Summary Of The Week

A T.AHOK number of bilis were taken from the calendar, chieny pension bilis, and passeU in the Sánate on the 4th. The Coníular and Diplomatic bilí was reponed. Tha biU retirlng General W. W. Averlll and (Jeneraí Alfred Pleasonton, bota with the grade of Major, was passed In the House bilis were introducid to prevent íood adulteratlona; te amend the Interstate law; and to restrlct the lmml(tration of forolgners lnto the United States. Scnatebill makingínauguratlonday alegal holiday was passet). CONSIDERARON of the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriatlon bilí oceupied the 6ession of tho Senate on the 5th ...In tbe House the 'Tanft bilí was íurther debated. A messago was received from the President vetoing the blll for purchasing addltlonal (round for tho public building at Council Uluffs. Ia. In the Senate on the 6th the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriatlon bul and the bilt buthonzing tho purchase ot a site near the Capítol for the use of the United States Supreme Court were passed. The pension biU calendar was then eleared, one hundred and slxteen bilis being passed. The House biU to preTent the emplopment of alien labor on publlc works was considered. The nomination of I.awson V. Moore, of Iowa, to be Consul at Lyons, Krance, was confirmed. ...In the House the Tarilt bill was further discusscd, and ihe Indlan Appropriatlon bill was considered. Thk report of the Commtttee on Forcign Relations on the flsherles treaty was debated in the Senate on the "th. Kontlne business followed, aftcr whloh the Senate adjourned to the llth In the House debate on the Tarilf bill was resumed, consideration of the lumber schedulesof the free list being fintshed. The conference report on the Bay City (Mlch.) public building bill, limlting the cost to 1200,000, was agreed to. THEBr was no session of the Senate on the 8th In the House debate on the Tand bill was resumed, and an amendment to the salt paragraph in the bill to exclude bulk salt from the free list and admit only dalry and table salt was rejected. At the evening sesslon thirtythree private pension bilis were passed. DOMESTIC. At Pekin, 111., Edward Shcpherd in ft quarrel on the 4th with John Jennings bit off the latter's nOMi Both are under niueteen years of ugo. The Missouri Supreme Court on the 4th genteneed Hugh Maxwell, alias Brooks, the murderer of Preller, in St. Louis, to hang July IA All but two of the business houses of Wakenda, Ma, wcre destroyed by fire on the 4th, iiu'luding the newspaper office. A fair to raise funds for the Urant raon ment was inaugurated in New York ou the 4th. Wiili crossing the Elkhorn river in a ílat boat on the 5th at Wisner, Neb., Leua, Anna and ÜUo Matthis, aged sixteen, eleven and flve years respectively, and Knink Marx were drowned. The British bark Balaklava arrived at San Francisco on the 5th from London atter a remarkably long voyage of one year and seventy-four days. Her misfortunes were man.v, and during the trip twelve sailors were washed overboard and drowned. The thirteenth annual convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers began at Pittsburgb, Pa., on the 5th. with two thousand delégales present. Keventken'-ïeii locusts appeared in swarms on the 5th at Clinton, Ia. FOURTEEN HL'NDKEI) balOS OÍ COttOn, owned by Jones, Robertson & Co., of Columbia, S. C, werc burned on the 5th. The Masonic Grand Lodge of lowa opened its forty-flfth annual convention on the 5th at Cedar Rapids. By the explosión of a steam engine on the 6th in 8t. Paul four men were killed and three others were seriousl.v injured. Tammaxy Haix and Tony Pastor's Theater in New York, both in the same building, were entirely destroyed by flre on the Bth. The loss was fully $500,000. Many of the relies treasured for years by Tainmany were consumcd. A saw-mii.i. boiler in Deunison, 111., exploded on the 6th, killing three men. A firb consumed $200,000 worth of property in the