News Of The Week

The Frankfort blaat furnncc has been pur ohaacd by the Detroit stove works, and wil b started up at once and run to its f uil capacity. The houae and barn of James Merrick, ncar Goodrichville, were burned Wednesday. Twi horaes were burned. Loss, $1,400; insured. Aa Mra. Wm. Peaeock, living near Charles worth, was riding with a man named Kipper man on a load of shingleB to viait her parents a bunch feil off, which frighened the teRm They, running away, threw the woman and her child under tb e wheel8, which crushed the childs head, killing it instantly, and broke the woman's neck. She lived about an hour. While the Forepaugh exhibition was going off at Hastings, Thuraday , one of the Davenport brothers, in making a somersault over seTen elephants, struck on the ground, breaking his leg. John 8. Burton, formerly of Ravenna, Muakegon connty, his son and aon-in-law were all killed by the Indiana somewhere in Colorado recently, A. B. Mackey, of Elmwood, one of the old scttlera in the GrandTraverse región, waa accidentally killed byá tree falling on him on he 2-lth. The 35th annual commencement of the Cniversity of Michigan took place Thursday. Oegrees were conferred upoD 171 graduaten, and the annual addresa was delivered by President Angelí. The following honorary degrees were alao conferred: The degree of Doctor of Laws upou liev. Lewis lt Fiske, ü. D., President of Albion College, a gradúate cf the literary department of the University of the claaa of 1850; alao upon Marshal D. Ewell, of the law claaa of 1868, a professor of the Union Law School of Chicago. Levi S. Bishop, a switchman on the Chicago and Lake Michigan Railroad, caught his foot in the frog of the track at Muskegon Friday morning and was run over and mangled beyond recognition. He was 27 yeara old and had friends at Viotor, N. Y. Geo. H. Pratt, of Lansing, has received the appointment of railroad postal clerk to run from Detroit to Chicago. Mr. Pratt is a son of Deputy Auditor-General Pratt. Lightning struck two large barna belonging to McMaster Brant in Copcr, Thursday night. The barns had been newly filled with ncw hay. Scarcely anythmg eould be saved from the interior. Loas, $1,900 to $1,200. ' The St. Johns Manufactu ring Company emply 125 men and tnrn out $700,000 worth of Work aanually. Mrs. Stephens, wife of the inurdercr and Buicide at Hunter's Creek, Lapeer county, died from her wounds Friday night, just two weeks from the time of the shooting. House, the cause of this aad tragedy , ia aaid to be iñ a precarious condition from his wounds at the residence of hia brother in Oxford. John Morris of Charlotte, at one time agent at the State Prison, has been appointed deputy United States marshal at Sherman, Tex. Chris Mertz and a buteher named Schneider, of Port Huron, have been arrested for atealing and turning into a beef a choice blooded heifer óf Avery & Murphy, yalncd at $1,800. William J. Marsh all, aged about 28, a commercial traveler for Atterbury & Co. of Philadelphia, was found dead in his room at Sweet's hotel, Grand Kapids, Monday, having shot himself with a pistol. H left s letter to his father, John P. Marshall, of Bradford, N. H., announcing his intention to kill himself, aa he had found it impossible to reatrain his execssive appetite for liquor. J. H. Coswell, Supervisor of Greenwood, in Oceana county, got up Sunday morning, built a fire got out a lot of valuable papers and aome packages of money supposed to contain aome $4,000, and put the whole info the fire. Next he got a razor, and propoaed to his wife, a f eeble woman, that she allow him to cut her throat, and then they would die togethe.r. She eseaped outside, when he threw out her pocketbook, telling her that was her wheat money. Then he set fire to;the clothing and innammable property in the house, and when it got well going plunged iuside and was con8umed. Thomas Smally, civil engineer, workmg on Laboeuf's railroad, at Evart, was accidentally knocked off and run over by an empty logging car Sunday night, and died soon af ter from hia injuries. Muskegon was hia home. Monday af ternoon a fire broke out in Oliver, Belknap & Green's planine mili at Greenville, and the whole establishment was soon a mass of flames. The fire communicated by seasoned lumber piles near, and some freight cars on the track were also burned. Losfes : Oliver, Belknap & Co., $12,000 ; D. C. Moore, $1,500. Uther losses not yet estimated. The State Treasurer's report of the receipts and disbursements for the month of May are as followa: Balance May 31 $593,232 98 