Detroit In Brief

Liither Ueecher's taxes this year aggregate $6,901 99. This is a larger sum than is paid by auy other individual in Detroit. Rev. Dr. W. X. Ninde of the Central Methodist churCh of Detroit, has been elected president of the Garrett Biblical Institute at Chicago, and has accepted the position. The hot weather com pelling citizens to leaye there Windows open at night, has furnished a une harvest for the burglars, and there are daily reports of their depredations. A state convention of Young Men's Christian association is to be held in Detroit, commencing October 9 and continuing three days. Dr. T. A. McGraw succeedft Dr. Jenks as president of the Detroit Medical College. Dr. H. C. Wyman of Blissfield has been appointed lecturer on physiology. About 8 o'clock Thursday evening Detroit .was visited by the severest thunder storm and heaviest fall of rain experienced in many years. The gntters overflowed and deluged the cellar and lower ñoors in many parts of the city, and great damage was done to property al 1 over town. The Michigan Central yards was flooded and the fires put out in the yard engines, necessitating for the time bein a Suspension of business. During the storm Thursday evening two inches of water fel! in one hour, and nearly every cellar m the city was flooded. TLe job office of William A. Scripp s, 56 Larned street west, was overflooded andseveral hundred dollars worth of paper destroyed. The office of the Gulley Job Printing Company shared the same fate. E. 15. Smith & Co.'s basement was inundated, and paper and envelopes valued at $800 destroyed. The basement of lliehmond, Backus & Co's new buiding was also daluged. Si. JamesTs Chapel, corner of Seventh and Walnut strects, was struck by lightning and the tower badly wrecked. The lightning traversed the roof of the church and passed down the rear rail to the ground. The wall was badly in jured and will have to be taken down and rebuilt. The sewer , became clogged with water on Fort street near Tenth street, which rose to the surface, and carried away about 300 square yards of paving. In Trumbnll iiiic several of the mnnhola oovers were carried awayThe sewer in Eleventh street, between Fort street and the river, burst, and scattered water all over the srtrrounding territory. At one time the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company had no connection with the outside world, while the Western Union only had two wires in working order. United States Marshal Mathews has written to one of his deputies at Port Harón that he shall go on serving papers as heretofore, trust ing to the future legislation of Congress to repay him for his trouble, and advises his deputies to do the same. A new journalistic venture called Public Ppirit made its appearance upon the streets Saturday. H is quarto in shape, and the entire cutside is made up of illustrations furnished by Pat Iteilly, the clever caricaturist. A meeting of the standing committee of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Michigan was held on Saturday, at which a resolution was adopted expressing the wish that the bishopelect may be consecrated in 8t. Paul's Church in this city. Thus far, responses have been received from 20 standing committees, including that of Michigan, lt requires 25 favorable answers to make the necessary majority. As all the responses thus far have been favorable, it is easy to see that assent is to be given, and that at an early day. Mr. and Mrs. Don M. Dickinson let't on fc?unday evening for New York, whence they sailed Wednesday for Liverpool. They will spend two or three months traveling about Europe. At the meeting of the Board of Education Monday evening Superintendent Sill was reappointed, as were also the old corps of teachers. Henry T. Brusb, a well known and promising young architect,committed suicide Tuesday afternoon by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. He had been in ill health for some months and quite despondent. He leaves a wife and child. George Hintermister, a carpenter 21 years of age, feil dead from sunstroke Tuesday.