The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-11-09
TELEGRAPHIO NOTES.

Two illicit distillers of Pope County,
Ark, named Hughes and Hall, on the
23d, shot three ministers who were travelling
on horseback, killing one of tn EN- and
woundlng the other. 1t is supposed they
mistook them for revenue officers.
A collision occurred on the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad, near
GoldsbOrO, Pa, on the 9Oth, by which FIVE
persons were killed and Is wounded.
A false alarm of fire in a Chinese the
alter in San Francisco on the night of the
3Oth Occasioned panic and stampede, in
which about % persons were killed and as
many more wounded.
Two large buildings of the Miami
Powder Mills, located II miles from Spring.
field, o., blew up with terrific violence on
the afternoon Of the 1st. Michael Deneane
was blown to atoms, and several other per-
sons were severely injured. The cOncus-
sion was so great that windows were broken
miles distant. Antioch College, at Yellow
Springs, was considerably damaged, and
the shock was felt with great fierce at
Springfield, Nenia, London and other
points. The damage is estimated at 49,,
600.
Some of the personal property of
Brigham Young was sold by public auction
on the LIST, to satisfy the award Of the Court
in the Ann Eliza divorce case.
General Augur received a dispatch
from Artesia, Miss, on the ID, stating that
a meeting there on the previous day ended
in a free fight, and the wounding of six ne
groes, one mortally. United States troops
were called upon by the citizens, and their
prompt appearance prevented further dis
turbance. The citizens requested the
troops to remain to prevent a repetition of
the riot.
At Keota, Iowa, on the 1st, Mr.. and
Mrs. Vincent and a Mr.. Gilman, well
known residents Of that place, were cross
ing the railroad track in buggy, when an
engine backed down upon them. Mr.. and
Mrs. Vincent were instantly killed, and
Mr.. Gilman fatally injured.
By the breaking of car-axle on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, on the plight of the
1st, near Center Valley, three sleepers and
one passenger-car were thrown from the
track. The brakeman and porter were
killed, and several others injured.
The Chicago and Southwestern Rail
road was sold on the LIST under a decree of
foreclosure, to the Iowa Southern and Mis-
souri, Northern Railroad Company, for ST.
So, 800. 1t is understood the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific will get it.
Eugene Catchings and Bill Payne
were hanged at Kaufman, Texas, on the
50, for the murder Of John Love, near Ter
rel, in Kaufman County, on the 18th Of
May last. Catchings was the son of Mis-
sissippi planter, and was only % years Of
age. Payne was a mulatto, aged about %,
born and raised in Illinois. John Love, for
whose murder they were hanged, was an
industrious gardener from Pennsylvania,
% years old. Robbery was the incentive to
the crime.
A party of negroes broke into a resi-
dence near Aiken, S. c., on the night of the
I'd, and murdered Mr.. Hanslam and his
nephew, named Postman. After robbing
the premises the murdercrs fired the dwell
ing.
Francis Thompson, the notorious ne
gro, who for years figured as a woman and
imposed on the Congressional Committee in
connection with the riots in 1866, died in the
hospital at Memphis on the Sd.