The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21

in st. Petersburg with the customary
pomp.
THE firm of Gidiere, Day & Co., cotton
factors, New Orleans, suspended on the
14th and an extension was asked. Liabili-
ties, $3.50 900; assets, $3.50, 900, estimated.
JUDGE LATHAM and Holmes Cummings,
of Memphis, Tenn, addressed the Senate
Committee on Commerce on the 14th ON
the subject of an appropriation to protect
that city from encroachments by the Mis-
sissippi River.
In the case of Tom Campbell, the Gin
cinnati criminal lawyer, the jury dis
agreed and were discharged.
IT is said that Sidney Dillon will soon
resign as President of the Union Pacific
Railroad and th1t Charles Francis Adams
will succeed him.
Hon. JOHN A. LOGAN and family have
gone to Augusta, Me.
Hon. HESTER CLYMER was buried at
Reading, Pa, on the 10Th.
THE New Hampshire Prohibitionists
will put full State ticket in the field.
On the 10th President Arthur and Sec
rotary Lincoln started for trout fishing
trip to South Oyster Bay, L. 1.
Ell MAHDI threatens humiliation to any
Turkish force that may be sent to the Sou
dan.
M. G. NORTON, of Winona, Mimi, has re-
signed as member of the National Republi
can Committee.
THE House Committee on Elections on
the 10th reported favorably on giving
Campbell the seat in Congress now being
held by Morey, of Ohio.
On the 10th ex-senator Dorsey con-
cluded the purchase of a Missouri stock
dealer of herd of ffty-three polled An
gus and Galloway cattle for his New
Mexico Ranch. ... Aims.
COUNSEL for the Second National Bank
of New York received telegram inform
ing him that the British Minister at
Washington had instructed the Attorney
General at Quebec to hold Emo for extra
dition. .-...# i. ts
GENERAL GORDON is said to have evac-
uated the Government palace at Khartoum
and taken possession of the Catholic
mission house and intrenched grounds,
which contain three wells and hundreds of
date and orange trees.
On the 10th sensation was created in
the Senate by Senator ingalls,, who init
mated that Senator Brown had inserted in
the official report of the debate words not
spoken in debate, thus committing forgery
on the records of the Senate. The Chair
called Ingalls, to order, and after consider
able excited talk the matter went over.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 18th Isaac A. Stanley, paying tel
Ter of the National Bank of Commerce,
Cleveland. o., was placed in Jail on a
charge of embezzling 100000. He specu-
lated.
A NUMBER of railway tickets were stolen
while the st. Paul Union Depot was burn
ing on the 18th. The proper precautions
have been taken to prevent their use on
the railroads.
NEAR Petersburgh, Va, a child eight
years of age was murdered on the 18th by
| man named Ransom. He was captured
but escaped from custody.
| IN the Miami Powder Mills near Cincin-
natl, o., an explosion occurred on the 18th.
One man was fatally injured
On the 18th Alexander Jefferson, a
negro, for the murder of Mrs. Emma Jack
son and Henry Hicks, was sentenced at
New York to be hung on the 1st of August
On the 14th six men were killed in g
I
land, Pa.
On the 18th destructive wind storm oc
Cured in the Boyer Valley, Iowa, the dam
age to property in Crawford County being
considerable.
AT Butler, Pa, a terrific boiler explosion
on the 10th killed the engineer and fatally
injured another person.
On the 14th vigilaRtes hanged Alex. Fid
dler, a man of many aliases, near Sturges
OAK, ON account of his participation il
robbing an emigrant family.
AN Arab, claiming to be the sole survi
vor of the Berber tragedy, says the rebel
massacred 1900 men in the garrison anC
1000 of the male population, but spared
the women and children of the town.
FIRE destroyed the Tell City (Ind.) Fur
niture Works on the 10Th. Loss, 100000
insurance, $4,000.
On the 165h, by the caving in of well Il
Wheeling, w. Va, one of the workmel
was caught and buriedunder forty feet o
earth.
On the 10th boy threw a lighted mattel
into powder magazine at Akron, o lio
The explosion killed another lad and in
jured others.
A SOLDIER fired at Roosevelt, an Amer
can Consul, during a balloon ascension
at Quincane, France, on the 10Th, takin
him for another party.
THE English police Swallowed a hous
supposed to be dynamite factory, an
thought they had a great thing On tn
10th there was an explosion, blowing off
hand of an innocent electrician who prove
to be the owner.
RECENT advices from Greenland stat
that the brig Eleria has been crushed by ic
and ten of the crew drowned.