The City

Vei-y few business houses will be opea tnday. _____ (úietho Commandery, No. 28, will givo its first hop one week f rom tonight. Reputar monthly meeting of the Board of Regents was held last Wednesday. _____ The Washtenaw Times band cleared some $50.00 at their masquerade ball kut Friday night. Gen. George Spalding reports that his expenses during the recent oampaign were $2,390. Moses Seabolt pleased the boys at the Pire Department by the present of acew clock recently. The A. A. Water Co. has recently struck a new flowing well at its station on W. Washington-st. A number of Ann Arbor Lady Maccabees went to Ypsilanti last Thursday night to cali upon the hive there. The Detroit High School defeated the A . A. High School team at foot ball last Friday by a score of 12 to 0. Priday evening, Dec. 4, the Kings Daughters, of Tho First Baptist church will give a Kitchen Social in the church parlors. The funeral ot the late J. D. McMaster was jheld lastFriday at the house at 1:30 p. m. The remains wcre in ' red at Geddes. ____ Wm. Dormán, aged 51, died last Saturday night f rom cáncer of the stomaeh. The remains were interred at Delhi Mills. .Tudge-elect H. W. Newkirk will devots the larger part of next month ramillarlzing himself with the dutiesof his new office. - - I Wirt Cornwell réports an order j coived a few days ago for 00 tons of straw paper, the largest single order he has ever received. Word was reeeived sotne days ago i that Edward A. Dygert, of Norfolk, Neb., who was formerly ;i clerk in Ann Arbor. is seriously 111. The phenominal growth of the iaw dopartment is puzzling the Rejrents who are wondering hovv to tínd room to accommodate all the students. John K. Campbell statea in liis aRidavit that it cost Mm $48.41 to secure the election to the state legislature, ! whilo Mr. Sawyer shelled out 896. liailroad Jack, whose street corner hes in Arm Arbor, durin{ the rarapaign, made him quite popular, was n the city for a few days last week. C. A. Hendrick and Wm. Jenninga have leased the store formerly occupied by Wm. Arnold, and willopenup about Dec. 1 a factory for making home made oandieu. eo. Eaton was caught in a corn etireddef Saline last Friday and his left hand torn to pieces. It was necossary to ampútate his arm above the wrlat. Those who expecteü to Hear Robert Ibgersoll lecture last Saturday night were disappointed as Mr. Ingersoll was obligud to cancel his date because of sickness. The strange way in which people vote under the new system was shown mi the recount of the North field vote. One voter cut the name of Mr. Sawyer &ttt of his ballot, besides putting a ■ !os befora Mr. Nordman's name. As ;i r snit he lost his entire vote. Tho Knights of Pithias will nomínate candidatos tomorrow night for next year'a ofRcers. The election will be held at the lirst regular meeting in Doóember. . Thé :ommittec of the Regenta appointeii to investigate tho matter of insUtlling u printing plant for the Univi-rsity ï-eported unfavorably at the meeting last week. Mrs. Julin R. Miner stood her trip 10 California wonáerfully well and has ■ beed improving sioee reaching her cloStlnatlon. This will be good news to her many (rienda. Tlie work of equipping theroad bctween here and Ypsilanti with electricity has been delayed somewhat. It U thought that all will be ready for regular train service by Dec, lst. - i Mr. Gustave Hinz and Miss Barbara Müler uere raarried last Wednesday nightat 102 8. Ashley-st. Rev. Max Hn ofïiciated. THE REGISTER Unes the youag couple a Ion and h.ippy Ufe. ,1. F. Shafroth, law :75, was elected toCongress on Nov. 3 by 54,475 majority. This is tho largest majority it is said. auy member of Congress evei' received. líe is frora Colorado and of course is a free silver man. Dr. W. A. Campbell, professor of Anatomy, bas been authorized by the Jlegents to institute a campaign of education among the county poor offleers concerning: the disposal of the bodies of paupers which are unclaitaed. Mr. Cross, of Geddes-ave., recently j sold his berry farm and has decided to j move to Whitmore Lake. He will ; cupy the old Weideman place at the Lake and will lix it up with the idea of ! making it a popular summer resovt. ■ - A slight blaze in Dr. Kapp's residence on Packard-st. last Friday at 11 a. m. called out the fire department. But little damage was done. The fire t was caused by the paper wrapped i around the steam pipes catching fire. Willard Foster, of Scio township, j died last Tbursday, aged 83 years. Ile had resided in the same home for over i 60 .years. Funeral services were held at the house Saturday forenoon and the. remains taken to Detroit for interment. The following trustees have been elected by the new churcli organization