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25
Month
July
Year
1895
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Public Domain
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Two salvation army dclegatcs were in the city Tucsday making arrangements for storming the city on the lirst day of August. There is to bc a district rally in Ypsilanti on July 31st. Thcre is to bc a large number of notables at this moeting in Ypsilanti. all of whom are to come to this city. Meetings vvill be held in the Pretbyterian church. Two young men from this city, Theodore lïadkc and Charles Huddy, went to Whitmorc Lako last Saturday. In the afternoon they became gloriously Intoxlcated, and proceeded to indulge in a large amnunt of unseemly conduot. They were finally arrested and taken before .lustice Moss. They will have a hearing1 next Saturday. They are out in the mean time on bail of $200 each. The Ann Arbor Board of public works has elected Wesley Hicks "Supperintendent of Manholes." Hia time has been divided in watching the mouths of Hammond of the Argus and Beal of the Courier at their meáis, and of A. J. Sawyer and Hz. Norria, in the circuit court. Thus far he has discoverod nothing that Indícate a failnre to work properly in eithor case.- Adrain Press. The new roadroller was given a severo test last Monday in the presence of the street committe of the common council. It climbol the Observatory street hill for a distance of nearly half a milc in ten minutes and did it easily. The test of digging up and rolling sume of the hard road bod on Geddes Ave. showedthat a fifteon ton roller is none too heavy and that if properly handled the roller is alright. A Hghted eigar stub careles.sly thrown down, was the cause of burning down- or up- the little hamlet oi Holton, near Muskegon, Saturday. The only buildings left stapdlng in the place of 250 inhabitants. are the Ö.A. R hall, thi-ce store and a market. - Courier. The greatest misfortune of all waa that not one of the three stores left kept cigars .'or sale. How the inhabitants raust have suft'ered until a new supply could be secured. ('lias. D. Bigham, of 72 N. Main-st., went home last Saturday night, and it being so warm and oppressive he sat down in a chair on the stoop to keep oool. Along about half-past one o'cloek he feil out of the chair on to the flootand thence to the ground. In sleeping with his head inclined upon ono side the nérvea or cords of tho neck became somewhat rigid, and the sudden fall it is thought snapped somo of them in two, as he has suffered graat agony ever sinco, so much so that yesterday he bogged of his faniily and the physician to put an end to his Ufe. Whethor he will rottver or not the physicians think vcry dotibtful.- Courier. The man Holmes, who is in jail at l'liiladelphia, and who, from the eviaenoB that is rapidly ai-cuimilating, has committed a acore of brutal murdera, wu t student in the medical dopartment in the early 80"s, Dr. Geo. F. Heath. who was resident surgeon at the hospital says: "In roference to the man, H. H. 'Holmes, I would say that I knew him fairly well while he was studying medicine at A nn Avbor. He did not, whilü there.pass by the name of Holmes, but.Herman W. Mudgett. I remember him as a mild, meek, inoffensivo .student, of ordinary ability, and seemingly the last person in his class to follow the murderous career that hc seems to have followed. He was graduated from the medical department of the Uuivei-sity of Michigan in 1884. I have hia photo in a class picture."

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