Weekly News Summary

In the sculling race, three milos, at Pittsburgh on the 20th Gaudaur defeated Teemer by a length in tt:8B, the fastest time on record in a single-scull race. While plajing with a revolver (supposed to be iMloailed) ut Columbus, O., on the 20th Oeorge Packard, aed eleven years, shot and killed nis brother Albert, aged thirteen. For the weck ended July 18, 839,981 standard dollars were issued. An east-bound Santa Fe passengor train, whieh left El Paso, Tex., was wreeked a few days ago near Wallace, and three flremen were killed. The families oL Mr. ('armen and Mr. Koats, uurabering seven persons, were swept away on the 2Oth while nttemptiug to (ord the Walnut Rivor near Douglus, Kan. All wero drowned save one. At Manley, N. C, Julius Lucks, a Texas desperado, while iutox cated on the 20th wantouly killed two men and wouuded several others. He was in custody, and lynch. ng was threatened. John Gaust, of Jersey City, N. J., who was arrested recently for the nnirder of bis wife, hanged kimself in las culi on the 20 h. In a dispute at Stewarts, Va., a few days ago two little white boys were killed by a colored boy. Amono the suikers in Cleveland, O., and Bay City, Mich., everything was quiet on the -'Is!, and it wus hoped that a compl to settlement of the difiiculties wotlld sooo bo effected. The troops had been withdrawu. Thk hoat at various poinsstill reniaiued intense on the 21st. At Neu York the thermometer marked MT degreès, with twenty-three cases pf unstroke ; aj l'iiiladelphia 101, with twenty-two uastrokes; at Pittsburgh !7; at ('inoinnati B6 with twelve sunstrokes; at lymisville ü."i, nt St. Louis !(i, with twélre suns; In Chicago the temperatura feli u 72. OwiNO to the ACtionfl of tlio Coimty Attorney ten Inien who wore chargod with a dozen or more murders at Lexington, Ky., which everybody know they had committed, were acquitted on the 21 st. As an outcomo of the recent l'olish riots in Toledo, O., the Grand Jury on the 21st fnuixl nearly one hundreil imlii-tineuts agamst the rioters, eleven being for murder in the fl st degree. Two colored womeu wera arrested at Philadelphia the other night for attemptiug to kidnap a white oliiM An explosión on the 21st near Huntingdon, Pa., killed three workmen and fatally injured two others. Keporis gathered by an Easteru agricultural journal represented on the 21st the wbeat situation in the Northwest as favorable, although the erop would not be equal to that of 18S4 in any State save Michigan. Spring wheat promised an average erop. Oats and corn looked well. The old Washington Artillery Armory at N'ew Orleans was setou tire by burglara the other morning and entirely destroyed. The remains of Bdwoird Clillan, wifenuinlerer and suicide, wero interred on the 21st in the potter's field at Cleveland, O. Deceased leaves an estáte valued ati.'i,000, and was refused burial In the Catholic cenietery. About thirty Mexieaus wero ou the '.'lst reported to have been killed by bands of hostile Indians on the Texas frontier. RkPORTB of excitement ameng the Northern Cheyeunes in Montana were confirmed on the 21st. The settlers were preparing for dcfense. The town of Skidmore, Mo., was almost entirely destroyed by a recent flre. At Philadelphia on the SSd Ed ward Metz, who hail attacked U'illiain líattersby, a wealthy nierchant, for purposes of robbery, was shot and instantly killed ly bis intended victim. Charles Jackson, who lives in the mountains of West Augusta, Va., in a frenzy of temper on the Ud dragged his 1$ againsi Ura bf, killin,' it instantly. A,v explosión of powder in a mili nt York, Pa., the other morning blew two men four huudred feet, horribly maugliug them. The first encampmeut of State troops held iu the South since the war began at Asheville, N. C, on the 22d. Tuk count of the Cheycnnes and Arapahoes was successfully concluded at Fort Reno, I. T., on the 'd, under the ilirec;ion of Inspector Armtrong. The oensus shows J,300 Arapahoes and ü, Ui: Cheyeim-'s. A terrific rain-storm, with high wind, passed over the Cutawissa Valley, near ijhênaudoah, Pa., on the 22d, uprooting trees and blowing down fences and barns. The damage to crops aloue was estimated ut -." 