The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-11-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

A. MADDEN, postal-route agent be-
tween Des Moines and Keokuk, Iowa, is
under arrest for robbing the mails. lie was
caught by means Of decoy letters.
THE prisoner held at Grand Island,
Neb., has been fully identified as Ed. Max
well, the elder Of the two notorious brother
outlaws. The younger brother, Alonzo,
who made good hts escape when Ed. was
arrested, is known to be secreted somewhere
in the vicinity, and it is believed will be
captured.
THE Foreign Missionary Seminary at
Paris has telegram from Hong Kong stat
ing that terrible typhoon ravaged Western
Tonquin. Two hundred churches, thirty
four parsonages and colleges, and 1900
houses were destroyed. Six thousand
Christians were ruined and are without re-
sources. The losses are immense. The
distress is terrible. The telegram begs
for the promptest help.
FIRE record for the 18th: Six hotels
at Old Orchard Beach, York County, Me-,
loss, S72, 900. w. E. Tanner & Co. IS Metro
politan Works, Richmond, Va; loss, $780,
900; insured. Modesto, Stanislaus County,
Cal, to the extent Of 100000. orphan
Home, Womensdorf, Pa; loss, $40, 600.
Woodstock, Carleton County, n. b., town
Of five thousand inhabitants on the St. John
River, almost totally destroyed.
A SEVERE snow storm prevailed on the
18th throughout a portion Of Wyoming, Ne
| braska, New Mexico, Colorado and Western
Kansas.
A MAN named j. Howard Welles has
been arrested in New York for writing
threatening letters to Jay Gould. 1t was a
blackmsiling scheme that failed OF success.
THE Government has been worsted
| in its first encounter with the alleged Star
route indicators. Judge Cox, Of the Dis
trict Criminal Court, before whom the case
against Thomas J. Brady ct al. was brought
| by information, decides that the crime
charged is an Infamous one, in the Ian
guage OF the statute, and that the accused
should have been proceeded against
| by indictment. He therefore ordered
that the prisoners be discharged.
After the reading,of the Judges decision,
| Col. w. A. Cook, the special counsel Of the
! Government, made an explanatory state
ment which created no little sensation. Az
ter speaking of the unavoidable delay in
preparing the cases for trial, caused by the
shooting OF President Garfield, he said he
was fastening back from Elberon to Wash
ington to present the cases before the
Grand Jury when he was surprised
| by the, announcement that the
Grand Jury had adjourned. He
asserted that neither the Attorney General
nor the counsel engaged in the prosecution
had the slightest intimauOn of such an UNI
usual proceeding. The recess had been for
a sufficient length OF time to prevent the in
| dictment being found in this case on ac-
count Of the statute OF limitation. Emer-
gency had existed, and in order to prevent
positive failure in the case the prosecution
determined to file information. This state
ment throws the responsibility Of adjourning
the Grand Jury upon District Attorney
! COrkhll, and in a recent statement the lat
ter alleges that Attorney General MacVeagh
had knowledge Of the proposed adjourn
ment Mr.. MacVeagh is yet to be heard
from. Col. Cook says additional cases will
now be prepared and brought before the
Grand Jury, and that there will be no let
up in the prosecution on the part Of the
Government officers.
THEODORE TIRER, prominent loan
and insurance agent Of Albert Lea, MINI. 3,
has been swindling people right and left,
and is now in Jail in default of bail. He
fed upon the discovery Of his fraudulent
practices, but was pursued TO Forest City,
Iowa, and brought back The extent of his
crookedness is not fully known, but the
Freedom County Bank is reported to be a
loser to the amount of s., 900 or So, 900. Tirer
occupied a high position in Albert Lea
church and society circles. 1t is now known
that he was some years ago sent to the New
York Penitentiary from Buffalo for forgery,
being pardoned out by Governor Tilden.
He then came West to take a fresh start in
life, but evidently did not profit any by his
former experiences,
OSCAR w. HARPEL, a well-known
Cincinnati printer, author of several books
pertaining to the. 'art preventative" died
quite suddenly at Louisville, KY, where he
was visiting friends.
KILOGRAMS from Dublin state that
the large reduction of rent by the sub-com-
missions under the Land act is causing an
out-cry on the part of the landlords, and q
demand for Government compensation.
The Monaghan Land Commission rendered
a decision in all pending cases, granting in
nearly every instance reduction OF 10 to 20
per cent in rent. Up to the 10th the mum.
Der of cases before the Land Commission
was nearly $4,000,
THE trial of Charles j. Guiteau for
the murder Of President Garfield begun in
the Criminal Court at Washington, on thu
14th, before Judge Walter S, Cox. GuiteaU
was brought into court, looking much bet
ter physically than when he pleaded to the
indictment, still he had the same restless
furtiye eXpression which characterized hin