extensive lumbor district of Burlington, Vt., on the Hth. It was announced on the 6th thatGovernor Hill would cali an extra session of the New York Legislature to próvido íor thP maintcnan.o r,t ? r-i- Overf1,000,000 was needed. Geoboe C. Hebkimer, a knit-goods manufacturer of Fairchild, Wis., shot his wife and then himself on the 6th. Domestio troubles caused the shooting. John Murphy, son of Francis Murphy, the temperance lecturer, eloped on the öth with Lucy Richardson, the daughter of Lawrence Richardson, a wealthy Louisville (Ky.) manufacturer, and the elopers were married. The second floor of the hotel being constructed by the Land & Rivcr Improvement Company at Superior, Wis., gava way on the 6th, fatally injuring three men. Mus. Davinxey, of Columbia, 8. C, died during a heavy thunder-stonn on the 6th, aftcr being terrified to unionsciousness by the thunder. M. L. Lkhensteix, late gecretary and treasurer of a Building & Loan Association in Wilmington, Del, was on the 6th found to be $33,000 short in his accounts. Black tongue was raging on the 6th among horses in Hancock County, O., and people were badly frightened, as the disease is contagious. Nbari.y the entire business portton of Laingsburg, Mich., was destroyed by flre early on the morning of the 7th. The Mountain House at Manitou Springs, Col., was destroyed by fire on the 7th. Landlord Thornton had placed $1,000 in greenbacks in his desk the day before, and they were burned. At Boston on the 7th Thomas Rowlands, jealous of his wife, shot her, causing instant death, and then killed himself. AuaTiN Fields & Co., Wholesale shoedealers in Philadelphia, failed on the 7th for $250.000. Gold was discovered on the 7th at a depth of sixteen feet on the farm of George Beyl, near Jacksonville, Ind. Examination of the accounts of Colonel W. H. Webster, treasurer of Merrick Oounty, Neb., resulted on the 7th in the discovery of a shortage of $35,000. Dcrino a terrifle thunder-storm in Ver mout on the 7thanumberof buildings wero struek by lightning and destroyed, among the number being the old Town Hall in Westminstr, which was built in 1770. Thomas A. Edison was experimentingin New York on the 7th upon a new electric flying machine which he had been commissioned by the Bpanish Government to make for war purposes. Dlkino a severe shower on the 7th at Keene, N. H., lightninfr struck the farmDouse of Stephen Clemens. destroying the house, barn, eight head of cattle and sevïral horses. Exkter, N. H., celebrated her 250th anniversary on the 7th, and hundreds of the !ormer residents and many distinguished men of the State were present. Dei'Ctt-Shbbiff ALVERDhad aflghtwith the Sonora train robbers on the Tth near Nogales, A. T., while trytnf to arrest ;hem, and killed two of them and mortally wounded the third. For exacting an exorbitant and Ilegal t fee from a widow for whom he procurad a t pension John L. Taylor, a Chicago 8 ney, ws on the 8th held in $1,200 bail for e trial in the United Surtes Court. j Kive mea were ftally burned on the 8th by the overturning of a ladle at the J Bessemer mlll of the Penmylvania steel ï works in Harrisburg. i Betwbin Delhi and Cineinnati on tho night of tho 8th four robbers were j ered on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & ( cago train, on the platform of the expres i cr. When scen they fli-ed pistola, fatally ] injuring Baggage-Master Ketchum, and then jumped from the train. i Bt the bumine of boarding-housO on 1 the 8th at Gadson, Ala., Mr. Torbit, aged seventy-ftve years, lost her life in the llames. ¦ A Finí on the Sth at Wallsville, O., ! stroyed three stores, two Hvery stables ; and sevcral hor.