The City

R. C. Scott has lett for the Sandwich Islands. Manager Pulciver, of the Western Union, is very ill. A.n unusually large number of drunks were jailed Sunday and Mouday. The Catholic fair which has been very successf ui, closed Tuesday night. The Cleary Business College held its 14th anuual commencment last Wednesday. The Ann Arbor High school football team defeated Ihe Jaokson team Saturday 8 to 6. Dr. Vaughan and Regent Keefer went to Pontiac on University business last cignt. JudgeJ. H. Grant, of Manistee, a gradúate of the law department, was in town last week. The Catholic Mutual Benefit Association will give a. dance at the Arinory on Thanksgivipg City Clerk Carpenter, of Ypsilanti, handed in his resignation at tbe last meeting of the council. Prof. Perry has been granted a three months leave of absence from bis school duties. He is very ill. An excursión will run to Chicago, next Wednesday to carry students to the Thanksgiving game. Two or three deer were brought here irom the north and sold in the State street markets last week. Charles Manley. a son of C. H. Maley, was jailed Saturday night (or being drunk and disorderly. The New State Telephone Company expects to have over 200 telephone in use in this city by Saturday nitfht. The first concert of the oboral uniou course wijl be given in Uuiversity imll tonight by Theodore Thomas' Orquestra. A ?ood supper was served by the ladies of the Church of Christ, Fritiay night and a social time with music followed. The twenty-nineth meeting of the Michigan Schoolmaster's Club will be held at the School of Music, November 26 and 27. Judge Kinne announoes that he will be in this city next week ready to hear any cases the attorneys may wish to bring before him. The first Y. M. C. A. meeting of the week of prayer was held Monday night and 26 were present. The attendance since has been better. At Monday night's meeting of the council, a motion was passed to order all persons having detective sidewalks to repair the same at once. Capt. Calhoun, of the Salvation Army, returned Monday from the officer's council in Chicago. When there he was promoted to ensign. A cla38 of Y. M. C. A. members has been formed for the study of civil government and parliamentary law. It meets tomorrow evening for the second time. The concert by the Thomas Concert Co., given on the Y. M. C. A. course, Tuesday night, was first-class in every respect. A large number oí persons attended. William Stoll tried to hang himself Monday night at his home on West Huron street. He was drunk at the time and did not want to die when he eobered down. This afternoon at four o'clock the Oratorical AsBociation will give a reception in Univeriity hall to Prederick Warde, the actor. An entrance iee ot 25 cents will be charged. In one of hls polltical economy lectures this week, Prof. Taylor remarked that it was an accident that the United States adopted the gold standard, then with a sly twinkle in hia eye, he added that it was largely an accident that we have not gone to a silver standard. Several men, boys aud (f irla did a thriving business in chrysanthemums and college colors at the depot ! day mornlng, beforo the departure of ; the football excursión train. Saturday night at tbe Catholie fair was chrysanthemuni niffht. Monday night the Elks gave the fair much of the program which was rendered at the opera house Friday nigut. The freshmen medies have Ünished their lab work in non-pathos;enlc germs and took the ünal examinatson yesterday. They are now beginning to work on dangerous and deadly germs. Del Wetherbee haa been arrested several times for being drunk. Last week Judge Pond üned him $5 and costs with the warning that another offense will send him to the work house. Somebody has been shooting' the tame fox squirrels which live about town. Dr. W. B. Smith offers a $5 reward for the conviction of the man who recently shot one in nis yard. C. H. Manley, administrator for the W. E. Morgan estáte, flled a petition for a re-hearing of the case against tue estáte by Wilfred Eames in the Kalamazoo county court. . The petition was denied. The Alumnus appeared lasti week. L. A. Prat is stül at the head of tbe publication. A good write up ót Seoretary Wade and an account of the collegiate alunan were prominent features. Mr. Clarence O'Conner and Miss Nellie Fitzgerald vere married at the St. Patrick's church last Wednesday night. Father Goldrick officiated. Both parties live in Nortufield, and are well known there. The regents met yesterday and listened to the report of Librarían Davis, which shows an avearge attecdano of 160 persons per day in the reacünjï room and a total of 155,990 books in all the librarles. At Mouday's council meeting, Mr. Fred H. Belser asked that the city pay him $225 for gravel taken from his lanii by city employees to use on the utreel. The councilmen deny tliatit was taken by city employees. Rupert Jones, who figured in the Richards murder case, was am-sted yesterday in Wayne. LizzieFiucli, the girl to whom he was engaged, says ahe helped Jones throuph his trial and now he wants to desert her. The city wül employ an expert electriclan to inspect the electric lihts every evening. In case the full power agreed upon in the contract is not furnished, tbe alderinen will decline to pay full price for lights. i E. C. Goddard, E. E. Calkiuti, Rev. W. L. Tedrow, Prof. E. A. "Lyiuan, Miss Httttie