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SAMNE, WA^_fftEK^7f7 fQTJNTY, MICHIGAN, NOVEMBER 3, 1881.
VOL. I.-NO. 51.
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. Important InteHigencg from All Parts.
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-TheTF, S. Senate.
SXTKA SESSION.
A BEi3oi.trxxox was adopted on tbe 26tU providing thatthe power and auihoiity vested iu
the Committee on Commerce "by the resolution adopted May 9, iSSJ, with reference to the
rnqmry into the .condition of the Potomac at
Washington, D. o., he continued during* the
ensuing recess, and that the committee report
December next .. Mr. Sherman called up his
re.30iution for an investigation into the dis-
TOiirsements of the contingent fund of the
Treasury Department, after having modified
itsjas to provWe that' '*the Committee on
Approprjatious oe directed to investigate the
accounts for expenditures of the several
appropriations for" contingent or other
expenses of the several Departments,
mchidmg the methods of making
such dj-ibur-semen-s, cha.raeter and disposition
ot tne purchases made, and the emplOFmait
of Jaborpaid from such appropriations, and to
"report at an eteTy day as practicable wbatf nr-
-her legislat on is necessarv to secure the
proper disbursement of suca appropriations,
and that the esminntteehave leave to send f or
person* and papers, and tost during the re-
-•cess of the Senate." The resolution was
adopted, and, on Mr, Sherman's mot'on, the
Meane report was also,, referred to the Committee 11 ■"Appropriations. An  executive
■ses_ on was he d aiid wheh'^he;ddors were reopened the Senate adjourned.
ItEsoi-nTiONS*   -were * adopted     on    the
27th—continuing,   during tho recess of the
... Senate, the * authority conferred ' upon
the Committee on Judiciary to exsm-
la<L Jnt0. *&*-•■'■subject; of banl-rnptcy,
anot; directing the committee to report In De-
cembe-next*; for the payment of extra com-
pensationto the pages and other employes of
the Senate; continuing the authority conferred upon the Committee 'o'n Public
t r«i° ™9.u"i*e into the condition of the
Land Office. Several nominations were confirmed. In executive session* among them be-
angjudge Charles J. Eolarer, of Geneva, i\r. Y..
to be Secretary of the Treasure: Th mas L.
Jame&„ of -vew York. tree. >m"lnated), to be
Postmastec-Gene air Frank:■-Hat-con. of Iowa,
. to be First Assistant Postmaster-General.
Ths Senate went inf o executive session immediately after assemblins on the JSth, and
continued in uninterrupted session until S:50
on the n orning of' the 29th." The matter of
controversy .was the confirmation of the
Lynchburg Arn.j Postmaster. Neither side'
would yieid.-and at the hour named further
•conslderatl6n of the nominat'On was postponed' -md the Senate adjourned until noo 1.
THe controversy over the appointment of
the Lynchburg (V a.) Postmaster continued all
night ofthe 2Sth ult.—the Itepublicans favoring the confirmation. ..ef Stratham, a Mahone
Eeadjuster. while the Demcecats - -inisisted
up^m ther retention of J. H. WilsQn. the
present incumbent, who is* a KepuWican,
but alleged to be IncompeTent....On th,e opening of the Senste at noon/on .the--^tli JSjTr.
HU1 iGa.x offfirfid a'Sresatutioh. and aafced for
its Immediate coa^icJeiation. decianng that
appointments, to Federal oflics$- .ougut not
to be made for ths purpose of inuueneiiig
e'ections In the States. Mr. McMillan ob ect-
ed. and tne resolution was laid over . In executive session several Senators...who, fiad Deea
ai-regted fQr absenting themselves- the night
■before were a-l-aSg.ied and reprimanded....
Anions*the nominations"conSrnied was that
of John L. lieveridge to be Assi-iantCInite t
States Treasurer at Chicago. -The effort to
confirm the.aiom'natioii of Stratham as Post-
ma.ter a t  Lj nchbu m, \ a., -w^ls; uns ucceis--
_ul After the* Teporfc of a' cbmnii'lee, who
bad waited upon th.e President, to the effect
that «ihe latter had no 'f'urtiier business to
place before the Senate, Mr. Bavard offered a
resolution -of" thanks'* to President pro tem.
Davlj, j^h Ch pas ed unanimously. Mr. L^ivis
|hen; expressed his ac-knowledsrments forttie
resolution psissed in his hojior. and bis sense
••ot gra Irude for the generous cd-o, eration
which had been,tendered-him from rtll sides in
.administering the datie* of presiding o!lic,dr.
In accordance wi h a motion already adopted
to tuat ett'ecr, he then declared the Senate adjourned sine die.
•"_ ■    Ddliiestlc.
The MissislippiTRiver Improvement Convention met In St. Louis on the 20ih and
effected a temporary organization and
listened tcraSAresaes of welcome from the
Governor and other distinguished citizens.
2vo other business was transacted.
The Croton. water supply in "Sew Xork is
said* td be dirdiinlsiiiug at the rate of 11,000-
000*galloris dTiily, an(i inere is great alarm in
consequence. On the 26th the upper and
more fashionable portions of the city could
not be supplied,^ and_ the. evening newspapers were greatly delayed for lack Of
water for steam power.
Oi* the 28th two highly respected citizens
of Montgomery,.T-.1S-,. became engaged in
.an affray, and each mortally wounded the
other. 7
ABOUT midnight on\ the. Bisrht ofTjhe 27rh
the Steamer JennieGilchrist, while gomgiip
the rapids between Davenport and Eock
Island, met with an accident and became
unmanageable. She swung,:aro,uiid against
the Government pier, arid was badly shattered. She then floated further down the
river and sunTc.* *7Bet*?een twenty and
thirty lives are believed to have been lost.
