The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-30
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
On the goth, Mr.. Leon Chotteau, COM
mercial agent from France, addressed the
San Francisco Chamber OF Commerce in
favor Of a new commercial treaty between
France and the United States, and was very
cordially received, as he had been in all the
large cities which he had visited.
heavy wind, rain and hail-storm ran all
the way from Wheeling, W. Va, to the lower
part OF Mississippi on the 10Th. In Vicks-
burg the rainfall in two hours was over one
and one-half inches. ~. tafl -sla
Near Dubuque, Iowa, on the Dist, three
children of a farmer named Wormkey were
sufOcated by the burning of sticks thrown
into wood-bOX. Wormkey and wife had
locked the children in the room and gone to
work in corn-feld.
The COroner's Jury which had been hold
ing an inquest on the victims of the mill ex-
plosion at Minneapolis, have returned a YER
dict that the disaster was tle result of an
explosion OF mill dust floating in the air
kindled by fire in the woodwork of Wash
burn A. Mill, originating in spark from
the stones running empty.
The Missouri Press Association held
three days session at Springfield, terminal
ing May %, and adjourned to meet at Co.
lumbia next spring. The attendance was
large, and the exercises unusually interest
ing and profitable. The convention was
followed by an excursion over the ST. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad to
Mobile and New Orleans
The National Greenback and Labor party
Of Indiana held a State Convention at In
dianapOlis on the 22d and nominated a full
list of State officers as follows: Secretary of
State-Henry James. Of Grant County:
Auditor7Jacob L. Bird, Of Gibson County;
Treasurer-R. p. Main, OF Floyd County;
School Experimentation Young, of
Marion County. The platform opposes the
resumption of specie payments, demands
the abolition Of all bank issues, the
free and unlimited coinage of gold and sill
yer, and the issuing by the Government of
full legal-tender paper in an amount sufi-
Gent to meet the wants Of trade, to give en-
ployment to all labor, and to do a cash bus
mess, etc. The red-flag Communists and
the Communism of National banks, bond
syndicates, and consolidated railroad com
panies are equally denounced. Finally the
Toledj National platform is Endorsed and
reaffirmed.
Jesse Walker was hanged at Farmers
vile, Union Parish, La, on the oath, for the
murder Of his cousin, Violet Simmons, in
February last. Both the murderer and his
victims were c0lored.
A tornado, moving from southwest TO
northeast, passed through Wisconsin on the
night of the 23d, carrying death and de-
structIon in its wake. AT Mineral Point,
where the tornado first struck with great
Severity, large number Of buildings were
demolished and their occupants buried in
the debris. Nine persons are reported kill
ed in this locality and proportionate num-
Der injured. The tornado, .somewhat
abated, but stil very destructive, passed
over Madison and so on through the State,
sweeping every thing In its pathway. The
storm appears TO have originatedfar to the
Southwest, crossing the Mississippi about
six miles south Of Quincy, and its course
through the State OF Illinois is marked with
destruction. At Darlington, McHenry
County, several houses were blown down.
The house-of a German farmer named Brun
was one Of the number, and his wife and
two children were killed.
The rectifying establishment OF Mr.. Chris /
tqpher Landheger, at Cincinnati, one of the |
largest in the West, has been seized by the |
Government officers on account of alleged /
non-cancellation of stamps.
destructive fire occurred at Parkers- |
burg, West Pa, on the oath, 10 houses be- 4
ing burned.
Stockholders Of the Consolidated Virginia 4
Mine have begun proceedings against the |
firm Of Flood and O'Brien, trustees Of the 1
company, to recover the sum Of SIS, GS44 ,3SSS,
alleged to have been wrongfulIy diverted /
by said trustees in their management of the
mine. The defendants claim that the OBJ
ject Of the proceedings is simply to bear the |
stock by attacking the management Of the 4
mines. ---f
Emile Houillion, who was sentenced to be
hanged at Columbus, Texas, on the oath Of I
May, cheated the gallows by taking fatal
dose Of poison on the night previous to the
day set for his execution. His crime was the
murder of Matthias Malsch, brother law
yer, in 1876, for improper intimacy with his I
wife.
During a severe storm on the night Of the
DIST, an entire freight train of is cars, to-
gether with the locomotive, went through
high trestle on the Kansas Pacific Railroad
near Denver, into the yawning abyss below.
Three men on the locomotive were pre-
sumably killed, but long search for their
bodies had proved unayailing, and, still more
strange TO relate, no trace OF the locOmo-
tive could be found. 4 vi t4,4 VI ffH
James o. Taylor, well-to-do farmer Of
GAINESVILLE, West Va-,is under arrest charg-
ed with the horrible crime CT outraging his
own daughter, beautiful girl aged l..
TAYLOR is PROMINENT member Of the 1i.E..t
Church. HIS daughter, who has always
borne a most excellent character, herself
preferred the charges against him, the de-
tails of which are almost too horrible for
belief. go
The Stair Savings Bank OF Dallas, Texas,
suspendedo on the 27th. Liabilities, $1,000;
assets, $40, 9Ql. ...s ~s1-e -
At Arlington, Bureau County, H., on the
evening Of the s8th, Samuel Kearney, who
bad been paying his addresses to Mrs. Eliza