The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-06-09
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tank of water, steam raised, and the stern
propeller FIRST put in motion. IL crossed the
tank in 1Ok seconds. Then all three
were set gsing, when the Tiny ship crossed
in six seconds. Thus the speed was in
creased forty-five per cent. and the fact
demonstrated apparently that a steam
ship which crosses the Atlantic in seven
days canwith this new attachment cross it
in four. The inventor is confident of in
creasing the speed of steamships sixty per
cent. 1t runs much faster with the side
than with the stern propellers, and runs
away with the stern wheel working in re-
verse.
The Washington Artillery, battal-
ion of historic fame in She Mexican and
civil wars, held the twenty-second anniver-
sary of its setting out for the seat of war in
Virginia by public parade and dinner in
New Orleans, La, few days ago. One of
the features was the presenting of the
original battle flag of the Virginia army to
the battalion by Judge Alfred Roman in
behalf of General Beauregrd.
Mrs. Lena Rapp, an aged German
woman, of Louisville, KY, was killed by
lightning the other night. Her husband, in
the same room, was uninjured.
The boiler in q saw mill in Water
ford, Spencer County, KY, exploded few
days ago, fatally wouuding several work.
men and instantly killing John Purcell,
owner of the mill.
The past week closed the strawberry
shipping season at Chattanooga, Tenn. 1t
has reached 100000 pounds. t-I
An old resident of Hot Springs, Ark,
says the supply of hot water has more than
doubled in thirteen years.
The old stone mansion situated in
Thoroughfare Gap, Va, which had been in
the possession of the Chapman family for
over one hundred years, was destroyed re-
Gently by fire occasioned by a defect in a
flue.
At recent contest in Mobile. Ala,
for the twelve largest and heaviest bead ,
of cabbage the winner produced twelve
heads weighing 2l2 pounds.
At Waco, Tex, recently, Fred Schc
nick was trying to put ON the end of a small
pencil what seemed TO be common mus
l1et cap. 1t exploded and blew off one joint
of a thumb and two joints of his finger. On
examination of the box from which it was
taken, the innocent-lool1ing caps all proved
to be dynamite cartridges. Schenick was
clerking in a hardware house, and no one
was aware that the caps We're filed with
dynamite.
A fund for the benefit of the fam lies
of the Phoenix Park assassins executed re-
Gently is being collected by Irishmen at
Galveston, Tex.
Extensive frauds in the entry of pub
lie lands in Louisiana have been alleged
against j. b. Watkins, of Baton Rouge.
About four hundred thousand dol
lars of the old indebtedness of Memphis,
Tenn, had been filed to a recent date to be
funded.
AT Wheeling, w. Va, the other af-
ternoon, in the house in which Guenther
Schhelle murdered DIR. Schuckhnrt, Mary
Bach, aged eighty-seven, "A relative Of
Schnelle's wife, committed suicide by hang
ing. lr a fa.Et
Car-shops for the entire Gould sys-
tenn of railways are to be established at
Palestine, Tex.
The Secretary of the Interior has
granted a rehearing in the land grant case of
the Alabama g. Chattanooga Railroad Com
! pany.
The following are the receipts at the
Texas State Treasury for the month
of May from the proceeds of land sales
Blind Asylum land $4,000; Lunatic Asy-
um, $4,000; University, $4,000; public
domain $4,000. Total, $4,000.
In 1914 there We're about thirty cabins
in the Hot Springs (Ark.) Valley.
The Texas Department of Education
has received the scholastic census of Dial
las, Ft. Worth, Houston, Brownsville, Bren
| ham, Denison, Flatonia, Galveston and
Mexia The cities show total of 9,Sli
white and $3.50 colored children within
scholastic ages. Among those mentioned
| Galveston leads with 4,063; Houston mex
with 3,Os7, and then Dallas, 1,7jS.
Robert Smith, one of the brother.
who killed the two Cecil brothers at Helen
wood, Tenn, was killed the other day
while resisting arrest.
The other night Glenroy Henson
(coloredl, keeper of the city hay scales a
| Petersburg, Va, was murdered by his step
son, Joseph Henson, lunatic, who killed
his victim by striking him ON the head will
a fence-paling. Several nails penetrated
the skull
The body of William Lenders, ricl
Philadelphian, was found in Gulph Greek
six miles below Hot Springs, Ark, a few
days ago. He had evidently wandered
away temporarily deranged and fallen in
to the creek.
A boiler exploded at the saw-mill o
Blackshear & Snyder, in the northwestern
portion of Opelousas Parish, La, the othe
day, killing two men and badly woundinl
four.
An inspection of the Post-oifice a