The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-04-18
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

About One-half of the business portion of
Lancaster, n. H., was burned on the 9th.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Hiram Weeks, of St.JOhnsbury, vt, former
director of the Merchants National Bank of
that town, is reported absconded with 49,
600 trust and borrowed funds.
Gen. Thomas C. Devon, U. S. A, COM
mandant at Fort Laramie, Wyoming Terri
tory, died at his home in New York City a
few days ago, aged %.
5. Angler Chace, Treasurer of the Union
| Mills, Fall River, Mass, is defaulter to the
amount of nearly 100000. Chace is also
President of the Second National Bank and
the Five-cent Savings Bank of Fall River,
and prominent stakeholder in many other
financial and manufacturing concerns. The
loss, so far as known, will fall entirely upon
the Union Mills, whose paper he used freely
in all his transactions. The stockholders
are liable for the whole amount, and sew
\ eral of them will be financially ruined by
| the loss.
II. r. McTntire, President of the First Ma
| tional Bank Of Lake City, and Vice Presi-
dent ofthe First National Bank of Colorado
! Springs, Col, has abscOnded with $4,000.
England is sending large numbers of tor
pedO-boats to the Mediterranean fleet, also
additional heavy guns. The warlike prepa-
rations Of both the Russians and Turks
! around COnstantinOple continue.
John E. Lyon, President of the Boston,
Concord and Montreal Railroad, was burned
to death at Plymouth, NH, the night of the
10th. He was stopping at a hotel, and being
i'll he arose during the night and fell, the
lamp in his hand breaking, which set fire to
his clothing.
LauncelOt Fogarty, aged As, of 80 West
Forty-second Street, New York City, on the
10th, killed his wife, aged 50, and then killed
himself A quarrel about property was the
cause of the tragedy.
sam Steenburg, under sentence of death
for murder at Amsterdam, n. Y, has made
most bloOd-curdlng confession. he saws
he has committed IL different murders in
his lifetime, the first when he was only IA. |
and besides been guilty of innumerable |
other minor crimes.
William NJ. Tweed, the famous ex-Cbief
of the Tammany Ring, died in Ludlow Street
jail, New York City, on the 18th, from a .
complication Of diseases, brought about |
probably by his long confinement. He was !
in his 56th year. His ''last wordsr are said
TO have been-"I have tried to do some good.
if | have not had good luck. | am not afraid .
to die. believe the guardian angels will
protect me.'
John Shallington, colored, aged 81, was
hanged in Green County, n. c., in the pres
ence OF 1900 spectators, on the 18th, for the
murderofhis step-daughter, Serena Thomp-
son, aged Is, in August last. He maintain
ed his innocence to the last.
Gen. Henry 4. Smalley, very well known
business man in New York CITY, who had
been appointed by the Courts as guardian of
several important fiduciary trusts, public
and private, is missing, together with several
Of other peoples money.
William Thomas, Wilmington (DeI)
the other night when crazed
with drink killed his wife and then termin-
ated his own life.
S. Angler Chace, the defaulting Treasurer
Of the Union Mills Of FAN River, Mass, was
arrested on the 18th and lodged in Jail, bail
being refused.
George Leeds and Richard Varley, 'seamen
If the United States steamer Powhattan,
ell from the main-topgallant yard while
in Norfolk Harbor, and were in
antly killed.
on the 18th notice was given Of another
of wages in all the Lowell (Mass.) .
nils of from to Is per cent.
Capt. J. W. Cakes, Of Charleston, West ,
a, prominent steamboatmsn, committed