Wilxxasz J. S-PPI.E, formerly employed
by the Erie Bail way asa? telegraph operator,
has been arrested for eorinectfdri'witnT"a
conspiracy to rob a paymaster's train near
Jersey City. An incriminating dispatch was
found ia. his pocket.  *..<;■■; '
Ox the 27t"a spontaneous combustion flred
the dry-goods house of "W". Abraham,,Brooklyn, IS. Y., causing damage to the amount
of $250-000.     _•. „v --.-/••   ." .*
It was* annouriekl' on the "*27th fliat the
Fire Eelief Commission of Michigan had on
• hand $175,000, with liabilities of $30,000.
The stock of groyisions .-would last but twd
or three weeks." It wa3 believed that $250, -
000 would tide th.eunf6rtuna.es over fco May.
The Mississippi Kiver Improvement Convention was .permanently organized on the
27th by the choice of Congressman Dunnell,:
of Minnesota; a"s 3?efiifailenfcn' Ciiairman. A
paper from General .Gilmore* was read stating that active operations would be commenced next month on reaches above Viclcs-
burg and above Memphis, comprising seventy miles of the worst navigation below
Cairo. Resolutions were offered and laid
over tor discussion.
Four cow-boyrgofr into a row with the
authorities afc Tombstone, Arizona, on the
nigbt of the 26tb, and three of them were
shot dead and the other wounded.
A EICHMOND (Va.) telegram of the 27th
says * leading banking house there had recently purchased nearly $5,000,000 Confederate coupon bonds afefroiii $3 to f5 per thou-
Scfijd.
Oisr the morning of the 28th General Bou-
langer, one of the French visitors, awoke in
a Philadelphia hotel, to find a burglar stand-
ipo* beside a table containing his Yf&tch and
money. The General seized his sword and
held his prisoner until the arrival ofthe
police. The fellow proved to be "Willam
Marston, a noted criminal, and he was
promptly indicted, convicted and sentenced
to three years in the* penitentiary.
The safe in the grocery store of Abraham
Greenwood, at Ilul.on,. t Pa., was blown
open on the nighfdf the 28th and robbed of
$3,000.
ON the 28th a misplaced switch at Sellers-
yille, P^.rthre\y an express train from the
ral's£ld|jlng tie 6n|iaeer and wreck-ngthe
train.
A. yi?w* nights ago J. Hinckley, agent of
the Utah &2Xwthern Railmf at Franklin,
Idaho? Wa^ 0h& dead W * timd ot masked
On the morning of the 2Sfch Ezra P. Cook
and wife, old people of Bellows Falls, Vt.,
were found dead in their house. The husband was evidently poisoned by his wife,
who then killed herself with-a knife. She
had been partially insane.
Eobert Rich, a mail messenger at Burnside, Ky., is charged with rifling registered
letters valued at over $100,000.    - ,
The Treasurer of Beaver County, Pa.,
was knocked down "and robbed of $13,000
county funds on the morning of the 28tb, by
two thieves who attacked him when he was
opening his safe.
A muederer and two horse-thieves were
executed by a mob at Tierra Amarilla, in
Southern Colorado, ,a few nights ago,.
Another break occurred in'the Sny
levee, just above East Hannibal On the 28th.
The losses by overflow in that region would
aggregate itwas believed, $500,000.
At its recent session in St. Louis the Mississippi River Improvement Convention
adopted resolutions in favor of such permanent improvement of the great river -and its
tributaries as would render it a safe and
thoroughly available highway for the vast
commerce of the Mississippi Valley, and
declaring that Congress ought not to overlook or disregard the establishment of free
water communication between the valley of
the Mississippi River arid the tide-water of
the East. A committee of twenty-one was
provided for to frame a memorial to Congress asking for the enlargement* Of the powers of the Mississippi Commission, and the
appropriation of such - annual sums as shall
be requited iu the prosecution of their labors.
"Nike Governors attended the International Cotton Exposition at Atlanta on the
27th. Governor Colquitt delivered a speech
of welcome, and several of the visiting Governors responded. A reception was given
to the Gubernatorial visitors in the evening,
at which Governors Colquitt and Bigelow
wore cotton suits made from seed cotton
picked at seven o'clock ou the morning of
that day. ■
The Erie road has reduced its passenger
rate to Chicago twenty-five cents below that
of the .New York Central.
02? the 28th a torpedo exploded in the
Washington navy-yard,killing George Lawrence and wounding two others.
Duijin'-g the last fiscal year there were 461
persons arrested for tampering with the
United States mails. Of these 110 persons
were in the employ of the Post-office Department..
Captaln- Paul Bottom, who recently
left the Tipper Missouri intending to float to
its mouth, reached Omaha, .Neb,, on the
30th ult., having floated from Sioux City to
that place in twenty-four hours. He was
greeted by 10,000 people.
Ojt the morning of the 31st ult. the Grand
Trunk Railroad sold tickets from Chicago to
New York for $0.25, and to Boston for $7.25.
Thirty-clay round-trip tickets to the latter
city were sold for $1450.
A sacCESSFULtest of the "underground
telegraph Wires in Philadelphia- wa_ made
on !he 29thult. by practical electricians.
The wreck of the steamer Jennie Gilchrist floated down the Mississippi to Buffalo, and lodged against a tree. The corpse
of "William "Wend., of Cordova, Was found
on the 29th ult., in the cabin. The body of
Mrs. Mary J. Camp was recovered twelve
miles below Davenport. C. F. Johnson, of
Moline, Ul., and John McCail, of Le Claire,
Iowa, were known to have perished, makingthirteen victims in all.
An incendiary fire on the 30th ult. nearly
destroyed the town of- Edgefield Court
House, S. C. Only three stores were left to
mark the site of the town. The loss was
about $100,000, distributed among tbirty-
fiVe persons. Senator Butler lost his law
library.
Chief George, who recently fled from
the agency* in Arizona, has surrendered,
and is guarded by a double line of sentinels.
Rev. J. M. Spargrote, suffering from
financial trouble, hanged himself in a hospital at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the evening of
tha 30th ult.
