The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

under arms, but no further developments
were made.
DURING riot between Catholics and
Orangemen at Dungannon, Ireland, on Sun
day, the 18th, the police first used buck
shot and then ball cartridges to disperse the
crowd, who returned the fire with reyolyers.
Many persons were wounded. At Down
Patrick the Catholics and Orangemen fought
for several hours, a number on both sides
being severely wounded; and at Belfast a
similar collision occurred, two deaths re-
sulting.
A WEDDING party at gainesville, o.,
were poisoned at supper, evidently by some
deleterious substance being mixed with the
food. All who partoOk were seriously i'll,
some Of them nigh to death, but all will re-
cover.
TwENTY-ONE persons have been tried
by court martial and convicted at Kief, Rus
STA, for political offenses. Two were sem
fenced to death, three to twenty years. i'm
prisonment, and sixteen to hard labor for
terms varying from ten to fifteen years.
DURING a drunken carousal at the
house Of John Kelleher, in Oakland, CAL,
the house was set on fire and two Of his chill
dren were burned to death and third was
fatally injured. Mrs. Kelleher and another
woman, Mrs. King, were both badly burned,
and Keleher was slightly scorched.
THE Yaeger Mill at st. Louis, the
largest Touring mill in the city, was totally
destroyed by fire on the night Of the 18th.
Total loss about $45O,OOO; insurance, $685.,
900.
EUREKA, Nevada, has had another
same ground as the fire Of year ago. A
large number of business buildings and pri-
vate residences were destroyed. The losses
will aggregate nearly s., 100000.
GENERAL BRYAN GRIMES, well
known citizen of North Carolina, was as
sassinated near his home in Pitt County by
some person unknown. He was shot dead
while driving along the road.
WHILE a circus procession was taking
place at winchester, Va, on the 10th, An
drew Drayton, the keeper Of the hyenas,
who was occupying the cage Of those ami
mails, was set upon by them and almost lit
orally devoured before he could be rescued.
His injuries were thought to be fatal.
FROST appeared in Central New York
on the night of August Is, and at one place
in Delaware County ice formed.
FLOODS swept down the glen of Glen
dore, County Donegal, Ireland, flooding the
church at COmmienon and drowning
eleven persons, who were carried away by
the rush of waters.
A MOVEMENT has been set on foot for
inducing immigration to West Tennessee.
A society has been organized at Memphis,
under the auspices Of the State Bureau of
immigration.
LUKE BLACKBURN won the one mile
and half race at Long Branch, on the 18th,
in the unprecedented time of 2:34.
A CASE of twenty rifles, shipped from
Milford for Cork, was seized by the police.
A MAN named hamburger, travelling
salesman for the tobacco house of Abel
Brothers, Denver, was found dead in house
of bad repute in that city on the morning Of
the 10Th. There had been quarrel the pre-
vious night, in which the keeper Of the
house, Carrie Smith, struck hamburger over
the head with a bottle, and a male friend of
hers then dubbed him with a revolver. The
murdered man leaves a wife and three chill
dren.
AT Norfolk, Va, Mrs. Elizabeth Ben
son, mother of Chief Of Police Benson, who
committed suicide in January last, on the
18th cut her throat and then jumped into
hogshead Of water. When found she was
dead.
JOSHUA BALLARD, City Marshal of
Ennis, Texas, was shot and killed on the
morning of the 18th by S. B. Alexander,
whom he had arrested and locked up for
being drunk and disorderly on the previous
night.
REUBEN CARUTHERs, a colOred cat
tie thief, was lynched near Brennan, Texas,
on the night Of the 18th.
EX-Gov. HERsCHEL V. JOHNSON, of
Georgia, died on the 10th, at his residence in
jefferson County, aged 6S.
THE bombardment of Candahar be-
gan on the 10Th. CannOnading was kept up
during the entire day on three sides Of the
city, but without inficting any serious
damage.
Two Mexicans, named Gallegh and
' dtutLs dlltSltu dl AlbhNIuSAi uNt ~ -h'1
few days ago on suspicion Of murder, have
made a full confession. The name OF the
man murdered was 5. Daprez, and it ap-
peared he had been a sheep-Owner in South
ern Colorado. They said they obtained
81 200 in money, check for 1928, several
Post-office orders, two horses and a wagon,
and other effects. OF the money S4O6 was
found on their persons. Duprez was travel
ing south alone, and stopped in tent over
night. One of the Mexicans shot him while
asleep, while the other stood by with an AK
ready to afford assistance if necessary.
APARTY of Russian emigrants, sixty
seven in number, the sole survivors Of par
ty Of three hundred and thirty, which left
Russia in 1877 for Brazil, have arrived at
New York sick and destitute. They found
the South American climate unsuited 10
them, and after losing nearly all their funds
decided to leave the country where they had
so many hardships.
DR.. TURNER, Secretary of the Ma
tional Board Of Health, says that from Of
fetal reports received from what are known
as the yellow fever districts, he does not an
ticipate that there will be any yellow fever
in this country this season in an epidemic
form. There may be sporadic cases, but the
disease would then be confined and would
not spread. He said the most dangerous
part of the season is already over, and Meth
ing that could indicate the breaking out Of a
yellow fever epidemic has been reported.
He attributes the freedom of Memphis from
the fever this year to her establishment of
sewerage and other sanitary precautions
against the enlightenment Of the disease.
The officers of the Board in the different
sections are ready to act at a moments no
tice to the extent of the power conferred
upon them by law.