The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IT was reported on the Sth at Del
Norte, Colo, that young Jackson, who was
captured by the Indians, had met his death
at the stake.
THE one hundred and fiftieth ami
versary Of the founding OF Baltimore was
celebrated with great display. The prelim-
mary exercises took place on the 18th.
JOHN CARSON and his son and an
other boy, named Benner, were run down
by an express train and all killed while
passing through railway tunnel near Hunt
ingdon, Pa.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad
at Byron, Ogle County, H., on the 10th, by
which four men were killed and six badly
injured. A gravel train ran into herd OF
cows, ditching ten cars. The names Of the
killed are Mike Ryan, section man; John
Lockwood and Thos. Larry, farmers, and
one other, name unknown.
THE Democrats of the First Illinois
District have nominated Hiram F. Cody, OF
Du Page County, for Congress.
THE Chicago Academy of Music, on
Halstead Street, burned on the 18th. Theo-
dore Bernhard, fireman, was killed, and
several others injured.
A COAL pit near Stillerton, Nova
Scotia, was inundated on the 18th and ten
men were drowned.
GENERAL RoCA has been proclaimed
President Of the Argentine Confederation
by the National Congress. Buenos Ayres
has been made the Capital.
Two children of Mrs. George Riley,
twelve miles from Bradford, Pa, were left
alone in the house the other night. The
house took fire anG burned to the ground,
and both children were cremated.
THE Memphis Cotton Exchanges crop
report for the month of September shows
generally unfavorable weather on account
Of excessive rains, causing serious damage
from shedding, rust, worms and rotting.
OF the crops gathered, the estimated yield
ranges from 80 to 1000 pounds per acre,
averaging $50 pounds seed cotton. AS com
pared with last year the average yield is 80
1-2 per cent. less.
CAPTAIN H. r. KENT, United States
Deputy Marshal, was fired upon by un-
known parties, supposed to be moonshiners,
some distance from Gallatin, Tenn, and
painfully, but not dangerously wounded.
AN explosion of steam pipes in the
Garden City Distillery, on Canalport Ave-
nue. and Twenty second Street, Chicago, on
the night of the 18th, instantly killed
seven persons, namely: Jacob Kakus-
kah, engineer; Andrew Daley, fireman;
Frank TRAINER, Joseph Hurack and his
wife, Frank Hodkratz and another man
known as SANDY" all employees. Ed.
Kimman, the foreman, and several other
persons were badly injured, some of them
no doubt fatally.
MISS KATE TANEY, aged 20, was in
stantly killed while returning from church
in Memphis the other night, during high
wind, by a shed being blown down and
crushing her to the sidewalk. Mrs. S. NJ.
Jobe and Peter Gale were also caught by the
falling shed and both badly injured.
THREE persons were fatally injured
by the explosion Of a cannon during polit-
ical demonstration at Johnsonvile, n. Y.
The steamboat Joe Bryerly, from
Shreveport, with 1900 bales of cotton on
board, burned near the mouth Of the Red
River. She was valued at 900 and in
sured for S, 800.
The Denver mail coach was robbed
near Del Norte, on the morning Of the 18th,
by seven men. The mail and treasured box
were taken. There were no passengers
aboard. The amount capturedis not stated.
The police forcibly entered the col
lege at Toulouse, France, on the 14th, and
forciby elected thirteen Jesuits who had
been installed as Professors.
THE formal celebration of the COM
pletion Of the Cologne Cathedral took place
on the 10Th. The Emperor and Empress of
Germany, the King of SaXOny, Prince Leo
pold of Bavaria, Prince William of Wurtem-
burg, and other royal personages were pres
emit. The Emperor, in his address, thanked all
! the German Governments for cooperation
toward the completion of the cathedral, and
concluded as follows: "May this splendid
monument remain, by the grace Of God, as q
promise Of peace in all lands"
THE returns of October received at
the Department of Agriculture give the con-
dition Of the cotton crop as SO, being de-
cline of per cent. since September l. Com
pared with the returns received at the same
time last year there is a gain of per cent.