Six members of the Fire Department of
Danville, III., were arraigned on the 29th
ult. on the charge of systematic incendiarism which destroyed $75,000 worth of property. One of the number took the stand
aud exposed the whole conspiracy, acknowledging that he had applied the torch
to fifty buildings.
The closing payment to the Miami tribe
of Indians will be made in ^November. The
amount to be disbursed by the Government
is $221,250, of which a large portion, will go
to the descendants of Chief Godfrey.
Personal antl Political.
Louis Ruttkay, an attorney of Des
Moines, a nephew of Louis Kossuth, the
Hungarian revolutionist, died of consumption in th^t city a few days ago.
Frank Hatton, of the Burlington Mtuik-
eye, has been appointed First Assistant
Postmaster-General, vice James JS*. Tyner,
resigned.
Charles W. Seaton, of "Sew York, has
been appointed Superintendent of the
United States Census "Bureau,* in pl'ace of
General Francis A. Walker, who has resigned in order to accept the Presidency of
the Institute of Technology at Boston.
A. S. Tiiudb, a notable criminal lawyer
Of Chicago, has consented to take charge of
the defense of Guiteau, provided he can arrange with opposing counsel to postpone
the trial of certain libel suits which he has
in charge.
CONGRESSMAN Clark, of Missouri, has
commenced an action for divorce in a
Washington court against his wife.
The Minnesota State ..Senate has passed
the Railroad Bond Adjustment* bill by a
vote of 30 to m
Both houses of the Minnesota Legislature
met in joint session on the 2Gth and declared
Mr. Windom duly elected United States
Senator.
After argument by Mr. Scoville on
the 26-h Judge Cox granted the counsel of Guiteau one week more time
for preparation for the assassin's trial.
•As afc first arranged, the trial was to
begin November 7; but the time is now
fixed for the 1-th. Mr. Scoville stated that,
in his opinion, the court had jurisdiction,
and he intimated that he would nofc raise
any question on that point.
District Attorney Corkhill on the
26th received a telegram from Jiidgeporter,
of New York, stating that he would assist
the Government counsel in the prosecution
of Guiteau.
Lieutenant Frederick Collins, a*
highly accomplished naval officer, died afc
Washington on the 27th of typhoid fever.
The President has nominated ex-Governor Beveridge, of Illinois, to be Assistanfc-
"Eceasurcr of theTTnited States afc Chicago.
-THtfafc-S MrjrEr'iarhas been nominated for
Congress hy-the* Republicans of the Sirith
New York District, and: ItJr'-*Vl*_|oW!^' by
the Democrats of the Eleventh -JMstricfc
;Judge Lawrence, First Comptroller iof
the Treasury, has decided that witnesses''
for Guiteau living more .than.-'-one ■ huridred
miles outside of the jurisdiction of* the
Court (District of Columbia) cannot be
paid by the Government. Inside that radius their expenses can be paid.
EX-ASSISTANT*    POSTMASTER-GENERAL
Tyner has published a ^statement denying'-:
the truth of the charges that he had been-in
sympathy with the Star-route contractors,
or that he had been hostile* to ' ttiein prWe-
cution.
President Arthur on the 27th nominated and the Seriate: -confirmed . Judge
Charles J. Folger, o' Geneva, "NY Y., Chie.*!-
Justice of the "Sew York State Court of Appeals, to be Secretary,, of* "the United Statfes
Treasury. <*- jt.' J
An Anti-Monopoly ma?s-meetipg7Jvas held
in Cooper Union, New York CJity|on the
evening of the 2Gth, which was sl_%ely at-,
tended.'" Peter^pooper ptesided/*";!        ; 4
In the Criminal Courfc 'a-t Washington o"n
the 28th Captain HSW|ate pleaded nofc
guilty to the indictmjentSj'for forgery, arid
was formally surrendered'"^ his horidsmen.
President. Arthur "on the 2'-.h*»ult requested Mr.,.Wisdom^to':i continue at tlie
head of the TreasuryDep^rtment until ref
lieved by his successor, aud the Secretary?
consented to j-emain in "the Department5*
few days longer.   V* '■'•'''.'$ ",
- The delegates to the 'Wo1nen-*s7Ghrisfciatj;;
Temperance Convention in session in Washington ca led on President Arthur on tlie
20th ult. Miss Willard,,.; President- of-, the
Convention, made. a.:_boit jaddre^3yIa"skhig
the political and moral aid ofjthejPresident
to the object of the Convention. ^The
President replied bri.cfl"ir!-that1**h"e was in
earnest sympathy wifchVthe** movement to
rescue men from evil habits. I
Foreisra.
St. PETERsiJtiRa- dispatchesS-o# the -27th
say the Russian Government had. become
concerned over the'eiriig-ation'lofcJewish
citizens to the Unite.d-'StatoSi ahd%*ould endeavor to settle'them in .two^agricultural
provinces. .'■    . *    i:    -•*_.,._.,..•!
The elections in Berlin oh "the*27t_- resulted in victory for-5.he> Liberals*jn fiye
districts. .   . ''-'?,. >f'^-J'JsJiJL      J
A MoitaiON elder has been imprisoned at
Hamb ii rg for trying to, make. proSelytes.     j
Six arrests were niade- in Ireland on thp
27th under the Coercion act, among them
being Stack, of Tralee,.loug frifpenal servii-
tude for treason; the President "of the Kilkenny Branch  League,   and ..^O'-SeilU ,thfe
organizer of the Cork Branch. * The ^Bfeath
magistrates.had applie'd "to the Xord-Lieu-^
tenant for an increase- of-.the.police-force, <
The Postmaster-General had. warned em,-:
plojresto sever their connection with the*
Land League.   The police dispersed ameet^
ing of the Ladies' League at Ballintra.       «
Thk British .channel squadron has left
Gibraltar for Ireland. 0?Suliiv^n/a .lessee
of the Cork Branch League, was arr1g§fs.dkQ'i
the 28th for Inciting tenants notfo p"ay "feriti-
An armed band visited housed'at, Carrick^
on-Sbanuon, threatening rent-payers with
death. All the Ladie^^e.agues'yrere order*
cd to be suppressed. A fparce^ of nine
pounds of dynamite was _oim'd-;iff'a train en
route for Drogheda. Father Bheehy and T.'
