News Of The Week

MICHIGAN. bain of Kubert P. Atkin, a prominenl r in the township of Flint, was destroyec hy ñre uesday night together with its conteutb' 0 bushels of wheat, valuable ma'hinery and farm produce, amounting to $1;H00. The fire was set by Bradford Beed, hls bind man, with wliom he had quorreled. Geo. Bickel, a f ormer resident of East Saginaw, killed himself by cutting his throat at JJallas, Oregon, Jnne 16. The International hotel property at Kalainittoo has jnst been sold for $15,000. Ten years ago it cost f40,000. They have two sets of supervisors in Gladwin county, and town and county orders of duubtful vahdity are multiplying. The office of the Gladwin Kecord at Cedar was entered on the night of the lst, certain manuscripts relatedto the troubles carried off, and the type pied in which they had been set up. ■ - At the annual meeting of the stockholders ol the Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Bailroad, held at Kast Saginaw, Wedmesday, the formal transfer of the management of the road to the Det-.oit, Lansing & Northern was made, and' í new Board of Directora elected. The aggregate number of new life insurance policies issued in this State daring the year ending December 31, was 2,624, presenting insurance to the araount of $4,25}'.79$, The sum received by the companies aBridroinal' premiums during the year was $993,217.38 The amount of losses and claims actually paid t') Michigan policy-holders during 1878 was 4472,847.37. Robert Hall, a well known music teacher was found dead in his room at East Saginaw J'huraday afternoon. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition. ïhe cause of death is snpposed to have been an overdose of inorphine. ! Bradford Reed, detected in the-art of firing Aitkin's farm buildings, near Flint, wás captured and committed to jait Thursday afternoon. William M. Davis, foreman of Hileman, Hesser & Co.'s lumber niill at Trufant, Mont.xiiu t . . i , , , i v , min his head gashed by a gang cdger Thursday afternoon. His death was instantaneous. Hr leatfs a wife and two small children. Martha Hoeksema, 19 years old, was struck by lightning and instantly killed Thursday near Holland. The eounty seat of Schoolcraft county has been moved froin Onota, on the Lake Superion side. to Monistique, on the Lake Michigan sitio. Alpena has nnally decided to build a court house, and at the late meeting of the board of supervisors t was decided to tax the county $15,000, two-thirds to be raised this year and nne-third next year. Gov. Croswell doesn"t accept Hon. Geo. Hannah's resignation of his trusteeship of the Pontiac asylum unconditionally, but will transfer his relations to the Kalamazoo asylum, which will be near his home (South Haven,) and change Dr. J. A. Brown of Detroit from his trusteeshiu to Pontiac. lonia Standard : The other day an Irishman ïiamed Mcüuire remained in his cell at the House of Correction when asked to come out. Assistant Deputy Warden H. A. Wing undertook to get hini out, and.assisted by one of the keepers, opened the cell door and forcibly took hold of McGuire. They threw him down aftcr a savage struggle, and while Wing stood at his head attempting to put on a pair of handcuffs the luadiloaed convict threw his head around and caught Wing's left leg with his teeth, tearing the flesh and making a bad wound. Mcüuire was theto secured, and was properly punished. Mr. Wing is nowsuffering from his njury, which is considerably innamed, and it will be weeks and perhaps months before he will regain the nse of his leg. It is not considered improbable that amputation may be necBflMFT. J udge Kamsdell, of Mamstee, was seriously injured by the kick of a BgW on Wednesday. The lamber and shjjggÏÏgi milis of James Hartman at Btanton were aestïoyêd by-fire on the 8th. Heddon, the bee-keipïtrfr-Dowagiac, now has 420 colonies of bees, mostly of the Italian vanety: and they are making plenty of honey from the basswood in the vicinity. Mr. Lorenzo Chubb, an qld resident of Lisbon, Ottawa county was streek by lightning and killed at Blackberry, Ridge, Oceana county, where he has a f ruit' farm, on the 9th. -M iss Florence Elsworth of Stanton, Montcalm county, aged 16, was found dead in her bed on the 8th, a case of suicide by morphine. Jmpending dixgrace is said to have been the nause. Congressman Burr&ws has appointed July 20, at 2 P. m. as the time and the