The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-03-04
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
The Illinois Press Association, at its re-
cent session in Chicago, voted unanimous
Endorsement Of the efforts now making in
Congress to secure reduction of tariff on
paper and the admission free of duty of
chemicals entering into its manufacture.
Messrs. Parnell and Dillon arrived in Chi
cago on the 23d and had grand reception in
the Exposition Building.
Mrs. Mary II. Thomas, of IA South Hal
stead Street, Chicago, was burned to death
on the night of the 22d by the explosion of a
can of kerosene with which she was re-
kindling her kitchen fire.
The Wisconsin Legislature has adopted
joint resolution, asking the passage Of bill
by Congress for the reduction of the tariff on
printing paper.
A Bismarck dispatch of the oath says that
the worst snow storm ever known in the
Northwest ragged there for two days. Since
February LIST there had been a succession of
storms, causing an almost total suspension
of travel.
Surveys are being made for the new road
to be built by the Union Pacific from Chey-
enne to the Yellowstone National Park,
distance of about $50 miles, of which some
125 miles, to the North Platte River, north
of Fort Laramie, viii be constructed this
year. A branch of this main line is also to
be built to the Black Hills. A branch road
thirty miles long will also be constructed
and completed from Echo to Park City,
Utah, by August, tapping the Ontario silver
mining district
Philip Boaltz, bachelor 90 years old, said
to be quite well off, who lived alone on his
farm five miles northwest of Milan, Ripley
County, Ind, was found murdered in his
house on the morning Of the 25th. He was
beaten to death with club. William Stris-
singer, a nephew of BOaltz, is under ar
rest upon suspicion of having committed
the murder.
The Indiana delegates to the Chicago
Convention were chosen by Congressional
districts on the 18th. A majority are said to
favor Blaine.
The Illinois Republican State Convention
is called to meet at Springfield, May 10.
The Louisiana Senate, on the 26th, adopt
ed a resolution suspending number of Re-
publican Senators, charged with contempt
in signing the Kellogg memorial to Congress,
which alleges intimidation and fraud on the
part of Democratic members in connection
with the Senatorial election.
Hon. Thomas Fletcher, a prominent citi-
zen of Arkansas, for two years President of
the State Senate, died on the Goth.
Chief Douglas, the ringleader of the Ute
Indians in the late Meeker massacre, has
been brought to Fort Leavenworth by Gen.
Adams and turned over to the military au-
thorities to be held for trial.
Apprehensions of serious disturbances in
San Francisco are reported, on account of
the demands of unemployed laborers and
others for the discharge of Chinese workmen
by corporation managers, in compliance
with the law recently passed. A number Of
companies refuse to comply with the law
until its constitutionality has been passed
upon by the United States Courts. The
Board of Health has declared the entire dis
trict known as Chinatown a nuisance, and
ordered the removal Of the occupants to the
outskirts of the city. A seeming dilatori-
ness in carrying this order into execution
has added to the clamor of the workingmen.
A citizens vigilance committee has been
formed, in order to suppress any violent
outbreak that may endanger the peace of the
city
John O'Brien and A. d. Parshall, well
known frontiersmen, were recently killed by
Indians, on the Redwater in Dakota.
James Howard Miller was hanged at
Ozark, Ark, on the 9th, for the murder of
his wife about year ago. A large crowd Of
spectators witnessed the execution. Miller !
steadfastly denied the crime of which he was
convicted.
The Union Pacific Railway Company, on
the 9th, by order of Jay Gould, took forci-
BILE possession of the telegraph business
along their lines, by abruptly severing the
Western Unions connections at all
principal points and making connections
with their own offices. The American
Union Telegraph Company, of which
Mr.. Gould is the principal promoter,
will succeed to the business, unless
the courts decide that the Western Union
Company own the lines, as claimed by them,
by virtue of their contract with the Union |
Pacific Railway Company. The Western
Union Company had already obtained an in
junction restraining the Union Pacific Com
pany from interfering with their lines, and |
an almost endless litigation seems likely to |
result from the proceedings already taken. |
In conformity with the recent proclsma-
ton of the President in reference to the |
threatened invasion of the Indian Territory |
by would-be settlers, two companies of
troops have been ordered to rendezvous at |
Caldwell, Sumner County, and two COM
Kansas, to put a forcible stop, if necessary, |
TO the movement across the Kansas border. |
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
Benjamin Brandreth, the veteran pill
maker, is dead. He was y years old and |
leaves wife and thirteen children (six sons
and seven daughters) and a fortune of be-
tween two and three millions. In twenty |