M. flealy. Mi PJ, left Dubliniof JSFew York.
G^iBHTTAhas been eleetedTProvisionaj
President of the French Chatnber of Dep u-f
ties by a vote .317 to 29. *>- • !
ON the 30th ult. Archbishbp -McCabe is-)
tied a pastoral in denunciatiori of the no-
rent manifesto" of the Land League. The"
Governor of Kiimainham jfiil wasjsuspended
for allowing Parnell's letter t6.*gefc /outride
the walls. Anthonf MeHjilcsj, 7 a .^Catholic
curate atEillala, was arf.s'tedfor holding a|
Land League meeting, in a"ehapel»t  ',7,.^, i
LuRCOCic &.DI2BBAS,:* of Pa.-is^ '"Fran.'-,
have failed for 5,01)0,000 francs, the.failure,
arising from specuhatiori in-Egyptiari'secar-,!
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The ofiicial returns io^ifci'Iaijie$jeiffe:selec-,
tion in Iowa give Shei'man (Rep.), 133,326:
Kinne (Dem.),73,397; Clark (Greenbacker),
°-S,123.    Sherman's plurality,  59,929;  majority overall, 21,806.     •'
The MechaUics-"*Natipn"al Bank of Newark, N. J., supposed to hive been one of
thestrongesfc banks in thatState, suspended
on the 31stult., with liabilities of over $2,- 1
000,000, and assets  valued   at only $50-, f
0Q0.    O.  L.   Baldwin,   Cashier,  was ar- j
rested on the charge of eml^ezzlement.   He j
was supposed to haTeJost^he funds of the [
bank in private speculations.
The Presideutori the 31st ult. appointed ''■
Stratham Postmaster *at Lynchburg, Va.,
vice Wiison, suspended.
Dr. Rice, of Merton, "WisVfJiasbeensub-
pcenaed as a -witness in thetiifil'of Guiteau,
to testify thathe examined ham three years
ago, and found him Suffering. -from softening of the brain. , * w<n
CHH.E-Justice Hunter, ©£• Utah, has decided that no naturalization papeygf have
ever been, issued to Qpor£e Q. 'Catan»n7in
that territory, and'thafc he* is"- hbt^aliiifcizen
of the United States.      -"    '   "" -'"•J--VAi- 'L^
An advance in freights, eguaiit^fijieicents
per hundred pounds- on provisions, from
Chicago to the seaports. was^rdefeH'::oirtfici
1st by the Pennsylvania   and Baltimore
roads. '
Dublin dispatches of tbe 31stult. say that
Parnell had been forbidden to»see«his,solic-^
itor and order steps to tesfc^-tliejalidity^Ofl
his arrest, except iii the''pi*esence~or tlie
warden. The Land Court ha. received two
thousand more applications to have fair
rents fixed. The police inLondon prevented a public meeting called by the Branch
Land League of Great Britain.
The descendants of General Stueben.who
visited this country as the iratlonjil guests
on the oceaslonof theYbi'ktojyncJBlebration"
were cordia'ly received by the German citizens of Chicago and theMayorand Common
Council on the evening qf the 31st ult.
On the  31st ult. Joseph  Campbell,   at
Bluffton, Ind., and Miss Louisa Kelsey,- at
Ceiina,  O".,  were married by ielegraph,"
there being a minister and a wedding party
at each ond of the wire.
John Walling, a lunatic from Coles-
ville, Pa., who was once ^arrested in Washington and sent honie,-l'eappeared at the
While House on the 31st ult., fully armed,
with the intention of killing Presi'lent Ar-r
thur and seating Dt« John JtlscbHng ih
the execittive chair.. Jtfc reosiir.ed !,s'evGt:i.
men to take a revolver from'the madman,^
when he became as meek as a lamb, and was
sent to the Government asylunlf^ C  :j , "■*
The situation .of affairs along the Mitsi^-*
sippi'conUniied distressing on the 31st ult.
The high Watei; had, altogether stagnated
bus-iness, of course. At Keokuk the water
had 'receded Fone irich, * AleSaiulfiji*, Mo.,
wasjstjlf; from one to ten feel under.wwter,
and some families were prisoners in their
Own houses, surrounded by,a dreary..waste
of waters with nothing but disti'OSs "and
starvation st.iring them in the face. The
Sny Levee had hrbkeiiiSiPgain^ahd the
waters were running riot over all the lands
protfe&o'd bv that omb'iHikn.iMt.     '     ,
A RIVER HOI-EOS.
The Kccent Terrible Accident to tbo
Steamer Gilchrist on the Mississippi
Kiver at- Rock Islahd.—Several i-ive*
IiOSt. ,,..,     ,.   _
A Davenport (Iowa) special of the 28th
to the Chicago Times gives the following
particulars of the recent terrible accident
on the river near the former city:
A terrible and most heartrending accident
pefeuifredin,the^ississippi River, near this
city, last night, which resulted in great loss
of life. It appears that the steamer Gilchrist left this point about 10:30 o'clock, in
apparently good trim and condition, bound
for all points up the river, loaded with a
large anjcLvaluable, cargo of miscellaneous
freight aiid carrying in her cabins a full list
of passengers. When the steamer had
passed under the Government bridge spanning the Mississippi, and connecting tho
cities of Davenport and Rock Island, the
cam-rods of the engine suddenl3r gave way,
'causing the lan'tire iriachinervdo become un-
'miifl'age'abjVarid useless.
