The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-08-25
IN BRIEF.
Complied from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
IT is reported in Washington that an
application will be presented to the Presi-
dent asking the pardon of Paymaster Was
son, who was recently convicted in Texas
of defrauding the Government and sent TO
Me Leavenworth Penitentiary.
MRs. L. I. TwITcHELL, formerly
president of the Working w omen's Asso.
citation in San Francisco, was among the
witnesses examined on the 10th by
the Senate Committee in session at New
York TO investigate the subject of strikes.
WILLIAM WIEHE, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
was elected President of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers,
which closed its session at Pittsburgh on
the 10th.
A SIAMEsE embassy has left Singa-
pore for England and the United States.
Mr.. FooTE, the newly-appointed Min
lister to Corea, reports having secured at
the capital house made of wood and pa
per, in the midst of novels and filth. He
can find only pine boughs for fuel, and says
nearly all articles of food are brought from
other countries.
SURGEON OWENS, of the Pensacola
Navy Yard, has yellow fever. There were
three cases outside the yard on the 18th,
and there were fears that the disease
would spread.
ONE of the Knights Templar from
Philadelphia, B. F. Stokes, found in Salt
Lake City brother, w. b. Stokes, whom
he had not met or heard from for forty
years. .---.-.,
JUDGE JEREMIAH BLACK died at ten
minutes past two o'clock a. M, on the 10Th
at York, Pa. He had been sick for some
time, and on the 18th was apparently some
what improved, so that faint hope of his
recovery was entertained. He then, sank
gradually during several hours and was
conscious to the last.
KING ALFONSO was warmly received
at Valencia ON the 10Th. He was loudly
cheered by crowds of people along the rail-
way routes from Madrid. He attended
the TIE Deum at the Cathedral and re-
ceived the troops. sat..-.. d.
QUIET having been restored through
out Spain the various bodies of gendar-
merle engaged in quelling the recent upris-
ing will return to their former stations. laI
Col. j. N. SnvERToN died of par
alysis of the brain at Evansville, Ind, y on
the 18th. tt-.- o. ataT ~
ARCHBISHOP ROGER BEDE VAUGHAN,
of New South Wales, died suddenly at
Liverpool on the 10Th, aged forty
WILLIAM WRIT SYKES, United States
Consul at Cardiff, Wales, and husband of
Olive Logan, died on the 10Th. l1 4
DIR. j. B. Campbell, q prominent
physician of Westfeld, N. Y, committed
suicide on the 10Th by taking choral.
Cause, drink. Wilder Rixford, farmer in
comfortable circumstances, living in the
same vicinity, shot himself in the right
temple, the ball emerging from near the
left ear. rgin 7 40
GEORGE W. BROMLEY, a soldier OF
the Mexican war, and who, it is claimed,
killed the Seminole Chief, Osceola, in the
Florida Indian war, was buried at Darby,
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the 10TH. He
was born in 1917. A few years ago he de.
clined commission and retirement with
pay. He had been a soldier in the regular
army forty-eight years.
DIR. .NoRvIN GREEN, President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, ar
rived in New York on the 10Th in the steam
ship Alaska. After short talk with Gen.
eral Eckert, the acting President, DR..
Green, expressed himself we'll pleased that
the strike of the operators had been brought
to close and in hearty terms thanked
General Eckert, Superintendent Tinker and
Superintendent Rhinestone and other Off.
GERS of the company for their able manage
ment of the troublous question.
SECRETARY FoLGER started on the
goth for cruise to Lake Superior on the
Revenue steamer Andy Johnson. Secre
ltary Chandler sailed from Portsmouth, N
H., for pleasure trip in the Tallapoosa.
CETEwAYo, the Zulu King, has recov.
cred from his wounds and wants Queer
Victoria to investigate the treatment he has
received.
The acting. Secretary of the interior
on the Goth issued an order disbarring from
practice before the Interior Department
Jenkins A. Fitzgerald, Pension agent Of
Washington, he having failed to disprovC
the charges of fraudulent practices pre-
ferred against him.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.