The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-11

veto power, and the Secretary of the
Treasury for his successful management of
the finances of the Nation. A fair
and free ballot; an effective Civil-service.
guaranteed by statute; retrenchment in pub
lie expenditures, and reduction in the tariff
are all demanded. Better commercial rela-
tons with Cuba and Mexico, and improved
I transportation routes to the seaboard are
mentioned as matters of the highest import
TO citizens of the State.
! The official vote Of Kentucky for Governor
/ at the late election is as follows: Blackburn,
Democrat, 125, 799; Evans, Republican, ST.
( So; Cook, Greenback, 1854. Blackburn's
! majority, 1891. The Democratic majority
/ four years ago for Governor was So, 1S1.
Additional reports of the recent storm in
/ Louisiana show it to have been one of the
worst ever experienced in that locality. The
/ steamboat Trenton was caught by the gale
eight miles below Baton Rouge atd capsized,
but fortunately not until all the passengers
had been safely landed. Three barges Of
grain, belonging to the Mississippi Trans
! portati0n Company, were sunk above Baton
Rouge, and the pilot of the John Gilmore,
which had them in tow, was drowned. The
lighthouse at the mouth of the Teche was
blown down. A large number of valuable
sugar-hOuses were destroyed.
Two masked men robbed the Eureka stage
coach near Nevada City, CAL, on the LIST.
William f. Cummings, banker of MOore's
Flat, resisted the robbers whenfhey attempt
ed to take a gold bar belonging to him, and
heNwas shot through the head and instantly
killed.
At Delphos, o., on the ID, Joseph w.
Hunt, President of the Toledo, Delphos and
Burlington Railroad, was crushed to death
between two cars.
The Postmaster General has ordered that
the free-delivery system be extended to To-
peka, Kansas.
The Chicago Inter State Industrial Expo
sition opened on the Sd.
At Santa Fe, y. NJ, on the 1st, j. b. La
mey, nephew of Archbishop Lamey, shot
and killed Mr.. f. Mallet, an architect en-
ployed upon the new Cathedral. 1t was a
the highest social stratum.
Three men, Elijah Frost, Bige Gibson and
Tom McCrackeH, under arrest at WillettIs,
California, FOR stealing various property,
were hanged by mob on the night of the
Sd.
The excursion steamer Alaska, of the De-
troit and Put-in-Bay Line, Lake Erie, on the
9Th exploded the dome of her boiler, instant
ly killing both engineers and one deck-hand,
and seriously scalding 10 other deck hands,
two fatally. Out of the large number of pas
sengers on board only one was slightly in
jured. The steamer City of Detroit took off
the passengers and crew and towed the
wrecked steamer to port. Z.
Frank C.. Morgan, agent for the Union
Stocll-yards at Cincinnati, is missing, and
his friends are confident that he has been
murdered. He had a large amount of money
in his possession at the time Of his disap-
pearance.
Five lives were lost near New Iberia, La,
during the late tornado.
Alice CottreT, aged Il, Ellen Dellinger,
aged Is, and John Summit, aged %, were
drowned while crossing the White River at
Morgan's Ferry, Fiske County, Ind, on the
4th. Their team was crowded off the ferry
boat by the backing Of another team in front.
The hOrses-were drowned.
A twO-story brick building at Cheyenne,
w. T., fell in on the night of the 4th, bury
ing number of persons in the ruins. Col.
G. L. +. Vandersande' and two children of
Mrs. Bell were killed and number of 9TH
ers seriously injured. The accident is at
tributed to the giving way of a defective
wall.
The Quincy Qll) Academy of Music, to-
gether with an adjoining block, was burned
on the night of the 9th. The Board of Trade,
Western Union Telegraph Office, Masonic
Hall, and many private offices were located
in this block. Henry Loake was killed by
falling walls. Losses about $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
Col. Il. L. johnson, First L. S. Infantry,
and commanding officer at Fort Hale, sud
denly became violently insane, and has been
taken East for treatment.
Theodore Daniel, colored, under arrest at
Union, Boone County, o., for an assault
upon young lady, the daughter of his en-
ployer, was tied+to a tree and shot, bya mob,
on the night of the Sd.