The rivei-Just now is very.high, owingto
the recent and extensive floods, and the current"} *1s' consequently unusually rapid, so
wlieri'tlTe'steamer Gilchrist had no longer
her machinery to keep her bow up stream
the swiftly-running river carried the help-
Mess* vessel downstream at a. rapid and appalling rate. Being so near the bridge the
steamei was thrown with, tremendous and
resistless force against one of the abut-
.tnents,.^Aaithe Gilchrist came in collision
with the enormous mass of stone she careened, causing the weights on the safety-
valves of the steam-chesfc to break from
their fastenings and slide.of£ The valves
no longer holding a check on the steam in
tho boilers", it "poured out in huge volumes
and^enyeloped the-hapless crew and passengers, "who were wildly* endeavoring to se-
sure life-preservers ihJ the main saloon,,
aud scalded many of them in an awful
manner.
■-No. sooner Md' the* steamer rebounded
from the* shock ofthe collision than she began sinking, in which* condition she was
carried past and below this city, the shrieks
and cries for help utteredjiy Jhe frenzied
victims being* *dlstinctly audible by large
crowds of citizens who soon thronged the
banks, but theycould extend no. assistance,
iVube steamer was hurled' past their eyes
by the.turbulent*.river. All -Of the small
boats and'sfciff- usually numerous on the
river had been drawn asTiore and laid away
for the winter and to escape the floods which-
have prevailed all along the course of the
Mi.esissippI'RiverTor'neariy "a fortnight, so
there was no means of speedily reaching the
sinking steamer or the men, women and
.htldren^'whb*" "were doubtless strug-'
srling at that moment with the cur-:
rent. "But the. " "people on the land
•did not stand supinely whi'e their
fellows were perishing before their eyes, for
the other steamers that happened to be lying at the bank, immediately hastened into
motion,' thronged by eager helpers, and all
hastened-to-the—scene -ofthe disaster,in
liopes,of Rescuing at, least some" of those
'cm boar^tjfil^ilenilit** As I write these hurried lines these steamers are actively at
work searching for survivors. I learn that
theres-Were on board .twenty-threo passen-
■»ers,*_6ii-'* Of whom were'females, arid a
Srew-df--fifteen. Only eight persons haVe
ibeen^say^drsSO<far;.^aiid. of. these some are
irery badly scalded. Three of the la.dy passengers are known to have been killed or
scalded to death. The, city is in great ex-
sit|ment,'l.ndAe,yerything possible is being
iorie-toi relieve the unfortunates. There is
but little hope that;' any more can be saved,
have been in a bad con-
The boat is said to
tlition, arid* wis.*considered "unsafe by many
$S the* crew. '•.-<■».•".-. '■* - ■ .--■ . ■.-- 7 ~
,s ""Oq^^oor wretch at the police headquar-
tefsisini^yfUl'-Jigoriy,' with the skin peeled
froitf^his* hddy, hanging* inr'strips, simply
parboiled^-* Another was. crushed between
two timbers and so badly hurt that he can
hardly recover.
The boat was owned in Rapids City, III.,,
-ltois%?tbta^ wreck.; It Was'xOnsidered in
jn»|unsafe\conditiori" by" many of the crew.
Aweek ago yes'terday^nearlyfthe same accident happened to it, but fortunately the
danger was averted. There is some talk of
^n"^Wci^**in"v5est*i^ation,r"ai"nd no little in-
liiignatioriMS'expressed against the owners.
All the passengers were residents of this
.aeigbb.orhoodftandione or twojwere nld arid
^J%Jr«r-   ^h--(__.--|.     **-*        .   -..-•-      *-* —*        -^. —    — *     ^^
tvell-knowu citizens.
4 Child'g, Adventure iu a Freight Car.
An odd story comes from the Stock Yards.
A vvoung apd. intelligent little, boy named
John'SteiriDerg',* wh'p^is only "eleven yearsof
age, and is""n"Ow!tehflerly 'cttred foir by the
police, tells a strange story of travel and
suffering.*^His pareJ5tS;liv.e*St Beaver Falls,
Pa. Last week the little boy was with some
companions playing*"hideand seek''' at his
home1 iri Beaver Falls. So as to hide secure-
\y~*~t'fdm'""his * companions* he eritered
a hox[" J,aily<p&,.,ci-ir 7arid lay ;down in
the corner. The*, door was suddenly
closed on -bini^i.nc'K all- was, dark. He
cried and ""shouted* to" be released, but
all in vain, as no one heard him. Tbe
train Sioved, arid continued on its course
; we8tward..7The boy, without food or water,
>■ wasifconflned.intho-dar for- three days and
.hi
opene.datFifty-first street .he trainmen
were surprised" .ta-discover a young boy,
J who immediately jumped out. He related
1 his adventure to them, and' he says they
; told binttb^skip^'-" He was.taken iu charge
iby the police, and Captain Gahan tele-
i graphed his father. A dispatch was re-
• ceivedfroin-th*e""fathi-f yestefday, stating
I that he bad sent money to pay his boy's fare
5 hpme. Tlie young traveler will- be sent to
' Beaver-^B"alls to-night.—Chicago-Inter Ocean.
—What is that which has three feet
-but no legs, is all body but no limbs,
has no toes 011 the feet, no head, moves
a great deal but never uses its feet for
jthat purpose, has one foot at each end
»and one in Jthe center ol the bo8y? This
"is a queer 'creatili-e in _ome respects,
|and is very popular among the ladies
■aud some gentlemen. It never walks
"out, ,bufc goes- with one foot where the
ihead •jfiigh'tf be, dragging the other foot
ib'ehind. Th'-se feet have nails, but no
itoes, no heels and no bqnesjn the feet.
