The City

There are now twenty three prisoners in the county jail. A f uil account of the council proceedings is given in another column. Governor Pingree has promised to attend the Washtenaw County Fair thisfall. Several hundred persons went to Detroit, Thursday on tha rally day excursión. Pifteen thousand copies of the Washtenaw Pair News have been published and scattered over the county. It now looks as though the electric lighting plant on the campus will hardly be done before October lst. Stephen Keegan was arrested last week, charged with being drunk and disorderly. He was given twenty days in jail. The new State Telephone Company has established permanent offices over Rinsey & Seabolt's Store on Washington street. The U. of M. foot ball team will establish training quarters at Whitmore Lake next week and wiil begin regular fall practice. Great preparations are being made for carying on the Bible Chair work under Prof. Coler this year. Several new couráes will be added. Little has been heard tliis week of the eckwith mystery and the majority of people seem content to believe that it can never be solved. Mr. Henry De Pue, of Pitte field, was married, Sept. 1, to Miss Endora L McCollum, of Grass Lake. Rev. Mr Inglia, of Jackson, performed the cere mony. Dexter will have for a soldiers monu ment a cannon used in the civil war It was obtained from the war depart ment through tbe efforts of Judge New kir k. Contractors are now at work on the hospital improvements. The boiler house is to be extended and addition made so as to provide new quarters for the nurses. Thirty Detroit men left for the Mich ipecoten gold fields north of Lake Superior. Rich finds are reported by some prospectors while others have not y et struck it rich. Resorter, Harbor Springs.- Russe Rowland, ü. of M., '98, had a very soriouB accident with lus wheel yester day afternoon. The patiënt is resting easily and immediate recovery may be looked for. Lyman Conkoy was finetl four dollars and costs, Tuesday, by Justice Pond, or assaulting Clement Eberhart. A half sane hospital patiënt escaped iesday and wandering down town was ocked up in jail wliere he called loudly or morphinc. The Detroit Presbytei-y will meet in Ann Arbor next Monday night and Tuesday. All sessions will be held in he Presbyterian church. The Farmers' Club, of Webster townhip, met at the home of William Scadin Saturday, and discusssd various topics and partook of a good dinner. George W. Weeks nas purchased the eoal sheds formerly o% ned by Clark & Basset and will handle hard and soft coal in connection with his wood business this winter. One of the attractions at the county air will be a public wedding. Morchants of the city have offered a fine ot of premiums to the first couple who will be married. Mahara's Minstrcls willappear at the Athens Theatre next Monday night. The show comprises 35 people, travelng in its own private Pullman palace car. There will be a sensational street arade at noon. Twoweddingsoccurred at Dexter last week. On Tuesday Miss Fannie Smith to Mr. Counter, of Grand Ledge and on the preceeding Thursday Miss Edith E. Waite to Mr. Ray A. Randall, of Tekonsha, Mich. A bout twenty-five young friends of Hugh O'Kane gathered at his home on South State street Monday night. or a party in honor of Mr. O'Kane's departure for Tampa, Florida, which occurred Tuesday. A letter from Mrs. Harry Coleman, formerly Miss Ann L. Richards, to Prof. Ten Brook, says she and Mr. (Joleman are in Denver, but fail to find Doctor Coburn who is in Europe for a few months of study. Mr. B. H. Coon, corresponding secretary of the Student's Lecture Association announces that Booker T. Washington, the well known colored educator will be one of the lecturers on the S. L. A. Course next year. Dennis Allen was arreated Tuesday charged with picking the pocket of John Kearney while the two were tofrether in Shield's saloon. Kearney had ten dollars taken and summoned patrollman Isabel who made the arrest. The Athens Theatre opened Saturday night with "The Governors," by Ward and Vokes. A fair audience was present to find the play interesting in the extreme and the theatre greatly improvedby Manager Lisemer's efforts. The new thousand-mile ticket has been placed on sale in the Michigan Central offices. The ticket is good on all Unes included in the Central Passenger Association. One pays $30 and receives $10 back when the ticket is used up. The Woman'8 Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. wiU resume their work after a two months vacation. All menabers are urged to be present at the meeting which occurs Monday, September 13th. at 3 p. m. in the rooms of the association. Geore B. Harrison, who was wcll koown here as correspondent for the Detroit Pree Press, has started an editorial venture of his own, and is now publisher and editor of the "Kansas News. " The first number was issued last week. A barn belonging to Philip Riemenschneider, north of Cavanaugh lake, was struck by lightning Sunday morning, and together with the contents was consumed by fire. Loss about $2,000. Insurance about $1,400.