-es. The Atlas paper mili at Apploton, Wis., ¦was burned on the 8th. Loas. I1S0.900. A tornado on the 8th at Kingsbury, N. Y., wrecked several dwellings and barns and killed many cattle. T. Harkis.is üarkktt, manager of the ; banking firni of Kobort Garrett & Sons, of Baltimore, was drowned op the 8th by i the staking of his yaiht, the Gleam, in tho Patapseo river by tho stcamer Joppa. Thkrk wcre 'J07 busines failures in the Cnitcd States duriug the seven days ended on the Sth, asainst 18t tho previous seven days. C. Wei.laner, of Milwaukee, Wis., aged eighty years, while in Wausau on the 8th looking after his real estáte interest died suddenly while out riding. Four stearuships landed 2,721 immigrants in New York on the Sth. There were over flve thousand Oerman and Polish Hebrcws in the barracks at Hamburg avraiting transportation. Bt the falling of a scaffold on the 8th at Omaha, Neb., Owen Park, dealer in slate roofing, and William Jones, workman in the building being constructed, were killed. Owrxo to an ordinance reducing the rental of telephones from $100 to $50 a year, the Bell Company threatened to quit business at St. Louis, and had on the 8th taken out many 'ptiones. Th seasouablo weathcr aud improved erop prospect had on the 8th causcd increased aitivity in general business, and reixjrts dlsclosed a more hopeful tone. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Aftek twenty-iour years of continuou service in that capacity Frederick O. Prince, of 'Massachusetts, on the 4th re signed the secretaryship of the Democratio National Committee and also his membership in the committee. Mrs. Esther Rhoads, of Hartsville, Ind., celebrated her one hundredth birthday on the5th. Uenkkai. Shbridan's condition was materially improved on the 5th. He slept well and his mind was clear. Bei.va Lockwood on the 5th announced her acceptance of the nominal ion for President by the Equal Rights party, and said she would run upon an anti-scandal platform. The Arkansas Democratie State convention completed it laborsat Little Rock on the 5th after a deadlock of flve days by nominating for Governor John P. Eagle. At Ottumwa, Ia., on the 5th General J. B. Weaver was nominated for Congress by the Union Labor party of that district. Mki. Marï Messamkk diedon the 5th at Findlav, O-, aged oue hundred and onO years, five months and flve days. The Democratie National convention was called to order at St. Louis at noon on the 5th by Chairman Barnum, who invited Bishop Granbury to offer prayer, after which temporarj' organiiation was effected by the election of S. M. White, of California, as chairman. The committees were naraed, after which the convention adjourned for the day. At the meeting of the Committee on Resolutions Henry Watterson was elected chairman. Coxonel Oi.iter H. GEKrKEr, aged seventy-three vears, was found dead in his room at Dooner's Hotel in Phüadelphia on the 5th. He was for many years proprietor of the Gibson House at Cincinnati. Upo.v the assembling of the National Democratie convention in 8t. Louis on the 6th Patrick A. Collins, of Boston, was chosen pormanent chaii-tr. -, - a iiverea an addrea wntch the Democratie party and the administration was extolled. After some routine business was disposed of Daniel Dougherty, of New York, stepped on to the platform, and at the conclusión of his speech nominated Grover Cleveland for President. The nomination wa then made by acclamation. An attempt was made to nomínate a VicePresidential candidato, but the mittee on Resolutions not having reported, it was deemed advisable to postpone that duty until the following day. In the evening the Committee on Resolutions arrived at an understanding regarding the tariff plank, and a proposition to indorso and reitérate the plank of 18S4 was adopted by a vote of 20 to 95; and the declaration was also made that the Fresident's recent message is a correct interpretation of that plank. In an additional paragraph the Mills bill is comniendcd, and Congress is urged to pass it at au early day. Major-Generai. W. W. Stoughton, who seryed Michigan two terms as AttorneyGeneral and reprasented his district in the Forty-first and Porty second Congresses, died at Sturgis on the Öth. Major H. B. Whipplk, the well-known evmngeli9t, died at