The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-01
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.


burned to the waters edge on the Goth.
Eleven hundred bales Of cotton were de-
stroyed By fire or damaged by water.
Boat and cargo fully insured.
A dispatch from Los Pinos, via Lake City,
Colo, ed, says thc+ Ouray has just come in.
He Informs the Commissioners that he has
been unable to obtain the surrender of the
Indians demanded, that the war party is in
the ascendant, and that he (Ouray) is ready
TO join the troops in an offensive movement
against Douglass and his tribe. A later dis
patch saws that the Indians subsequently
agreed TO deliver up as prisoners the indi-
viduals named by the Commission.
Two Irish lads, Edward Harvey and
James McGee, peddlers Of dry-gOods, were
murdered on the night of the 10Th near Jer-
nigan, Russell County, Ala, and their
bodies thrown into the Chattanooga
River. The murder was discovered
the next day, when two negroes were arrest
ed. These confessed, duplicating two 9TH
ers. A large crowd of whites and blacks
assembled on the following day, Sunday,
and decided TO hang the two murderers,
which was done forthwith. They displayed
sullen indifference and asked no mercy.
rested at latest accounts.
The High School building at Milwaukee,
Wis, was totally destroyed by fire on the
night Of the 21st. Loss about $4,000. On
the same night the extensive brewery, malt
house, etc, Of p. Best were also burned.
The latter loss, including grain in store, viii
aggregate about S250,0OO to 100000, fully
insured.
The Republican members Of the Tennes-
ee Legislature have formally adopted res
olution in fayor-of Gen. Grant for the Pres
idenoy. -...
1t is developed by the evidence Of one of
the bankrupt dry-goods firm of Stettauer
Brothers, Chicago, that the various individ-
uals composing the firm had lost, since the
spring Of 1878, nearly $50, 600 by speculations
in grain and provisions. rfI......
At a Christmas-tree festival in The Vi. L.
Church at Pataskala, o., on Christmas Eve,
young man named George Lynn, who per-
sonated santa Claus, was dressed in cos
tune covered with loose cotton. In some
manner the cotton caught fire and young
Lynn was very badly burned before it could
be eXtinguished. The affair caused panic
in the church and several people were in
jured.
A most horrible murder occurred at Del
phos, O., at an early hour on Christmas
morning, the victim, Mr.. Bernard II. Picker,
being a well-to- do and estimable German cit
izen, residing nearly in the center of the city.
Mrs. Picker gives the following account Of
the affair: Ny husband was aroused from
his sumbers by heavy knocking Mt the
front door. Getting up, he opened
the door fearlessly, and was instantly
seized by three masked men, who demanded
his money or his life. He, needless Of their
threats. made a desperate resistance, and
was only overpOwered when he was shot
Through the head by one of the rufiians and
instantly killed. ! rushed from the bed to
assist my husband, and was seized and
threatened with the same fate. I, however,
screamed at the top of my voice, but was
finally overpowered by being tied and gag
ged. They again demanded the money and |
refused, and they then placed me against
red-hot stove ard tortured me so badly
that l could not endure any more
pain, and / finally gave them the money,
amounting to 81 800 in currency, the savings
of years. They then took their departure
Mrs. Picker's injuries were quite serious,
and possibly fatal.
Willis Hall, the main building of Carleton
College, Mortified, Mimi, was burned on
the 23d. Loss, $4,000; insurance, S17,500.
The severest weather known for years pre-
vailed throughout Minnesota Just before
Christmas, the range of the thermometer be-
inc reported at from - to So degrees below
zero. The weather throughout the Pacific
slope has also been almost unprecedeDtedly
cold. Stock has suffered severely and there
has been some damage to fruit.
Il. c. Voules, confidential clerk TO Huston
& Co. OF Cincinnati, contractors for the South
ern Railroad, absconded recently, after hay
ing squandered in fast living large amount
of his employers money. He was traced to
New Orleans and found in company with an
abandoned young woman, one of his former
Cincinnati favorites. When the officers at
tempted to arrest him he hastily took from
his pocket bottle of prussie acid and swal-
lowed the contents, from the effects of which
he died in a short time. Voules was an En-
glishman 10y birth, about 30 years OF age.
Irwin Russell, a well known dialect wri-
ter, whose contributions have frequently
appeared in ScrfJner'S Monthly, died quite
suddenly in New Orleans on the night of
the sd, under most distressing circum
stances. BE was penniless, it is said, and
died among strangers. He was native of
Port Gibson, Mass, and only about IS years
of age. i
AT Paris, Ky, on Christmas Night, Mr..
Jaynes was personating Santa Claus at a
children's gathering, his costume being of
white muslin covered with cotton. In some
way the cotton took ire and Mr.. Jaynes was
fatally burned, dying before morning.
At Fargo, d. T., on Christmas Day, the
thermometer registered - degrees below
zero; at Pembina the Government Their
mometer indicated 80 degrees below.
The Kansas City express train on the Chi
cagO and Alton Railroad, that left St. Louis
on the night OF the Goth, was thrown from
the track by broken rail near Berdan,
Greene County, Illinois, about 90 miles
north Of 1t. Louis. The entire train,
with the exception of the locomotive,
was di;ehed, all of the cars being badly
wrecked. Two Of the coaches took fire and
burned, causing the death % two persons
Col. l.. @. Bond of Auburn, SangmSon Coun-
~, H., = member Of the General Assembly, 4
aud Charles Payne, a negro porter. About
- persons were injured more or less seri- 1
ously.
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
Governor GarceIon-of Maine has published
a defense of the action of the State Exeeu-
tive and Council in their official capacity as