!Answe_'ii--."YardSfci'('ic.' * "
: -—Judge Ctt-Kbertr, who recently died
jat Mobile, Ala., at the age of ninety-
two, was the oldest living graduate ot
i*idncetoii^|_'pHege, i his class being that!
pf istio.i There were forty-two mctuf
bers in the class, nine of whom became
inembersol^Congiei??, .three Judges in
Supreme and" Bistrfot courts, one an
Ambassador, two* bollo'gopryibssbrs and
£ve«ler<^m.n.a        ^-.kl-V.;•-."-. '
MICiaGAN ST-iTE NEWS.
The one great event looked forward to at
the Grand Trunk Junction, near Detroit- is
the promised completion of the new Michigan Central yards west of the Junction.
John Cornish died suddenly at Elk Rapids
the other day. He had been over-worked,
sometimes working forty-eight hours at a
time without sleep or rest. Saying he was
very tired and Sleepy, he lay down, and
fifteen minutes later he was found dead on
his bed.
The new shaft being sunk bv the Corunna
Coal Company has entered three feet six
inches of first-class coal at a depth of seventy-five feet.   Large works are being built.
Diphtheria is assuming a new form at Oscoda.   Grown people have it.
The village of Roscommon is trying to be
incorporated.
The Union depot project at Detroit is'said
to be virtually assured by the favorable action of the Wabash managers, a few days
since, and other roads will now, no doubt,
promptly enter into the common agreement.
The first thing to be done is the erection of
the new million-bushel elevator at the foot
of Eighteenth and a Half street, and the
work on • the foundation will be begun at
once and proceed all winter.
The iron on the Manistee branch of the
Flint & Pere Marquette has been laid to the
Sauble River, fourteen miles from the main
line, and track-laying has been stopped until the bridge across this stream is completed.
The Quebec House at Houghton, owned
by James Manley, was destroyed' by fire on
the night of the 26th.   Loss, $4,500.
The Menominee Herald reports that two
men saw a white deer on the north branch
of the Pike a few days ago* Ithadnofca
spot on it, but was pure white, and when
they discovered it it, was running rapidly.
Neither one of them had a gun, but one shot
at it with his revolver, without effect. White
deer are not common.
The Muskegon city officials are much
elated over the decision of the Supreme
Court allowing the work of constructing a
new city hall to proceed by dissolving an injunction granted by. an inferior court.
Reports from up north are to the effect
that a perfect slaughter of deer is going onr
some parties of hunters killing as many as
twenty-five or thirty in a week ju-sfc for fun,,
as the carcasses cannot be utilized on account of the ^rih weather, and they are
•allowed to lie and rot where they fall. Is
there no way to put a stop to this useless
slaughter?
The Bay County Supervisors have voted a
tax of $25,000 to buy the Third Street bridge
at Bay City and make it a free thoroughfare. The peopte are to confirm or reject
the proposition by vote.
In Silver Creek three young Indians ran
home from the Catholic church to escape a
rain, when one of them, named Lawrence *
Casbway, burst a blood- vessel and fell dead.
A complaint has been made before a Lansing Justice charging Mayor Rohson, of that
city, with a breach of the peace.
Charles F. Harrison has presented the
State Historian, to be buna in the library,-a
large and elegantly-framed portrait of
'••Granny Rodd," ari old Indian woman who
was well known to many of the citizens of
St. Clair County, and who at the time of her
death was supposed,to be llo years old.
The work on the building of the State
Normal School is going on finely. The
building is partially completed, and hy the
time cold weather sets in will be inclosed.
Ripe strawberries and currants from quite
a number of 3'ards were gathered at Manistee during October.
A Muskegon policeman stopped a Lansing militiaman from ''whistling att obscene
tune,-" * ■■■"•-
It is estimated that the cost of logging on
the Pere Marquette River the coming Winter
will be increased seventy cents per thousand
on last year's figures. It is early to begin
guessing as to the amount to be put in, but
preparations are making for a full cut, say
130,01 ,000 feet. Much, .however, will depend upon the winter.
An Irishman fell two hundred feet down
a shaft in one of the upper peninsula mines,
miraculously escaping with only a broken
leg, when he refused to be "carried out of
the mine till the mine Captain agreed not to
dock him forthe part, of that.day's shift-Josfc
by his accident.. 7
Eaton County seems to have an abundant
crop of apples this year, and is about the
only county in the State so fortunate.
The Supreme Council  of the  order  of
Chosen Friends at its late session in Detroit
- electeu a Supreme Councilor, Aldert Alsou,
f of Sheridan,    Ind.;    Supreme Assistant
i Councilor,  W.    H.    Page,   Indianapolis;
Supreme Recorder, T. B. Linn; Supreme
. Treasurer, EmiKennedy; Supreme Medical
Examiner, Charles D. Pearjson:  Supreme
Prelate, O. S. Hadley; Supreme Marshal,
J. P.-Van _>Test,   Wooster, .0,; Supreme
-! Warden, C. H. Buttner, Cleveland; Supreme
•Guard,    Albert   Perry,    Grand    Haven;
Sentry, D. B. Willeroin,, Detroit; Supreme
Trustees,  George  A.   Baughton,   M.   C.Davis, J. M. Sims, J. B. Niekerson, B. F.
Rogers.
Clara "V. Ferry, wife of Edward P. Ferry,
brother of Senator Ferry, was recently
killed at Park City, Utah, by being thrown
from a horse. Her husband was with her
and was also injured, but not seriously.
"Tbey have four children. The three oldest
jare living in Grand Haven with Mrs. Ferry's
mother.
Mrs. W. R. Brown very strangely disappeared from her home in Grand Rapids a
few nights ago. She and her husband had
been visiting her brother, M. F. Owens,
during the evening, .and after they went
*home she sat up to read a newspaper after
he went; to bed. At midnight he woke to
find that she had quit the house, leaving
nothing to show where or why she had
gone. She took no clothing save what she
wore, no money or jewelry, and went bareheaded. Her husband and brother affirm that
she Was well, never showed signs of insanity, had been particularly happy in her mar-
riedjife. Und that her disappearance cannot
be accounted for in any ordinary way. A
search vigorously prosecuted had up to the
25th failed to discover any clew of her. and
both husband and brother were near crazy.