office of R. F. JndftOn. in KülamiiToo, a tliQ pla.00 Lot tliC cxamination of candidates for the appointment of cadet. Th) committee will consist of Hon. H. G. Wells, Col. Robert Burns and Maj. B. F. Judson. Homer Crossman, forrnerly of Tecumseh, where his parents settled, committed suicide at Piano, 111., a few days since, by throwing liimself under a railroad train. As he has been reeently married, and was pleasantly situated, there can be no reaatfn assigned for the act except that of tempofSry insanity, The loss by Thursday night's storm in Port Unron is placed at $25,000. The destruction of the new M. E. churh overshadows all other disasters. The building was one of the handsomest in the city, and presenta a sad picture of shattered timbers and Windows, and fallen lirick, stone and mortar. The front is better preBerved than anv other part of the building, but most of this, with the exceptien of the main tower, will have to come down. In Capac the new M E church was blown down, the spire and belfry of the Union church was blown off, about half of the town hall is on the ground, and part of tbe livery stable is unnxifedi Mr. Allen's hotel barn and also M r. Caswell's are minus roof s. Half of the shade, ornamental and fruit trees are destroyed, The brick walls of the school house ire blown down. The Houghton Gazette gives the following as the product of the six principal copper mines for the six months ending June 30: Tons. Pounds. Calumet and Hecla 7,687 875 Osceola 926 965 Franklin .-. 810 905 Atlantic 793 1010 Quincy 760 1705 Allouez ;... 559 465 Total 11,537 1415 A fire at East Sagiuaw Sunday night deutroyed the unfinished -atore building of T. McClarey and a large frame building owned by Jehn G. uwen, on ARter streef. Loss, $3,Saturday afternoon a 13-year-old daughtcr of Frank Carman, of Lexington, was shot and killed by a 10-year-old lad named Hall. The Hillsdale champion crew arrived home from Saratoga en Monday, and were received at the depot by hundreds of people, the riremen in uniform, marshals on horseback, ad two bands of music. William Julián was picking berries in the woods, near Imlay City, on Friday when the tornado carne and he was knocked senseless by a falling limb. When found, fiye hours aftcr. Ue was alive, but did not regain consciousness previons to his death, on Sunday afternoon. Jieloaves a wife and three ohildren A lad named Sholes waa also killed by a falling tree near Utica. Charlen H. Cook of Whitehall has sold his peach erop as it stands for $7,000. Albert, ff'years oíd, son of S. W. Baker of Loweü, was accidently drowned on the 12th. A most disastrous cave-in took place at tilden' New Yirk mine, Ispheming, at noon Hatnrday. It is estiinated that from 150,000 to 200,000 tons of rock, embracing the whole upper part of the mine, feil in, completely deniolishing the skip roads and rilling the mine with the debris. It being noon, nobody was at work in the mine; otherwise there might have been a fearful sacrifice of life, as 1G0 men were usually employed in the part of the mine where the fall occurred. The body of an unknown man was found Sunday morning hanging to a tree in the woods of David Mhawl, two miles outhwest of Charlotte. The Northwestern Michigan Press Association held its second annual meeting in Big rïapids. Korty newspapers were represented ■with the attendance of 60 editors and their ladies. Mrs. Addie Lewis, wife of a well to do farmer in the township of Handy, Genesee county, has been arrested on a charge of shooting and wounding a neighbor named Isaac Kimball. Uarry Shepard, steward of the steamer Alpena of the Goodrich line, was drowned Tuesday while bathing at Muskegon. John Saners, a Herman laborer, committed suicide atjohia Tuesday afternoon by cuttiiig hi throat witu his jack-knife. He has lived in that city about eight years. He has no family and was a man of mtemperate O. B. Uickinson of 8t. Joseph has lost nis noted trotting norse Fuller's Frank, valued at Í2,000, by colic. Julia Johnson, a well-known fireman of Big Kapids, was killed by a falling tree near this city on the 15th during a storm. ÍELEGEAPHio advices indícate that the general rain storms that have pre vailed in southern Oliio and Indiana for the past few days have been o great beáeflt to growing corn. "Wliea has ljeen damaged to some extent . tliough ïiot sufliciently to materiall; altect the general reault.