The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-05-05
WHISKY supplemented by a threat

TO shoot and kill his wife, his six-year-old |
son and then himself, At Brooklyn, few |
days ago,
AMosr distressing accident happened |
near Middleton, o., the other afternoon. A
| little daughter of John O'Connell fell into |
a creek, and on the father and mother GO |
| ing to her rescue all three were drowned.
Two boys were burned to death in
sugar house at st. Thomas, Quebec, the
other night.
THIRTEEN arrests were made at Lari-
more City, OAK, the other day for the re-
cent murder of the Ward brothers, former
ly of Chicago.
In religious riot at Port Said, Egypt,
on the Goth several lives were lost British
troops were called out to protect the Greek
Church.
A MOB of disguised men stormed the
Jail at Florence, Lauderdale County, Ala,
the other night, took George Ware, con-
fined therein on the charge of numbering
Robert Bethune, and hung him to tree. A
reward has been offered for the arrest of
any of the perpetrators of the outrage.
/ A VIGILANCE committee consisting of
200 men took John Walsh, the alleged muir
derer of Thomas Gavin, from Jail at Lords
burg, N. NJ, the other morning and hung
him on a wagon derrick. Ha
A FIRE which started in livery sta
BILE at Wellsburg, w. Va, the other morn
ing destroyed half of one of the best bust
ness blocks in the city.
| AT Newaygo, Mich, on the goth,
Brooks Hotel, the Exchange Hotel, two
churches and fourteen other buildings were
hxyf ra c,f
coo. The Great Works Milling and Manu-
featuring Company's saw-mills at Bangor,
Me-, was burned on the same day, the loss
being $4,000. L-it
By the capsizing of man-of-war
boat at Toulon, France, the other day seven
men were drowned.
A, FALL of coal and explosion of gas
at the Keystone colliery, Ashland, Pa, the
other day, resulted IN the loss of several
lives. .r.U n
Mrs. HENRY WELDER was killed by
a collision on the Connecticut River Road
at Springfield, Mass, a few days ago.
In row which occurred at a colored
festival at Brazoria, Tex, the other night
John Leonas and S. Bordeaux, convict
guards, fred nine shots at Jim Wright,
without effect. While running Wright
: turned and fred two shots, killing both.
IN a row at Port Royal, S. c., the
other night, Charles Wallace fatally shot
: three negroes named Miller, Singleton and
Sherman.
In attempting to escape from the
county jail at Tucson, Ariz., the other
: morning, Joseph Casey and another pris-
+. oner fatally shot A. w. Holbrook, the
, Jailer. The prisoners did not escape.
B., ALBERT H. BEALs, of Boston, mistook
his partner, A. p. Pickett, for burglar, on
the Fall River steamer the other night, and
: shot him dead.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The log books of three Texas war
ships were received by the Governor at
Austin the other day from a gentleman in
{ Indiana. They give the record of several
;. engagements which occurred from 1910 to
1S43.
= The workmen at the end of the Can
ada Pacific Railroad, in Manitoba, were
3 threatened by Indians recently, who com
planned that their country was being In
a vaded. The Indians had shown an un
a friendly disposition for six months pre-
vious, and trouble was feared.
, THE issue of standard silver dollar.
from the MINIS for the week ended April 2;
!, was $16S 900; for the corresponding perioc
last year, $161 900.
. The Secretary of the Interior ha!
rendered decision regarding the route o
=. the Northern Pacific Railroad which short
ems the line forty-three miles and restores
:, to the public domain more than ], 900, 00
= acres of land.
4 A PASSENGER train was wrecked nea
Monroe, Mich, the other night, and severa
II persons badly hurt.
~ Two merchants at Clifden, Ireland
" were arrested on the Both, charged with be
le ing connected with the conspiracy to muir
No der. According to information given b,
Ii informers, number of apparently respect
10 able persons were implicated in murde
and conspiracy.
, AT Cork, Ireland, O'Connor, prom
W inent Land Lacquer, has been sent to prison
"a for refusing to testify in criminal prosecu
"A tions.
is IT is estimated that the decrease il
n the public debt during the month of Apr
q. amounted to about s., 800, 900.
n THE first CRASHED Texas cattle o
1t this season were received at the Nationa
Yards at st. Louis on the Both ult., and sol
k for $3.50 per hundred. They were from tn
% Pecos region and were only in fair flesh.
n Two HUNDRED and fifty Irish immi
grants, sent out by the British Government
k, arrived at Philadelphia, Pa, few day
in ago.
n. The importation of American por
n, into Greece has been forbidden by tha