The four-year-old child of Robert King, ii
Detroit lahoriug man, was recemly kidnaped
by unknown parties. The authorities are
diligently searching in every direction, but
the traces are very indistinct. It is thought
the child was .carried, off by a woman, but
for what object cannot bo divined. The
parents are in great distress.
The saw->mill of L» Quiraby at Grand
Bap.ds bui-ned-affeW days ag'o. loss $12,000.
William Fenton, sixteen years old, was
instantly killed at Baugh's steam forge in
Detroit on the 26th. He was an lrori
straightener, and was caught in the coupling between two ponderous rollers and
shockingly crushed.
The work of drilling the salt well at Cheboygan is again satisfactorily progressing.
The general store of J. H. Brown <fc Co.
at La Roy was destroyed by fire a few nights
ago.   Loss about $2,500.
The following are the Detroit wheat quotations: "N"o. 1 White, $1.37@1.37^; No. 2
White,* ?1.35@1.35K; No. 2 Red, $1._3@
l._3K.
Midi-sari Crop Keport.
The Secretary of State has received, between October 1 and October 1_> returns
from 1,002 correspondents whose reports are
tabulated as follows:
Statb
AND
COTXSTI'S
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lake....
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Ottawa...
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SCHOOL AND  CHURCH.
*■   .Heal.!, fn -Hf'chigan.
..■■■', r'lNO. IJ
Bepor.3 to the State .Board of Health,
Lansing, for the week ending October 1,
1881, by fifty observers of diseases in different parts of the State, show causes of sickness, as follows:
Diseases in Order of Greatest
Area of "Brexmence.
1 Intermittent Fever (Agues).
2Diarrhea..    .... . ..' ....
3Consumption of lunprs.*....
■4 JRemittent fever.	
_ Typho-malarialfever........
5 "Dysentery 	
6 Kneumatism.... ... ........
7iNeuralg:ia. 	
8 Bronchitis. .'.
9 Choler& Morbus 	
10Cholera infantum... ....
11 Typhoid fever (enteric)	
12 Diphtheria....,. ...
13 Tonsitls.. ■■...,".....
Ii "nfluehza.,  ...
15Pneumonia,.......	
16; Whooping-cough.... ..*-	
17 Erysipelas."......-.:	
l^ScarJatina,:.. ................
18 Cerebro-spiual meningitis...
19 Bowels, inflammation of	
19 Brain, inflammation of. ...
20 Crou p, membranous	
"J Measles...  	
HPuerperal fever.. .....
21.Pharyns*itis	
S~!Paraiysis, Diphtheritic......
Numoer  and
Percent of Ob
servers by-wlwm
Each Disease-
-wasBeported.
N'mber
For Ct.
.46
93-
45
80
35
70
33
64
33
61 ■■'
30
60
28
56
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23
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23
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16
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15
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5
10
5
10
4
8
4
8
3
6
3
6
2
4
2
4
1
.    .3-
It will be seen that the most widely distributed disease was one not. often fatal, namely, intermittent fever (ague), 92 per cent,
of all the observers having reported that
disease under their observation. Ninety
percent, ofthe observers reported diarrhea,
which thus appears to 'be unusually prevalent for. the season of the year. About one-
third (32 per cent.) of all the observers re-
'port diphtheria, ten per cent, report scarlet-
fevers, and the same proportion
cerebro-spinal meningitis. "No smallpox was reported from any part
pt the State. The five places from
which scarlet fever were reported in this
manner, were.- Detroit, East Saginaw, Sag-
anaw City, Muskegon and Pontiac. If this
disease is present afc any other place in Michigan, the Secretary of the State Board
would be glad to be informed. Diphtheria
is known, to be present in other places
than the sixteen from which it was reported
oh the weekly-report plan. . Pami h'efc doc--
uments on the restriction of diphtheria are
being sent from the office of the State Board
'of Health to such places as fast as they are
reported. Ifc frequently happens, however,
that diphtheria occurs in localities that have
notplaced themselves in communication with
tbe State Board as thelaw requires, byreport-
ing the name and address of their health
officer, and by reporting outbreaks of diseases dangerous to the -public h*jalth, as required by the State Board, under tbe law.
In order to make these weekly bulletins as
complete as possible, local health authorities should make their ^reports to the State
Board promptly, aiid regular observers are
respectfully requested to send in reports as
soon as possible after tbe close of each
week. B-entry B. haker.
Sec. State Board of Health.
—«fir- 0'-©*^—
Medical College* of
—The late Joha Magee, Jf^Wal;.
kins, N. Y., left $50.00Q w|th-which to
build five Protestant Episeopatch arches.
The first- was* xeceutly- cOmp"-e"tM: -at
Antrim, a flourishing mining tovsrn- in
Tioga County. \-   , ,/    „
—-The nurmbter of studeufs at .the
Vienna University is now S,457f exclusive of 594 unattached studeatsror-considerably more than at the German Universities of JBeiiin arii Leipzig. Thirty-five are Amet'icans. -     *•*•' ''
—Mary E. Ellen, M. _>.," has heen appointed "Professor of Physiology and
Hygiene, and resident physicianj,.^
Vassar College. Dr. Allen is" a talented
young Philadelphia Quakeress, agi'acfu-
ate of the Women's
Pennsylvania, class of 1876.
—At the meeting of the Methodist
Conference in London, Jatoes; Cal-Verfc,
ofEiji, said that the greatest blot of tlire
Eijians was their cannibalism. 4)ne of
the natives stated that he had feasted
on 872 different persons, and six Or
seven of the missionaries were "eaten
when they first commenced.their labofs
in Fiji.