lteceipts for the month of June... 151,385 92 Disbursements for the same period 116,134 17 On hand June 30 $628,481 73 The second annual State convention of the reform clubs of Michigan will be held at Lansing, August 6 and 7. The second annual meeting of the Northwestern Michigan Press Aesociation will commence at Big Hapids July 14. The Charlotte manufacturing company's stave factory was burned on the lat. Loss 8,500; insured 2,000. Miss Helen B. Smalley, of Bay City, carricd Off the' first prize, a splendid gold medal and two cla3a prizes, for the greateat proficiency in the Acaderay of Fine Arts at Philadelphia thia vear. The Chicago and West Michigan Raihoad Company, formerly the Chicago and Lake Shore, paid ita tax into the State Treasury Monday, for 1878, amounting to $10,760 44. The Chicago and Northwestern alao paid for the same purposc f15,824 23, the Grand Bapïds and Indiana p id $3,380 27 on account, and Vanderbilt paid tax on Kalamazoo and South Haven, Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw and Michigan Air Line roads in the Bum of $18,043 56. The total tax received Monday, $48,009 00. On the 2?th Uoscoe Fisher, whíle driving a mowing machine near VickBburg, Kalamazoo county, during a thunder-Btorm, was knocked senseless by lightning and botL horses killed lt is expected that Mr. Fisher will recover. M2SCELLANEOUS. The Marine and Empire elevators at Buffalo burned Wednesday morning. The former has not been used since 1863, the latter not since 1866. The Marine waB inaured for $15.000,the Empire for $14,000. Loss, $75,000. The Alantic expresa on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, met with a seriuus accident when near Hamburg, about hve miles from Buffalo on WedneBday. A special coach of the Cleveland, Crestline, Chicago and Indianapolis Kailroad Company, attached to the train at Dayton, Ohio, containing a funeral party 11 persons bound for Medina, N. Y., where the body of the wife of Col. E. F. Brown of the soldiers' Home at Dayton was to be interred, was thrown from the track and partly turned over, the intense heat having, it ia believed, spread the rails. All of the occnpants of the car were injured, some of them it was fcared, fatally. lïcports coming in from central and western iowa and eastern Nebraska show great damage done by Tuesday night'a atorm to bridges, frame buildings and grain. The only loss of life reported is that of the wife and two dangbters of B. McMasters, near Stuart, Ia, They were drowned by the overflow of Deer Creek. K. 8. Taylor and Uobert Taylor, brothers, and B. O. Wrcn, all farmers between whom an nM fcud existed, met at Wellville, Lafayette county, Mo„ Wednesday and renewed the quarrel. The Taylors fired four baila into Wren's body, mortally wounded him, and Wren killed É.S. Taylor instantly, and fattaly wovnded Bob. During a heavy thunder-Btorm Thursday, at Titusville, Pa., a man named Wm Hogan was struck by lightening and instantly killed. A fire at Glendale, Montana, on the 25th, deatroyed the smelter, qnartz mili, office, etc., of the Hecla Mining Company, the most extensive worka of the kind in the vicinity. Loss eatimated at $100,000. The explosión of a boiler at Welt's extensivo planing mili, in Philadelphia, Friday, cauaed great consternación. The engiue house and a portion of the mili were blown in all directiona, flying bricks and iron doing much damage. Several dwelling houBes in the vicinity are wrecked. The dead body of the engineer has been taken from the ruina. The boiler by.the f orce of the explosión was driven into the second story of a dwelling oecupied by a family named Long. Claud Long, 8 years old, waa killed, his sister Stella, 11 years old, badly hurt. Their mother was buried in the ruina. Mrs. McAvry was found alive but died soon after. In the evening the dead body cf Eva Long was found sittintr with a fork in one hand and a broken cup haudle ín the other. Stella Long haBBÜice died from her injuries. Two harvesterH were met by two tramps, near Alton Jnnotion, 111. Friday morning, who attempted to rob them. KcaiBtance was made, when one of the harvesters was shot and killed and both robbed. The tramps ried and were pursued by a posse of citizena. John W. Dent, law student, was killed near Cohoea, N. Y., Saturday noon, and two companions injured by lightning. The pleasure steamer May Qucen, on Lake Minnetonka, a summer resort near Minneapolis, exploded while landing at the wharf on the upper lake Satnrday afternoon. The boa( is a complete wreek, and sunk in tive feet ol water. Fif teen peoplo were aboard