The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ST. AUBREY G. ANGELO, a correspond
ent OF the Liverpool (Eng.) Courier, who has
been making a tour OF the West in the inter-
ests Of that journal, was found dead beside
the Union Pacific track, near Laramie City, a
few DAYS ago. He had been run over by the
cars, and ended his life by shooting himself
through the heart Angelo was with Prince
Napoleon in Zululand when the latter was
killed, and was a most accomplished and en-
terprising journalist.
GEN. WEAVER, Presidential nominee
Of the National Observation-Disclosures Party, has
issued circular TO members of the party,
appealing for contributions Of one dollar
and upward to aid in defraying the ex-
penses Of the campaign from now until No
vember.
FIVE hundred Chicago shoemakers are
on a strike.
THE Republicans of Cincinnati have
renominated their present Representatives
in Congress-Benjamin Butterworth in the
First, and Thomas L. Young in the Second
District.
A DISPATCH from Indian Territory
states that the Cherokee Indians and Greek
negroes, recently at war, have negotiated 4
peace, the Creek Indians acting as media
tors.
The rumored filibustering expedition
into Mexico is understood to be part Of a
plan for declaring the independence Of the
Northwestern States of Sonora, Chihuahua
and Sinaloa, and setting up Government of
their own. The natives are led in the scheme
1,vro q Of hool-ad
by Arizona miners. Certain mining COM
panies are understood to lend financial aid
to the movement.
JOHN MCGUIRE was hanged at San
Rafael, Cal, on the 9th, for the murder Of
fellow convict in the State Penitentiary.
IT was reported on the 9th that young
Cash, son Of Col. Cash, who killed Col. Shan
non in a duel recently in South Carolina, had
fought a duel with Blair, an editor, in which
Cash was killed. The latter is said to have
challenged Blair on account of certain STRIFE
lures published by him on the Cash-Shannon
affair.
A SPECIAL to the Dallas Herald from
Ennis, Texas, says: r. /. Edwards, Chris
tian preacher, living near Bristol, was called
out of his house and shot dead by unknown
parties. No further particulars given.
THE wife of Woodson l.. Gunnells, a
well-to-do farmer living twenty miles
west of Americas, Ga, during the absence
Of her husband compounded a pitcher of
lemonade into which she put quantity of
mOrphia. Herself and ten children-fOur Of
her own and six of Mr.. Gunnells's by pre-
vious wife-drank freely of this. When Mr..
Gunnells returned home he found
his entire family completely stupe-
fed. Mrs. Gunnells died in a short
time and no hopes were entertained for
three Of the children. The others will re-
cover. Mrs. Gunnells left note stating that
she had deliberately administered the poison
to the children and herself with the inten-
ton Of destroying them all, but did not give
any reason, only stating that it was not on
account Of domestic trouble.
The New Mexico Republican Terri
tOrial Convention nominated Hon. Tran
quilinO Luna for Delegate to Congress.
HENRY SUsA, a Waterman in the Man
haitian Vinegar Company's Works in Brook
Ign, n. Y, was burned to death on the
Of the 9th by fire which occurred
in the building.
G. B. LOCKWOOD, Congressional can
didate Of the boiling Republicans in the
Cleveland (O.) district, has published a card
from the canvass in the inter-
ests Of party harmony.
PIETRo BALBO, the Italian who killed
his wife in New York City year ago, was
hanged in the TOmbs on the 9th.
A DISPATCH from Los Pinos, Colo,
9th, says the Indian Commission had start
ed for the Southern Ute Agency. Chief GU
ray will join the Commission there, to use
his influence in securing the adoption of the
treaty.
THREE passenger cars on an excur-
sion train returning from Niagara Falls to
Jackson, o., via the Springfield Southern
went through a bridge into the
canal at Waverly on the evening of the 9th.
The front car jumped the track
and went over the bridge, carrying
it down and throwing other cars off the
track. The locomotive crossed safely. One
hundred and fifty passengers, residents of
Jackson and vicinity, were on the train. The
casualties are: David DUNCAN, killed;
Thomas DUNCAN, back broken; Mrs. Bertsch,
arm broken, and a number of others more
or less injured.
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