The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-10-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

and influential citizen of Michigan and
resident of Ann Arbor, died at Iowa Falls,
Ia, aged ffty-eight
A YOUNG farmer named j. l.. Stran-
ger, of Wayne City, H., on the night of
the I'd blew out the gas in his room at the
Prescott House, New York, and was found
nearly dead in the morning. TWAS thought
he would recover.
The uxoricide, James McSteer, was
hanged on the Attn at Pittsburgh, Pa.
On the 4th Luse & Sibeth, East India
merchants, failed at London, Eng, for
E250,000.
ADvICEs of the, 4th say General Lew.
Wallace is stiIl negotiating the petroleum
question with the Porte.
PROCEEDINGS have been begun by
Senator Sharon to show the fraudulency of
the marriage contract Miss Hill claims to
hold.
KING ALFoNzo has received the con-
CALCULATIONS of all the crowned heads on
account of the enthusiastic reception ac-
corded him at Madrid.
On the 4th Joseph Smith, one Of the
Irish informers who was refused an asylum
i'm Australia, landed in Marseilles and sud-
denly disappeared. He will go to India.
AT the State Conference of the M. E.
against Rev. C. A. Stockwell, who deserted
mis- post to stake a mining claim in Dakota.
In the First District of North Carolina
the Democrats have nominated Thomas w.
Skinner for Congress in place of Pool, de-
ceased.
On the 9TH Chief-Justice Coleridge
went to Baltimore.
THE resignation Of General Thibau-
din, French Minister of War is an
nounced.
On the 9TH Sir Stafford Northcote, in
a speech, denounced the foreign and home
policy of the British Government.
THE Executive Council of Boston on
the 9TH rejected the nomination of E. e.
Walker, colored, to be Judge of the Munich
pal Court.
A DISPATCH from Madrid of the 9th
says: Chalemel Lacour, French Minister
of Foreign Affairs, has been advised that
the full text of Grevy's apology to King
Alfonso will be officially published, and
that the leaders of the demonstration in
Paris against the King will be punished.
The Prince of Wales and Gar of Rus
STA are going hunting together in Sweden.
CHARLES CREIGHTON HAZEwELL, for
twenty-five years a writer on the Boston
Traveller, died on the eth.
WASHINGTON Prohibitionists are
waging an aggressive war on the saloon
keepers.
A NATIONAL conference of Socialists
is to be held at Pittsburgh, Pa, commenc-
ing on the 18th.
ADvICEs from Berlin of the 18th say
that Nihilist proclamations have been is
sued solemnly sentencing the Gar Of Rus
STA to death because he has failed to grant
liberty to the people.
COUNSEL for Senator Kellogg in the
Star-route case has asked that the trial be
set for an early day.
On the 9TH Emily McTavish, a grand
daughter of General Winfield Scott took
the black veil at Baltimore convent.
IT is reported that Jay Gould and
Russell Sage have each taken 81 100000 in
Northern Pacific second mortgage bonds.
THE creditors of George William Bal
lou & Co., who recently failed in New
York, have been paid in full and the firm
have resumed business.
On the 9TH Edwin Butt, travelling
salesman for Chicago firm, cut his throat
in sleeping car at Bay City, Mich, and
died in a few hours.
In his last tour of inspection General
Sherman Travelled 10,67S miles in 10 days.
He will retire from command before Con-
gress sits.
CHARGES are made against S. r.
Crumbaugh, United States Collector, Sec
ond Kentucky District that he has usec
Government stamps and envelopes fol-
private business.
On the 8th Assemblyman Sessions Of
New York was placed on trial charged
with attempting to bride member during
the Senatorial election which was held af
ter Conkling and Platt resigned.
GENERAL DENT has asked to be
placed ON the retired list December l., un
der the forty.year service provision.
Two outlaws, Bill Hensley and Rec
Jack, were killed by sheriff's posse, neal
Wilcox, ARIZONA. on the 9Th.
THE RIGHT REV. AUGUSTUS SHORT
Bishop of Adelaide, Australia, is dead. H,
was born near Exeter, England, in 1903.
On the Sth Alfred A. Cohen, lead
ing member of the California BAR who ha!
been visiting in the East for several weeks
was stricken with paralysis in New York
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
CITY MARSHAL HARRIS was sho
through the heart at Cedarville, o., on the
4th, by Isaac Weymouth, whom he was at
tempting to arrest.
A TEXAS desperate named Clait
Young, who killed a man named O'Donnel