The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-07-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


mittee has reported the possession Of over
100000 with which to commence the enter
prise.
DIR. HATHAWAY, the Philadelphia
(Pa.) abortionist, in whose cellar were
found the skeletons of twenty infants. has
been fined 500 and sentenced to seven
years in the Penitentiary.
AT Brownsville, Texas, the other
afternoon three girls, named Inez and
Manuella Mora and Juana Flores went to
take a bath in the river above town and
were drowned. This is the third of re-
markable chain of accidents all alike.
About two months ago three girls were
drowned at Regnora, fifty miles up the
river. Last month three girls were drowned
near Santa Maria, thirty miles up the river,
and then comes this accident exactly like
the others.
Mrs. POPE was stung on the nose by
bee at Milan, Tenn, a few days ago, and
death ensued in few minutes.
THERE was another bad break in the
markets at Chicago, ILL.,, on the 2Sth, and
more failures were reported. Cd
The telegraph reported on the 2Sth
OF Ashland, Pa, had been flooded by the
storm which occurred there the day before.
THREE men were killed by an explo
sion OF the boiler in a saw-mill at Whittle-
sey, Wis, few days ago. The mill was
almost totally destroyed.
On May "a Lieut.. Col. Schlayer, Of
the Austrian army, and Lieut.. Bolgar, edi-
tor of the Military Journal at Vienna,
fought duel, in which Schlayer was slain
A trial at Vienna the other day ended in
acquittal of Bolgar, the evidence showing
he was the challenged party, and was
forced to fight. 'af % IlF 7i
The bill legalizing marriage with a
deceased wife's sister in England has been
rejected by the House of Lords.
Rev. Mr.. WIcHBoRNE. an English
clergyman, while travelling from Calais to
Paris, few days ago, was attacked and
stabbed five times with chisel. He fought
desperately, and on arrival of the train at
Amiens the would-be murderer, also an
Englishman, was captured. The minister
was fatally hurt. The object was robbery.
ANOTHER hero in humble life has
been discovered. His name was J. Samuel
Smith, a locomotive engineer, and when
his train on the Sumnerville Railroad, ID
South Carolina, jumped the track the other
day he stuck to his post and saved the
lives of many passengers, sacrificing his
own.
INVESTIGATION shows the recent
charges of cruelty against the man
ayers of the Soldiers Home at Bath, N. Y,
are untrue. -
LAwLEssNEss in Montgomery, Yell
and Garland counties, Arkansas, has called
forth a proclamation from Governor Berry,
urging officers and citizens to do their duty.
Il DURING fire in the warehouse of j.
H. Ashdown, at Winnepeg, Manitoba, the
other evening, number Of kegs of powder
exploded, tearing the building to splinters,
injuring twenty persons more or less, and
smashing windows in hundred principal
stores to atoms. 1t was thought several of
the injured persons would die and all the
doctors in the city were busy taking care
of the wounded.
X. III. KILBY, Wholesale hardware,
Montreal, Can, has failed, with liabilities
of $I25 900. utI rI hrs-
AT Murray, To-, man selling Wizard
oil on the street corner, the other evening,
was too free with his tongue, and as re-
suit was hit over the head with baseball
bat. He died next morning.
The national fiscal year ended June
so. Approximately accurate figures show
the aggregate receipts of the Treasury to
have been $780,, 100000, against S4O3, 900 900
last year.
STEPHEN S. PRICE, of Philadelphia,
Pa, specialized with the funds of an estate
of which he was executor. He was re-
ported 100000 short few days ago, and
was held as an embezzler. .-n. u.
Four murderers were hanged on the
10Th; William Finch and Martin Joseph,
colored, and Tualisto, an Indian, at Fort
Smith, Ark; Tony James, also colored, at
Darien, Ga. George Lake, colored, was
legally executed at Cambridge, Md, on the
same day for felonious assault on q wo-
man.
FRANK d. CoNGER, son of Senator
Conger, of Michigan, has been appointed
postmaster at Washington.
THOMAS O'CONNOR, by means of a
writ of habeas corpus, got his nephew, John
O'Connor, out of Uncle Sans clutches a
few days ago. John enlisted in the army
in New York, and was sent to Jefferson
Barracks, Mo. His uncle said he was un-
der age
The master plumbers, in convention
at New York, decided the other day that
apprentices must serve five years.
SMALLPOX was reported to have
broken out among the Arizona Indians on
the 3Oth. Vaccine virus has been sent to
the front.
BILL MCDOWELL, in Jail at Bowling
Green, Pike County, Mo-, was taken out by
a mob and hanged at an early hour on the
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