The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

Near Tyler, Texas, four negro children,
left locked up at home while the mother
was at church, were burned to death on the
night Of the 2Sth.
AT Kansas City, on the night Of the 21th,
Theodore Haltenbach, a German chemist.
aged 43, and his wife were found dead in
their rooms, with bloody AK and an empty
revolver lying on the floor. Both Of them
had apparently beep Drained with the AK,
but neither had been shot. Their
little girl, aged s, was terribly
cut, but succeeded in reaching the yard and
alarming the neighbors, who rushed in to
find the house in flames and the dead bodies
as described. The bed occupied by Mrs
Haltenbach and her child was saturated
with kerosene. The little girl was so badly
injured as TO be unable TO give any intelligi-
bic account Of the affair.
The towboat Warner, from New Orleans
to st. Louis, with barges in tow, exploded
her boilers at Memphis on the morning of
The LIST. The pilot-house and roof were blown
TO great height, and fell back upon the
wreck, which took fire, but in few minutes
after the explosion the boat sank, so that onv
the upper works were visible. The following
lost their lives by the explosion: George
Dawson, captain; Dixon Kennett, pilot;
VIM. Radcliffe, engineer; VIM. Petit, VIM
RatclifTe, and another deckhand, name I'M
known. Jacob Cox, the pilot on watch, was
blown 10. feet in the air, fell beneath the
pilot-wheel on the wreck and was badly
though not dangerously bruised. His aerial
flight was shared by John w. Poe, the boats
clerk, who was also in the pilot-house at the
time Of the explosion. Several others were
injured, none, itw thought, fatally.
The Newcomb- Buchanan Company of
Louisville, KY, whisky distillers, which was
forced TO suspend in March last, announce
that they are now prepared 10 pay their
creditors i'm fun, with per cent. Interest.
A terrible disaster occurred at ninneapo-
lis, MIMI, on the "a, causing the loss of 16
human lives and the destruction Of property
valued at probably S1,0OO,OO0. About Z
O'Clock on the evening of that day "a terrific
explosion occurred in the great Washburn
Mill, located, together with several other
large mills and factories, on the river bank
just above the st. Anthony Falls. The buHd-
ing was almost literally blown TO atoms, such
was the force Of the explosion, and immedi-
ately a huge volume of flames shot up,
which communicated TO the adjacent mills,
all Of which had been more or less injured by
the explosion of the Washbum, and in a
few hours five immense tiouring-mills, COM
prising 81 out of the 49, runs Of stone in the
city, were heap Of smoldering ruins. Al
though the loss Of property was immense, the
loss of life was simply appalling. Outof22men
who went into the Washburn Mill not over
half an hour before the explosion, only five
escaped with their lives, and these poor fell
lows were literally blown out, most Of them
mere wrecks OF humanity. The disaster is
believed to have been caused by the explo-
sion of gas generated in the "middlings
purifier process, which is said to be as ex-
plosive as nitro glyeerine.
The Democracy Of the Ninth Indiana Dis
trict have nominated John r. COfiroth, of
Tippeeanoe, for Congress. The National
Greenbael1ers OF the same district have
nominated Leroy Templeton, Of Benton
County.
W. S. O'Brien, Of the firm of Flood & .
o'Brien, the California millionaires, died on 1
the I'd. BE was bachelor, and his heirs are
two sisters and several nieces and nephews. /
The value Of his estate is estimated TO be
from Sl5,O00,OOO TO S2e,00O,OOo, mostly in
mining stocks.
Luther H5lbrook, Herman Allen, and two
brothers named Sutton, who were engaged
in hunting and trapping ON Dismal Creek
Neb., were recently killed, their dead bodies
having been found in the vicinity Of their
amp. Al had bullet holes through their
heads.
At Delta, Reokuk County, Iowa, on the
9th, Zero Rice, hotel proprietor, was shot !