The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. -
CHIEF JUSTICE RYAN, of the WiscOn-
sin Supreme Court, is dead. e.
THE Rhode Island Greenbackers have
nominated sfuli State and Electoral ticket.
=. TIE steam barge Trader was wreck
l,eyl on lake Michigan during the late storm,
and her Captain and crew of ten were all
drowned.
wLEE SHRYo0K, Cashier of the Louis
vile Turf Exchange, is missing. His ae-
counts are short from $4,000 to $4,000. 1t
\ Is believed De has drowned himself. p
& BATTERY of three boilers in the dis
tillery of Cox & Fairbanks at Terre Haute,
Ind3 exploded on the Goth, instantly killing
six men and seriously injurfng twice as
many more. The names Of the killed are:
Joseph Denny, John A. Brooks, NJ. Kelly,
1Wm. Bergman, Frank Hauley and Harvey
Day tcoloredl. Seriously injured: Henry
Wilson, Eugene Mehring, Henry Dinkie,
, Frank Brown, John Yeo, Wash Simpson,
iGeorge Grom and VIM. Kirtley, the latter
fatally, The carse Of the explosion is not
known -s1hllF - jta fl.rlH.
= An accident occurred on the Cincin-
matt and Dayton RaIirpad, at Jones Station,
nineteen milesn Of Cincinnati, on the
10Th, by which fifteen passengers were in
ljured, Several seriously. t. -.
An einigrapt family, consisting Of one
fnansahd two women, camping near Spring
field ,yBrown County, Mint. were frozen to
death during the late Storm O. s'd'h I55a
THE residence Of MIR. Frank Risden,
near KermAlion, o., burned on the night of
the 10th and Mrs. Risden persisted in the
fiames.s lB, ltt Y-asisr r-tei
~ THE timbers of the steamer Alpena
which have drifted ashore are said TO be
mostly rotten, proving that the vessel was in
an unseaworthy condition.
+ PETER GARRETT and Emma Prittle,
both eoIored, living at Cuero, Tex, were
poisoned through taking strychnine admin
istered by mistake for quinine. Both died.
MAJOR THOMAS L. BUTLER, who as
sisted at the capture of Pensacola and was
aide- de camp TO- General jackson at the
Battle of New Orleans, died at Louisville,
on the 21st, aged 81. ... ........
10 ANlexpress train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad jumped the track while rounding
a curve near Conemaugh, Pa, on the 21st.
The express and baggage ears were badly
smashed and one Of them burned. Charles
McCloskey, express messenger, was crushed
to death by an iron safe. Two passengers
were injured. ,.,, ,-......t ~.
Mrs. LYDIA. MARIA CHILD, the well
known authoress, died at Wayland, Mass,
on the 2Oth, aged So,
AZ The Vermont Legislature has re-
elected United States Senator Edmunds.
THE Courthouse of Llano County,
Tex, has been burned with all its records.
1t lis said that the fire was the work of in
cendiaries, parties againstw indictments
were pending. r.. -aH t.ti'
,,.GRoRGR MossER, while firing a sa-
lutte at a political celebration at Madison,
Ind, had both his arms blown off and his
eyes blown out by a premature discharge of
the cannon. He can not recover.
} FRITZ WoLfKIN, while bear-hunting
with tive companions, near Spearfsh Falls,
d. T., few days ago, was attacked by a
large cinnamon bear. His head was nearly
torn away from his shoulders, both arms
wore broken, and the lower jaw nose and
one eye completely torn away before the ami
NAL was killed. Death occurred in few
hours. '&"t sts4 @A az "a A5s Z,
Z, HENRY WILLIAMS, alias Charles Pier
son, colored, was hanged at Raleigh, n. c.,
on the 22d, for the murder of another negro
in August last.
f..THE railway train from Dortmund,
Westphalia, to Berlin, on the I'D, was pre-
cipitated down an emhankment. Two per-
sons killed and twenty-siX injured. e., aH
& A DISPATCH from Rome, Italy, says
the distinguished German authoress, Eliza
Lenhardt, committed suicide at Ciyita
Yecchia by throwing herself into the sea.
JAMES B. DOYLE was arrested in Chi
eago recently having in his possession a
large number of stolen and altered Treasury
bonds. Doyle is a son-in-law of Brad. Fos-
ter, "a notorious counterfeiter. @
THE news of the defeat and death of
victorio and sixty Of his followers, by the
Mexican troops under Col. Terrases, is con-
irmed by an official communication from
that officer to Gem Ord. There are still
thirty Of the band at large who were not
present at the fight. 2. -.
THB propeller Europe, which was
thought to have been lost in the recent gales
on the lakes, has come into port at Chicago.