1,000. Six fatal rases of sunstroke occurred a Louisville, Ky., on t'ie 2i' 1. As examination on the 22.1 of the books of the Sedalia (Mo.) Savius-Bank, fron wliich R. E. KXbg, the boolikéeper, abscon.led reeenUy with .'rlO.BOO. ghowed that 440,0"" ut mo $.'0,000 capital of the bauk had been stolen. A heavy thunder-storm at Columbus, O., on the 22d cooled the scorching atmosphere, but blew down trees and moved a few houses from their foundations. The Captain of a schooner which arrived at Portland, Me., on the 23d reportad the capture alive of a veritable sea-serpent which weighs about 1,200 poundsaud looks something like a turtle. The President and Cabinet decided on the 22d that the leases of land in Indian Territory to cattleinen were invalid, and would take measures to have them set aside, the exact method of procedure uot haviiig as yet been detrrmiued. Therk were fourteen deatus from sunstroke in New York City on the 22d and eight at Philadelphia. A mob of 150 men broke into the jail a Minden, La., the other night and shot dead two colored meu held for murder. Patrick Brandon murderously assaulted and then robbed his aged mother oK $IM at Wooster, O., on the 22d. He decamped, but was arrested and imprisoned to await the resultof his rnother's injuries. John Novak, residing near Yankton, D. T., killed his wife on the 2.id and theu shot himself dead. The couple had been married but two months. Jealousy and whisky caused the tragedy. Agoer & Sannino, manufacturers of bedsteads at Cinciuuati, failed on the 23d for$12L A rROCLAMATios was ssued by the President on the 28d directiug stockmen ou the Aiapalaoe and Cheyeaue reservation to remove their catlle within forty days. Captain J. M. Lee, Ninth Infantry, was appointed Indian Agent at the Cheyenne reservation. A severk storm passed through tho Southern part of Hancock County, O., on the 23d. Fences were blown down, parts of hnuaes and barus torn away and corn leveled. As unknown per9on placed dynamite Ín a "shock" of grain on Mr. Jolin Deardorfï's farm, near Wabash, Iud., oa the 2.'!d, and and whea run through a thrashing machine an explosión occurred, which fatally iujuied Mr. DeardurU and wounded leveral other persons. James McMillan, a miner who was out of work, returned to bis homo at Austintown, O., a few evenings ago, sat down and wept, next kissed his wife and children, and drawing a revolver blew out his brains. The heat was still intense in New York City on the 2üd, twelve deaths froin sunstroke being reported. David Scrügos (colored), residing near Redfield, Ark., who was charged with aslaulting his own daaghter, was seized ou the 24th by a colored mob and cut to piecea with knives and razors. Babcock& ANDitEws.proprietors of ths big bucket-ahop at Syracuse, N. Y., failed on the 24th for $500,000. Rev. W. H. Hickman, a Methodist preacher, created a senaation on tho 24 tb at the Battle Ground cnmr-meeting, near Lafayette, Ind., by advocating uiarriage tetwaen blacks and whits. ÜFobkst üres were racine flercelv on tha '24lh in tEe vfcfnlty of Camden, N. J., and it was feareda number of towns would to deatroyed. It was announced on the lililí that the Apaches had surrounded the mining campa in tlie mountains of Atizona. The miners were standing guard night and day. All the milis at Fall River, Mass., on tho 24th agreed to stop the production of print cloths for four weeks, owing to au over8tooked niarket. Advicks of the 24th to Bradstreet'i report it 11 improvement in business in the principal i-ities throughout the country, especially iu the dry-goods rade. Ninb men were seriously injured in New York on the 24th by the burning of Lillienthal's tobáceo factory. Thk Signal-Service publishes reports of l.sil tornadoes in the United States duriug 1884. More than one thousand buildings were destroyed by these storms. The States in which tornadoes were most frequent wre Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama. Milton A. Smith, who killed his wife to whom he had been married twenty-one years, and who had borne him thirteen I chüdren, was hanged on the 24th at Oscsola, Neb., in tho presenceof five thousand people. In the United States and Canada there rere 2ir business failures during the saven days ended on the 24th, against 18$ the previous seven days. The distribnlion was as follows: Middle States, 4j; New Kngland States, 30; Western, 67; Southern, 42; Paciflo Ktates and Territories, 31 ; Canada. 2G. