The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-10
TELEGRApHIC NOTES.

The suit of the English owners of the
famous Emma Mine against Frank w. Park
and Others, to recover the 100000 paid the
defendants, on the ground Of misrepre-
sentation in the sale OF The property, has re-
suited in verdict for the defendants.
The Hot Springs Commissioners for
laying out the Government reservation and
settling the claims of occupants commenced
their session on the 2Sth.
James F. Whitney, years old, in a
quarrel with his playmate, Lewis Shattuck,
at Nashua, n. H., on the 3Oth, was stabbed
by the latter, probably fatally, three times.
The United States Supreme Court has
issued a mandate directed 10 the United
States District Court of Missouri 10 execute
the judgment recently rendered against the
County of Scotland, Mo-, to compel it to pay
forthwith one years interest on S20O, 900 Of
bonds subscribed TO the Missouri, Iowa and
Nebraska Railroad.
A destructive fire occurred at Cana
joharie, n. Y, on the 10Th, destroying the
Nellis House and large number of other
business buildings. Loss about 500, 900
The Missouri Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 3Oth.
A fire at Greencastle, Ind, on the
night Of the 10Th, destroyed Hanna & Blacks
livery stable, and Leggett's billiard saloon.
w. II. Sherry, a prominent business man,
while assisting the Fire Department, was in
stantly killed by falling wall.
Two hundred and fifty more en-
ployees, mostly females, in the Government
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing, were
discharged on the Goth.
During the temporary absence of
James Hurd, of North Wear, n. H., his in
sane wife killed their son, aged 10 years, and
hanged herself.
A gentleman who registered himself
as NJ. p. Long, of Nashville, committed sui
eide at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, on
the Both, by taking laudanum. No cause for
the suicide was assigned, and it is thought
that he registered under an assumed name.
The well known firm of Shryock &
Rowland, st. Louis. has suspended, with
liabilities aggregating. about 100000.
At Dayton, Ohio, on the, morning of
the 10Th, an old lady, the mother of Judge
Frank, of the Probate Court, was burned to
death while attempting to light fire with
coal-oil. She was alone in the house at the
time, and when the accident was discovered
was already dead, and burned ina most hor-
rible manner, portion of her body being
crisped.
The Union Banking Company and the
United States Banking Company of Phiia-
delphia have gone into liquidation. The
Cashier of the former concern, James 4. Hill,
is defauIter for over SIS 600 The United
States is depositor TO the amount of about
5000.
Assertion of the roof of the New York
Post-ofiice fell on the list, crushing two
workmen to death and injnring several eth
crs. .H.s .s.
The severe frost -onsthe nights of
April 20 and 80 seriously injured early fruit
and vegetables in many localities. ..
The Lake Superior and Mississippi
Railroad was sold ON foreclosure ut st. Paul
on the LIST to satisfy Judgment for S3,77l,-
26O, in favor of the first mortgage bondhold-
ers. 1t brought just half a million dollars
Louisville had a grand celebration on
the night of the LIST, in honor of the settle
ment of the South Carolina and Louisiana
troubles. The Southern policy of President
Hayes was enthusiastically endorsed.
A passenger train on the Keokuk and
Des Moines Valley Railroad was thrown
down an embankment near Cliffland, on the
I'd. An unknown man, stealing ride, was
killed. Harvey Hopkins, baggage-mastcT,
had his skull fractured, and about IS others
on board were more or less injured.
The uncompleted Paducah and Mem
phis Railroad has been sold under an aerec-
ment with the creditors of the road, and a
new company will be organized with sutFi
Gent capital to complete the work. I'll.
Thomas E. Lambert, President, and
Alexander }. Reed, Actuary of the Popular
Life Insurance Company, Of New York, have
been indicted for swearing falsely, as allcg
ed, in statements of the standing of the com
pany. Indictments have also been fled
against Luther w. Frost, President, and ;.
II. Rogers, Secretary or the Continental Life
Insurance Company, upon similar grounds.
Both of the companies are now in the hands
of receivers. -l--.--a--
= Governor Phelps has commuted the
sentence of Edgar Moore, convicted of the
murder at st. Louis of Mabel Hail, the
"beautiful ballet girl" to imprisonment for
life.
A Montreal dispatch of the 3dsays: A
terrible landslide is reported onthe bank of
the river Veillet, tributary of the Batiscan,
Parish Ste. Geneyieve, 100 miles east OF this
city. At the point where the slide occurred
the bank is 80 feet high over creek. The
land moved burying saw and griSt mill
and-a house at the foot of the hill, and turn
ing the course Of the river. Ten persons
were buried alive. The bodies of Mrs. Mas
Scotte, wife of the owner of the mill, her
three children, aged 8, : and II, and Mr..
Clautier, father of Rev. Mr.. Clautier, of
Three Rivers, have been taken from the ru-
ms and are hardly recognizable.
A Carriage containing five persons
was struck by railroad train near Pompton,
n. j., on the I'd. Simon Demorest, Miss
Taylor, of Patterson, y. j., and young man
were killed, and the other two were fatally
injured.
Two MeXicans were lynched at Santa
Cruz, Cal, on the I'd, for the robbery and
murder of a citizen, Henri de Forest.
WAR NEWS.