The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-01-25
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

Alex. Barton, Cashier of the Nation
Il 'l,salrot FishkiIl, N. Y, is charged with
deficiency OF from $50, 600 to 500, 900, and
the Bank has temporarily suspended pay
ment.
Ten schooners OF the Gloucester fish
ing fleet are missing, and doubtless lost,
and the crews have probably persisted.
The schOcrers carry an average Of ten men
each.
At Dayton, KY, a suburb of Coving
ton, on the night of the 18th, Mrs. Minnie
Blasen, wife of a carpenter, arose from her
bed after the family had retired, took her
1O-day-old infant, and, proceeding to the
river, threw herself and babe into the
stream and both were drowned. 1t is
thought she was deranged.
The Louisville, Paducah and South
western Railroad, with all its belongings,
has been transferred to the Louisville, Nash
vile and Great Southern line, making the
latter, perhaps, the largest road in the
South.
The funeral services and burial of the
unrecognized victims Of the Ashtabula dis
aster took place on the 18th.
Gen. Julian Queroga, a prominent
military officer Of the late Lerdo Govern
ment, who had retired to his rancho in
Nuevo Leon, after the flight of Lerdo from
the Capitsl, was shot at Monterey, on the
nth, by rider OF Gen. Torvins, a partisan
of Diaz.
John D. Layman, Lucius Layman, his
son, and George Bradbury, a lad of 13, were
instantly killed by the explosion of thresh-
ing-machine boiler at Bloomington, Henne-
pin County, Mimi, on the 10th.
A bold attempt to rob the express
car on the outgoing Chicago train Of the
Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad, was
made on the night Of the 18th. Three
masked men entered the car at Burlington
Crossing, just inside the city limits, over
powered the messenger, and went through
the safe, which contained about $25, 900 in
valuables. In the hurry OF getting OF,
however, they uuintentionally left behind
them all the money packages except one
containing SAB. Three men, supposed to
be the robbers, were arrested on the follow
ing day.
Daniel Price, colored, was hanged at
Warrenton, Mo-, on the 18th, for the MUIR
der Of Samuel Taylor. Taylor's wife, who
was convicted of being an accessory to the
murder Of her husband, and who was shown
to have been a paramour OF the negro, is
now serving out her sentence of % years in
the Penitentiary,
The Union Trust Company of New
York was few days since defrauded out Of
S64, 600 by skillfully forged check. Horace
E. Brown, 'curbstone" broker, has been
arrested for completely in the affair.
The St. Louis German Protestant Or
phans' Home, located few miles west Of
that city, was entirely destroyed by fire on
the 18th. There were about 200 children in
the institution, all but one Of whom, boy
named Eugene Lang, were rescued from
the burning building.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue having by letter called attention Of the
Secretary Of the Treasury to the extensive
manufacture of illicit spirits in certain
Southern States, and the difficulty in en-
forcing the revenue laws there, the Presi.
dent has ordered that sufficient number Of
troops to be detailed, when requested, to
assist the revenue officials in performing
their duties.
The business portion of Prescott,
Ark, was destroyed by fire on the morning
Of the 18th.
The Cabans claim to have recently
gaiKed two important victories over the
spaniards-one at Farralones and the other
st ZSpsta.