The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-08-28

! distressing circumstances, The Profess
or and family and several students
had been camping at Eureka
Springs for some time. for health
and recreation. The party were seated AT
what was intended 10 be the final dinner
before breaking up camp, when, without
warning, large tree, half burned in
two near the ground, was discovered
to be falling All started up and
escaped except Mrs. Clark, who, having an
infant in her aTms, was embarrassed IN her
movements, and was caught and crushed by
the tree. wHh mothers forethought,
however, she held her babe at arms length,
and il was net harmed. She died in half an
hour
j. NJ. Cotton, Postmaster, station Agent
and general dealer at WilliansstowR on the
Kaasirs Patific Railway, seven miles from
RisurarelS, was murdered In = mos horrible
manner ga the night of the Goth, 1T is sup
pesed bvsa tramp An ak wits the weapos
used. AMI his head was nearly severed FROM
hfs body. Several suspected PARTIES wSre
4 arrested.
Bunk AXE, a negro, was hanged at ATS
tin. Texas, on the 22d> His urine wast1he
young German girl.
w-mill in Soneana County, Call was
carried off by tidal wave, and three men
and one woman drowned nfhe ocean,
DANES Dobbins and Michael Burns ,faeigh-
buring farmers, residing six miles west of
kansas City, on the night of the I'D had a
quarrel about some money owed bythe for
mer to the latter. Each was armed with re-
krolyers. Dobbips fired fte fiIs Shot hitting
! Burns in the right forearm. Burns retail
ated and sent two bullets through
A Dobbins's chest. .Dobbins ii return
shot Burns through the abdomen.
Burns's last shot struck Dobbins slnder the
left ear and passed clear through his head.
Both men, in their dying agony, u en- clinch-
ed and fell to CHE ground, where they con-
tinued to struggle until neighbUs came and
separated them. Dobbins disd in few
minutes. Burns fingered unit fnear morn
ing, when he died Burns WIS an unmaT-
ried man. Dobbins leaves wffe and child.
Rev. /. 5. Kallech, WorkiIsFme ms candi-
date for Mayor II San Francisco, was skot
twice by Charl-sDeYoung cpe of the edit
ors of the DdihieChrORicle, on the morning
of the sd. TSo wounds infiicted were sup
posed to be mortal. The cs1se of the shoot
ing was speech made by kalloch at mass
meeting on tgrt previous night, in which he
applied some infamous epithets TO the DE
Young brothers, melted ahereto by the per-
sistent personal attacks made upon him by
the ChroRioao during his candidacy. Charles
De Young narrowly escaped lynching by a
mob of WcrSingmen, butNSas finally rescued
by the Police and cooked up in the
CITY Prisen, together with MS
brother. NJ II. De Young, who also
feared perscnal violence from the excited
mob. The prison was guarded by Gordon
of special policemen, and strong guards
were placed in and about the Chronicle
office TO prevent its being sacked.
In the eveIai'g an immense crowd assembled
at the Sand Lots, where ikeaney made
speech advising his followers to refrain from
mob violence and to let the Flaw take its
course.
Dan LOGAN and anOtherman named Car
mack were hanged together by mob at
Trinidad, Col, on the night of the I'D. Both
were accused of .assaultipg young girls.
At Toledo, o., ON the 23d, Jacob Nohl, a
police officer, shot and killed Ross Salisbury,
! for publishing card in the papers rejecting
upon his character, rHnd them shot himself,
dying in short time. salisbury was man
of bad repuee and had been arrested by NOhl
few days before.
! The principal business portion of the VII
/ lrge of Farmer City, Dewitt County, ILL.,,
was burned on the night of the I'D. Twen-
| tv-two buildings were destroyed. Loss about
S 100. 900; insured for half that amount.
w. h Bel Cashier of the American En-
press CompSalyaat Kansas City, is said to be
missing, together with about S 10, 900 of the
cash intrust,d to ihis keeping. He was in
st. Louis on the goth, but his subsequent
movements were rot known.
An independents Convention, composed of
both whites and bhxcks, was held at YaZoo
City, Miss. on the-20th. A full ticket was
nominated. Wallace johnson, cOlOred, is
one Of the candidates for members of the
Legislature.
Secretary SeEIurZ has gone to the Indian
country, wheUelhewill spend several weeks
in inspecting tine Agencies,and investigating
the management of affairs in his depart
ment.
1t is estimated thsIt: 30 600 persons were in
attendance at tn. National Temperance
Camp meeting at Bismarck Grove, Kas., on
the closing day, SUNDAY, the 23d. Fran
els Murphy presided over the principal
meeting, but SO great was the crowd that it
was found necessary to hold two other meet
ings outside the great Tabernacle. Some
20, 900 persons siglssd 1.-THE pledge during the
ii days session.