Cumberland, R I., on the 6th. Thomas P. McElbath, the first publisher oí the New York Tribune, died in that city on the Öth of oíd age. Füller return of the 6th from the recent Oregon election increase the Republk'un majority on the State ticket to 7,000 and gave that party 79 mombers on joint ballot in the Legislatura to the Democrats 20. Uknkkai. Bheeidas had on the 6th what the phvsieians called a good day, and upjto a late hour in the evening no unfavorable symptoms had developed. At Hillsboro, 111, on the 6th Colonel Ben E. Johnson, proprietor of the Montgomery .Vii, died at his reiidence, aged sixty flve yenrs. The Democratie National convention at St. IOuis adjourned flnally on the afternoon of the Tth after haviug adopted a tariffreduction platform and nominated Allen O. Thurman, of Ohio, as candidate for Vice-President. The names of Oray and Black were withdrawn befare the flrst ballot was completed, and with great enthusiasm the nomination of Thurman was made unanimous. The Republlcans of the Eleventh Illinois district on the Tth renominated William H. Gest, of Rock Island, for Congress. TnE Indiana Republican State convention for the nomination of a State ticket will be held in Indianapolis August 8. Ay alarming turn in the condition of General Sheridau occurred on the 7tb. The heart failure of the aftornoon was followed in the evening by severe congestión of tb. luags. The Republicans of the Twenty-slxth Pennsylvania district on the Stli nominated W. C. Culbertson for Conirress. Rev. Jame Fkbemax Clakke, a M nitarian elergyman, diod on the 8th in his residence t Jamaica Plain. a suburb of Boston, aftr a illuess of ev j eral days. He was bom to Hanover, N. H-, April 4 1S10, graduated from Harvard _, Uuiversity i 1833, and in 1840 hestartedin Bosta the Church of the Disciples, to which he ministered up to the time of his death. , F.zra H. Baker, aged flfty five years, president of the American Trust & Loan . Company and director of the Union Pacinc railroad, died at Boston on the 8th of Wood poisoniutf. Acookdino to the bulletins General ] idan was a trifle better on the evening of the 8th. 1 Further returns of the 8th from the recent election in Oregon showed that the ; next Legislature, which will elect a United States Senator, will stand: Republicana, TO; Democrats, 30. POREICN. Th American chool-ship St. Mary's arrived at Southampton, Eng., on the 4th. , Tiikke wa9 a heavy snow-storm on tha 4th in the district of Ben Lomand, Scotland, the weather being very severe. Eiobtebn persons were killed and fortyone wounded in a railroad accident on tiko Sth in Mexico near Tampico. A cow and a donkey on tho track derailed a train and caused the horror. In Dublin on the 5th three private of the Tipperary militia were genteneed to imprisonment for a week and dismied from the service. Their offense was cheering and flring a salute in honor of William O'Brien. Ta Hanover (Eng.) cotton-mills, containing flfteen thousand spindles, wer burnod on the 5th, and three hundred persons were thrown out of work. A ike on the 5th at Huil, Ont., destroyed over three hundred dwelling, rendering twenty-five hundred persons homeless. The loss was estimated at $500,000. Havana advices of the 6th say that the troops in pursuit of bandits twice overtook the fugitivos in the province of Sant Clara and killed sii of them. The schooner Blanche, of Colberne, Ont., was reported as lost on the 6th with her crew of nve men. A winti-storm on the 6th destroyed much valuable timber intheviciuity of Montreal, Can., and many houses were blown down. At Compton the house of O. Perrault was demolished and Perrault's wife and flva young children were instantly killed. Several other disasters wera reported from various points. Advices of the "th from Kingston, Ont., ¦ay that the barge Annie had gone down on the lake during a storm, with the captain and four hands, all of whom belonged to that city. Destrlctive forest fires were raging on the