the boa! at the time of the accident, Of whom three were fatally and others seriously injured. A horrible accident occurred on the Missouri river tive miles bclow Nebraska City Friday afternoon. The boller of the goveinment tug boat Olytie cxploded, killing James Lane of East Ne' raska City, and Herman Bohl, fireman. Engineer Isaac and William McKinney of St. Louis were fatally injured. H. Pinney, captain of the tug, and Matt Pylc were horribly scalded. The reccipts for the internal revenue of the last fiscal year are 6110,033,983; for the fiscal year which expired Monday, over $113,036,000; an incrense of over Si3,000,000, despite the reduction of tlie tax on tobáceo. The exceaa of exporta over imports of meichandise for the 12 montha ended May 31, 1879, is $269,709,876; for the 12 months ended May 31, 1878, $241, 85 ',9G0. The excess of exports over imports of gold and silver coin and bullion was for the 12 months ended May 31, 1879, f5,284,615; for the 12 months ended May 31, 1878, $7,243,907, A storm from the southweat passed over the central part of Baltimore Saturday afternoon, continuiug abont half an honr. In the track of the storm the streets were deluged, and in the vicity of the custom-house and Maryland lnstitue between 40 and 50 buildings were unroofed. The president haa announced his purpose not to cali another extra session of Congresa. Monday night the mountain tops overlooking the Washoe silver región and the Carson Valley, Nevada, were ablaze with bonfires and the echoea of cannon and discharges of giant powder were heard in every direction. The event which wan being celebrated was the final completion of the Sutro tunnel for the reception of the water trom the Comstock mines, af ter 10 years' ceaseless labor, day and night, and the expendituro of $6,000,000. Chastine Gox was arraigned in New York, Monday, in the General Sessions, for the murder of Mrs. Jane Dei'orest Huil, and, through counsel, pleaded "not guilty." Tho case vas Bet down for trial July llth. The great powder magazine at Mowbry's nítro-glycerine works, North Adama, Mass., exploded Monday. Jack Pierce and Wm. Lang, workmen, were blown to atoms, and the adjoining buildings shattcredDuring the aession of Congress just terminated 727 bilis and "16 joint resolutions wcro introduced in the Senate, and 2,395 bilis and 119 joint resolutions in the House. The National debt statement issued Monday shows : lncrease of debt f or June f 24,788 Cash in treasury 853,152,577 Gold certifícate 15,413,700 Silver certiiicates 2,466,950 Certificatcs of deposit outatanding 30.370,0:;0 lief unding oertificates 12,848,210 Legal tenders outstaading 846,681,010 Fractional currency outstanding. ... 15,842,605 United States notes held for redemptlon of f raetional currency 8,375,94'! Called bonds not matured, for which 4 per cent bonds have been issued. 104,072, 410 A firc in Neil's stock yards atColumhus, O., Tucsday morning, burned three large stables and about one hundred tons of hay. Loss, about $7(',000. Detroit in Brief. A young man named Michael Stackpole, while at work on the new building of W. K. Coyl, corner of Miami avenue and Williajia street, met with a terrible accident, sustaining injuries of a fatal nature. He feil a distance of 40 feet, striking his head and sh uil ders on the stone flagging. A young man named William Bellitt died at Harper Hospital Thursday from the effects of a (lose of morphine administered by himself He was a former resident of Defiance, Ohio, and a cigar maker by occupation. James lí. Evans, a saleaman 40 years of age, went to sleep on the roof of his boarding lousc on Grand Iïiver Avenue Friday night and, in his sleep, rolled off and feil on the ;round, receiving injuries which resultcd in lis death a few hours afterward. A bilí to f oreclose a mortgage upon the Flint and Pere Marquctte ltailway was filed in ;he United States Circuit Court, in Detroit, Friday. The Flint and Pere marquette, which was formerly one of the most prosperus roads in the state, was so crippled by the mnic that siiice 1878 it earninga have not een snffleient to pay the interest on the bonds. Dr. H. C. Potter, of East Saginaw, was appointed receivcr, and takes posession at once. The fonrth annual regatta of the Detroit tiver Navy took place Satnrday, but was not argely attended on account of the rain. The tfichigana won the four-oared and the Detroita he barge race. The Board of Estimates met Monday evening and approved of tho propoBed purchase of Belle Islc, also of the issue of $50,000 books to build a central market. During the month ending June 30 there were 124 prisonera confined in the county ail. The Superior Court will run out of business bout the middle of July and will then shut otra until September. Dominioii Day was celebrated in Windsor on 'uesday with the usual decorations and street arades. CONGRESS. June 25.