The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-07-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

p ElIEiFHIfT ana AsHAutAtA AAE IAGIl
/ The Coroner's jury returned a verdict Of
I justifable homicide. Mitchell was await
/ ing trial in the L. S. Court on an Indictment
charging him with selling liquor without
! paying special tax.
I PRESIDENT HAYES attended the an
nual commencement exercises Of Kenyon
/ College, at Gambler, O., Of which he is an
alumnus.
AT Richmond, Va, on the night OF
the 10Th, William Burke, shoemaker, in q
fit Of jealousy beat his wife in a most shock
ing manner i neighbOr, Patrick Harris,
hearing the woman's cries, went to the door
to eNpostulate when Burke, drawing pistol,
shot Harris through the mouth. An infuri-
ated crowd soon gathered around the house
and threatened TO lynch Burke, when he de-
clared he would kin his wife if they at
| tempted to modest him. Finally some one
set fire to the house, when Burke carried hi,
threat into execution, by shooting his poor
wife through the breast with a charge
Of buck-shOt. The crowd then
rushed in and seized the murderer, and
would have lynched him upon the spot had
not a large posse Of policemen came to hi
rescue and bore him off to Jail. The affair
caused the most intense excitement. Neigh
bors say that Burke had not the least cause
for suspicion against his wife.
Mrs. HOFFMAN, and her eighteen
months-old child were run over by rail-
way train at Grant Park Station, kankakee
County, H., on the DIST. Mrs. HOlzmann
was fatally injured and her baby instantly
killed.
THE Republicans of the Second Maine
District have renominatcd Representative
FRYE.
Col. JOHN HANNA, of Wooster, O.,
accidentally Shot and killed himself while
cleaning a revolver.
THE Mansion House Relief Commit
tee Of Dublin state that their fund is only
large enough to afford three weeks supply,
and that it is only 30 charitable organizations
that the people can look to be saved from
starvation for the next few months.
DR.. JAMES a. MCCEEA, q prominent
and wealthy resident Of Philadelphia, COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat while in
his bath-tub. lie was a great sufferer from
dyspepsia, and this is supposed to have led
him to kill himself.
WILLIAM RALsTON and three others
were arrested at FL Dorado, Hans, on the
23d, for counterfeiting. A search of Raj
ston's house disclosed q chest full Of tools,
Including dies, furnace, acids, block tin and
other apparatus for this kind Of work.
The large paper-min Of the Woodsdale
Paper Company, six miles north Of Hamil-
ton, O., was burned on the night of the oath.
Loss. $50, 600; insurance, 900. Sixty en-
ployees are thrown out Of work.
JAMES HAYDEN BROWN was hanged
at Huntsville, No, on the 25th, for the
murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Parrish,
in july, 1877. Thousands Of spectators wit
messed the execution, some Of whom came
hundreds Of miles to crafty their morbid
curiosity. On the scaffOld the condemned
man made q rambling address Of ten min
utes' duration. in which he spoke affectingly
of his dead wife and Of his little boy. He
said that liquor was what brought him
where he was to-day, and he urged other
Young men to take warning from his exam
pie. He denied that his wife committed
suicide, as reported, in accordance with
!lIttLIbNHth pan WIN Allils JUL AAIAilttfNl
that he got hispoison from her, Brown was
only about % years Of age at the time Of his
death. His father was also a murderer, hay
ing Killed VIM. Penny at Jacksonville, Mo.
in 1860.
THREE boy murderers were hanged
together at Canton, O., on the 25th. They
were Gustave A. Ohr, aged Is, George +.
Mann. aged Il, and John Sammett, aged Is.
Ohr and Mann were tramps and murdered
an old man named John WatmOugh, a
weaver from Philadelphia, in order to secure
possession Of a silver watch and five dollar.
Their victim had tramped in their company
for several DAYS, and on the night of the 9th
Of June, 1879, as he lay sleeping in grove
near Alliance, they Drained him with a
Sammett killed Chris
Spuhler last fall on the eve Of Sammett's trial
for burglary, Spuhler being a witness against /
him.
REPRESENTATIVE MURCH has been |
renominated by the Greenbackers of the /
Fifth Maine District.
IT is estimated that the crops in |
France this season will fall short at least % J
per cent. of the average yield.
QUEEN VICToRIAis going to Ireland .
Tor the first time in many years.
GREAT dissatisfaction exists in South /
western New Mexico at the manner in which /
Gen. Hatch has conducted the Indian cam |
oaign. but the Secretary Of War and Gen. |
sherman assert that they have the fullest /
confidence in Gen. Hatch's ability, and APP |
prove his mode Of campaigning.
THE Russian troops are reported to
nave been defeated with heavy loss in a re-
.ent encounter with the Turcomans.
THE steamer City of New York, of .
he Havana line, was burned while lying at
he Brooklyn dock. She had the greater part .
II A valuable cargo on board.
A REVENUE posse had a fight with
near Red Oak, Ga, in which
me of the latter was killed and one mortally
wounded.
WILLIAM H. WOOD, a fireman, and
William Loseby were killed by falling walls !
It the burning of building at Elizabeth, n.
+. Several others were injured.
THOMAS B. HOPPER was hanged at
No, on the 25th, in the presence
# thousands of spectators, for completely in
he murder Of Samuel c. Ham on the night
4 the 9th Of last August. He denied to the
asst moment any knowledge Of the murder,
nd charged that he was the victim Of a con-
piracy on the part Of vigilance committee
4 Humansvile, because he would not agree
o help lynch man.
BY the explosion of cannon at
Democratic ratification meeting at Des
Ioines. Iowa, on the night Of the oath,
acob Miller was instantly killed; Charles
buck had one arm torn and both eyes de-
troved, and Jack McGnaw had both hands
adv lgceraTed.