The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-05-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Kalloch, who was some months ago shot and
wounded by DeYoung.
A BOILER in the Torrent Single Mill,
at Savannah, Ga, exploded on the 27th,
killing Lewis n. Torrent, superintendent,
and George Hughes, engineer. Eight per-
sons were injured. The building was totally
consumed.
Mr.. FELIX CosTE, of St. Louis, has
been appointed e. S. Marshal for the East
ern District Of Missouri.
JOSEPH SELIGMAN, SR., head of the
well known New York banking house of J.
& W. Seligman, died on the 18th of heart
disease, while on his way home from a
Southern tour, undertaken for the benefit Of
his health.
FOREST fires in Ocean County, N. j.,
have rendered destitute three hundred fam
lilies and entirely destroyed the berry indus
try for this season.
WILLIAM P. GILLESPIE, of Colum-
bus, Ind. made death bed confession that
he and two others murdered James Jamison,
a wealthy stock-trader living in johnson
County, who mysteriously disappeared some
ten or twelve years ago.
DIR. JOSEPH F. WEBB, brother of
Mrs. President Hayes, formerly Of Ohio but
for two years a resident of Minneapolis, died
in the latter city on the 9th, Of apoplexy.
THE village of Medenice, in Galicia,
Austria, has been destroyed by fire. Three
hundred buildings were burned.
HENRY GREENBAUd, President of the
late German National Bank of Chicago, is
declared not guilty of all the charges upon
which he was tried.
JOHN DIFFBACK, a wealthy stock
man of Dakota, was recently murdered by
white stock thieves and one hundred and
fifty head of his horses run off.
The new British Parliament was
formally opened on the 29th. ----
GEORGE COMPTON, well known
farmer of ShelbyyilIe, H., on the night of
the 18th, in crossing the Okaw River, with
his family in a spring wagon, ran against
log, upsetting the vehicle. BY great effort
he saved himself and wife, but their three
children persisted in the food.
THE steamer Alice, from Pittsburg for
St. Louis, on the 18th went over the falls
and Government dam at Louisville and sank
forty feet from shore in eighteen feet Of
water. Many of the passengers jumped
overheard, but it is believed only one, an
unknown man, was drowned.
JOHN S. HOOVER was taken from
the Jail at Buena Vista, Colo, on the morn
ing of the 18th, by twenty masked and
armed men, and hanged from the window Of
the Court house. Hoover shot and killed
James Bennett last April. he had secured
two continuances Of his trial upon affidavits,
and finally pleaded guilty to manslaughter
and was sentenced to eight years. imprisOn- |
ment in the Penitentiary.
JUDGE Connolly F. TRIGG, of the |
United States Circuit Court of Eastern Ten
nessee, is dead. Postmaster General Key is |
spoken Of as his successor.
THEvITCH,t the workman charged with |
causing the explosion in the Winter Palace,
at st. Petersburg on the 18th of February, |
has been arrested.
In accordance with the joint resolu-
ton Of Congress, orders have been sent to the |
Quartermaster of the Department of Mis- |
souri, to issue 500 tents for the use of the suf
ferers by the recent tornado in Missouri.
INDIAN depredatons in Socorro Coun-
ty, n. Mex, are reported.
THREE colored men were suffocated |
in well at Charleston, S. c., on the 10Th.
A NEVADA murderer, Charles Wesley !
Haymers, was hanged at Winnemucca on
the 9th.
D. w. MIDDLETON, for twenty years
Clerk of the Supreme Court Of the United |
States, is dead.
A BAND of so-called vigilantes, near
Hancock's Chapel, Harrison County, Ind,
on the 9th made an attempt to run off one
Henry Long, who was under examination |
before Justice of the Peace upon a charge |
Of numbering a German farmer named |
Tintlocker. Long was armed, and he shot
the leader Of the vigilantes, Louis Henriott,
through the head, killing him instantly. He
then secreted himself from the mob, but it
was believed was subsequently captured and
made away with.
An exploring party of 125 men, fully
armed and equipped, have left Leadville for
the Ute country. They will establish min
ing camp on Roaring Forks, and it is said
will fight the Indians or any one else who
to order them off. The Indian
Bureau is officially informed Of these inroads
by the clerk in charge of Los Pinos Agency,
who says Ouray suggests that troops be or
dered in Immediately to prevent trouble.
GEN. GRANT is going on trip to the
Rocky Mountains.
EZRA B. FRENCH, Second Auditor Of
the Treasury, is dead.
EDMUND DE PREssENsE, Protestant
divine and well known writer on theological
subjects, has been appointed Secretary Of the
French Legation at Washington.
THE subcommittee of the Committee
on the Improvement of Navigation of the
Mississippi River, consisting of Representa-
tives Gibson, Johnston, Dunn, Harris and
Prescott, are making a personal inspection
Of the river from St. Louis to the Jetties.
THE National Butter, Cheese and Egg
at its recent session at Indian
apolis, resolved that trade relations should
be suspended with all commission houses
dealing in oleomargerine. -
The Utah Northern Railroad is COM
pleted to Red Rock, Montana, 3O4 miles
north of Ogden and within thirty hours ride
Of Helena, Mont.
Hon. HESTER CLIMER, of Pennsyl-
vania, Representative in Congress, was mar
RED at st. Louis on the 26th to Mrs. Clemens,
nee Won Sehrader, young, rich and beauti-
'ul widow.
THE papils of the St. Ursuline Con-
vent, at St. Martins, Brown County, o.,
have been sent home two months in advance
Df the usual time on account Of the appear