- The Sonate took up the concurent resolution submitted yesterday by Mr. 5eck (Dem., Ky.) providing for a joint committee of five Senators and seven Hepresentaivcs, to report next December, what change, f any, Rhould be made ín the mode of guardng and collecting therevenue, and as to whether any change shonld be made in the nethod of appropriating money, whether by he annual or a permanent appropriation. Mr. Beek agreed to its reference to the finance committee, to be reported upon in a ew days, and it waa so referred. M. Burnside (Hep., H. I.) introduced a joint esolution : That the people of the United tatCR would not view without aerioua inquitude any attempt by the powera of Europe ;o establiah undcr their protection and domination a ship canal across the Isthmu8 of Daien and such action could not be regarded in any other light than as a manifestation of an tnfriendly disposition towards the United itates. iii?errel to the committee on foreign afairn. In the House Mr. Upnon (Dem., Tex.) offered resolution calling on the öecretary of War or informatiou as to the number of massacres which have been committed by Mexicana and ndfcms in Teiaa since the lst of January, ana lso as to the number and claas of troopa un.er the command of Brig. Gen. ürd. Adopted. The Senate bill exempting from license and )ther fces vessels not propelled wholly by bail or by internal motive power of their own was aken up. Mr. Acklen (Dcm., La.) moved to recommit ;he bill, pending which, on motion of Mr. 'ox (Dem., N. Y.) the House adjourned and oint Democratie caucus was annoucced to ;ake place at 3 'clock. June 26.- In the Sonate Mr. Beek (Dem., Cy.), from the cemmittee of usance, reported avorably on the joint resolution providing or a committee to investígate the best means of guarding and collecting the public revenue, and as to whether any change is neceaaary in ;he method of making appropriations. The reaolution was passed. It providea that the Oommittec ahall consist of three members of each Kouae insteadfof fivé Senators and seven iepresentatives. On motion of Mr. Jonas (Dem.. La.) the Jouse joint resolution to dónate certain grante blocks to Mowcr Post, Grand Army of the Uepublic, at New Orleans, for a monument to deccased Union soldiers, waa taken up and passed. The presiding omcer, Mr. Hollina, laid before the Senate the judicial, appropriation bill paased by the House to-day, and it was read ;he first time. After some discussion, the bill was read a second time and referred to the committee on appropriations. In the House a bill making appropriations for certain judicial expenses, and a bill making appropriations to pay the fees of marshals and their general deputies, were reported from the committee on appropriationB, and ordered printed and referred. The Hous went inio committee of the whole, Mr. Blackburn (Dem., Ky) in the chair, on the bill making appropriationa for certain judicialexpenRea, all general debate thereon being limited to one minute. There was, however, no general debate, and the bill wasimmediately read by aections for amendments. Mr. Weaver (Nat., Ia.) submitted an amendment providing that a commissioner for making up liata of jurors shall be appointed from the priucipal political party in the district in which the oourt ia held opposed to that in which the clerk of the eourt may belong. Adopted. Afternoon debate the committee rose and reported the bill to the House, and it waa passed, yeas 99, nays 67. All the Grecnbackers preaent with the exception of Mr. Forsythe (111.) voted in the affirmative. June 27. - In the Senate Mr. Eaton (Den., Conn.) reported from the committee on appropreiations, without amendments, the judical expenses appropriation bill passed yesterday by the House. He said there would be no attempt by the majority to shorten debate. A night Bession would not be forced, The bill was read the third time and passed ycas 29, nays 16 The House bill making appropriations to pay United States marshals and their general deputies waa read twice and referred to t he committee on appropriationa, The resolution heretofore submitted providing for a joint committee composed of three menbern each of the House and Senate coinmitt ees on minea and mining, to act in aid of the commission