The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-07-12
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

The New York Tribune compositors
struck in a body on the 10Th, without previ-
Gus notice, on account of proposed reduc-
ton of wages and some changes in the rules
of the Typographical Unions Their places
were supplied by nOn-union men, and the
Tribune announces its intention not to take
back the strikers under any circumstances.
By direction of the Secretary of War,
a Board of Engineers, to consist of Col. j.
H. Simpson, Major C. r. Suter and Capt.
w. II. II. Benyiard, has been ordered to as
semble at Vicksburg, Miss, July II, to eX-
anime and report upon the most advisable
means Of preserving the waterfront Of
Vicksburg, and of arresting the danger
which appears to be apprehended from a
cutoff opposite that city.
Near Mount Vernon, KY, on the night
of the 30th ult., party of about 100 men at
tackled the house of James Bethurman, a
noted desperate. Bethurman would not
surrender, and, firing upon the attacking
party with a shotgun, killed Charles Bar
ton. Though some 80 shots were fired at
him, Bethurman escaped. The same party
and took therefrom James Smith, Andrew
Cummings, Kink Kirk, and j. o. Gibbs, all
charged with robbery. They were taken
about a mile from town and all four hanged.
On the 9th ult. eight hundred Men
nonites arrived at Philadelphia from Russia.
They emigrated to escape CONSUMPTION, and
are destined for various points in Kansas,
Nah 10 md
vania.
A farmhouse near Sterlingville, Y,
occupied by family named Patterson, to
which tramp was refused admittance, was
burned the same night, and child persisted
in the flames. The remaining members of
the family narrowly escaped.
The Samoan Legislature has address
ed petition to Queen Victoria for British
protectOrate over the Islands.
Another hurricane swept over a por-
ton of the States of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana
and Pennsylvania on the night of the 30th,
doing great damage to buildings and other
property.
By the bursting of the steam pipe of
the Mississippi steamer Red Wing, near
Dallas, ILL.,, on the 3Oth, three persons were
fatally injured and several others more or
less seriously.
The annual boat-race between the
Harvard and Yale College crews took place
at Springfield, Mass, on the 30th. Harvard
won by boats length.
The trial, at Greenup, H., of TIE six
persons arrested for completely in the Long
Point train robbery, ended in their acquit-
tai by verdict of not guilty.
Three men, named Floy, Bellinger
and Pierce, were boating in the Niagara
River above the falls on the LIST, when the
boat got into the rapids. Bellinger and
Pierce jumped out and attempted to swim
to the shore, but were carried over the falls.
Floy remained in the boat and was rescued.
On the night of June 30, snow fell
in Chautauqua County, n. Y, to the depth
of eight inches. The cold was so severe that
grain and other crops were entirely destroy
ed i'm some localities.
The pleasure-steamer Katie May, on
Lake Minnetonka, Mimi, exploded her boil
ers on the 23d ult. and went to the bottom
carrying down her Captain, James
Charles Stoddard, engineer, and
Albert Seamons, a painter. Fortunately
there were but five persons on the boat at
the time of the accident, and two of these
escaped with their lives, but were badly in
iured.
The ocean steamships Elphinstone
and Red Water came into collision at Point
lu Tremble, below Montreal, on the 4th, and
both were sunk and will be total loss. The
former was bound inward with iron and the
after outward bound with corn. The crews
we're saved.
The deficit in the assets of the Repub-
ic Life Insurance Company, of Chicago, is
by the receiver to be nearly 49,
,OO, 1000.
The following is full list of the killed
md wounded at the recent Indian massacre
md fight in Idaho, as far as positively
znown: Killed: Citizens-Ben Norton, Jas. |
Baker, Samuel Benedict, Harry Mason, Hen