The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-13

place at Cincinnati, on the 9TH, where his
remains were inferred. The obsequies were
conducted with military honors.
A general strike of laborers engaged in
Chicago pork-packing houses occurred on
the eth, an advance Of . cents per day in
\ wages being demanded. The packers re-
fused to pay the advance, aud a number of
them shut down entirely and declared they
would not resume unless at old prices. The
trouble caused glutin the hog market and
a consequent rapid decline in the prices of
hog products. 10000. .-,-.--.-
A house toulouse inspection has been be-
gun at Memphis, under the auspices of the
National Board Of Health, with view to as
certaining what sanitary Improvements are
necessary for each dwelling within the cor
porate limits Of the city.
Another frightful railroad accident &C.
CURED on the night of the Sth. As heavi-
" laden stock train on the st. Louis, Kansas
City and Northern Railroad was crossing the
great bridge across the Missouri River at St.
Charles, Mo-, at about $50 p. M, the west
span of the bridge suddenly went down, car
rying with it Il cars of cattle and hogs,
together with the caboose, containing seven
men. The locomotive and tender, together
with one car, passed safely over and were
saved by the parting Of the coupling as the
rear ears went tumbling down into
the river, Il distance Of about so
feet. Josiah Wearen and William Hyde,
both stockmen, from Malvern, Iowa, We're
taken out of the wreck, dead. Charles r.
win and George Barnhart, brakemen, were
alive when rescued but died soon afterward.
John Summers and Frederick Davis were in
jured, but not seriously. The seventh man,
j. II. Strahman, stockman, saved his life
by leaping from the door of the caboose just
in time to effect lodging upon pier.
The crash caused by the falling
bridge soon brought hundreds of the
citizens Of st. Charles to the scene of the dis
aster, and by means of boats the injured
were rescued and the bodies of the dead re-
covered from the wreck. The bridge was
erected IN 1871, and was considered entirely
safe. The bridge proper consisted of three
spans and was nearly 1000 feet in length;
together with its approaches it was 6,535 feet
in length. The spans were iron and so ele-
waited that steamboats, passed underneath at
all stages of water.
The "Denyer Land Company" which has
been advertising extensively that it would
give away lots in North Denver, Colo, upon
the receipt of one dollar to pay transfer fees,
has been declared fraudulent by the POST
Office Department and its letters ordered
withheld. Sidney A. Grant and A. f. Will
son, the managers of the concern, have
been arrested upen'a charge Of conducting
fraudulent schemes through the mail, and in
default of bail both were committed tQthe
Denver jail. The scheme was planned in
Cincinnati, and the land owned by the So
called company consists of a worthless sand
hill tract, 40 miles north of Denver. The
whole affair is characterized by the Denver
press as an unmitigated swindle.
The cattle-pens Of J. w. Calf q Co., at
Cincinnati, burned on the Sth, together with
$50 head Of cattle. aeAhs far
Mason c. Hatch of Chicago, Treasurer of
the Northwestern Travelling Mems Associa-
ton, a mutual life-insurance organization,
is a defaulter to the amount Of $500. I'm
fortunate speculations are the cause of his
downfall. r+ '..-tt .'-'l-