appointed under the sundry civil act of 1876 to codify the laws rolatirg to the survey and disposition of public land, etc, was adopted. The Houne went into committeE of the whole on the bill appropriating $600,000 to pay feea of United States marshals and their general deputies. General debate on the bill was limitad to one huur. The debate was opened by Slr. Gartield (liep., O.) in conclusión he predioted that the bill which had been before wreeked in another huik, was about ttiMing out on a short, disastrous and jgnoble voyage. Mr. Hunl (Dem., O.), responding to Mr. Garfield, recapitulated the princip al points for which the Democratie party haa been contending, and, in conclusión, appealed conndently to the patriotism of the country. After further debate the comraittee rose and reported the bill to the House, and it was passed. yeas 88, najs 69. Thongh sevcral Greenback members were present only one (Stevenson) voted, casting his vote in the, afnrmatire. June 28.- ín the Senate Mr. Beek (Dcm., Ky.), from the committee on appropriations, reported without amendment the bill making appropriations to pay f ees for United Sta! es marshals, and their general deputies. After debate Mr Allison (liep., Ia.) moved to strike out the clausc making it a penal uffense to viólate any provisions of the bill, or of v:irioua sections of the ltevised StatuteR. He objected on principie to attaching such clauses to bilis of this character. Itejected: yeas 14, nays 27. The bill was read a tbird time and passed, y ons 25, nays 15. The House resumed cousideration of the Senate bill exempting from license and enrollment fees vessels not propelled by sail or internal motive power of their own. Mr. Kenna (Dem., W. Va.) submitted an amendment providing that nothing in the act or in the existing law should be construed to require the enrolling or Hcensing of any fiat boat, barge or like craft not propelled by sail or internal motive power of its own. Adopted. The bill then pasaed. June 30. - In the Senate consideration was resumcd of Vest's monetization of silvcr resolution. The pending question waa on the motion of Mr. Allison (ltep., Ia.,) to refer the rcsolution to the finance committee. The motion was agreed to, yeaa 23, nays 22. Mr. liatón (Dem., Conn.), from the committee on appropriations, reported favorably the House joint resolution to adjurn sine die at 2 P, M., to-day. Mr. Windom objected to the present consideration of Mr. EntoiiV icmflutitm, and the resolution goes over until to-morrow. Blr. Chandlcr (Hep., Mich.) made a short and emphatic political apeech, arraigning the Democratie party on 12 counts. The Senate went into executive session, and when the doors were opened the President's message, calling attention to the failure of Congress to appropriate money for the necesitics of the government, was read, and referred to the committe on appropriations. Mr. Windom introduced the marshals' appropriation bill vetoed to-day, minus the political clauses. The bill waa read twice, and the question being on its third reading, Mr. Eaton moved to amead by addme the "political clauses" of the vetoed marshals' appropriation bill, making the bill exactly the same aa the one vetoed to-day. After some debate the bill waa indelinitely postponed, yeas 27, nays 17. In the House a message was receiyed from the President announcing his approval of the judicial expenses bill, also a veto message of the "marshals" bill. The Houae refused to pass the bill over the veto, the vote standing yeas 83, nays 93, not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. A message was read from the President calling attention to the immediate necessity of making some adequate provisions for the due execution by marshals and deputy marshals of the important duties entrusted to them. The message was referrcd to the committee on appropriatioras. July 1. - In the Senate Mr. Eaton (Dem., Conn.) called up the adjournment reaolution and moved to amend by fixing 5 p. M. to-day as the tiaie. The resolution passed as amended, yeas 27, nays 16, a party vote, the Demócrata voting yea and the Repnblicans nay. Mr. Ailison (Kep., Ia.), from the committee on appropriations, reported, with amendments, the House joint resolution in regard to the pay of committee clerks, pages and other employés of the Senate and House, and similar purposes. Among the committee's amendments is a provisión for additional pay to female treasury clerks discharged under the reduction of the force in the treasury dèpartment. Passed. The committee to wait on the President