The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-08-30
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about two miles from Deadwood, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 18th. Out
of about POO houses, only two were saved.
A wagon containing three men was
run into by a train on the Louisville, New
Albany and Chicago Railroad, near Lafay
cite, Ind, on the 18th. George Foulk and
William Blond We're instantly killed, and
Frank Cole fatally injured.
Mrs. Kate English, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
was fatally burned on the 10Th by the upset
ting of kerosene lamp, and died on the
same day.
The body OF a man supposed to be j.
H. Mackey, of the firm of Lewis q Mackey,
lawyers, Brooklyn, n. Y, was found in the
woods near Newport, KY, on the 18th. The
skull was fractured and the body badly de-
composed. 1t was identified by papers found
in the pockets of deceased.
A panic occurred on the steamer Phil.
Allen, Just as she was preparing to leave
Memphis on the Dist, caused by the blowing
out of her safety-valve. A number of pas
sengers jumped overheard, and others from
the boiler-deck to the lower deck, among
them Miss Ella Lapaugh, an Eastern news
paper correspondent, who was severely in
jured. None of the others were hurt.
The Lakeside House, summer hotel
on the Third Lake, Madison, Wis, was
burned on the morning Of the 21st. The
contents of the house were all removed in
safety. About 100 guests were at breakfast
when the fire broke out in an out building,
but there being no fire appliances it was not
possible to save the hotel. Loss about $16,-
600; insured for $4,000.
At Omaha, on the goth, during the
prevalence of a thunderstorm, a row-boat
on the river, containing party of five per-
sons, was struck by lightning. George
Sladge was instantly killed. Mrs. Heger
sprang from her seat, threw out her arms
frantically, fell backward into the stream
and was swept out of sight. The remainder
of the party, one man and two women, drift
ed safely to the shore.
A $4,000 fire occurred at Anoka,
Mimi, on the Goth, large amount Of milling
property being destroyed.
The ninth annual session of the Ma
tional Board of Trade was held in Milwau-
kee, beginning on the Dist.
The United States revenue officers in
Kentucky have recently been making des-
perate efforts to break up illicit distilling in
that State, which is said to be quite prev
alent. A number Of serious collisions have
occurred. Over 100 arrests have been made.
Stack Foster, colored, who was charg-
ed with numbering his father-in-law, near
Cortland, Ala, recently, fled to Memphis.
On the 22d an attempt was made to arrest
him under requisitiOn. He ran from the
officers, when one of them fired at him with
a revolver, the ball striking him in the back
and passing through the heart, causing in
slant death.
A general strike of coal miners in the
Irvine District, WestmOreland County, Pa,
for an increase of wages, took place on the
ODD.
A dispatch. from Alexandria, Egypt,
23d, says: The French man Of-war, COrreze,
has passed Alden with cholera on board.
Fifty of the crew are dead, and 100 are still
sick.
John Wesley Hardin, a former noto-
rious Texas desperate, who is said to have
committed 81 murders, the last of which, so
far as known, was the killing Of the Sheriff
of Comanche County, Texas, was arrested
at Pensacola, Florida, on the oath,
on requisition from the Gov
ernG of Texas. He had lived for
some years in Florida under the name OF
John Swain. About twenty shots were fired
in making the arrest, and Hardin's cOmpan-
| ion, named Mann, who had a pistol in his
hand, was killed.
DIR. w. F. Cooper, living near
Charleston, W. Va, is under arrest for pois-
oning his wife. She having been his third
wife, and both his former wives having died
suddenly under what was considered sus-
! picious circumstances, it is now supposed
he poisoned them also, and their bodies will
! be eXhumed and examined for traces Of
poison. He is a man of violent temper,
| especially when intoxicated.