The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-05-20

RiGHTEEN persons were kllleu OI
wounded by an explosion Of dynamite in
the magt zine of Fssdo, Switzerland.
THE village OF San Luis, Cuba, mas
been entirely destroyed by fire. Seven per-
sons lost their lives and three hundred
houses were burned.
IN a fight growing out of the eject
men1 Of some sluatters upon Southern Pa
cifc Railroad lands in Tulare and Fresno
Counties, Cal, by United States Marshal
ami posse, four settlers were killed ant two
wounded, AID one OF the Marshal's posse
was wounded.
AN explosion of giant-powdeT in a
5acksmith-sho Of the High Lode Mine,
Central City, New, on the 18th, Instantly
killed Samuel Kimble, mine fOremF a, and
joseph Fcudell and Jonas GilmoFe, en-
ployees. All three were blown TO atoms.
DAVE r. SHANNON & Co., Baltimore
Junk dealers, purchased lot of condemned
shrapnel shells from Fort McHenry, and in
breaking them up, just outside the Fort, one
ofthe shells exploded, instantly killing six
men and boys and severely wOURding two
others.
THE British Admiralty have about
given up all hopes that the training ship
Atlanta is still afoat.
SENIOR HIPoLITo DE URIAT1, Span
ish Consul at New York, received an infer
nal ms chine through the mails. I'm tearing
open the apparently harmless paper box in
which it was enclosed, the affair exploded,
! burning Senior Uriate slightly on the hand
and setting the carpet on fire. 1t waS charged
with most deadly explosives, and that it did
not 60 greater damage was because of its
| imperfect construction.
FOREST fires of a most alarming ma
ture are reported from Monroe end Pike
Counties, Pa, and from various sections Of
! New Jersey.
A VERY sensible shock of earthquake
was experienced throughout MiddleseX
County, Mass, on the morning Of the 18th.
Many people ran out Of doors, sEppOsing
that an explosion had occurred.
THE entire business portion of the
village Of Stuyvcsant, n. Y, together with
number of fine private residences, was
burned on the 18th. A tramp was arrested
charged with causing the fire.
ISRAEL BRANDT, Josiah Hummel and
Henry Wise, the three men who murdered
Josiah Raber in order to obtain his life in
surance, were hanged at Lebanon, Pa, on
the 18th.
ANOTHER cremation took place at
Washington, Pa, on the 18th, the body in
Generated being that Of Charles Gustav Foetz,
of New York.
THE Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
is now open for business to South Arkansas,
sixty miles west of Carson City and forty
miles from Leadville. The road will be COM
pIeted to Leadville before July l.
The National Association of Window
pend production three months, dating from
June 1. A proposition to reduce the price
list was unanimously defeated.
EDWIN HAYT was hanged at Bridge
mort, Conn, on the 18th, for the murder o
his father, George Hayt, in June, 1878.
AN investigation into the affairs of the
First National Bank of Augusta, Maine, re-
vealed the fact that the late Cashier, Israel
Boothbv, who committed suicide Feb. 3, was
a defaulter for over $4,000.
THE Indians are to hold an Interna-
tional Fair at Muscogee, /. T., on Sept. IS
to Oct. 1. 1t is believed that all the tribes
will participate.
MARTIAL law has been declared in the
disturbed districts of Albania, and the Turk
ish authorities have at last promised to adopt
trong measures to prevent any conflict be-
tween the people of that province and the
Montenegrins.
The fires in the Bradford pa oil
regions broke out afresh on the nth. The
villages Of Oil Center and Middaughville
were almost entirely consumed and large
section of country, covered with derrcks
and tanks, was swept over as by whiri-
wind.
THE Portland (Me.) advertiser pub
fishes an interview with Hon. z. B. Wash
burne, Of Illinois, on visit to his brother in
that State, in which the former is reported
as saying that he will not be candidate for
President under any circumstances; that he
is for Grant first, last and all the time; and
that he repudiates all combinations with
other candidates.
The General Conference of the NJ. E.
Church, in session at Cincinnati, elected
four additional Bishops, namely: Cyrus d.
Foss, President Wesleyan University, Mid
dletown, Ct; John f. Hurst, President
Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, n. J..
Henry W. Warren, of Philadelphia; and DR..
Z. 0. Haven, Chancellor Syracuse Univer-
sity, N
REV. L. NJ. HUNT, pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at South Haven, Mich,
hx al.
through the head while in a state of mental
depression caused by i'll health.
THOMAS WHITE, a white man, was
hanged at Spartanburg, S. c., on the 14th,
for the murder Of Pet Hawkins, a colored
man, in January last
AT Corpus Christi, Tex, on the 14th,
Horace Burr attempted to kill his wife,
his mother-in-law and his sister-in-law,
and then shot himself dead. His moth
er-in-law, Mrs. Barnard, was fatally
wounded. There had beena family quarrel,
ending in Mrs. Burr's return to her fathers
home.
Two of the ladies burned at the
Atlanta Opera-house have died of their in
juries.
THREE men were killed by the csving
in of shaft of the Lumberman Mining
Company, at Norway, Mich, on the 18th.
Thirteen other men who were working in the
drift were rescued in half-sufrecated con-
dition after several hours confinement.
CARL MANKE was hanged at Buffalo,
Ny on the 14th, for the murder of John
Atloff, in April, 1879.
CHIEF JUSTICE SANFoRDE. CHURCH,
of the New York Court Of Appeals, died Of
apoplexy on the i4th, at his home in Albion,
Orleans County.