News Summary

Jm.v i;, Hoi;E.- After a good day's work on the tariff blll the house took up and l.is -cd tho Holman substituto for the land trrunl forfeituro bill. The bill as passed has a sweeping effect on the Michigan roads of the northern península. It is estimated that over fiO.000 acres of vuluuhta lands will be restored under the bill. All of the Ontonagon & Brule Itiver road, from Ontnagon to tho YVlseonsin state line, is forfeitod. It embraces 20 sectlons of :i, uoo a eres, contiguous to the road aotually built by the road, but not within the time ipecified in the grant. The Marouette. Houghton M Ontonagon and the Lake Superior canal and iron company also suatain similar Wholesale forfeitures. At the evening eixioit 20 private pension bilis were passed. Jui.v 9, Senatk. - Mr. CuUom called up the senate bill to amend the interstate eommorce The important changes in the existing law proposed by the bill are : Koquirin? reduction in publisbud rates, faros or charges to be niade only After three dayg' preyiouB public notlee; prahibiting advances in joint rates, faros and charges hown upou Joint tariff, exoept after ten days' notioe to thu oomatUiiloit; addlng iui prisonment to tho. pénaltieg provided for a violation of tho law as to uujust discrimlnation in rates; makiug falsa billlug, false GlassiUoation, false weighing, etc., a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exoeeding $5,000, and imprisoqmpnt not ecaetflng two yeari for each ff eusu. ; naking the payment of any conslderaticm to iuduct unjust dis. i'riminatinn a misderoeanor subject te a similar penalty. Mr. Reagan offered an amendment, which was agreed to, frivtng to tho United State circuit and district courts Jurisdlctlou of violations of any provisions of the law upon the relation of any person or tirm with power to issuo a crem.ptory writ of mandainus. After discussion tbe bill was passed. Tho bilí to repúlate the liens of judgment and decrees of the courts of the United States was also passed, and the sonate adjourned. Hoi-se. - Tho tarlff blll was uuder dlscusslon 11 day. The ouly thing accomplished was the defeat of Mr. Cunnou's sugar amendment to tho tariff, as wyll as sevural other proposltiona looking to a reductiou of duties on sugar. Jült 10, Skn iTK. - Mr. Sherman offered a resolutioB, which was agreed to, directing the committee on flnance to inqulro lnto and report, in connection with any bilis raising or reduclng the revenue that may be referred to it. Mr. Vest lntroduced a bill to amend the act to punish postal crimes, which was referred to the postónico committee. He explained that the act for the same purpose, passed by the senate last month, was intended to prohibit a species of blackmail practiced by collecting agencies, in the use of au envelope indorsed "Baddebt." An ingenious plan has since been resorted tq b.y the samp agencies iu the adflptiou gf a transuftFent en velope, showing the nelosurt logibjy . This bill was Intended to put stop to that evasión of the law. The senate thes proeouded to the oonsideration of the flahones treaty. HcirsK. - Excellent progresa was made with the tariff bill, numerous amendments being quickly disposod of. At the evening gession thlrteen bilis were passed granting right of way through Indiau reservatlons to railroad companies. GENERAL. The postmastcr-general has written a letter to the president formally protesting against the propos 'ion made by the civil service commission to extend the classitlcd service so as to includo the. railwy ial Cnahlev Vanloau of Jersey City Sooond National bank lx mitiainK, with l,U0O of the bank'H furnia. Nearly every business place and 40 residences in the villape of (lade Hun, Ha., were destoyed by fire the other night, Three ueinbers of the looomotlve brotherhood wero arrested on a C. B. & Q. train near Chicago the other morning, and a quantity of d.vnamite l'ound in thelr possession. It is said that they were going to Chicago for the purpo.se of committing a great crime. High officials of the brotherhood are said to be implicated. President Cleveland, inhis veto of several private pension bilis, suggests that thelaws should be revised to cover meritorious cases. Dr. D. V. Hjis.s want!) additiunal compensatign fór atte'nding' Hr.i;si((e(tt ( )a-.tinld. l'r-esiileut Cleveland could not uttoml the ClHttysburg rounioit bocauso of a proas of public business. ArkaiiKüK prohlbitlonlsta were unable to nomínate a state ticket, af tor boing in sesslon two day. A terribly destructive cyclone swept down upon a number of towns on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad on the 5th inst. The track of the cyclone in Iowa was 100 miles long. The damage to crops is simply incalculable, but no loss of life is reported. Mrs. William Klwoll, aged 65, and her son, aged 40, of East Liverpool, Ohio, wore both killed the other evening by a Cleveland & Pittsburg passenger train eastbound. They had stepped off to the side of the track, and after the engine had passed