reported that he had no further communication to send. In the House a resolution was agreed to payiDg the employés of the House on the roll one month's extra pay, A mesaage was reeeived from the Senate stating that it had agreed to the House resolution for ünal adjournment, with an amendment flxing the time at 5 P. M. to-day. Mr. Morris(Dem„ 111.) moved to concur in the amendment, and a vote took place on the motion. The resolution was concurred in, 93 to 68. Mr. Atkins (Dem., Tenn.) one of the committee appointed to wait upon the President, announced that the President had no further communieation to make. Five o'clock having arrived, the Speaker declared the first session of the Forty-sixth Congress adjourned sinedie. POLITICAL. The resolutions introduced last week into the New Hampshire Legislature, sustaining President Hayes in his vetoes, passed by a party vote. The Kepublican State Convention of Maine met at Bangor on Thursday. F. A. Pike was chosen chairman and the usnal committees appointed. After reeess the balloting for governor began. While the tellers were counting the vote the convention was addressed by Senator Blaine. The Hon. D. F. Davis was nominated for Governor, and af ter adopting a platform the convention adjourned. TheOhio Democratie State Committee has dejided to formally open the campaign early in August with speeches by Pendleton, Thurman, Ewing, Steedman and others. The State Democratie convention of Maine, met at Bangor, on Tuesday, and Gov. Garcelon was renominated by acclamation . Kesolutions were adopted denouncing President Hayes and the minority in Congreaa for their course on the deputy marshals' bill, approving ttje course of the Democratie majority on ;old and silver and paper, the paper to be ept at par with coin at all times, and in favor of the free, unlimited coinuge of silver, The Democratie State Conv ntion of California met at San Francisco on Tuesday, organized and took a reeess till evening. PERSONAL. Prof. Wm. H. Payne, M. A., for the past 10 years superintendent of public Bchools at Adrián, has been appointed professor of the science and art of teaching in the University at a salary of $2,200, this being a new chair established by resolution at thia session of the Board of Regenta. Dr. John Kost of Adrián college has been chosen President of the Kansas Ágricultural College. The body of the Prince Imperial will arrive m England about the 28th of July. G. Swain Buckley, the well-known minstrel, died Wednesday. Gen. A. A. Humphreys, chief of engineers, has requested to be placed on the retired list. His request will bc grauted. Albert Weber, the piano manufacturer, who died on Wednesday, leaves an estáte valued at from $500,000 to 750,000. Hon. Wm. Axfoni, of Clarl stown, died on Monday. A son of the late Gen. Gidcon J. Pillow is writing his father' s biography. Charles Northend of New Britain, Conn., is writing a biography of Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith. Gen. Grant is enroute from Tientsin to Pekin. The latest advices indícate considerable change in his future movements. It is now believed probably that he may return to China after visiting Japan ana proceed to Australia. The body of Madam Rolland, drowned at Niágara Falla while visiting there with her husband, while on a bridal tour, has been found. President McElroy, of Adrián College, has resigned. Gen. Sherman and party left Sault Ste. Marie Friday on the Canada boat Noithern Belle for Collingwood. Prof. A. Winchell has been appointed to his oíd position as Professor of Geology in the University. A Newport dispatch saya : Bancrof t, the historian, was injured Sunday by being thrown from his horse. The decree of LL, D. has been conferred on Prof. Adams, of Ann Arbor, by the Chicago University. FOREIGN. A dispatch f rom Cairo on Wednesday says: The Britis h. French and (lerman consuls general procecded after midnight to the palace and declared to the Khcdive his desposition by the Sultan, and that the dispatch of Hulim Pasha to Egypt to suc.ceed him was imminent unless he immediately abdicated. The Sultan has signed a firman deposing the Khedive of Egypt, in favor of his son Prince M')hamed Tewtik. The Khedivo has signified Lis compliance with the demand for abdieation. It is a sign of ill-luel to lay one's knife and fork crosswise; for sweethearts to intercliange knives, as it will cut away their love; to present anybody with a knife, scissors, razor or any Sharp instrument. To avoid ill conseojience, a pin, a i'arlhing, or some trilling recompense, must be given in return.