The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-23
Personal AND GENERAL.

contact with some burning grease on the
stove.
A TERRIBLE coal-oil accident is re-
ported from the vicinity Of Napoleon, Liv-
ingston County, Mo. The wife OF James
Jones, a well-to-do farmer, was filling
lighted lamp, when the Gil took fire, causing
the explosion Of both lamp and oil-can and
throwing the burning fluid over Mrs. Jones
and her two children, one young babe,
the other a girl aged II years. The babe
died from inhaling the flame; the little girl
was struck in the head by a piece Of the
shattered glass, which penetrated her brain,
causing almost instant death. The mother
was enveloped in flames, and although her
husband ran from the barn, where he was
at the time. and stripped off her burning
garments, she only lived short time.
ERNEST A. THoMALEN, stamp clerk
in the Chicago Internal Revenue Office, has
abseonded with So, $50 belonging to the Gov
eminent.
Two more cases of trichine have &C.
Cured in Chicago, the victims being Il. c.
Hansen and wife. 1t came from eating raw
sugar-cured ham. Neither was expected to
live.
THE boiler in Fabel & Sons soap fac
DRY at Louisville, KY, exploded on the 14th,
killing Phil Hempel and fatally injuring two
or three others.
The Keystone Vinegar Factory a
Erie, Pa, burned on the night Of the 18th,
and three fremen were killed by falling
walls.
AT Leavenworth, Kans., girl named
Chadwick, aged II, was fatally burned while
endeavoring to extinguish a fire caused by
the upsetting of a kerosene lamp.
A BOILER explosion at Garrettsville,
O., on the 18th, killed John Langston and j..
G. Durfee, and injured several others.
AT Albany, N. Y, Charles A. Burt,
maltster, shot and killed Kate Smith, his
mistress, and then killed himself
THE Ohio State Grange has recently
been in session at Columbus. All the coun-
ties in the State except four were represent
ed.
GENERAL GRANT and Mrs. Grant
have been given a dinner by the President
and Mrs. Hayes at the White House.
ELIAS MCVEIGH and his hired man,
named Barrett, were murdered by two In
dams near Eufaula, L. T., on the 14th. 1t
is believed the Indians were hired to do the
deed.
THE Kansas and Missouri Horticul-
tural Societies met in joint session at Wyan-
dotte, Hans, on the 14th.
THE will of Mrs. Maggie Embry, pro-
bated at Elkton, KY, leaves $500, 200 to
Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn.
Mrs. FENToN, wife of a member of
the police force at Hamilton, Ont, was IA
tally burned by her dress taking fire from
the stove.
A MAss-MEETING of the citizens OF
Caldwell, Kans presided over by the Mayor,
adopted resolutions pledging support to the
Oklahoma colonists encamped within their
borders. Two additional companies Of cav
airy have arrived on the ground. The SOL
diers are encamped on one side of the creek
and the settlers on the other.
THREE members of the Forney family
have died at Milwaukee from trichina and
others are i'll.
THE Chilians have captured the sea-
port of Pisco, Peru, and landed 10, 600 men
there to cooperate in the attack upon Lima
distant 40 miles. The Peruvians have sent
out strong force to meet the invaders and
will contest their advance step by step.
An YUNG, a Chinaman, committed
suicide in Chicago on account Of continued
financial reverses sustained by him in en-
deavoring to master the mysteries OF the
American game Of poker.
JOHN CUNNINGHAM, freight conduc-
tor on the Chattanooga Railway, fell between
two cars at Wartrail, and was instantly
killed. He leaves wife and children.
THE President has nominated Theo-
dore F. Singiser, of Pennsylvania, Secretary
Of Idaho Territory.
HENRY WILLIAMS, an estimable
young man residing in the vicinity of Louis
vile, Ky., was waylaid, robbed and muir
dered while on his way to the city. A negro
has been arrested on suspicion.
L. H. BIRGE & Sons wallpaper
mandatory, at Buffalo, N. Y, burned on
the 18th. The building was five stories in
hight, 800 feet deep by so feet front. 1t was
filed with inflammabe material, and kept
throughout at high temperature in order
to hasten the drying Of the paper.
In consequence the flames spread
with great rapidity, and within
three minutes, apparently, after the alarm had
been given, the whole building was enveloped
in flames. About one hundred and fifty
hands, men and boys, were employed. Many
of those at work in the upper
stories were unable to escape except by
jumping from tire windows. Thomas
Fields and John Malone were instantly
killed: several others were fatally and many
badly injured. 1t is also certain that several
burned to death rat aer than take the des-
perate leap, but tt 3, number could not be
ascertained until the ruins were cleared
away.
THE Omaha Indians have decided to
sell fifty thousand acres Of their reservation
in Northeastern Nebraska, and have asked
permission 90 send ten head men and two
interpreters to Washington to arrange
terms.
THE entire family of MIR. Henry w.
Hartman, Of st. Louis, are afflicted with
trichinosis, caused by eating uncooked sau-
sage. An examination Of the sausage dis
closed myriads of trichina.
LOUIS d. PALETTE, aged sc. for
merly well-known retail merchant of Bos-
ton. is under arrest charged with completely
in the death of Rebecca 7. Long, a youne
woman with whom he had lived on terms Of
intimacy.
Two colored children who had
been locked in the house during
the absence of their parents in Prince
George County, Va, were cremated by the
burning down of the edifice.