The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
summary Of the Most Important Events,

The Governor Of New Hampshire was in
augurated at Concord on the I'd inst.
Hugh J. Anderson, ex-governor and ex
congressman, died at Portland, Maine, on
the 3Ist.
The Women's Medical college OF the New
York infrmary graduated eight physicians
on the Sist.
Church's livery stable at Frankfort, KY,
was burned. Only two horses were saved.
Loss $4,000.
The new Union depot at Denver, costing
100000, is completed and all trains arrive
and depart from it.
The loss by the burning Of the Collier
White Lead and Oil works at st. Louis, re-
Gently, is Sl20,O00 TO $4,000.
At North Brookfeld, Mass, June 1st,
Mrs. Nellie Murphy had her head cut of in
the elevator at Bachelors boot shop.
The Treasury departmentlias purchased
100000 ounces Of fine silver for the san
Francisco, Carson and Philadelphia minis.
Fred Bowen, sixteen years old, employed
in saw mill near Ithaca, Mich, was
caught in the betting and torn to pieces, on
the Slst ult.
Lieut. Albert NJ. Rhinehardt, of the Unit
ed States army, was found dead in bed on
the I'd inst, in Newton. ILL.,, where he was
visiting friends.
The creditors of Lawrence & Martin, the
bankrupt liquor dealers Of Chicago, have
agreed to accept twenty cents on the dol
lar, cash, in full of all claims.
Ten thousand and ninety-six Federal SOL
diers lie buried in the cemetery at Atlanta,
three thousand of whose graves have head
boards marked unknown"
1t is expected that d. T. Alexander, Of
Indiana, will be appointed Fifth Auditor Of
the Treasury in place of Ella, to be transfer
red to the place of Sixth Auditor.
Two hundred and fifty of the st. Louis
brewers are ON strike for higher wages
and shorter hours. The bosses will en-
deavor TO fill their places with new men.
Isaac NJ. Crane, a prominent lawyer Of
Eaton Rapids, Mich, died Of delirium ire
mems, aged forty-one years. He was a men,
Der Of the last State Constitutional Conven-
ton.
The Louisville and Nashville road has eX-
eeuted bonds to the United States in the
sum of $l,700,O00 for carrying goods in bond
from the ports of New Orleans, Mobile and
Pensacola to all interior points.
A desperate ARRAY occurred at Van Tine
Springs, New Mexico, between the whites
and Mexicans, in which three of the latter
were killed, but no before they had slain
four of the white men and wounded five 9TH
ers.
Mr.. Venner, the weather prophet, pre-
diets = wet June, with frequent thunder
storms and heavy winds. The warmest
part of June is likely to occur between the
Goth and 18th, when the heat will be in
tense.
A duel was fought between John P. Nun
ley and George Nunley, his nephew, aged
nineteen years, on the 2Sth inst, near
Charleston, W. Va. George Nunley was
shot in the mouth before he fired shot, and
fatally wounded.
John Graham, a convict in the Kentucky
penitentiary, hired a negro convict for
twenty cents to cut his (Graham's) hands
off so he could not be made to hackle hemp
any longer. The negro cut off both hands
with a single blow of an AK.
On the 2nd inst. Sir Edward Thornton, the
British Minister at Washington, gave Sec
rotary Blaine draft on London for $4,000,
the sum agreed upon as compensation for
the damages inflicted upon American fish
ermen in the Fortune Bay affair.
The New York legislature has passed \
bill providing for a tax of 81 for each steer
age passenger landed at New York, by
steamships from foreign countries. The
purpose Of the tax is to provide for the in
spectiOn and other expenses attendant upon
immigration.
AT one o'clock on the morning of the 31st,
Edwin E. Dunn, travelling salesman, fell
from the fourth story window Of the Emery
Hotel to the sidewalk, in Cincinnati. Death
was instantaneous. Mr.. Dunn was subject
to fits of dependency, and it is supposed
he committed suicide.
Pierre Lorillard's Iroquois won the Der
by Stake in contest with fourteen other
horses, at the London races, on the 1st inst.
Mr.. Lorillard is said to be $2,OO0,0OO ahead
on this event. 1t is the first time in the
history of the Stake that ali American horse
has been declared the winner.