The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-20

up plea OF insanity.
The German American Bank Of Chicago
suspended on the 18th. It's liabilities to de-
( pOsitors are $4,000; assets S10s,OO0. The
stockholders viii lose 80 per cent.
A business block at Helena, Ark, COM
1 prising the Post-ofice and several business
/ houses, was burned on the night Of the 18th.
A portion of the Milburn Wagon Com
pany's works at Toledo, o., was burned on
the 18th. Loss about $4,000; fully insured,
Edward Wyatt and Frank Webster,
I United States special revenue officers, were
seriously wounded in recent raid upon
"moonshiners" in Cumberland County, Ky.
/ Wyatt lost an eye and Webster was wound
Cd in the head.
A large meeting in favor Of the remoneti-
cation Of silver was held in Chicago on the
night Of the 18Th, at which resolutions were
adopted demanding the immediate restora-
ton Of the old silver dollar to its place in the
coinage, and resolving to vote for no man for
/ Congress who is not sound on the question;
I also, declaring resistance 10 the payment Of
the bOndholder save as the face of the bond
4 provides, and calling ON the people every
where TO hold meetings to give expression
! to their views on the subject.
The mail coach from Santa Fe, New Mex
leo, bound East, with three passengers, was
robbed on the night Of the 11th by armed
highwaymcn, who secured from the pas
sengers and the driver about 81, 900 in cash.
They then unhitched the leaders OF the
coach-team and rode them away.
Alfred Jones, aged y, farmer residing
in the vicinity Of Linnvile, Licking County,
o., on the 18th deliberately killed his daugh-
ter Susanna, aged about -, with Ratchet,
after which he walked to town, distance of
eight miles, and surrendered himself to the
| authorities after giving them full informa-
ton regarding the horrible affair. The IA
Their suspected the daughter, who kept house
for him, Of improper intimacy with some of
the neighboring men, and while in fit Of
anger, caused thereby, committed the MUIR
der. He has lived in Licking County for 43
years, and was universally regarded as a
worthy and upright man.
Near Lawrenceville, Dearborn County,
Ind, on the 18th, Joseph Kuntzler was kill
ed by his own son, a boy aged only 10, who
shot him in cold blood as he was returning
home from town. The parricide, after be-
ing arrested, confessed to the shooting, but
said that he was instigated to it by his
mother, who deliberately planned the muir
der, and after his father was shot she took
the gun and placed it by the side of the muir
dered man, in order to make 1t appear that
he had shot himself, which was the story
they had agreed to tell. Mrs. Kuntzler was
seeking divorce from her husband. Moth
er and son are both imprisoned.
Miss Mary Mason, young lady of Upton,
Iowa, was putting out a lamp the other
night when it exploded, setting her clothes
on fire. Her flesh was burned to a crisp all
over her body, and she died in great agony.
A popular variety singer in New Orleans
was dressing for the stage few nights ago,
when the lamp in her room exploded. In a
few moments she was a corpse.
J. d. Easter & Co., of Chicago, the largest
dealers in agricultural implements in the
Northwest, have made an assignment. They
claim to have quarter of million dollars
in farmers notes, due and unpaid.
The University building at Lake Forest,
near Chicago, was burned on the 18th. 1t
cost $4,000, and was insured for SIS 900.
The valuable librarywas saved. The school
will continue without interruption, the Pre-
paratOry Department, Academy and Sem
mary, which were isolated buildings and re-
main uninjured, affording sufficient accom-
mediation to the pupils.
John A. Van Molt, Sergeant of Company A,
Third United States Cavalry, was shot and
killed by private named Kennedy, while
the commandwas en- route to the Black Hills.
Kennedy was arrested and placed under
guard, but durding the night the soldiers
overpOwered the guard and hung Kennedy
to the ridge-pole of tent.
A notorious outlaw and murderer named
Schumme, was taken from the Jail at George
town, Col, on the 18th, and hanged by a
mob.
James McLendOn, colored, was hanged at
Bastrop, La, on the 4th, for the murder of c.
NJ. Evans in September, 1876.
John Jones, colored, was hanged at Mari
anna, Ark, on the 18th, for the murder of
Joseph COlwell, also colored, about year
ago.
A collision between detachment of Tex
as State troops and party of Mexicans Oc-
CURED at San Eizario, Fl Paso County,
Texas, on the 18th, in which five of the Tex
as soldiers were killed, also a citizen named
Ellis. The Sheriff of the county called upon
the Governor for assistance, and Gov. Hub
bard promptly transmitted an account Of
the affair to President Hayes, asking for
Federal troops to aid the State authorities
in enforcing law and order. The old diff
Guilty regarding the right Of the MeXicans to
work certain salt ponds was the cause of the
fght,and the most of the so-called Mexicans
engaged in the affair are really citizens of FL
Paso County, of Mexican descent. The Gov
eminent does not consider that the troubles
are in any degree international.
Boot Alexander, colored, who murdered
Thomas Daughty near MurphysbOro, Tenn,
was taken from the Jail by an armed mob
and hanged on the night Of the 14th.
j. T. Farley is the Democratic caucus
nominee for United States Senator from CAL
ifornia.
Sam. Holmes, a noted Kentucky despera-
do, who shot and killed Sheriff Napier OF
Lincoln County, in 1869, was captured on the
10th and is now safely lodged in Jail. There
was 4 standing reward Of $500 offered for
his apprehension.
Ham and Mccullough, two of the Kansas
City forgers of Texas land titles, have been
sentenced at Austin-Ham to 10 years and
Mccullough to six years in the Texas Peni-
Tertiary. Tullis, one of the Texas partners,
has been sentenced to seven years. impris-
Onment.
The official survey of Captain NJ. o.
Brown, United States Army inspecting Off
Ger of the jetties, completed on December
II, shows a 22-foot channel over 200 feet
wide entirely through the works, which en-
titles Capt. Eads to the second payment
of 100000. A practical channel through
the jettieS was found with at least depth
of % feet.
PionZnag, leader of the renegade Apaches
IN ArizOna, is reported dead.
The Springfield Cll.) Savings Bank sus-
pended on the 18th. Its financial difficulties
date back to the panic of 1873.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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