The City

Remember the annual excursión to Put-in-Bay one week frora today. Wm. Rettich was mar.-ied a week ago last Saturday to Miss Lillian Neeb. It has been decided to hold the county fair on September 24-27. Geo. Clarken has bought the DeForest property on N. Division-st. Harvey Stoffiet stood sixth in the Detroit bicycle races last Saturday. Wm. Arnold, Jr., and Miss Emma Rausehenberger were married yesterday. John E. Travis has begun work upon Tiis new house at the corner of División and Huron-sts. Congressmen Aitken and O'DonnPl] are both nominally in the field for the gubernatorial nomination. Euler and I'ipp wil! do the carpenter vvork and John Koch the mason work upon John Travis' new house. Pres. Angelí gave an interesting leeture before the Summer School ! ents, in room 24, Tuesday night. There is every indication that the crowd which will take in the excursión to Detroit today will be a big one. The ease in Justice Gibson's court against the fishing law violators at ïortage lakes was postponed to Aug. 10. Pleasure riding upou the open street car last Sunday evening was especially popular. Many people who wished to ride were unable to do to. The Young People's Society of the Zion Lutheran church picnics at Whitmore Lake today. Fare, round trip. 40 cents. There were nearly 700 people, old and young, who attended the Bethlehem Sunday School picnic at Whitmore Lake last Thursday. Fred. G. Schleicher is enlarging his utore on S. Main-st. lt will be 3") feet deeper. Mr. Schleicher will ]ut in a line of tinware andtoys. Louis Leisemer, the editor of the Hausferund Post will be the only orator who will 8peak at the Germán Day to be held in Ypsilanti, Aug. 22. Mrs. Agnes Wahr celebrated lier 64 birthday last Sunday by a family reunión. There were twenty of her children and grand-children present. The Ann Arbor Schuetzen Bund has offered to rent its range to the Light infantry for $75 for the lirst year, f3ó the second, and I2S per year thereafter. The game of base ball betwoen The Register nine and the Y. M. ('. A cine will come off day alter tomorrow. Both sides propose to put up a big fight. The Ann Arbor Organ Co. sold sixteen organs at retail between June 17 and July 17. Wonder if any of the big Detroit music houses did as well? We doubt it. It is remarkable how quickly the slight showers we have had have livened up the lawns whose owners had became discouraged and ceased sprinkling them. It is reported on the dead quiet that the Republicana are laying pipes to capture the aldermanic elections next spring.- Argus. And the. y will capture the majority of them, too. Frank H. Bannister, of Owosso, a former Ann Arbor resident, died at his home in Owosso a week ago last Sun. day. Mr. Banister's parents and one eister reside in this city. The insurance adjusters have allowed Geo. Craig $1,830 for his loss in the burning of his livery barn. He is alread at work rebuilding and expects to open up agalo by Sept. lst. Prof. and Mrs, E. D. Adama, of Lawrence, Kansas, report the arrival of a secoml son at their home. Mrs. Adams. it will be remembered, is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Breakey. The Dexter town clock created a sensation the other evening by imitating someof eitizens, after the legal "elosing hour. " It was wound up so "tight" that it couldn't go. - Adrain Press. Miss Fannie Louise Gwinner has reeently completed the translation from the Germán of "Introduction to the Interpretation of the. Beethoven Piano Works by Adolph Bernhard Marx." The leading lights of the Salvation Army in Michigan are to hold a meeting in Cleary Hall, Ypsilanti, July 30th and 31 st. The next day they will storm the strongholds of satan in this city. Last Friday a bolt of lightening B truck a tlock of sheep on the farm of H. V. Watts, of Lyndon. Result, nineteen killed. Thirteen of them had their lives insured in the Washtenaw Mutual. Rev. Dr. E. W. Ryan, of Ypsilanti, will preach at the iirst M. E. churcb in this city next Sunday morning, that is if the saloon men of Ypsilanti do not sueceed in having him in jail at that time. The attendanee at the summer school is gradnally inereasing. Yesterday the enrollment had reached 180. It now looks very mucii as if the number would reach ?00 after all. It is to be hoped that it may. Mrs. J. U. Crouse, Director of the Chicago Kindergarten college, will speak to young women at all interested in Kindergarten work, on Saturday afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock in the paflors of the Unitarian church. The firm of Goodyear and St James will dissolve partnership at the end of next month. Mr. Goodyear will continue the present business while Mr 3t James will open up in the dry goods business for himself The match was touche! tothe electric lights of Milan for the flrst time Tues day evening last week, and what a scramble for cover took place among the surprised sinners, who were at their usual tricks.