The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-12-15
SOUTHERN GIEANING5.

received at his home in Covngton, Ky.
Simon Wilson has been convicted in
the Dallas Crex.) District Court of murder
ing Anderson Thomas. and has been sem
fenced to fifteen years in the Penitentiary.
He was convicted at former term of the
court and sentenced to sixty-seven years
but was granted new trial by the Court
of Appeals.
A gin house o. Elgin, Tex, was
burned by an incendiary "a few nights ago.
The weather in Texas continued
warm, cotton was still growing, and what
is known as the stop CROP was expected
to be large.
A dinner was given to Mr.. Henry
Watterson in Louisville few evenings
since by tue Pendennis Club.
Recent rains washed away railway
embankment at Vicksburg, Miss, dlsclos-
ing human bones. The remains are sup
posed to be those of men buried during the
siege of Vicksburg.
Amos Clark, negro restaurant keep
er of Galveston, Tex, was arrested recent
ly for extensive thefts of beer barrels and
kegs. One firm of beer dealers has been
loser to the extent of several thousand dol
lars.
At Danville, Va, q few days ago,
Green Miller, while resisting arrest, was
shot by Policeman Williams.
A resolution was introduced in the
Virginia Senate few days ago calling on
Senator Malone to resign.
A passenger train on the Memphis &
Little Rock Roal, few evenings since,
found switch displaced about twenty
| five miles from Memphis, and came to a
sIdden stop. Four armed men mounted
| the platform to rob the train, but shots from
the Express messengers drove them away.
The Bohemian Club, of Houston, Tex,
the local press club, will leave, ON Deem
| Der 10, to visit st Louis.
Deputy United States Cole -tor Belts
was ambushed and shot while destroying
an Illicit distillery in North Carolina few
| days ago.
Twenty-Five buildings, including the
Sentinel office, burned lew days ago at
| Lynchburg, Tenn. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
Judge Denny, of Lancaster, Ky, who
recently killed James H. Anderson, has
been acquitted on the ground of self-de-
tense
The grand jury at Danvillc, Va, has
investigated the recent riots, and makes no
presentment.
James Pignan was arrested in Dallas,
Tex, recently on a charge of dragging and
robbing Ben Green, a Waxahachie mer-
chant, of 500.
Three negro children were burned to
death in Columbia County, Ga, a few days
| Tho 10 nd
locked the children in the cabin.
Pendleton's wholesale drug store, in
Memphis, Tenn, was partially destroyed
by fire few days ago. Value of stock,
| SIS, 900; insurance, SCI, 600. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000, divided among twenty
two companies, mostly Hartford, New York
and English.
A tramp was killed, Engineer Rich.
ard Pond probably fatally injured and two
others slightly injured by recent collision
on the Norfolk & Western Railroad, near
Lynchburg, Va.
Fire destroyed the residence of Will
liam Btadley, at Knoxville, Tenn, few
days ago, entailing a loss of over 81 ,000 in
Guiding fine piano and 1913 in cash. An
a1jo ming house, occupied and owned by
George Robinson, also caught fire, and was
totally destroyed. RobinsonS loss will
amount to about $1,000. Bradley's insur-
ance had expired only a few days before.
The Louisville (Ky.) Board of Trade
has bestowed upon Walter N. Haldeman
the compliment of life membership as a
reward for his efforts toward the develop
uent OF the city.
Chattanooga, Tenn, has the finest
Jail IN the South, but fourteen inmates
sawed their way out with steel shanks
taken from their shoes. A posse of one
hundred men went in pursuit.
Harrison Clcws, colored, convicted
of incendaIism at Lynchburg, Va, has
been sentenced to the Penitentary for
twenty-six years.
Sigmen A. Vogel, who died suddenly
two days after his disastrous failure in the
clothing business at Mobile, Ala, lett 49,.
O0D in the hands of banks and individuals
in the shape of notes Endorsed by his pre-
ferred creditors, Messrs. Shoonfelt and
; Henry Bernstein. The Endorsements on
$4,000 of this paper have been pronounced
forged. G eat excitement existed among
the holders of the paper.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has
rendered decision in a case of considera
BILE interest, that of Hay den VS.. the Georgia
Railroad. Hayden was manager of a the
atrical troupe travelling in the State. The
company played at Madison and took the
night train for Augusta, as they were billed
to appear in Columbia, 5. c., on the night
following. A collision below Madison
caused the train conveying the profession
ais to be delayed and it was impossible to
make connections 80 as to reach their des
tinaton in time. In this suit the point was
hat oN-Ia ~,