The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-08-18
from Various Sources.
PERSONAL Ar,, POLITICAL.

AT the recent election inJUtah, under
the federal law, the Mormons carriedevery.
county, the gentiles electing few Justices
and constables in mining camps. The Leg
islature will be composed wholly of young
Mormons. The registration lists at Salt
Lake contained nearly six thousand names,
and but twenty-seven hundred votes were
cast.
AN attache of the Mexican Legation
at Washington says a commercial treaty
has been recently signed between his coun-
try and Germany, containing no offensive
and defensive provisions. The widespread
dissatisfaction of the lower classes in Mexi.
co in regard to the American railway pro-
jects, he says, has totally disappeared, and
capital from the United States is welcomed
by all.
The New Jersey convention of the
National party, in session at Asbury Park,
N. j., on the 9th, declared in favor of Gov
eminent control of railways and telegraph,
equal taxation and universal suffrage, but
refused to adopt a prohibition plank. Ben
jamin Urner was nominated for Governor.
A NATIONAL demonstration arranged
to take place on Parnell's estate in Ireland
4
an intimation from the authorities that it
would be suppressed.
AT the Lord Mayors banquet in Lon
don, Eng, the other night, Gladstone said
the Government desired simply to acceler-
ate reform in Egypt, when the British
would disappear from the country; that
the Tamative difficulty would be adjusted
by France in generous spirit, and that
peace and security prevailed in Ireland.
The Ohio Liquor Dealers Protective
Association met in convention at Toledo on
the 9th to organize for the fall political
campaign. $50.
The Maryland Republicans will hold
their State Convention at Baltimore, Sep
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A PARTY of distinguished Europeans
who came over to this country at the invi-
tation of Rufus Hatch to visit Yellowstone
Park, left New York on the 10th, and num-
bered fifty persons. Numerous stops would
be made along the route to enable the
visitors to inspect the great grain farms.
A RECENT cablegram announces the
death of DR.. Robert Moffat, the father-in-
law of the late DR.. Livingston, the celebrat-
ed African traveller, and who was himself
for many years a missionary in South
Africa. a5 lA-.fa
The President has recognized Joseph
Okerstrom, Vice-Consul of Sweden and
Norway, at Denver, Colo. f,a,t i,as
THE Associated Press excursion to
Yellowstone Park had returned to the
Northern Pacific Railroad on the, 18th. The
Presidents exploring expedition was still
II 70 d Ha a..
OFFICIAL returns from sixty-nine sof
III counties in Kentucky show Proctor
Knott's majority for Governor to be over
$1,000. In the same counties Blackburn's
majority was $4,000. egE
SEVERAL American artists have been
awarded second-class medals at the Munich
Germany art exhibition.
The Emperor of Austria and the
King of Servia will have an interview in
Hungary next month.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
L. l.. CONRAD, a prominentlawyer of
Baltimore, Nd, whose father was Score
tary of War under President Fillmore, was
shot dead by his insane wife, who was
suffering terribly from neuralgia of the
stomach. The Coroner's Jury found that
the lady intended to commit suicide and
had no intention of injuring heishusband.
A7PREsBYrERrAN clergyman named
iSweetcut his throat and jumped overheard
from the steamship Manitoba in the straits
of Belle Isle a few days ago. .sd.,s,.,s.a..
"A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
,Massillon, o., the other day, and the en-
gineer and fireman both Killed. ,EF'
The steamer William Lawrence col
lided with and sank the schooner Maria
ILavina on the morning of the 10th in the
chesapeake Bay. The Captains wife aud
two children and the cook were drowned.
WILLIAM HENRY OsTRANDER was
hung at Utica, N. Y, on the 10th for the
murder of his brother, George Lyman. Os-
trander, on December 29th, 1850, near west
Camden, in that State. and Running Bril-
an Indian, was executed at Talequah, I. T.,
on the day before, for the murder OF Run
ming Water, another Indian. b. 4. -.
AN explosion of tire-damp occurred
in the shaft Of the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company at Shenandoah, Pa, a fews.d days
ago. One man was killed. 5,,N
SEVEN fine trotting horses valued at
$4,000 were burned to death in n stable on
the Fair Grounds at Lexington, KY, few
days ago. .AM ~
Four masons, at work on the fourth
story of building at Boston, Mass, the
other day, were thrown to the ground by
the fall of staging. One was fatally hurt.
AT Worcester, Mass, on the 10th,
William M. Coburn was killed by the fall.
ing of a chimney from a burning building.
THE British Canadian Lumber Com
pany's mill and Yards.- at, Midland. Ont.