The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-25
PRRs0NAL AND GENERAL.

The town of Newport, Ark, was al
most wiped out by fire on the night Of the
18th. Two-thirds Of all the houses are in
ashes and some 200 families were rendered
homeless and many are in great distress.
WITHIN the past twenty months 400
deaths have occurred from diphtheria in the
Upper Gatieneau, near Desert, Ontario.
The disease commenced its ravages two
wears ago in that district, and is now travel
ing downward. 1t attacks young and old
alike. A woman who had been called on to
nurse a patient contracted the disease and
died two days afterward. There is some
thing very strange about the prevalence Of
the disease in that locality. Land is high
and dry, being well drained, and it is about
the last place one would expect to breed dis
ease
THoRNHILL and Fields, horse-thieves,
were taken from the Sabine Parish Oa.)
jail by party of armed men and rIddled
with bullets.
COMPTROLLER LAWRENCE, of the
Treasury Department, has ruled that the
Government is not responsible for injury
done by one Of its agents. The application
for justice was the owner Of horse which
was fatally maltreated by messenger.
Two young men, well armed and
mounted, entered upon the career Of high
waymen near Dallas, Tex, the other day.
They were tolerably successful for the great
er part Of a day, and secured considerable
booty from the numerous passers-by on the
Denton road. Toward night, however, the
Sheriff organized posse and came down
upon the youthful Jack Sheppards, at which
they broke and run, and, refusing to halt at
the Sheriff's command, they were literally
punctured with buckshot. One Of them,
Otis Comfy, fell from his horse, dead; the
other escaped, but was thought to be wound
ed, and could hardly avoid ultimate cap
ture.
THE prospectus of the Panama Canal
Company has been issued in Paris. The
capital stock is fixed at 800, 200, 900 francs
and the total cost of the work is estima ed
at 800, 100000 francs, the difference to be
raised by the issue of bonds.
THE Chicago Tribune has correspond
enee, apparently reliable, from Wood Noun
tain, on the Northwestern border, in which
it is stated that Sitting Bull has announced
his determination never to surrender to. the
United States authorities, and TO fight them
TO the death; also that Gen. Miles has organ
lied such a campaign against them that the
Sioux will doubtless be captured this win
ter.
A SEVERE snow-storm, accompanied
by unusually cold weather, prevailed gen.
orally on the 10th west of the Mississippi,
a. G,,R r od,,i1l
of snow fell and the mercury went down to
20 deg. below zero. In Southern Texas the
sugar crop has been badly injured. Many
sheep are reported to have persisted.
Gov. Wilt, of Louisiana, has ap-
pointed Hon. T. C. Manning United States
Senator, vice Spofford, deceased.
MAMMOTH CITY, Cal, 60 miles from
Bodie, has been almost destroyed by fire.
THE entire family of Daniel Burr,
Waterman in Cleveland rail mill, were
asphyxiated with gas from coal stove on the
night Of the 10th. When Burr returned
home in the morning from his work
he found the house tightly closed,
and forcing an entrance through
a window he discovered his wife and three
of the family, all lying in an unconscious
condition, while strong Odor of coal gas
pervaded the house. Prompt efforts at re-
suscitation were effectual in saving the lives
of all but one of the number.
JAMES MCFERRoN, son of the Rev.
DR.. j. B. McFerron, agent of the Southern
Methodist Publishing House at Nashville,
was instantly killed on the 10th, by an acct
dent on the Alabama and Great Southern
Railway near Elyton, Ala.
AT Logan, O., Carmi Call emptied a
package containing seven pounds of blasting
powder into flour sack. His wife held the
sack. He carelessly threw the wrapping
paper that had contained the powder into
the stove. The remnant Of powder adher-
ing to the paper caused flash which ignited
the entire mass contained in the sack. Mrs.
Cabs clothing was set on fire and she was
otherwise so badly injured that she died
within a short time; Call's injuries were Sc
we're, but not necessarily fatal. Three chill
dren in another part of the room were not
injured inthe least.
JAMES B. FERGUSON, q well-to-do
farmer residing near Bedford, Ind, hanged
himself on account of his daughter having
been betrayed by young man named Kerne.
DANIEL TRoUTMAN,a well-to-do farm
er Of Dauphin County, Pa, was shot and
killed by one of two burglars who had eff
fected an entrance to his house and de-
manded his money at the muzzle of a re-
vOlver. Troutman, under pretense Of get
ting the money, secured double barreled
shotgun, with which he fired at one Of
them, but missed him. The other at the
same time fire at Troutman, hitting him
in the breast and inflicting a mortal
wound. The robbers then fled. Troutman,
before he died, identified the man who shot
him as Henry Rumberger, man of notvery
good character, employed on a neighboring
estate of which Troutman was the executor.
Rumberger was arrested. He denies the
crime, but the neighbors generally believe
him guilty.
A SPECIAL train on the Houston and
Texas Central Railroad, conveying four COM
panies Of the Sixteenth U. S. Infantry, en-
route from Fort Riley, Kans., to San Anto-
Mo, was thrown from the track near Corsi
cana, on the 18th. Privates Matthew Smith,
Ed. Lewis and James Riley were killed; eight
others were injured, two at least fatally.
THREE masked men entered the resi-
dence of William Melton, eight miles west of
Meadville, Penn, the other night, and while
one held a revolver at MeltoE's head the
others bound and gagged him and his sister,
who is his housekeeper. The burglars then
searched the house and carried away over
500 and a gold watch.
CHARLES S. FISHER, a prominent
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