—A church is not to measure its success by the accretion of new me*nioers,
says the Christian Union. That church
is most successful which cultivates most
assiduously the holiness of -its indiyi^-
ual members. We call a chureh strojng
as it counts its members by Hundreds
and its wealth by millions. Christcails
ifc strong as it is strong in faith and
rich in good works. . ■■ . ,11
i —The first offi cial Sunday-school census in the United* States is*"How Being
taken by the Government. Circulars
containing questions are senfc_ to every
Superintendent. ' These-cover-he number of teachers and chiWren, the ages
of scholars, the number, value and cHar^
acter of books in libraries, the property
owned, the money collected, and tlie "increase in attendance since 1870.  * '! ~«
—The rector of the Episcopal *clflirc&
in Shrewsbury, 7N". J., reads fromila
Bible which was printed in .1717,^nd
presented to the church about .17o2lJ
The church was founded in 1702,A *fh*4
spire is surmounted by an ironierb'wih
of George III., which the soldiers 5a
the Bevblution amused themselves with
shooting at," as may b"eseeh.hy the bullet Jioles in the wooden' ball below;..: 7
—The President of Amherst College:
has offered to the students the gpvi-j
lege of selecting representatives in
whose hands will be left certain matters
of college adminisfcrafcion'now ♦indeii^
taken by the faculty. This body svill
probably be composed ofe four, seiiiors,,
three juniors, two sophomores and one
freshman, with a member of--tne faculty as presiding.officer, if the classes" accept the proposal, which seems dOu-bjg,
ful.
—The-Baptist kminjsters~in Germany
complain .that  the Governrri,enfc   has,
during the last year, carried out a; fractionary policy against them. ^MiCjahpZ
at Frankfort, has been fined.-for speak*,
ing at, the grave of a deceased member...
His Sunday-school has been'pfohi"bife|r'
because it meets at private ?hou'ses,ife'a|P
teachers and persons who open theii*"i
houses to Sunday-schools .have. :beBjfe
threatened with fine if they disregarjj.
the prohibition.    The Churchjs trying
to secure the proteefcion of * a regular'
house of worship of its own..-.  ."-: *•* '*,r*»>i
PUNGENT EAKAttRAPHS.;
^-In his last will ahd testament Baron
Steuben said: ''Sullicieufc reasons have
detei'inineji me to exclude my relations
in Europe from any participation in
iny estate in America, and to adopt my
friends and former aids-tJe-eahip, Ben-
jamin Walker and William North, as
my  children,   and  makp   them   sole
devisees of all mv estates therein."
..    -   . "
—;The autograph of Iffartin Luther
was recently sold for" §150; that of
M'olancthon'for f56, and that oi "Voltaire
for $2,7250.
•■• —It- is always a= fall election^or tliS'*
defeated candidate.—N. O. 'Picayune.- '^
-.—Advice .from the Greek: '*Know- tfiy-^
self" is good advice. . And to.jfindv?o.u_;-
ali about yourself in the shortest time
get nominated for oSn.Ge.^-Lowell Citizen.       ^      ... .,*v *.-,-*■.*''
—-They asked him if 7b.e'was*i"lie'best
man at the wedding.   ."No," he said;
",L don't" know as I was the "best, "fint
bejabers I was as good-as any ;of 'emil,'.4
—Boston Post. - .„;.;.;. *■;•*«
—Fashion has decreed that the blonde %
takes   the    front  seat   this season..
As soon as the brunette finds but that "
she is unfashionable she will be willihgl
ip dye.—Texas Siftings. .   .--. ^-.-..:_
: . —The Chinese Government isgoing .to;
build some railroads, and soon,w.yi. be .
heard in the land the voice of the" Celes-'7
tial brakeman, ^Hoop-pee! Tang-tze-^
kianjunction! Tlainee'stoppeeten^min-'-
ufces eatee and dlinkee!"—BwrMngion^.
Hawk-Eye.        ' ' •.■'■'.*..■*_
—"Iremember," said Brewer, "_J,
remember two young men who "used - to*
board at my house—they are both dead'*'
now."   The crowd broke into a mean*-
ing*smile, and Brewer wondered why^
they didn't wait for the funny part,of 7
the story to come.—Lowell Courier.    * ^
'  —Bread is the staff of music as well3
as life; for do not the scales of notes'.'
start  off on dough?—Webster Times,,-
They   do.—Cambridge  Tnbune.   -La, :
me! is not this fa fetched.—Elevated ^
Raihvay   Journal.    _*"Tot  a bit   of   it. ***
Bread has to start off on dough before •■.
it can rise.    Si?—-Cambridge. Tribune.  -,a
—"Would you like to see the paperi''bi
asked a lymphatic looking gentleman**
at the hotel, after he had kept 'ti-e.sheet »
for nearly an hour. "Would 'you like *
to see the paper? There's tiothihg in**
it," "Seems to rne," replied Fogg,f*s
somewhat ill-humoredly, perhaps,^-;
"you waste a good deal of time pyei;..n
nothing."—Boston Transcript.   •       •    ^
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Heat Witiiont "Fire. "
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A  machine has  been invented   in;t
Boston for generating heat without fire.-"*
It is simply an iron cylinder about a*Jf
foot long and a foot in "diameter.   The • ?
bottom of the cylinder is a hardened „
plate upon which another plate of tl4e_%
same diameter turns*r the pressure  he-***
•ing regulated by a screw, according to,:
the power that is to be applied aiad'lihe^
amount of heat  desired.   All of ihe,:
space not taken up by the wheel and A
shaft is filled with water;   As sooff-B?:;
the wheel is set. in motion the wateris 1*
brought up to a high temperature, and -«
the cylinder becomes a stove, "whiety
radiates heat from the whole of its e>£-**/
terior surface.   Of course this inaehine *
can only be used in, ^buildings where.^
the^'e is  steam-power that   can,^be-.-j
ayailed of to run the friction.wheel. ^
T-iere: is entire seeiirity againsi^cci-^ *
dehtslby fire, "which is a strong^pbij-t-ih *^
favor of the friction hj^^^^^^imsm^l
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