the son insisted on having the right of way. Ir 'tryinjj to pull h,(m out Qf h.arm'8 way both wore struck by the ooaches and killed. Two hundred thousand dollars' worth of property in Maysville, Cal., was destroyed by fire July 5. The Mormon church agents have turned over to Receiver Dyer the noted church farm near Salt Lake City, 1,110 acres valued at f150,000. Further large amounts of property are expectód to be reclaimed within a few days in government proceeding against Mormon church property. A careless train dispatcher caused the wreek of two trains near Nanticoke, Pa., the other morning. A number of persons were badly injurcd. After three months theCincinnati brewers' strike has been declared off. The strikers lost $150,000 in wages. An explosión of natural gas occurred in a tannery near Allegheny City, Pa„ the other morning. The building was conipletely wrecked, and a number of men at work about the buiiding were seriously injured, somc of whoin will die. Dr. D. W. Bllss is making an effert to get the balance (over $10,000) appropriatcd by congres to pay Garfield's physicians and funeral expenses. Warrants have been issued by the secretary of the treasury for the payment of 1M,7Ü7,O8'J on account of pensions. Gen. Sheridan has been taken to bis summer cottage at Nonquitt. He is greatly improved by the ooean trip. Railroad men say that the arrest of the strikers on a C. U. & O., train few days ago, is only a scare manufaotured by the Pinkerton detectives. It is further alleged that the strikers are being subjected to all sorts of outrages, and that unless they are Htopped, a strike will be inaugurated which will tio up all western roads. Pire broke out in the Century building in New York the other morning, thought to have origninated in the bookbinding establishment on the sixth Hoor. The llames broke through into the fif th story, the Century's pubhshing department, and then burst through tbe roof. The losses are estimated at $250,000, prlncipally by water, and fully insured. Tho upper floors and roof of the building were damaged to the extent of $r0,000. A final and scientiflc attempt is to be made to flsh up the treasure which went down with the British war Braak in Delaware Bay on the 25th of May, 1798. On two diatinct occasions the trial has been made and without success, but now the government has so far indorsed the scheme as to make a contract with a syndicate headed by Dr. Seth Pancoast of Philadelphia. The provisions are that the United States is to receive ten per cent. of the value gotten up from the ocean's depths, together with all brass guns, arms and ammunition recovered. Congress is asked to make an appropriation to run the elevator in the Washington monument. A suit has been commenced in the supreme court of Kansas to eiect about 200 settlers in Allen county, who have occupied their farms for the past twelve or Uiteen years. The suit is brought by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway, and by spcculators who hava reeen tly bought the lands from the railroad company. The controversy relates to about 30,000 acres. The railroad company claims that the land was granted it by congress in 1882. The settlers say the discrlption does not cover the lands ín controversy. Two men were killed on th? (Irand Trunk railway near Mont real the other morning. The senatn committee on education has made a favorable rejmrt on the proposition to submit to the people of the several state a constitutíonal amemlment to prohibit the liquor trafflc ia the United S Uit es. A disastrous rain storm swept over several Pennsylvania towus on the lOth. Bridges were swept away and tracks washed out, seriously retarding railroad trafflc. A heavy rainfall on the Öth lust. delugod Kansas Citv. The loftsto inoperty 1 ubout $10,000. The uew Jewish orphan asyhiru in ('leve land, Ohio, wbich tost Sui,Ooü, was dedieated on the l'th iust . Two men were killed and thr;; woundfid by a boiler explosión in Allentown, Pa.. July 9. General Mastor Workmau Powderly ha written a letter, in which be calis attention to an allcged "corner" in eoffee, and advises abntention from the uso of toffee until the ''corner" is broktii). Keceiver Dicker haa roinpnunised in tlie matter of Mormoq chnfuh property, the papers being ftled in the territorial mipreme court at Halt Lake Ctty. Tlie receiver keeps wluit property hu had aeized and also $l57,ti6ti,)5 {n cash. Further proceedings are to be dropped ponüing the hearing on appeal of the queitions lnvolved in the United States auprome court The labor party tn Connecticud wlll nominto a tata tiolcet is September. Tho half breed resldeuts of Batoehc, the cene of the former rebeUiou. are out with a manifestó ia acknowfedgeinent of Duinont m their leader aad threateuiug the governroont If they do not get their rights. Tuoge who took part in the robolliou demand to havo their proporties restored to them. Gov. Hlll has oalled an extra session of the New York logislature for the purpose of appropriating