of bilis resting snugly under his piüow. The thieves have not been caught. Chris. Wicks was up a ladder flxing the feed wire of the street car line, at ti.e corner of Washtenaw and Forest avenues, Monday, when a pole broke off short under the strain and feil upon him, striking him on the head with such forte that he was kuocked to the ground and badly cutand bruisedabout the legs and head. The S. C. A. have ju9t issued from the Inland League a handsome and interesting volume containing the Sunday morning lectures which have been delivered at Newberry Hall during the past two yeare. It is printed and bound in the highest style of tne art. It ia entitled Religious Thought at the University, and coste a dollar. The Ladies' Society of the Bethlehem church, at their animal meeting held last week, chose the following officers for the enBuing year: PreBident, Mrs. Eiizabeth Bruegel; vice-president, Mrs. Sophie Hutzel; Becretary and treasurer, Mrs. Emanuel Spring; treasurer of poor fund, Mrs. Eickie Wurster; trustees, Mre. Geo. Walker and Mrs. John Myer. Dr. J. C. Leonard, of Idaho, has been adding to his etock of curious and valuable gifts to the university. He has sent crystale, petrified wood and bone and some skins for mounting of an antelope, a '-Plum Dufl" and a "Devil's Hom." He also forwards the tally stone of Chief Egan, on which he registered the deaths of his foee, 26 common people, 10 officers and 20 soldiers have been his victims apparently. Last Friday, A. P. Ferguson, road cart manufacture!", was compelled to capitúlate to hard times and file a trust chattel mortgageto John B. Miner to secure claims aggregatingabout $10,700. Before this one, four other chattel mortgages were filed; to D. S. B. Underwood for 83,153, due in 30 days, Mrs. O M. Fillmore, $1,253, A. W. Gaeser $827, due in 30 days, and American Varnish Co. $231, due in 30 days. If the claims are not paid in 30 days Mr. Miner may take p088ession. A new teachers' association is being organized in this county, supposed to have a different function from the one already in existence. Monthly meetings will be held, the first one being called for Sept. 30 next at the Ann Arbor High School. The officers are as follows: President, M. J. Cavanaugh; vice president, Wm. W. Wedemeyer; aecretary, Miss Emilie Neuburger, Chelsea; treasurer, Miss Amida Parks, Chelsea; committee on exbibit, Miss Alice Quackenbush, Ypsilanti, Miss Nel lie Doane, Salem, Miss Allie Shuart, Dixboro, Miss Carrie Wright, Ypsilanti; committee on program, Miss Josephine Hoppe, Chelsea, Miss May E. Thompson, Worden, Miss Emily Treadwell, Ann Arbor, Miss Neitie M. Gillett, Manchester. There is a lady in the Sixth ward who haa the quality of generalship highly developed. It being the time of day convenient for her to spiinkle her lawn and aleo lay the dust in the road before her premises, Bhe went forth and in a brief space of time bad the water gushing merrily. But it was out of hours and suddenly there hove in sieht the agent of the water company, equipped with the long iron wrencb ; hocame near,poised the wrench for action, then halted, hesitated and was lost. The lady stood calmly and immovably, right upon the spot where the wrench must be inserted into the ground to connect with the deeply-buried valve. The wrenchman looked.the lady sprinkled. He advanced, she selected a new dry place and wet it down carefully; he halted, she didn't. He waited, she made seleclion of a new arid región. This was too much and he beat a retreat, ehe Bmiled, and that smile has proyed to be as contagious as matrlmony in June.