The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-03-22
committed suicide on the 10th. Cause not

committed suicide on the 10th. Cause moi
stated.
REV. DIR. E. o. HovEY, Professor Of
Chemistry and Geology in Wabash College,
CraFfordsville, Ind, died on the 10Th,
- IS. The deceased was one Of the
fbunders Of This college, and had been .
Fmember offhe Board of Trustees since It's
organization, and Of the faculty for more
than forty years.
The Exchange Bank AZ Canandaigua,
n. Y, has failed; liabilities $40. 200 to
S20O, 200; assets not over SO, 900 to 500 600.
The cause OF the failure, it is supposed, was
unfortunate speeulations in Western Sc
eRrities. The bank was patronized by the
working people, who will lose about all.
An Egyptian man-of-war, with APO
men on board, was recently burned in the
Gulf OF Suez. All but 20 escaped.
DIR. Buckler Jones, well known in
Baltimore as criminal practitioner of sur
gerry, committed suicide on the sth by cut
ting his throat with pocket-knife. he
had recently been arrested for causing the
death of young woman under his charge.
The revenue officers have recently
| captured and destroyed in Georgia 81 ille-
gal distilleries and 30, 900 gallons Of beer
and mash, besides srresting IS distillers
and a notorious outlaw named Harrison
Baker. who was in league with them. Ba-
ker was once under arrest for shooting 8
Government officer, but managed to make
his escape. srf tv--
Smith M. Dancer, of Camden, Ohio,
uncle of the late Mary NJ. Dancer, of New
York, the gamblers daughter, who left a
! fortune OF nearly 81, 000, 200 to charitable
| institutions, has taken steps to contest the
will.
The Vanderbilt heirs have settled their
qusrrels about the estate and the contest is
removed from the courts.
Deputy Sheriff Jason w. Russell, of
Madison County. Tenn, assisted by his
nephews, William and John Anderson,
went to arrest three brothers named Petete,
indicted for carrying concealed weapons.
The Petetes resisted, killing Russell and
woHnding VIM. Anderson. John Petete
was killed, Andy Petete was finally arrested,
and the other one escaped.
The United States Supreme Court has
affirmed the decision of the Court Of Claims
in the famous Chorpening case.
The First National Bank of Monroe,
Mich, has closed its doors on account of
the recent failure Of C. Ives, of Detroit.
The German Banking Company, of
Pottsville, Pa, has suspended.
The Connecticut Legislature has by
law fixed the rate Of interest in that State
at per cent. in the absence of contract.
The past winter in Russia has been
the severest for many years. The Their
mometer was nearly 20 deg. below zero in
St. Petersburg on the night of the 18th inst.
Michael Merriman, living at Rock
Greek Center, 10 miles south of Hunting
ton, Ind, who had been in the Insane Asy-
lum, and was sent home about a year ago,
thought to have been permanently cured,
on the 18th shot one of his sons, aged IS,
through the head, fatally wounding him,
and another, aged 16, through the shoul-
der, probably fatally wounding him also.
He then shot and killed himself instantly.
Joe Goss, indicted in q Kentucky
court for participation in the Allen Goss
prize-fght, has been arrested in New York
City and taken to Burlington, Boone Coun-
ty, Kentucky, to await trial.
Tassey Stewart, the Californian farm
er who was tried on a charge of attempting
to bride ex-Secretsry Chandler to render a
land decision in his favor, has been acquit-
ted. H
A man calling himself J. W. Brooks
successfully personated an express mssen-
ger on the Allegheny Valley Railroad, and
on the arrival of the train in Pittsburgh
carried off "A, 900 of the money in his charge.
James Kingan, a prominent New
York provision dealer and Spectator, be-
came heavily involved, and few days ago
fed to escape his creditors. On the 14th
his dead body was found lying along the
track Of the international Railroad, near
Wexford Station, New Brunswick, with the
throat cut from ear to ear. 1t was at first
supposed he had committed suicide, but
subsequent investigation indicates that he
was murdered.
There was riotous demonstration
by the unemployed workingmen of Scran-
ton, Pa, on the 10Th, during which the cry
OF "Bread or blood' was reiterated
through the streets.
In Chicago, on the 10Th, DR.. VIM. G.
Pike, a chronological lecturer, shot and
killed S. S. Jones, editor Of the ReLigiO-
Philosophical Journal, for the alleged Sc
duction of his (Pike's) wife.
The store of Field Magruder, at Ben
ning's Station, near Washington, D. c.,
was burned on the night of the 18th, and
Ebenezer Large and his son John, who
slept in the building, were burned to death.
There is but little doubt that both of the
men were murdered, the store robbed ana
then set on fire.
Four colored men were executed at
Aiken, S. c., on the 10Th, for the murder
of two white men.