funds to provide work for the prisoners in the state priaons, R. B, Parlan of Louisvllle, once renuted to to worth $1,000,000, commltted suicide the other morning bocause he could not pay a $5 bourd bilí. Tho Maplowood Park association of the Minnesota Cbautauqua is preparing to bring suit for $10,000 damages against Bev. T. DeWitt Tahnage of Brookl.vn. The association claims that Mr. Talmage agrecd to come to Maplewood and assist in opening tb assembly on July 3, 4 and 5, and that hls failure to keep nis engagement has damaged the association to the amount named. Ex-Speaker Samuel J. Randall is seriously ill at his home in It is sald that congress will not adjourn much before the first of September. Chairman Hoge, of the committee oí brotherhood of engineers, and Chairman Murphy, occupying the same positipn in t lm firemen's brotherhood., vere arrestod at the Nationa) hotel in Chicago tho other morning, charged wiUi oonspiraoy. Slght blocks In the central part of Suison, Cal., were destroyed by lire July 11. Thlrty-five switchmen employed by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road at Kansus City, truck the other morning. It was a local strike, caused by the cuttlng down of tbe crews from nine to three. Pinneo is the name of a new town just atartod in Colorado, 10U miles east of Denver, and 400 miles west of Omaha. There aro thousauds of acres of goverument land in the vicinity of the uew town which cu,n be obtained at a rost of about 50, céta an acre. A Wells-Farm fijfpress package cftntaining $1 ,yoo seufirpm Bolton Ka,u o, Li'ttle HockjhK, y. "Ys.1 was fbud on its arrival to contatn nothing bu't piacoa of na)Kr out to the sUe of the WHh, Two men entered the office of the North-' western National lusuranco oompany iu Milwaukee, and while one couversed with the clerk in charge the other made off with Ï,OÜQ. Steps aro belng taken looking to the amalgamation of the four brotherhoods of locomotivo engineers, flremen, brakemen and switchmen. Dr. McGlynu, in a recent speech before the auti-poverty society in New York, predii'tel an uprising in which the church will be the suflerer. I i believed that after a deflnite under8,tan.d,mg with Uussia has been e.stablished Emi)eror William will propos? that the Eurqpean ppwers reduce. tumament. JJnglisb and Fvonoh govörnments have agreed to work Jointly on and after Jan. 1, 18S9, tho submarino cable betwoon Franco and England. O'Donnell's libel suit against the London Times was decided in favor of the defendant. Russiahas slgned the convention for the abolition of sugar bounties. The international law congress will meet in Luzanne September 1. The treaty between the Holy See and tho United States of Colombia regarding religious matters has been ratified. It is said that Emperor William is afflicted with a malady which threatens to become dangerous. Nearly every clause of the local government bill now beforp the house of oommons contains an ahjcctionable feature, and a number of electious have beon. lost on its account. The Paris Corporation has voted L 2,600 for the erection of the reduced copy of Bartholdi's statue of liberty in New York harbor, which was iresented by the Hon. Levi P. Morton. Editor William O'Brien says that his f riend Mandeville was murdered in Tullamore prison, and demands revenge for liis death. The town of Berbera, in Somahland, has been burned to the ground. Forty persons, mostly children, cripples and invalids perished. Seventy Jewish families left Bucharest for America on tbe Öth inst. The Emperor of Brazil has quite recovered from his reeent illness. The Mexicans have re-elected President Dia, without oppositiou. Admlnistration congressmun and senators were generally elected. The English Blue Book has just been issued, which gives the number of vessels contalned in the navies of the different maritime powers of Europe as follows: Battle ships - England, 4'J; France, 80; Italyl: Germauy, 13; Russia, 9. Cruisers - Englaud, 8" ; France, 67 ; Germany, 29 ; Russia, 25; Italy, 21. Torpedo vessels and boats- Englaud, 17fi: France, 140; Italy, 138; Russia, 97; Germany, 96. The report of the Germán physicians on Emperor Frederick's disease has been made public. All unite in severe censure of Dr. Mackenzie, and hold the English physician responsible for the emperor's death. Dr. Mackenzie says the report is a tissue of ridiculous falsehoods. Reported that an alliancc has been formod betweon Belgium and Germany. Forest fires are raging along the line of the Canada and Atlaulic road between Montreal and Ottawa. Eighteen miles of track have been destro.vod, and many cars, houses and milis have been burned. The London Pall Mali (iazette says that tho ministers obviously do not consider Parnell's dental as conclusive of his innocence. Their supporters declare that the denial is false. The ministry must either expel Parnell from parliameut or dismiss AtUrney General Webster. No muidle coursc is compatibli' with tho honor and responsibil ity of the government.