The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-06-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

country.
AT Rochester, N. Y, on the 25th,
Mary o'Connor, a servant, aged forty-fve,
attempted TO kindle the kitchen fire with
kerosene. An explosion occurred, covering
her with the burning oil, and she ran wildly
into the street, tanning it into flames. The
flesh was literally roasted upon her lower
limbs and dropped off in shreds.
AN extensive oil fire occurred in
Brooklyn, n. Y, on the morning Of the 26th.
Several men were badly injured by the ex-
plosion Of an oil tank.
JOEL FERGUSON, Town Marshal of
Murray, Galloway County, KY, was shot
and killed on the oath by Dan f. Jones,
saloOn-keeper.
A DUEL has been fought at Pesth,
Hungary, between Count Zinchy and Count
Stephen Karolyi, in which the former was
wounded, it was thought fatally.
THE Peruvians have recaptured Mo-
quequa and Arequipa.
A. III. LITTLEFIELD has been elected
Governor, and II. H. Fay Lieutenant- Gov
ernor, of Rhode Island, by the General AS
sembly.
A RAILWAY line is projected from
Matamoras to Monterey and thence to Sal
tillo in Mexico. ...l
THE boat-race between Hanlan and
Riley, which was rowed on the Potomac at
Washington on the Goth, was easily won by
the former.
THOMAS o. THURSToN, who shot and
killed his partner, w. w. Embry, at Leav-
enworth, Kas., on last New Years Day, and
who was acquitted on the ground of self
defense, on the 26th attempted to shoot Mr..
D, R. Anthony, editor Of the Times, as the
latter was passing along the crowded street
at MONDAY. Thurston fired twice, both
shots missing his intended victim,
but both taking effect upon other
parties. Lucien Baker, young attorney,
was pierced through the body by one Of the
bullets, and very dangerously, if not fatally,
wounded, and John P. Douglas, advertising
solicitor of the Times, was slightly wounded
in the head. Thurston was arrested, and
for fear that he would be lynched was taken
to Fort Leavenworth and thence to Atchi-
son, where he is now imprisoned. Baker
was attorney for Thurston in his recent trial
and secured his discharge.
GEORGE w. PICKENs, an old settler
of Butler County, Kas., on the 23d was sur
located in well which he had been blasting
on his farm in Benton Township. Frank
Waite, a neighbours son, went down IN the
well to the assistance of Pickens, and he too
was overcome by the deadly gas and fell
from the bucket to the bottom, fracturing
his skull. ...
ROBERT T. GRAY, commercial tray-
eler from ST. Joseph, Mo-, committed suicide
in Kansas CITY on the Goth. His parents re-
side at Normal, III.
JOHN EICHBERG, prominent citizen
of Memphis, either jumped or fell overheard
from the steamer Hard Cash and was
drowned, on the 18th.
The employees of the Philadelphia
Rolling-mill, 1000 in number, have struck
for higher wages.
A SEASON of most intense heat, &C
companied by long-continued drouth, has
prevailed throughout New York, New Jer-
sew and the New England States. On May
81 the Thermometer in New York
City and vicinity ranged from
ninety-two degrees to one hundred degrees
in the shade. The police report for twenty
four hours showed thirty-two cases Of sun
stroke in New York and Brooklyn, six Of
which were fatal. Vegetation Of all kinds
was nearly burned up. On the 2Sth there
were twelve deaths from sunstroke in New
York and Brooklyn.
SOME 200 miners have struck work
at Leadyille, demanding an advance from
three dollars to four dollars per day. They
have compelled miners who did not volun-
tarilv ioin in the strike to quit work.
Trouble is apprehended.
THE spring meeting of the st. Loui 8
Jockey Club will open on Tuesday, June s,
continuing until the following Monday, the
14th. On each Of the six days there will be
a number of spirited races, commencing
promptly at pm. All railroad and steam
boat lines give reduced rates OF fare to ST,
Louis during the races.
Mr.. II. PLEMs, an eX-Alderman of
Dubuque, Iowa, committed suicide on the
2eth bv shooting himself through the head.
Family troubles.
DENNIS KEARNEY has been released
from the San Francisco House Of Correc-
ton.
The President has signed the Carlisle
bill, amending the Internal Revenue law in
reference to distilled spirits.
THE Nevada delegates to the Cincin-
natl Convention are said to stand three for
Tilden, two for Thurman and one for Field.
The Convention adopted a resolution in
| favor of Tilden.
THE Senate has rejected the nomina-
ton of S. Newton Pettis, Of Pennsylvania, to
be Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court
for the Territory of New Mexico.
Two executions took place in Ar
kansas on the 2Sth. Thomas b. Edwards
was hanged at Ozark, Franklin County, for
the murder Of Julia Alsobrooks, his para
mour, in johnson County, in July, 1878,
| and L. L. Ford was hanged at Marion, Crit
tenden County, for completely in the muir
| der of John Broadway, in October last. On
the same day Peter King was hanged at
! Woodsfeld, o., for the murder Of David
Trembly in September last; Charles Balling,
/ a colored youth Of sixteen, was hanged at
Hanover c. H., Va, for an assault upon a
white woman; and Henry Hamlin was
hanged at Hartford, Conn.,, for shooting
Watchman Shipman while the latter was
irving to prevent his escape from the State
prison in September, 1871.
AT Buena Vista, Colo, on the 28th,
lanes Reed and James Edwards had a shoot
inc bout in which both were killed.
BILL DELANEY, noted desperate OF
Farley, Dubuque County, Iowa, was shot
and killed on the 18th by Byron Reynolds,