- Adrain Press. Miss Sophie Schleicher and Rev. John Neuman have been chosen delegates from the Christian Endeavor Society of Bethlehem church to the convention of the Germán C. E. society at Cleveland the last of the month. The oounty superintendent of poor left Tuesday morning for Coldwater where he went to take the sixteen months old boy of Mrs. Ttsle, who practically forsock it some months ago, to the state school for homeless children Rev. W. C. Huil will preaoh at the Church of Ohrist next Sunday morning at 10 :45 o'clock. His subject will be: '■The Hidden Life." The union service will be held at this church in the evening at which Kev. W. L. Tedrow will speak. Mary Henry, a daughter of George ITenry, who was killed by a cave-in when thr-, main sewer was being built, dicd last Saturday of inflammation of the bovvels. at the age of 18. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the home. On last Saturday morning Prederick Staebler, the only 8on of Mrs. Sarah Staebler, of W. Liberty-st., died of brain fever. The deceased was 18 years of age. He had been sickour weeks. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon. Sheriff .Tudson, while walking along the street met E. C. Fuller, lormerly of Chelsea, who is wanted at Lansing for horse stealing. Mr. Judson immediately tóok the fellow in charge. He will get the $35.00 reward offered for Fuller's capture. The test of the Stone Crusher purchased by the city was made Tuesday. It was guarenteed to have a capacity to crush one-hundred tons of stone per day. It took in the hard-heads at that rate for eight straight hoursand ground them seemingly as easy as it would . It seems that there could be no fault found with the machine. Prof. W. S. Perry writes from J ver that he and Mrs. Perry have been having a delightful time during their stay in Colorado since the convention at Denver ended. They have crossed the mountains, having gone as far west as Salt Lake City. The followinff railroads paid their taxes into the state treasury recently: Detroit, Lansing & Northern, $24,130.88; Chicago & West Michigan, $29,520.30; Saginaw Valley & St. Louis, $1,718.82; Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan, 820,905.73. The Christian Union which consists of all the young people's societie's of the city, has arranged to give a box social at the Presbyterian church tomorrow evening. The ladies furnish the lunch boxes and the fellows are to buy them at 10 cents each. The Detroit papers on Monday announced that Jacob Teufel, of Mt. Clemns, a son of Antón Teufel, of this city, was run over by an electric car Sunday afternnon and instantly killed. The deceased was born here and lived here until eight years ago. The annual Farmer's picnic held at Whitmore Lake, will occur this year on August 21th. Among the speakers to be present will be ex-Senator Thos. VV. Palmer, of Detroit ; Hon. Wm. A. Moore, of Detroit; Rev. Pr. Goldrick, of Northfield, and Hon. Wm. Ball, of Hamburg. Mrs. Elizabeth Riley, who came to Ann Arbor in 1850, died last Thursday morning at half-past seven, at the home of Hugh McGuire, her son-sn-law, at 95 N. Main-st. The deceased was 95 years and 7 months oíd. Funeral services were held in St. Thomas' church Monday morning. The Times Ypsilanti seribe is authority for thé statement that a gentleman of that burg was bhaved one day last week in less than 60 seconds. It was done upon a $5.00 stakeand twobarbei-s worked upon the job.- It is not stated how much time those two barbers spent in talkinp. M r. L. C. Noble has plans drawn for an entire remodeling of his residence, No. 24 S. uth-ave. Work will be commenced in a few days and will be pushed rapidly until completion. When oompleted accordinjr to the plans it will be one of the finest and most complete residences in the city. The Enterpnse would place Germán carp in the Manchester ponds to eat the weeds that obstruct navigation. What has become of the submarine mowing machine invented for the same purpose ? Did it go under last fall with the rest of democratie Washtenaw?- Ad rain Press. The Grand Trunk Railroad Company hu issued in tasty pamphlet form elegantly illustrated an itenerary of the journeyof the Ann Arbor Commandery Xo. 13, K. T. It will prove an interesting souvenir to all who take the trip and have actually visited the place des.eribed therein. A. F. Tracy, who Uves on the motor line about two miles this side of Ypsilanti had his barn and its contents, excepting- two horses, entirely consumed, one day last week. The fire was caused by the upsetting of a lantern. The loss will be about $2000. Mr. Tracy carried an insurance of $1500 with the Aetna Ins. Co. The Times intimates that the Germans who attended the Germán day celebraton this year will not be able to understand the speeches as the addresses, with one exception will be delivered in English. We may be mistaken but we venture the assertion that 90 per cent. of the Germans in this county can understand English. Maggie Smith, agirl of 16, attempted suicide by taking laudanum Tuesday afternoon. She had been for an officer to look after her mother who was said to be drinking, and it is thought her act was caused by the shame she feit at the disgrace of her mother's acts. Medical aid was summoned and she revived after an hour's unconsciousness.- Ypsilanti Commercial.