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# NEWS SUMMARY.
# SERIOUS RIOT IN THE LUMBER REGION - OTHER MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.
The seventh anniversary of the opening of the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, was celebrated yesterday, S. Teackle Wallis delivered an address, and the degree of Ph. D. was conferred upon K. Mitsukuri, now Professor in the University of Tokio, Japan, and upon B. F. O'Connor, of the University of France. In the evening the officers of the University gave a reception to the students in Hopkins Hall. The exercises were directed by President Gilman.
A report comes from East Tawas, Michigan, of serious trouble at a lumber camp twenty-five miles from that place. It is said that one man chopped off another's head; that the murderer was lynched; that sixty men are guarding the body to prevent removal and that a riot is threatened. A later despatch reports that when some men from a neighboring camp attempted to take down the corpse, a general fight resulted, in which seven men were killed.
At Milford, Massachusetts, yesterday, thirteen school children were thrown from a double-runner sled, which struck a tree, and nearly all of them were picked up unconscious. Mamie Murray had a leg broken, necessitating its amputation. Edward Hogan had a leg broken and was injured internally. Lewis Crane and Willie Hickey were badly bruised and, perhaps, internally injured. Lucy Gleason and Mary Doherty were badly injured.
The fire insurance rates at Halifax, Nova Scotia, have been greatly increased, and in some cases doubled, because, as stated in a telegram from that city, representatives of the insurance companies having reported that "the facilities for extinguishing fires are insufficient in case of such emergencies as have occurred in other cities."
The Craft murder case at Grayson, Kentucky, was given to the jury last evening. In a few minutes the jury returned, "unable to agree," but the Judge announced a recess until morning. The reason alleged by the foreman for the promptness of the disagreement was "the illness of one of the jurors."
In Cincinnati, yesterday morning, a section of McLean avenue, 75 feet in length, slipped into the water at Court street, letting down the track of the Southern Railroad, and cut off communication with its passenger and freight depots. The slide occurred a short time before the arrival of an incoming train.
The receiver of the defunct American National Life and Trust Company of New Haven has brought suit against Jeremiah Bishop, Treasurer, for $50,000, alleged to have been unaccounted for by him, and the interest thereon, the whole amounting to about $100,000.
Suit was begun yesterday in the Superior Court at Montreal to annul the marriage of Miss Chaffey, an heiress of Perth, to Henry Allen, alias "Lord Cantyre." Miss Chaffey is under age, and married the pretended "nobleman" against her guardian's consent.
The funeral of sixteen of the little victims of the school-house disaster in New York, took place yesterday morning, from the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, adjoining the school-house. The church and the streets around it were thronged.
George Bolling, colored, accused of the murder, last week, of Richard Walker, Superintendent of the Richmond Chemical Works, was arrested in New Kent County, Virginia, on Wednesday night. He will have a hearing in Richmond to-day.
Preston Kean & Co., private bankers of Chicago, from whom a confidential clerk recently embezzled $55,000, have requested the Clearing House to investigate their affairs and report the result. The examination was begun yesterday.
Lawyers will gladly learn that Brougham, the great English barrister, was always careful of his throat, and further that Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is the best remedy for bronchitis and other throat troubles.
Captain Pierre Lanier, of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, was shot dead while going through a neighboring plantation on his way home, last Friday. After being shot his clothes were saturated with coal oil and set on fire.
There have been sent to Europe through C. B. Richard & Co., of New York, in aid of the sufferers by the Rhine floods, the sum of $112,174.
The Susquehanna river, at Williamsport, was falling yesterday. The ice was moving, and a channel opened in the gorge.
The strike of the New York street cleaners for $2 per day ended yesterday in their return to work at the old rate of $1.50.
The convicts in Sing Sing penitentiary were reported yesterday to be quieting down.
Earthquakes and volcanic disturbances are reported to be "unusually numerous" in Japan.