Crippen and Miss Blandió Wood Will return today frorn i'ort Huron, whëre they atlended the btate Sunday School Convention. Envious students who can't i:tiso beards by any njeana yet dlssovered, caught a prominent member of ■ the 'Whlskers club" Tuesday and cut one half of bis whiskers. A barber tinisned the job aod the man is angry. Mr. Clay Hoyt and Miss Autie Millard, of Plymouth, attended a dancing party given át the home of Mr Ciaud and Miss Luella Rokers, Friday oveniug. About 20 couples were present and a very enjoyable evening was spent. Somebody passed a lot of forged tickets to Nanaen's lecture Tueeday night. The management wanted Mr. Pardee, Nansen's agent, to stand the loss. Ho declined, and roasted the asiociation officers as young and inexperienced. The Ann Arbor high school foot ball team will play Orchard Lake cadets at the fair grounds Saturday afternoon. Game called at 2 o'clock. On the following Saturday the high schools will play Grand Rapids at that place. This game will close the season. George Downey, a tramp, called at Mrs. Newman's restaurant, shortly after the fire in Detroit. He proved to be a good cook and was taken in. Last Tuesday night he left town, taking fifteen dollars in money, an overcoat anc a watch, all worth about $50. Dr. Clarence Berry. of the denta daas of '88, died in Milwaukee, Wed nesday, November 10, aged 31 years He leaves a wife and two children There are many people ia Ann Arbo who remember Dr. Berry and will re gret to hear of hie untimely death. - Times. Casper ïlinsey was arrested Wednesday afternoon on the charge of selling colored oleomargerine, contrary to the prohibitive act of the present legislature. Food Commis9ioner Grosvenor made the complaint and sayg that the prosecution is only one of a nutnber which may be expected throughout the state in regular order, the commissiotier being resolved to enforce the law to the letter. Inspector Tunnicliffe claims to have purchased colored oleomargerine of Üinsey on September 7. The defendant was bound over to the Circuit Court by Justice Pond. T reasure r Soule of the U. f M-, aays that diirinsf tüa year endinjf July 1, 1897, tbu university's inoome was $418.932.98, tho hir8t Itetné being: Sixtti mili tnx, tUl, 249,99, students' feet, $164,127.59; salo of laads, $46,160.19; appropriation for light plant, $20,000. The class in beginning philosophy will finish its worK before tho Thankstf ivin recesa. Prof. Wenley has announced that the exatninations will be held next Satuiday and the following Tuesday. ïhe class will then be divided, one section taking psychulogy and the other logic. Univoráity Hall was packed Tuesday night by an audience which gathered to hear Dr. Nansen teil of hia trip in the "Fram" and of hia sledge journey across the Arctic ice. Dr. Nansen speaks good Engrlish and hls modest manner of telling of his wonderful exploits won the auüieace completely. After an illness of several months with consumption Rose Demraon Ninde, daughter of Prof. I. N. Deinmon, died last Friday at her home in Denver. Miss Demmon was married about one ear ago to Daniel B. ïïinde, left for the west and was stricken at once with consumption. The body arrived here unday and was buried in Forest Hill emetery Monday morning. A fresllman medie who Uves on 'hompson sti-eet, was awakened yeserday morning at 6 o'clock by an exlosion. Gas had accumulated ia the arge drum by which his room was íeated and the drum was blown into ragmenta. Fortunately none of the ieces hit the student. Whether the reshman hid his head under' the bed lothes or not, is a question. John P. Thomas, until recently pasor of the Second Baptist church of lis city, will bring suit against the hureh to recover $70 which he alleges ie church owes him as back salary. The ohurch will urge as a defense that 'homasdidnot give any notice that ie intended to leave, thus breaking ie contract which he had witli the biurch, which called for him to give he oburch three montha' notice before e left. A running race has been arranged or Thanksgiving ut 2:30 p. m. Prizes o the aniount and valué of $2u are ofered by the promoters. This race is pen to any one who wishes to enter a íorse. The entrance fee is one dollar, and only fifty cents if entry is inade before Saturday, Nov. 20. The race will be half mile heats, best three in five, and will be run "rain or shine". Entries should be sent to G. M. Stephens, 102 Huron-st. The doors to University Main HsM wore uot oponed Tuesday until half an ïour after the regular time. A erowd iad collacted at. etwh of the three U irs tnd when they were at last opened ine ;im near the stairway was frightful. Oue lady faiuted, otliers were huil. ixpressions of distrust and ang-er were leurd on every hand and numbern denare they will boycott the S L. A. for ts carelessness in not opening the Ioovr on schedule time and preven ting he ruah. TUe Adrián Press says: "For a few days work in helping; the prosecutinff ittorney in the Richards murder case, the board of supervisors of Washtenaw ounty allowed Hon. A. J. Sawyer$50!l. l'hat's half the salary of the prosecutng attorney for a year. It's noue of our business how much money Washtenaw supervisors spend, but nine-tenths of the taxpayers of the county do not make $500 a year, and the prosecuting attorney of the eounty, with h8 as9istant should be able to look after all the criminal business of the county."