The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-07-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


4 dispute recently about ponies which re-
? suited in eight o. the 8 pgrS Icing killed.LF
DIR. REUBEN NJ. HILLS, one of the
Oldest physicians of Coyington, Ind, com
mftted suicide by placing the muzzle of a
loaded revolver to his mouth and then dis
charging it. The Doctor had been an invalid
/. for several years. He was sixty two years
Of age, bachelor, and had property worth
I $4,000.
= HUGH HAMA, a well known farmer
of Clinton County, Iowa, was fording a
swollen stream near BRYANT, with his wife
and five children in the wagon. The horses
got beyond their depth, the wagon upset
and Hanna and his FIVE children were
drowned. Mrs. Hanna in some way sue
ceeded in reaching the shore. %
PHELIM TooLE, a well kpown mem
Der Of the ST. Louis Fire Department, was
instantly killed on the 9th by the explosion
Of Holloway fire-extinguisher. At the
burning Of the Southern Hotel, three years
ago, Toole distinguished himself by his in
trepidity, rescuing at least a dozen people
from the upper stories of the building.
| THE Hodges Bank, at Platteville, Wis,
was very cleverly swindled out Of $1,000 on
the 9Th, by James Drew, professional bank
swinder, by means Of a forged draft and
letters Of introduction. He got off safe with
his booty.
A LOCOMOTIVE blew up in the yard
at Peru, Ind, on the 9Th, killing Bachelor,
the Yarllmaster, and seriously wounding
Charles Wilson, the engineer, Applegate'
fireman, and Jim Pierce, brakeman.
The Cuban insurgents under Calisto
II Garcia are reported to have been defeated
and the leaders taken prisoners with the ex-
ception of Garcia, who fled to Ianiqua with
! a few remaining followers The captured
officers are the ones who accompanied Gar
cia on his recent expedition from the United
| States. -rr.-.. sa- ----e-.. ..
THE German Government, by an inn
perial decree, has prohibited the importa-
don of all preparations of American pork
" as a simple sanitary measure" American
1 shippers claim that the measure is taken for
i the protection of German packers.
GEORGE GAM, wealthy retired mer-
chant of Buffalo, arose the other morning,
took a rope, sawbUck and block of wood
4 into his orchard, placed the sawbuck under
a tree, adjusted the rope round his neck, tied
| it to the tree, then kicked away the sawbuck
and hanged himself.
AT Danvile, Va, on the night of the
] Sth, Thomas DeJarnette shot his sister Mol
I lie five times, wounding her fatally. The
brother says he shot her in order to wipe out
the disgrace she had caused the family. The
affair took place in house Of bad repute,
where the girl was an inmate. She was II
years Of age; he only 20. The wounded girl
begged that her brother be not arrested, as
he had only done what was right.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake occur
red in Switzerland on Sunday, July 4. Two
! persons were killed. Several meters of the
summit Of SchnebeIberg near Quarter fell,
/ overwhelming large wood.
THE British Government has sent
physicians to County Mayo, Ireland, to in
quire into the nature and extent Of the fam
Inc fever there and in neighboring counties,
which is reported to be spreading alarm
mgly. .HHE -.HI... Es... ...
The Russian journals state that there
is no truth in the recent stories about Chinese
victories over the Russian troops.
By a large majority the French Cham
Der Of Deputies passed the Amnesty bill as
amended by the Senate.
ALoCAL train running between Atch-
ison, Kans., and the main line of the Kansas
City, St. Joe ard Council Bluffs Railroad,
was boarded at Winthrop Station before day
light on the morning of the 9th by two
masked men, who with revolvers pointed at
the heads of the train men and express mes
senger, compelled the latter to open his safe,
from which they took a package containing
$3.50 in currency and a case Of jewelry. They
escaped unmolested.
PHILIP ScHUN and his wife, of Lam
caster, Pa, the husband a merchant, were
both killed by their carriage being struck by
railway train as they were crossing the
track. n .. .r.. ..g r.a.s..s.
A DUEL was fought in South Carolina
on the 9TH between Col. E. B. C. Cash, Of
Chesterfield, and Col. VIM. NJ. Shannon, Of
Camden, in which the latter was killed.
JACOB KUNTz, who resided at Home
stead Station on the Northern Railroad, New
Jersey, went to the house of his son at Union
Hill, where his wife resided, and forbade
her going to picnic. Upon her refusing
Jacob fatally shot her. He then went to
the barn and shot himself. Kuntz had sew
eral times attempted to take his wife's life
and also that Of his son, who protected her.
Kuntz and wife were both over sixty years
of age. ..H-.ff.h . E. .
AN excursion steamer. with one hun
dred persons on board sunk in Lake Gaze
NJ, 1i.rag lns4
THE following executions took place
on the 9th, all the victims being colored
men: George Price, at Cincinnati, for kill
ing Willie Black, his former employer; Alex
ander Howard, at Goldsboro, \. c., for kill
ing Robert Antry, an inoffensive old white
man; Henry Ryan, at Augusta, Ga, for
killing Mary Thomas, also colored; and
Daniel Washington, at Charleston, S. c.,
FOR killing Allen Collins. ...w Il
REV. BARNAs SEARS, manager of the
Southern Peabody Fund, died suddenly at
Syracuse, y. y, on the 9th. He was for
merly President Of Brown University, but
ilate years has resided at StauntOn, Va. d..
AT Greenville, Mich, James P. Cook
shot his wife and then himself, both dying
almost instantly. Cook was insane from
drink, but there had been previous matri-
monia infelicity. They were of good social
standing. #. e. .F-srr.. rr.-# ay..T|
MAJOR GEORGE A. REYNOLDS, of Par
sons, Hans, died quite suddenly in Wash
ington on the 9Th, ..
The Pope has decided to accept the
Prussian Church law and win at the next
Consistory nominate Bishops to FIJI the va
cant sees. Ii t"t' 11. 1H ..H ibid III
THE Connecticut Greenbackers have
$3.50 ., ,,,,,,irs +ion, n full- State t;ctyat