Tth on the south shore of Conception Bay, N. F. At Colliers nine houses had been burned, at Harbor Grace Junction seven, and at Seal Cove seven. At Littla Bay twenty-six families had been burned out, with one woman and two children burned to death. Dubiko a severe storm on the 7th a briclc school-house in Osgood township, Ont, was blown down and twenty children wera buried in the ruins. Some of them were fatally injured, and none escaped painful wounds. Tngltalian Cliamber of Deputie on tho 8tb agreed to abolish capital punishment. Os the 8th two prospectors In the Cascada range of mountains in British Columbia found a lump of almost puro gold weighins forty-two pounds. DisrATCHE of the Sth say that by a railroad train jumping the track at Peoresnoda, Nicaragua, five persons were killed and five injured. Advices of the Sth say that a recent thunder-storm in the province of Quebeo caused a loss of 1 100.000. William Little, a Montreal lumber merihant, failed on the 8th for 300.000l A fire on the 8th destroyed the Montreal (Can.) streetoar Btables, and one hundred and thirty-four horses were cremated. Total loss,' $100,000. A cyclone on the 8th at Grenada, Nicaragua, destroyed eigliteeu houses and killed five persons. LATER NEWS. Fon the veök onned on the 9th th record of the baso-ball clubs in the National League was as follows: Chicago (game won), 28; Detroit, 24; New York, 22; Boston, 83; Philadelphia, 17; Pittsburgh, H; Indianapoll, 13; Washington, 8. Tha American Association clubs stood: Brooklyn (games won), 33; St. Louis, 28; Cincinnati, SÍ4; Philadelphia, 21; Baltimore, 19; Cleveland, 16; Kansas City, 11; Louisville, 11. In the Western Association tha following was the order: Des Moines (games won), 17; Omaha, 15; Kansas City, 15; Milwaukop, ló; St. Paul, H; St. Louis, 14; Chicago, 10; Minneapolis, 12. Inoissast rains at Grand Forks, D. T., had on the lOth destroyed mach property. Tmrf.k laborers, Daniel Lyon, Thomas Purcelland Fred Moeck, were killed on tha 'Jth bythe caving in of a bank at Omaha, Neb. Neaki.t nve thousund immigrants arrived in New York on the 9th, about onehalf the nuinber coming f rom Ireland. Sevekal largo factories and a number of dwelling bouses at Cincinnati were destroyed by flre on the 9th. Los, 300,000. A fikroe wind aud rain-storin passed over Fort Yates, D. T., on the öth, and many houses were blown down or unroofed. Shellking. an Indian chtef, his son and several settlers were killed. The last brewery in Sioux City, Ia., was closed on the 9th under the Prohibitory State la w. A tknement houso at Lowc-11, Mass., was burned on the lOth, and three of the inmates, Eugenia Vallcrand, Peter Vallerand and Delia Vallerand, perished in the fiamos. Another of thefamily and another occupant named Boisvert were fatally hurt. The whole business portion of Chesley, Ont., was wiped out by flames on the 9th. Kbporth of the lOth from thirteen places in Michigan stated that a heavy rain-storm had done preat damage. All the country from the Wisconsin line to the upper range and the whole width of the península uffered. Houses were undermined and swept iiwa.v, culverts and bridges were destroyed, and miles of feaces and sidewalks ¦were ruinad Stephen Gi.eason, the oldest resident f Fall Hiver, Mass., died on the lOth, agod one hundred and three years. The town of Nurway, Mich., was almost destroyed by fire on the 9th. Thirty buildings were burned, including the main business section. Many families were h"ueless. Loss, 1300,000. . CniNCH-BUös were ravaging the crops in Missouri on the 9th. The Commercial Hotel and several business houses in Trinidad, Col., were buruuU on the 9th. General Siikridan still continued to improve on the lOth. Thkhk was no session of the United States Senate on the 9th. In the House bilis were passed authorizing the erection of a public building at Jackson, Mich., at a cost of t50,OOQ, and one at Otlumwa, Ia., to coatf4O,000. The tariff disuussion was also resumed.