The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-03-17

A RELIEF committee which returned
to indianapolis. Ind, on the 10th from a
trip down the Ohio River, reported the con-
dtion O, affairs at New Franklin, lad.
Uniontown, Ky. Shawneetown, Caseyville,
Rose Clare and New Liberty, ILL.,, deplora-
BILE in the extreme.
TIE river was about at stand at
Memphis and Helena on tire 18th, the de-
cline being extremely slight. Back water
continued to rise in the bayous aud around
Vicksburg there was more trouble with the
evees. -Four more breaks had occurred on
the Arkansas side above Helena. These
four breaks overflow what is known as the
Old Town Ridge and the island in front be-
tween Old Town and the river. There is
an unbroken link OF splendid plantations
all through there. and not one OF them had
escaped. On the island there was general
wreck Of everything on the plantations.
Several house had toppled over or floated
off, and horses aud cows as well. At the
break in the Totten Ridge levee, six miles
above, the water was running over the
country like mll-race.
AT Grove Station, Pa, on the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad, fire destroyed two
frame buildings the other morning, in one
OF which two children named Crawford,
aged three and five years, were burned to
death.
THE body of William II. Burdick was
found in the ruins OF the Southern Railroad
Depot at Cincinnati, o., the other morning
and his wife became insane with grief.
julius MARCUS, the absconding New
York whisky broker, has been arrested at
Portland, Ore.
AFTER two previous attempts to
wreck trains on the Niles & New Lisbon
| Railroad, some wretches succeeded the
other day in ditching a freight at New Aus
tintown, o. william Thompson was killed
and the engineer and fireman had miracu-
lous escapes.
THREE sailors were drowned the
other day by the sinking OF schooner off
Portland, Me.
| BY wreck on the Texas Central
Railroad, near Austin. Tex, the other day,
one brakeman was fatally injured and an
other had his leg and arm crushed. Eight
cars were utterly demolished.
WHILE number of men were at work
In partially burned foundry at Cleveland,
o., the other morning one Of the walls fell
and buried Fred Berkhardt in the ruins.
His companions dug his mangled remains
out few minutes afterward.
A DRUNKEN father named Herring, in
Hall County, Ca, poured a shovelful Of hot
Goals on his infant child the other day and
burned it to death. .......
AJURY had been secured in the Dukes
Mutt murder case at Uniontown, Pa, on the
10Th and the taking of testimony would
commence at once.
THE festivities at a Pittsburgh Pa.)
christening the other day were interrupted
by the killing OF Nicholas Kretsch.
SIX negroes and a Chinaman were
killed by boiler explosion the other da!
in Cuban sugar house.
THE river declined slowly at Helens
on the 18th and the levees there still held
There were several hundred negro refugee
to care for. From Memphis and Arkansa
City the reports were encouraging and i
WAS claimed the worst was past
A MOTION for a new trial in the cas-,
Of J. d. Watson, recently convicted at Co
lumbus, o., OF offering brides to Repre-
sentative Black, was overruled the othe
day and the accused sentenced to one yea
In the Penitentiary. ....
THE Dublin Qreland) murder-con
spracy trials have been set for April 8
The prisoners would be tried on tire
counts, the Phoenix Park murders, the at
, tempted murder Of Juror Field, and con
, spiracy.
! The Government has ordered tina
. prompt measures be taken for the relief c
the starving people of Loughrea, Ireland.