- Chelsea Herald. Frank Seabolt, son of our well known laundryman, is employed by the Tederman Electric Lighting Company, of Menominee. Mr. Seabolt graduated with the class of '97. The best wishes of his many friends hore, go with him in his new work. Prof. W. W. Campbell, formerly of this city and now of the Lick observatory, California, will head the expedition to India, made possible through the generosity of the late Col. C. F. Crocker, to observe the next' total eclipse of the sun on January 22, 1898. Last week The Register announced that P. McDonald, who lives near Whitmore Lake had been relieved of $250. One morning since Mr. McDonald found that some one had brought back $210 of the money. He thiuks the man's conscience was too much for hira. Herman Armbruster has been attending the 39th annual shooting tournament of the Detroit Schuetzenbund As usual, he was very successful. Monday he won first in the Union target shoot, second in the point targei snoot, and löth in the man target shoot. -Times. The fall foot ball schedule is not yet complete. The big game will be in the Auditorium at Chicago on Thanksgiving day. No games will beplayed with Northwestern or Wisconsin. Obei-lin and Wittenberg will be met, and it is likely that the game with Minnesofa will be played in Detroit. Miss Effie Dak in was overeóme by ïeat while workingintho underware actory yesterday, and fainted. She was taken home in Martin's Ambulance I vagon and revived soon after. The marriage of Georgo J. Klager, of Scio, and Miss Julia O. Blaess, of Saline, is announced for Sept. 23, to occur at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Walker, in Saline. At the school meeting Monday a resolution was passed te raise $33000 by .axation for the running expenses of the city schools this year. $.'500 will also be used to purchase books for the ibrary. The school election went off quietly "Vlonday. There was no opposition to :he three caucus nominees and the jalloting resulted in the election o ïugene F. Mills, who r-eceived 341 votes; Miss Emma E. Bower, who received 338 votes, and Evart H. Scott, who received 334 votes. Col. A. A. Powell, of Cincinnati, O., created considerable comment in the streets yesterday on account of his ex.reme height. He is 7 f eet and 6 inches all. Althouph ho paid for only one room at the St. James hotel, two beds aad to be ranged alongside of each other to accommodate him. Burglars ente red the home of Richard Kearn Thursday night and stole $20 in money. Mr. Kearn was in the habit of leeping by his bedslde a club to use on burglars. This the thief carried to the lawn below and sticking it into the ground, ornamented the upper end with Mr. Keam's pocket book. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church, will give a missionary tea, Friday afternoon, at the home of Mrs. J. Richards, 113 E. Huron st. Mrs. Wilder and Miss Grace Wilder, returned mission. aries from India, will be present and talk of the work in that field. A lively blaze occurred Saturday afternoon in a house owned by Mrs. F. M. Pomeroy, on Wilmot Street. M. C. Allen appeared on the scène with two chemical extinguishers and kept the fire down until the department arrived when it was soon subdued. The house is to be the home of the Delta Gamma Sorority. The following offleers were installed in the Ann Ar'aor Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star last night: Worthy patrón, L. C. Goodrich; worthy matron, Mrs. A. C. Nichols; associate matron, Mra. Ros3 Granger; socretary, Dr. Fitzgerald; treasurer, Miss Bessio Turner ; representativo to grand chapter, Mrs. Mabel K. Pond. Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, the former president of Wellesley college, has been appointed president of a corporation of influential men and women who are determined to build up Mrs. Alice Gordon Cusick's international school for girls in San Sebastian, Spain. Mrs. Palmer is well known here having formerly been a resident of Ana Arbor. The Homer Vidette exposes a new bunco scheme. The swindle is in the sale of a formula which is claimed to make gasoline non-explosive. The swindle is not attempted in cities to any extent, because many people in cities use gas stoves in summer, but in the country and small towns the salesmen are said to be making a big thing out of it. The formula is a fake. The promotors of the Times Cycle path to Ypsilanti voted last week to settle whether the path is to go over the south or middle road and decided in favor of the former. The committee met last evening and decided to use the money to build a path on the South or motor line road as far as it will go, but do not propose to go ahead and sign any contract before the money is paid in. There is about $100 standing out and this money should be paid in immediately and then work will be commenced. Trustees of the North Side chureh wisli it understood that they havenothing whatever to do withRhode'sIsland, or with the dances being held there each weck, which are entirely a private entorprise. Marshal Sweet, yesterday made com p'.aint against Michael Schaible, Oswald Dietz, J. G. F. Schmidt, and Emil Golz, for keeping open saloons on labor day. AU waived examination and gave bonds to appear in circuit court. Ypsilanti has a new weekly paper, the first issue of which came off the press last Thursday. Seward Cramer, the hustling editor of the Ypsilanti department of the Washtenaw Daily Times,is the editor] of the new sheet, whose business end will be looked after by G.J. Howard.