The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

CRAwFoRD's Opera-house, at Topeka,
was burned on the ID. Loss about S25, 900;
insurance, $4,000.
FATHER JULIAN BENvoIT, pastor OF
st. Peters Catholic Church, Fort Wayne,
Ind, one Of the oldest and best known pas
tors Of the State, died suddenly of apoplexy
on the Cd.
The Walnut Valley Elevator and b.
nanza Mills, at Ell Dorado, Kans., burned
on the ID, with 10000 to 1900 bushels OF
wheat and several thousand bushels of corn.
Loss from $4,000 to $4,000; insurance
small
DAN SMITH, negro, who was ar
rested in Giles County, Tenn, for an as
sault upon a white girl, was hanged by
mob while being taken to jail.
w. T. BEAN, lawyer of Greenwood,
Miss, committed suicide in Vicksburg, on
the Goth, by taking morphine. He was =
hard drinker.
Mrs. ELIZABETH METCALF, aged 10,
was burned to death at Lexington, Mo-, her
clothing having taken fire from the stove.
AT Seymour, Ind, the other night,
Young woman ludlbha A@OShh1Ahs
after lighting a lamp, threw the burning
taper upon the floor and attempted TO stamp
out the blaze, in doing which her clothing
took fire and was burned almost completely
off. She died after a few hours Of terrible
agony.
Mrs. w. P. BAILEY, of Porter, KY,
was fatally burned by her clothing taking
fire from the kitchen stove.
THE Revenue Department has sent
Col. Ferdinand Meyer, Supervising Agent,
to Louisiana, to officially investigate the case
Of Lanier, Deputy Collector of the Fifth Dis
trict, who claims to have been bulidozed
while performing his official duties.
III. VICTOR NEwCoMB has resigned
the Presidency of the Louisville and Nash
vile Road, and Z. II. Green has been chosen
his successor.
THE race between Laycock and Han
Ian is to take place on January II, on the
Thames.
A NEGRO was lynched at Pulaski, o.,
on the I'd, for committing an aggravated as
sault upon a white orphan girl.
JOHN CALLAHAN, aged 81, was hang
ed at Wooster, o., on the Sd, for the muir
der of Benjamin Toomie, ct the County
Fair, in October, 1879. Three others of the
gang who assisted at the killing are now
serving in the Penitentiary.
THE Beckwith House, brick four
story hotel at Oshkosh, Wis: took fire at
O'Clock on the evening of the Sd and was
entirely destroyed; loss 100000, insurance
1s1un ID d.
ing in the hotel, was suffO-
Gated by smoke, and died. Her body was
recovered. Mrs. Charles ii. Harlow, visit
ing Mrs. Page, bravely jumped from a
fourth story window, and escaped with bad
burns. Mollie HallOran, waiter girl, is miss
ing and is believed to have persisted. The
fire originated from broken kerosene lamp.
A FIRE broke out in the ground floor
of Crawford's clothing store, Toronto, on
the Sd, and the flames spread so rapidly that
the inmates Of the upper stories of the build
ing had to be rescued by ladders. William
and BERTHE Crawford, children, and Nellie
Edwards, servant, were fatally burned OF
suffocated.
ANDREW j, GILLEN, who shot and
killed Miss Segerson in New York City, some
weeks ago, because she refused to marry
him, committed suicide at Cedar Keys, Fla.
whittier he had fled to escape arrest.
DIR. C. A. WASHINGTON, eX-Professol
of the Kansas City Medical College, was
lynched at Ration, n. NJ, on the I'd, for com
hitting an assault on a lady of Ration, from
the effects of which she died.
GERTRUDE MEALS, young married
lady of Danville, Va, was fatally burned the
other night and died after few hours o.
great agony. She was kneeling before the
! fire, saying her prayers before retiring, whe1
/ her night-dress caught fire, and being alone
| she was unable to smother the flames.
WILHELMINA SPINDLER, a Detroit
servant girl, was burned TO a crisp on thu
| Sd, as the result of kindling the fire with
! kerosene.
THE Mandell House, Prairie du Chen
Wis, burned on the I'd. Loss, $4,000. Par
| TALLY insured.
In Grayson County, Va, in somt
! families five and six have died OF diphtheria
and in one instance whole family died.
PARNELL, Bigger, Sullivan, SeXto1
and Dillon have applied for a postponemen
of their trials, on the ground that the dat
fixed will interfere with their Constitutions
rights to be present when Parliament meets