The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
DOMESTIC.

The entire business portion Of the town
Of Ludington, Mich, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
In fight at Danville, Va, among wo-
men, Minnie Harris, white, cut the throat
Of Ruth Gwynne, colored.
George Fox, living near Dayton, Ohio
was found suspended by the neck in his
barn, dead. Family troubles caused the
act.
At Henrietta, Texas, Misses Lizzie Hutch
inson and Minnie Cox were killed by light
ming and four other persons received violent
shocks.
The compositors of New York met to re-
organize the Union, dormant since the
strike of 1867. No strike is threatened at
present.
Hon. VIM. Pinkney Whyte, ex-United
States Senator, has been nominated by the
Democrats as their candidate for Mayor OF
Baltimore.
A destructive wind and rain storm swept
over Central, Iowa, on the 18th inst, doing
serious damage to farm property. Several
lives were also lost.
John LiyermOre, and old employe of the
Morgan Railway company, committed sui
de at New Orleans on Saturday, 18th inst,
by serving aa artery in his left arm.
Andrew ID. Robson, nephew of ex-Sec-
rotary Robson, was killed by lightning at
Hunnewell, Kansas. His clothes were torn
from his body and his watch was melted.
George Armour, of the firm of Armour,
Dale & Co., Chicago, died recently at
Brighton, England. He was one of the old
est and most prominent citizens of Chicago.
Sixteen hundred brewers are on a strike
in New York, and now that thirsty city is
drawing its supply of the amber fluid from
Albany, Rochester, Milwaukee and Toledo.
A cyclone visited Sumner and Sedgwick
counties, Kan, on the 18th inst, causing
the destruction of vast amount Of proper
ty and killing few and wounding many
persons.
officer Timothy Mahoney, one Of the most
efficient of Chicago's policeman, was shot
three times and killed, by two drunken
reughs, whom he was attempting to arrest
for burglary. The murderers escaped.
A cutting ARRAY took place between two
young men, John Basler and Willis Down.
ing, near Lagrange KY. Basler was NOR
tally wounded. The fight was the result of
drunken quarrel. Downing escaped.
Farnums' cotton mills at Norristown, Pa,
have stopped work indefinitely, the propri-
etors not being able to obtain sufficient
hands torun them. The hands struck over
month ago against reduction of wages.
At Greensboro, North Carolina, during
the eclipse ofthe moon Saturday night, John
Taylor, negro who had grossly assaulted
white woman, was taken from Jail and
hanged. Large numbers of persons visited
the scene of the lynching Sunday
The brakemen Of the Arkansas and Texas
division of the st. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern railroad have struck tor an in
crease of wages. They received $50 amonth
and demand $50. The officers offered to pay
by the trip, but the offer was rejected.
During the usual exercises at the Sandlot,
in San Francisco, Mr.. O'Donnell, who runs
every Sunday an opposition meeting to
Kearney, in the course of his harangue pro-
dueed British and Chinese flags, and rolling
them in bundle burned them on the plat
form.
A brief special from Winnipeg says that
a war has broken out between the Sioux and
Greeks, and thata battle has been fought near
Woody mountain, in which twenty-eight of
the former were killed. The Creeks OBJ
jected to the Sioux coming further west,
hence the trouble.
The State commissioner of agriculture Of
Kentucky, ina monthly bulletin just issued,
says that the drouth in May has done more
damage TO wheat than was anticipated and
there cannot possibly be more than two
thirds of a crop. Corn has suffered from
bad seed and drouth and must be late in
maturing. Hemp and tobacco promise
well.
1t is again reported that Ex-senator
Spencer is to be appointed First Assist
ant Postmaster-General,b but that he will
not be appointed until after the star
route trials, as General Tyner does not
want to vacate until these trials DEM
onstrate that he had no knowledge of
any frauds in Brady's division of the
Postofice Department.