The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29

murrcr 10 the suit, holding that the c0ntract
was Illegal and against public policy.
Complete official returns Of the vote Of
Wisconsin give Sufsan TIiep.), for Governor,
y, 753; Mallory Dem J, &c, 4S2; Allis (Green-
back, 2G,l63.
The banking house OF W. W. Smith, at
Hamburg, Fremont County, Iowa, suspend
ed on the Goth. Liabilities, 100000; assets,
$4,000.
The Third National Bank Of Chicago sus-
pended on the 2lst. For some time previous
it was known that its resources had become
impaired from various causes reaching back
TO the panic Of 1873, at which time il suffered
heavily, and recently it has been stu further
crippled by the withdrawal OF the county
funds and other large accounts. Its de-
pOsits amount 10 sligo 900, and its assets,
when turned into cash, will probably pay
about - per cent. on its indebtedness. In
diyidual stockholders are liable for the bal
anco.
At Warsaw, Ind, on the evening Of the
21st, Libbie Jacques, aged 10, was terribly
and fatally burned about the face and breast,
by letting fall a lamp filed with oil, which
she was lifting from a chandelier. While en-
deavoring to pct out the flames on her cloth
ing, o. p. jacques, her father, burned both
hands so severely that it was thought ampu-
tation would be necessary. AtTerre Haute,
on the evening previous, Mary Tarelby, a
servant-girl in the employ Of Hon. Bayless
II. Hanna, was 50 badly burned by lamp eX-
plosion that she was expected to die.
Nicholas Plumbing has been arrested at
Wilton, Wis, charged with the murder Of
Mrs. Van voorhees, and her three children,
whose dead bodies were found in their burn
ing cottage about the first Of November. 1t
was supposed at the time that Mrs. Van
VOORHEES, killed her children and then took
her own life, but later developments strong
IL implicate Plumbing a being the author
Of the horrible crime.
The National Grange Patrons of Husband
~ met at Cincinnati on the 21st, delegates
from all the States being present.
A San Antonio dispatch Of the 23d says
that Gen. Ord has received an official copy
of the order of President Diaz to Gen. Dali
lin, commanding the Mexican forces on the
border, to repel invasion by United States
troops by force, and it Is further stated that
Gen. Treyino has been ordered TO the Rio
Grandc with $500 troops to carry out the
order. Gen. Ord has telegraphed TO the
President for another regiment Of cavalry.
The Central National Bank of Chicago
! closed its doors on the 23d, after slight
run. Its deposits amount to 100000, and
il is asserted that IFS assets are amply sufi-
cient TO pay all demands in full.
At Benton Ridge, Hancock County, O., on
the 22d, DIR. Frank H. Knapp shot and kill
ed Dr. IL. X. Mott with a shotgun. Both
were practicing physicians. DR.. Knapp says,
as defense Of his crime, that DR.. Mott had
several times fired at him with a revolver
and did so on the day Of the shooting, and
that he fred the fatal shot while under the
conviction that his life was in imminent
peril.
Charles Jones, a half-breed desperate,
who attempted to kill his wife and child at
McAlliSter Station, Indian Nation, was ar
rested and subsequently shot and killed
while attempting to escape from custody.
Two men named Shepard Clark and Israel
Doty were recently killed in Don Juan
County, Cal, about 10 miles from Pagosa
Springs, it is supposed by Mexican and a
Navajo Indian. The discovery of their dead
bodies was the first known Of their murder.
The Bismarck coach was attacked and
captured by Indians, on the 22d, near
Sulphur Springs Station, about 80 miles
from Deadwood. The passengers saved
their scalps by taking to the bluffs. After
ransacking the mail-bags, the-Indians killed
two Of the horses and decamped with the
other two.
Bishop EnOch NJ. Marvin, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, died at his residence
in st. Louis on the Goth. He was born in
Warren County, Mo, June y, 1923, and en-
tered the ministry when only Is years of
age. The disease from which he died was
pleuro- pneumonia.