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Thk trustees of Vassar College, at Poughkeepeie, N. Y., on the 21st elected Dr. Galusha Anderson, of Chicago, as President. Thk special commission sitting at Philadolphio rettutlioil a ci ilii l uu tbo J.M that John McCullough, the tragedian, had been u lunatic for six months, but enjoyed some lucid intervals. The value of his estáte (vas placed at $44,504. Jcdoe T. l.Yi.F. Dickey, of the Illinois Supremo Court, died at Atlantic City, N. J., on the night of the 22d, asted seventyfour years. He had been a resident of Chicago since 1854. General Grant's death, which occurred at Mount MacGregor at 8:08 on the morning of the SSd, was painless and tranquil. Within twenty minutes after he expired a piaster cast of the face was taken The news of the sad event was received in all parts of the country with profound sor row, ln'lN beiug tolled, flags hung at halfmast and the emblems of mourning displayed from public and private buildings President Cleveland issued a proclama - tion testifying to the magnitude of the National loss, and ordering the payment of appropriate honors to the memory of the deceased by the several departmonts of the Government. The Ohio Democratie State Central Committee met on the -'"! at Columbus and decided to hold ttye State Convention in that city August 19 and 20. Walt AVhitmají, the poet, was proatruted by th heat on the evening of the 22d while sitting on the steps of his residence in Camden, N. J. He was considred out of danger on the 23d. Peter H. Watsoií, ex-President of the Erie Railway and Assistant Secretary o] War during Stanton'3 term, died in New York on the 28A Supkems Judqes Cbaio and Shope granted a supersedeas on the 23d in the case of Joseph C. Mackin, of Chicago, convicted of perjury, but refused bail to the prisoner. 'I'iib Grant Monument Association flled articles of incorporation on the 23d at Springfield, 111., the object being to construct and maintain a monument to General Grant. Among the Board of Directora are Senator Cullom and ex-Governor Palmer. The family of General Grant on the 24th formally accepted the offer of the city of New York to give the great soldier a burial-place in Central Park. It wa prom sed, also, that when Mrs. Grant died husbaud. TJle body of General Orant Tvill be taken from Mount MacGregor August 4, thence to Saratoga and Albany, at wbich latter piare it will lie in state in the capítol until uooii of August 5, when it will be taken to New York, and will lie in state at the city-hall until the 8th, when the public obsequies will take nlace. Membkrs of Z. H. Scott Post, 279, went on the 24th, to the house near Foint Pleasant, ü., where General Grant was bom, draped the doors and Windows, and placed at mast over the west gable the post flag. By authority of Mr. Joseph Drexel it was stated on the 24th that the cottage in which General Grant died would never again be occupied by any family or persons. The house and its appurtenances would be presented to the State or Natinn. Mrs. Cramer, sister of General Grant, and her husband, Minister to Switzerland, arrived at New York on the 24tli from Hamburg. Thk draping of the pabilo buildings a Washington in honor of General Grant was completed on the 25th. Sergeant-atAnns Canaday, of the Senate, he4 received the following dispatch: "Oakland House, St. Clair Sprinor, Hieh., July 24- It Is proper that the Senute of the Unit d States shall particípate with tho other departmonts of the Government and with tho peoplo iu doinff honor to the memory of General Grant. I therei'ore doslgnato tho followintf Senators to represent that body la connection with the funeral ceremonies: Justin Morrill, John Sherman, John A. Lokuu. J. Donald ('Hiñeron, Wade Hampton. W. M. Itansoin, Joseph E. Hrown, J. G. Harris and John. V. Mlller, of California. Yon will notily them iimnrdiatcly, and you are requestod to ollicially accompany them. Thomas A. HicsnnicKs. President." FORE1GN. The steamer Hecla collided ou the 21st with the Liverpool and London steamer Cheerful in a fog, off Cornwall, Eng. The latter foundered and thirteen personere drowned. As enthusiastic demonstration took place at Quebec on the 21st in honor of the return of the Ninth battalion from active service in the Northwest. The trial of Riel, at Regina, bad been postponed for one week. It was said on the 21st that the King of Dahomey had maasacred most of the Frtnch residing iu villages near bis capital, and had one thousand prisoners who were to be killed and eaten. Advicks of the 21st report twelve shocks of earthquake in Cashmere, India. The Arabs recently made an attack on Kassala, and were repulsed with a loss of three thousand killed and wounded. The garrisou's