on the North Side : Por one year, Geo. j W. Weeks, Geo. Spathelf, Jr., for two years, S. W. Bangs, GilbertC. Rhodes, for three years, Chas. H. Manly, S. D. Lennon, A. M. Bowen. The Ladies' Art Club is the name of a new organization wliich was recently formed in this city. One of the objects of the club is to make a study of paintI ing from its earliest history. Mrs. J. M. Wheeler is President and Mrs. Lombard Conduetress. Meetings are held in the Ladies' Library. Geo. Lehman, of Lyndon, brother of , Atty. M. J. Lehman, and deputy i urer, P. J. Lehman, died last ] day afternoon of heart troublc, aged 44. He leavos a wife and five small : dren. Funeral services were held at ; Chelsea last Friday afternoon at tne Germán Lutheran church. Supervisor "By" Whittaker, of Scio, agreed with Dr. Chase to attend the Congregational church every Sunday i for a year if McKinley vvas clected. He is tryiug to declare the wager off i cause no forfeit was put up. Tne ! sician insists on its fulfillment, ! ever, and says it will do the supervisor j good. - Ex. Charles Korth, son of Lewis North, formerly of Lodi Plains, died at Pontiac, Nov. 22. The remains were brought to Ann Arbor and intorred in Lodi yesterday. Deceased wa3 a gradúate of the Law Department of the University. He lO9t his mind as the result of an injury received in a runaway soon after he graduated. At the English Lutheran church on ! next Sunday evening Ilev. W: L. Tedrow will talk on ilAmerica'' av' ,ávo a number of Stereoptican views, ú.ustrating what he says. Thé recent attempts at the settlement of the Turkish-AmerJ ican troubles and the renewed promises i of "reform," have created mucli interi est on every hand among Christian nations and all hope that the dark days of cruelty and oppre3sion for that pers. - cuted people will soon have passed forever. AU ruKglgte-Biiarantee pr. Miletf Pais Pu.ia to stoa Ueada.che. "One cent a dosa" The candidates are gradually filing aflidavits of their catnpaign expenses. Andrew Campbell says he spent 8100 to secure the election to the state senate. Harrison Ballwaselected coroner without spending a cent, Wm. H. Rehfuss went into the campaign tothe cxtent of $50, while it cost Geo. A. Coolc $120 to be elected Register of Deeds. The next entertainment in the Y. M. C. A. course will be a lecture on "The Land of the Midnight Sun," by Rev. Perry Millar, of Milwaukee, Wis., December 3. This will be one of the most interesting of the entire course. The lecturer tells in a very interesting way about his travels in Norway and S weden. The report that the Y. M. C. A. was about to slaek up in lts work in Ann Arbor becauso it decided to dispense witb its general secretary af ter December Ist uuless more money coukl be raisod, is untrue. The directors sitnply do not desire to run the society in debt. Vith the beginning of the new year the work will again go on as before. A number of colore d peoplo met at tbe A. M. E. church last v'ednesday night to talk over the politica! situation. They ilecided to ui-ge the appointment of Milton W. Guy, of this city. as an assistant in the cloak room at Lansing' during the session ot the legislature this winter. Later some of the other colored people kicked on the I action taken and called another meetI ing for last night. Owiner to the fact that the regular j meeting of the W. C. T. U. ocours on Thanksgiving day the meeting has jbeen postponed until the following ; week Thursday, Dec. 3rd. at 3 p m. at the Y. W. C. A. rooms over the postoffice. At this meeting our President, who was state delégate to the j recent national convention held at St. Louis, Mo.. will give a report of that great meeting. All are cordially invited. Miss Mary E. Dickey, who was for sevon years a teacher of Germán ia the High School, died last Sunday at Battle Creek, Mich. Death was due to cáncer' on the brain f rom which Miss Dickey has suffered for somo time. Funeral savices wera held at Marshall Mich., Tuesday. Prof. and Mrs. W. S. Porry, Miss Porter and Miss Hunt attended. Miss Dickey was a conseientious teacher and was highly respected by all whoknew her. Martin Clark, the truant ofiticer for tile Aun Arbor schools, wishes us to inform the public that the. new school law of 1895 requires all children from the age of 7 years to l(i to attend school. Some parents supposing that the old ropealed law is yet in force which made the school age from 7 to 15 years talce their children from school at the latter j age. The law is very strict and any parent j or euardian who refuses to senfl children to school during school age is I liable to be summoned to appear beforo aJusticeof the Peace and on convic1 tion maj be iined from five to fifty dolj lafs, or be sent to jail.