The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-07-19
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

The Keesville On. W National Bank
was robbed on the night of the 9th by seven
or eight masked burglars. The watchmen
were bound and gagged, the vault and safe
blown open and the contents carried away.
The bank loses 5000 in currency, 5000 in
town and county bonds and 81 800 in Gov
eminent bonds; total, $4,000. Persons who
left packages in the bank for safe keeping
have lost from $4,000 to $4,000.
Joseph Enos and wife, an aged
couple who lived near Brownsville, Mimi,
near the Iowa line, were murdered on the
night Of the Sth, and their house set on fire.
A hired man is supposed to have commit
ted the crime, and officers were in pursuit
Of him.
Del Norte, Col, the largest town in
the San Juan mining region, had a $4,000
fire on the night of the 9Th
The Merchants Loan and Trust Com
pany, of Paterson, \. j., suspended on the
9th.
The Ohio River steamer J. n. Cam
den exploded her boilers about 30 miles be-
low Wheeling, on the 9th, killing four men
and injuring several others.
On the night of the 9th mob of about
60 men proceeded to the residence Of John
Green, near Roanoke, Howard County, Mo-,
and taking Green out, hung him to the limb
of a tree. A few days previous Green had
shot and killed his Internationally he
said: Intentionally, she said before she died.
1t is charged that Green's intimacy with an
other woman caused him TO murder his
wife. They leave seven helpless children.
A summary of the June cotton crop
reports show a favorable condition OF the
/ crop in most localities.
The Cuban League of New York have
resolved to make an appeal to the people OF
/ the United States, asking them to show their
/ sympathy with the struggling Cuban patri-
OTIS; also to ask Congress when it meets to
| take some action that will end the struggle
At East Saginaw, Mich, on the 10th,
Martin Stokes made a desperate attempt to
kill his wife and then commit suicide. He
struck her with an AK, crushing her skull
then inflicted eleven distinct wounds on his
own head with the same AK. The woman vii
probably die. The man had shown symp-
toms of insanity for some time.
1t is reported from Cuba that the in,
surgent chief, Morejon, who was wounded
and taken prisoner, has been shot. More
than $50 insurgents are said to have beer
shot after being taken prisoners in various
actions.
Frank Wilson, colored, who murder
ed John B. Reedy in Harrisburg, Pa, il
June, 1876, was executed on the 18th. HI
confessed his crime some days prior to hi
execution.
The Bank of Pike County, at Louis
lana, Mo-, suspended payment on the 18th
The suspension was caused, it is stated, b,
improbable specuations on the part of thu
Cashier.
Mrs. Eliza O'Connell, wife of Charle'
O'Connell, with her child, and Mrs. Mary NJ
O'COnnor, wife of Thos. B. O'Connor, ant
her two children, were drowned at Batol
Rouge, La, on the 18th, while attempting t.
cross the river in a skiff.
& locomotive on the Fitchburg Rail
road, at Wendell Station, Mass, ran into
team crossing the railroad at that point, kill
ing Ira Davis, Mrs. Jonah Davis, his mother
Mrs. Ira Wakefield, Mrs. Eugene Brow
and Miss Nellie Lacey. The party were re
turning home from berrying.
The Governor of Kentucky has or
dered out militia company from COving
ton, to assist the Sheriff of Carter County il
; subduing and capturing a formidable gam
of hOrse-thieves who are operating in tina
locality and committing all sorts of Otfense
upon law-abiding citizens.
The Louisville Saengerfest, whicl
commenced on the 10th, was very largely at
tended and successful in nearly every par
: ticular.
: The steamer Fletcher arrived at Bis
/ marck on the 18th, from the Little Big Horn
bringing the remains of General Custer an
the other officers massacred with him, Jun
%, 1876. They will be taken to Fort Lincol
for the present.
The National Bank Examiner for In
diana has closed the First National Bank {
Delhi, Ind, on account of a run upon tn
bank, owing to the failure of Dugan, Cas-
& Spears, of Chicago, Dugan being tn
President of the bank. The assets are sal
to be $4,000 in excess of the liabilities.
George Stark, who was under arreS
in Allen County, KY, charged with the mul
. der of his sister-in-law, Miss Barton, wa
taken from the officers on the night of tn
, 10th and hanged by a mob.
+ There was considerable rioting
Montreal on July u, the occasion Of tn
Orangemen's celebration. One man, Pro
, testant, was shot dead, and several otht
persons were wounded by stray shots. II
military was ordered out, but had no OF
casion to use force to quell the disturbanc
The International Cotton Conventio
l met at Liverpool on the 18th. Delegate
were present from the United States, an
from Havre, Amsterdam, Hamburg and OIL
er commercial centers.
l. An Omaha dispatch of the 18th says
The Texas cattle droves which have thu
far arrived on the Platte number 600
head, and 1900 head are yet to arrive.
: The Acknowledgement of the State {
r New York has commenced proceedings
/. have the Universal Life Insurance Compar
e of New York put into the hands of a n
e ceiver.
2 The Detroit Daily Tribune and Dali
Post are to be consolidated.
d At San Juan, Cal, on the night of IL
# 18th, body of masked men overpowere
V the guard at the lookup and took them
V Justin Arago TO the outskirts of the tow
# and hanged him to tree, his ofrense haviI
been the murder of Manuel Burton, an il
! offensive citizen.
David Pearce and George Steven
: negroes, who waylaid, robbed, and murde
ed a young man named Edings, ne
Charleston, S. c., in May last, were hang'
q in that city on the 18th in eXpiatiOn of the
n crime.
q A deputation of colored men waite
= upon the Executive Committee of the Cub;
:. League, at New York, on the 18th, and ga
n formal expression of the sympathy of the
e race with the cause of Cuba.
y WAR NEWS.
Is The situation of affairs along the Da