casualties were small. It is said that the Russian Government contemplateslevylnga polltaxupon every foreigner who remains more than a fortnight in the Empire. It was announced on the 22d that the Russian Gnvernment had made fresh proposal8 to England respecting the Afghan frontier. Meanwhile it had been decided to add flfty torpedo-boats to the Russian fleet in the Black Sea. A LIFK-BOAT which started on the 22d frora Yarmouth, Eng., to the relief of a brig in distress, sank before reacuing its destination, and eight of its crew were drowned. Advices of the 22d from Assouan say tbat El Mehdi died of small-pox June '29 last. A Shikk arrived at Cairo on the23d who declared that he witnessed the funeral of El Mehdi. He said the False Prophet died frora pox June 29. ¦ Thirteen persons were killed and twen - ty-two injured by lightning during a storm near Cajetana, Italy, on the SSd. The marriage of Princess Boatrice, the youngjest daughter of Queen Victoria, and Prince' Henry of Battenburg, took j)lace at üsborne on the 23d. It was announced on the 23d that Michael Davitt refused to standior Parliament because iu entering that body he would be compelled to swear allegiance to the Queen. A riRE recently at Claraford, near Aix, France, destroyed sixteen buildings, eral persons perishing in the flames. A bow of tenementd welliags at Cplogne, 1 I irranre, coliapsea on tne:4t;n, Kiiung lortyflve persons and injuring twenty-flve j others. An unknown man was arrested on the 24th at London for threatening the Ufe of Princess Beatrico, who was recontly raarried. Miss Moore, an American, has takon the flrat prize for singiiig at the Paris Ccmservatoire. Thirtben persons were killed and tweu' ty-two injured by lightning during a, storm a few days ago at Torre Cajetani, Italy. Cablk advices of the 24th announce th destruction by tire of the entire business portion of the city of Cárdenas, Cuba, the losses being estimated at $2,UOO,000. LATER NEWS. General Grant's family deeidedon the L.')th upou a military funeral, which would bo under the authority and control of the National Government. General Hancock had been designated to take charge of the body at Mount MacGregor, and would have the direction of its removal to New i Yort and of the ceremonies at tliat city. President Cleveland would name the pallbearers to act at the final obsequies. A band of returning Apache Indiana were interrupted near Bisbee, A. T., the other day, and sevenof their nuniber were killed. By a cloud-bur8t on the 2Cth in "Luckless Valley," Col., a few miles north of Denver, a large amount of property was destroyed, and many lives were supposed to havo been lost. After a military parade at Boston on the L'.'iili about one hundred men succumbed to the heat. A nuniber of them were dangerously ill. Advices of the 2lith say that a foarful heat-wavo was extonding over Great Britain. Children were dying by hundrodo, and scores of sunstrokes uf both men and beasts were reported duily. Memorial services in honor of Oennral Graiit were held in mauy citieo and towm on the 28thu Twenty-üne cases of prostration, i n - cludiug four deaths, were reported in New York on the 2(ith from the oppressive heat. Thk total numberof deaths from cholera in Spain up to the 2(th is placed at 2.",ÜUl. Only fourteeu of the provinces of Spain were free from the Bcourge. Advices of the 2.jth from Panama report that during adisturbauceon a dredse owned by tho American Dredge Compauy the wife and child of the Captain, P. F. Hayes, feil oVerboard and were drowned, Captain Hayes then cominitted suicide. The frigate Tennessee, flying the flag of Rear-Aduiiral Jouett, arrived in Hamptou Koads on tho ÜCth, after a six months' cruise in the gulf. M'illiam H. Ebert was arrfsted on the ÜJth at Roehester, N. Y., for making counterfeit flve-cent pieces. Dispatches of the 26th from poiuts in Texas stated that complications were likely to follow the President' proclamation in regard to cattlemen, as many of the ranges were sub-leased to Texas flrms for grazing, and their cattle must also be removed. Peter Stamps (colored) was lynched at Douglasville, Ga., on the 2öth forcriminally assaulting a girl thirteen years old. The exchauges at twenty-six leading clearing-houses in the United States during the week ended on the 2fth aggregated tTCl,20ö,57, agaiust $813,(i8C,4T6 th previous week. As compared with the corresponding period of 18S4, the falling off amouuts to l,r.4 per cent