The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Summary of the Most Important Events.
DOMESTIC.

The Garden City distillery, at Chicago,
collapsed few days ago.
Joseph sabin, the veteran book seller and
biographer of Brooklyn, is dead.
-Four children were killed last week in
Jersey City by falling from windows.
The Massachusetts Soldiers Home, at
Chelsea, was dedicated on the sth inst.
The President has recognized Joseph r.
Edwards as consul of the Netherlands at
Mobile.
lana is reported scarce, and the crops are
suffering in consequence.
At Berlin, KY, man named Mckown in
fit Of drunken fury, stabbed to death his
brother-in-law, William Lewis.
The steamer Glen Logan, of New York,
has been burned at sea. The crew and pas
seng@s were safely landed at Fortaleza,
Brazil.
A little girl of three years, the daughter
Of Mr.. Samuel Schwarz, died in Dayton,
Ohio, from eating the heads of several par
lor matches.
The Little Rock Cotton and Produce Ex-
change is in flourisng condition. IthOpes
to increase the receipts ofcotton $1,000 bales
next season.
A terrible hailsterm swept over Dead
wood a few days ago, doing great damage.
Hail stones Of the size of hens eggs fell for
more than two hours.
A monument TO the late jeremiah Phil
lips, for forty years a missionary in India,
was unveiled at the Hilldale cemetery near
Detroit, on tbs sth inst.
A Houston (Texas) special says that
Hon. W. r. Baker and Judge Crosby have
returned from Mexico, where they went to
examine silver mines. Both made extern
sive purchases while there.
The captains of the steamers Silsia, Ohio,
and Salier, were arrested in New York for
carrying an excessive number Of passen-
gers. They were placed under bonds to
await the action Of the grand jury.
s. b. Evans, OF the scientific expedition
from Chicago, has discovered an immense
calendar stone in an excavation among the
ruins Of Tezcoco, with the largest represen-
tation Of human figure known among
Mexican antiquities.
A charter has been filed with the Secreta-
ry Of the State of Kansas, for a'cO-operativs
socity to oolonize old Mexico. 1t is for the
purpose of buying lands in Mexico and set
Ting colonists there, on capital stock of
500, 900, divided into 800 shares OF twenty
five dollars each.
Postmaster General James has issued an
order that all official matter emanating
from the departments OF the Government
must hereafter be treated in every respect
as first-class matter, unless the wrapper or
envelope distinctly states that the pack
ages indorsed are printed matter.
The road from Rome to Brunswick, Geor
gia, will be named the Cincinnati and Geor-
gia road. 1t is calculated that it will cost
$4,5OO,OOO, not including the cost of the Ma
con and Brunswick road. 1t will be laid
with steel rails throughout, and will be
equipped in the best possible style.
Postmaster General James has already
the Star lines his reductions were for March
$161, 1926, for April 9,916, for May $2SS, $50,
while his reductions of the steamboat SER
vice amounted to s2l6, 997, total saving of
s734,Os6. The decrease in Louisiana and
Texas was $9S,6OS.
The 'boom" in railway securities is well
shown in the estate of the late Asa Pack
er. When he died, about year ago, his es-
tate, which consisted Of railway securities,
was inventoried at $4,000, 900, and produced
revenue Of 100000. Now it has grown
to s., 49,, 055, and the revenue TO $4I1, 023
simply by the increase in the value Of rail-
way stock.
The commissioner Of internal revenue has
sent special agents to Louisiana, Florida,
Mississippi and Alabama, to ascertain
whether the revenue law in relation to pay
ment of special license taxes by dealers in
whisky, tobacco, ETC., have been complied
with. The agents are instructed to visit
every place where articles requiring special
license are sold, and inspect the dealers
license and report cases of fraud or failure
to pay the special license tax.
A Wheeling special Of the Sth says: a
rain storm OF unusual severity occurred in
this region about midnight last night, by
which considerable damage was done to the
growing crops, to the country roads and
bridges, and also to the railroads. Nearly
all the trains are out oftime in consequence
A family named Straub, living in Glenn's
Run, were swept away in the night, the
mother and five children being drowned,
and the father was carried on along to the
head of one Of the sister islands, where he
was found to-day in an insensible condi-
ton. The bodies of the mother and two of
the children have been recovered, Tut the
others have been carried down the river.