The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-09-29
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Ed S. Skies fell dead from heart dis
ease while ON his train on the Texas g. Pa
cific Railroad few days ago between Mar
shall and jefferson, Tex.
A locomotive exploded a few days
ago while crossing Trinity River bridge
near Palestine, Tex, but fortunately in
jured no one.
A few nights ago at Fort Worth, Tex,
Louis Kunl1el and II. A. Franey, Prussian
and Frenchman, became involved in an
angry alteration over the respective
merits of the two nations, when Kunkel
said he could down Frenchman, and he
whipped out his knife and and stabbed
Franey in the right side, between the
second and third ribs. The knife penetrat'
ed the cavity, inhicting a wound from
which Franey will probably die.
The corpse of man named Butler,
a ringleader among the fence-cutters, was
found few days ago near Henrietta, Tex,
perforated with bullets. Two companions
of his are known to be badly wounded.
The body was lying near where the fence
on Sherwood's ranch had been cut for sew
era miles.
The Georgia delegates to the Ma
have formally announced their determine
ton to demand admittance to the hotels,
and to insist on flrst-class accommodations
The managers of the principal hotels say
that they will not admit them as guests at
| all.
| In the District Court at Shreveport,
La., few DAYS since, Richmond Stuart
colored, charged with numbering his wife,
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AT Marysville, Tenn, a few days ago
Joseph Scott and John Dunn agreed to set
tie an old feud by free encounter. They
| fought with knives, and Scott was stabbed
| four times in the chest, from the effects OF
| which he died.
The Foreign Mission Convention (col-
ored) of the United States met in the Bap
fist Church, Manchester, Va, a few days
| ago. The following missionaries were ap-
pointed and will sail for Africa by the 18th
| of December: Rev. J. w Presley and wife
]. }. Cole and H. Kenney.
A party of campers in the Panhandle
Texas, came near being drowned by n
cloud-burst few nights ago.
William Harris, native of Harbo'
Keys, died recently at Key West, Fla, a.
the advanced age of 105 years.
Minor Melmore, one of the proprie
tors and city editor of the New Orleans
Daily States, died few days since of ma
larial fever, aged twenty-five.
A stranger who registered as John
Ryan shot himself fatally at the Southern
Hotel, Austin, Tex, few days ago. No
one knew anything about him.
Murrain is raging to fearful extent
among the cattle in Northern Georgia. 1t
is said that nearly every animal attacked
by the disease dies. This dreadful disease
prevails more or less all over the South this
season.
! Augustus +. Schneider, who has been
In the employment of o. w. Thomas & Co.,
of Louisville, KY, for nearly twenty years,
has been missing for several days. He was
last seen on the 18th on Wenzel street, be-
tween Main and Market, about $3.50 OF :
O'Clock p. m. When he got to his fathers
house some unknown man was with him.
He went into the house, paid his father
some money and left, saying he was going
to his mother-in-law's on Story avenue.
near Johnston street. He drew out of the
bank that day $50 on certificate of de-
post and left $47j with grocer on Jeffer-
Monday.
A few days ago little son of Clabe
Bowman, living near Oakdale Junction,
Tenn, was in cart driving a mule, with
the lines around his neck, when the animal
became frightened and ran away, throwing
the boy out with the lines still around his
neck, and he was thus dragged to death.
John Jarvis shot Clodius Bonney in
Princess Anne County, Va, few days
since, with shotgun, killing him instantly.
The murderer escaped to a neighboring
swamp.
A few days ago, near MeXia, Tex,
Joe Barber, from behind a house, perfo-
rated Lee Wood with buckshot Wood was
unarmed. He will die. They were near
neighbors. Barber surrendered.
Judge August Siewering died at San
Antonio, Tex, few days ago aged fifty
one years. Deceased emigrated to Texas
from Germany in 1919, and made his home
in San Antonio At the last State election
he ran for Lieutenant-Governor and re-
ceived fine vote. At the previous election
he was strongly favored as the Republican
candidate for Governor.
Larry Russell, mail carrier between
lockwood and Kings Creek, was arrested
a few days ago at Lenoirs, Tenn, and
lodged in Jail at Chattanooga charged
with robbing the United States mails. A
registered package was put in the bag at
Kings Greek which failed to reach its des-
tination, hence Russell's arrest. He made
full confession duplicating others.
The total amount of funds in the
Texas State Treasury, according to a recent