The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-04-11
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

Municipal elections were held on the LIST
and 2d several States. The issues in
most places were local rather than political.
In Vigo County, Ind, the National party
ran straight party tickets, and carried eight
out of u towns in the county, together with
the city Of Terre Haute. The Greenbackers
made almost clean sweep in Little Rock,
Ark.
A State Convention Of the National Party
Of Missouri has been called to meet at Soda
liza on the 18th Of June.
DIR. L. f. Jennings,s protested "material-
istic medium" Of considerable notoriety,
both in this country and England, was de-
tected ana publicly exposed in his trickery
at st. Louis few nights ago.
it is reported in Chicago that two English
gentlemen are in that city, and have agents
throughout the West, for the purpose of
buying 10000 horses, Ostensibly for street.
cars in Scotland and England, but, judging
by the character Of the animals they select,
they are intended rather for active move-
ments than for draft purposes.
A general strike Of the engineers and fire.
men upon the Atcbison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad, was inaugurated on the 4th.
\ recent reduction OF wages and the dis
charge by the company of two Brotherhood
engineers are stated as the cause Of the
strike.
The steamer Dawn, from Shreveport, with
800 bales of cotton and other freight,wa to-
tally destroyed by fire on the 4th, about As
miles above New Orleans. The passengers
saved their lives, but lost all their personal
effects.
An eXpress-car attached to train on the
TeXss-Pacific Railroad was captured at
Eagleford, about six miles west of Dallas,
on the night Of the 4th, by four masked men.
The robbers got about $50 in express pack
ages, and also took number Of registered
letters from the mail apartment. The rob-
hers are said TO be the same gang who rob-
bed the Central train sometime back at Al
len, and latterly at Hutchinson, both places
near Dallas. 1t is supposed their headquar-
tiers are at Eagleford. The passengers were
not disturbed.
Henry Crouch, his wife and two children
were drowned while fishing in a pond near
their residence about seven miles west Of
Battle Creek, Mich, on the Sd.
One thousand spectators witnessed an
arena fight between a lioness and bull
near San Antonio, Texas, on the 9th. The
fight lasted u minutes, at the end of which
time the lioness lay impaled under the BULBS
horns, in a dying condition.
The Sandy Fashion, a small steamer run
ming from Catlettsburg, KY, up the Sandy
River, exploded her boilers on the night of
the 9th at the mouth of the Sandy, and sunk
in three minutes in nine feet Of water. She
had on board about 40 passengers and crew.
Joseph Newburg, merchant of Richmond,
Ky, A. Osborn, pilot, and others, names un-
known, were killed, besides several serious
ly injured.
4 letter to the Chicago Tribune from
Cairo, 9th, SAYS: "Your correspondent has
seen in a letter from a gentleman at Port
Eads, received here to-day, evidence that
the jetties are a success in every sense of the /
word. 1t is stated, notwithstanding the
high river, the scour or wash is still going 1
on, and vessels drawing % 1-2 feet come and |
90 with ease. There is every indication /
that Eads will reach his 24-feet-payment in |
month"
G. X. Clark, Jr., Detroit grain speculat /
or, has absconded, leaving about $4,000 in
debts behind him.
J. W. Bugbee, an Indianapolis lumber
dealer, has committed forgeries to the amount
OF $4,000. His forgeries extended through
several years.
The Governor of Kansas, on the Sth, is
sued proclamation ordering the Atchisop,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad strikers TO
disperse, and called out the militia COM
panies of Topeka and Leavenworth TO en-
force the order.