The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-02-02
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Compiled from Various Sources.
The total iron production of the coun-
try last year was 8, 146,972 net tons.
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The Bessemer steel production of the
United States fell OFF $4,000 tons last year.
The distillsy of G. II. Bush, at West
field, Mass, has been ibrfeited to the Gov
ernment on account of fraud.
SIR SAMUEL BAKER says the conduct
of the British Ministry in abandoning the
Soudan is national humiliation.
DANIEL MCAULEY, ex-Mayor of In
dianapolis, Ind, has been arrested in New
York for violating the lottery laws.
SOME of the Pittsburgh manufacturers
are making overtures to the glass-blowers,
who have been on a strike six months.
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COLONEL ISAAC X. HILL, of Ohio, has
been appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms
of the National House of Representatives.
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The Holman bill to prevent duplica-
ton of pay accounts of army and navy Of
ficers and others will be reported favorably
to Congress. t3f.f c
FIFTEEN corpses were found in one
chamber of the coal mine at Crested Butte,
Col, on the 25th. Thirty -four bodies in all
had been recovered. ~ Ia
The ship Smla was sunk in the
English Channel on the both by collision
with the ship City of. Lucknow. Twenty
two persons were missing.
THE official list of awards in the Lon
don Fisheries Exhibition shows that the
United States carried off more valuable
prizes than any other nation.
The Illinois Supreme Court has de-
cided that the city of Chicago has right
to tax occupations. The case had been APP
pealed by a livery stable keeper.
CINCINNATI has subscribed $12, 200
towards the expenses of the National DEM
ocratic Convention, and is going to send a
big committee to try and secure it,
A VIENNA workingman who killed a
detective was arrested on the 25th and was
found to have a revolver, a dynamite bomb
and poisoned dagger in his pockets.
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A TERRIBLE hurricane ragged in Eng
land and France the night of the 25th.
Great damage was done to property in
lost. yII l8 sUo fzrg i 81
The Federal Courts of San Francisco
are blocked with Chinese habeas corpus
cases. Judge Hoffman wants Congress to
appoint commission to dispose of these
cases. 81, ~ ls 90 ~
AN explosion in mine in 'Rhondda
Valley, Wales, on the 9th. killed eleven
miners. rescuing party of three, in
Guiding the manager of the mine, We're also
killed. ff1 te
BENJAMIN GAINES, ex-Speaker Keif-
er's nephew, testified on the 18th before the
House Committee on Accounts regarding
the dismissal and appointment of official
stenographers. r.-
GOVERNOR MURRAY of Utah denies
that any charges were ever filed against
him while be was United States Marshal in
Kentucky. He says the reports are set
ahoat by Mormon agents. $500. ,n
EDWARD j. MEANY, for sixteen years
Treasurer of the Moulders' Union of North
America, has disappeared from Brooklyn,
N. Y, and twenty thousand dollars of the
organizations money is gone from the
bank.
THE bill for the extirpation of dis
eases among cattle will be reported to Con
gress with a proviso for an appropriation
of $3.50, 900, States being required to con
tribute sum equal to that apportioned
them.
Mr.. SILKlIAN, q well-to do citizen Of
Yonkers, N. Y, has brought suit for $25,
600 damages against his brother-in-law
Crosby, for having him locked up in {
lunatic asylum to get possession of his
property.
Mr.. VIM. MATHER, the Englishmar
who investigated American technica
schools for the Royal Commission, says on
institutions for teaching mining, civil an'
mechanical engineering are equal to an.
similar schools in Europe.
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INVITATIONS have been sent to Presi
dent Arthur and the Governors of the sew
eral States of the Union to attend the Win
ter Carnival at Montreal, Can. The festiv
tiles are to be conducted On scale of un
precedented magnificence.
A MAN giving his name as M. j. Lay
ton attempted suicide on astrain near Pitts
burgh, Pa, ON the Goth. He seemed to b
crazy and raved about a double murde
near st. Louis, which led to the suspicion
that he was the murderer of the Boneck
ers.