The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-19

FURTHER charges against Comptroller
Knox have been made by q committee OF
the shareholders of the Pacific Bank, Bos-
ton.
CoUNsUL-GENERAL BADEAU's resignation
at Havana is supposed to arise from some
thing connected with the Aguero expcdi-
ton.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY A. J. EVANS, of the
Western District of Texas, was examined
before the Springer Committee ON the 18th,
and advocated a change from the fee sys-
TEN to salaries for United States Attorneys
and Marshals.
AGUERo, the filibuster, has been received
with considerable cordially in some parts
of Cuba. Volunteers have Joined his
standard to the number of 400, and he has
reached the mountain district so often be-
fore known as the stronghold of rebellion.
What was apparently an insignificant fli-
clustering expedition has developed into
an instruction which may prove formida-
bic.
A STATUE of Gambetta was unveiled at
Cohoes, France, on the 14th.
MICHAEL DAvIrT and Charles Dawson
were presented with the freedom of the
City of Limerick on the 14th.
THE announcement has been received of
the death of DR.. Pogge, the German ex-
plorer, at Paul de Loanda on March IL.
AN attempt was made on the 14th to as
sassinate the President of Guatemala.
| THB decree of the Empress of China de-
! grading the Chinese Prince Kung states
that he accepted brides and aimed at
supreme power.
| INFORMATION has reached the Navy De-
! partment that rumor prevailed at st.
Johns, N. F., that the Greedy party had
been rescued from mass of floating ice by
the crew of whaling schooner.
! RECENT additions to the retired list of
the army include Lieutenant-ColonelD David
| Fl. Brotherton, Twenty fifth Infantry, and
Major Edward Ball, Seventh Cavalry.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A HARTFORD Comm saloon-keeper
named Lewis Tracey, shot and killed
George Either ON the 9th with a pistol he
did not know was loaded.
On the 10th party of surveyors were
fired on by squatters near Charleston, w.
Va, and one of them was wounded.
On the 10th H. p. Buckley, of White
water, Wis, was found murdered in an
alley at Leadville, Col.
On the 10th the body of j. r. Stevens, a
hotel keeper at Jewell Junction. Ia, was
found at that place lying on the railroad
track with the head severed. Murder was
suspected.
AT Greencamp, o., the calaboose burned
the night of the 9th, and with it James Ken
yon, aged flfty-fve whowas confined for
drunkenness.
WHILE stealing a ride on a Wabash
train, on the 10th, tramp fell between the
cars at Delphi, Ind, and was mangled be-
yond recognition.
BY an explosion of dynamite in a stone
quarry, near FranIlinton, N. c., on the 10th
Doc Robinson and Edward Strong were
killed, and four other men wounded.
On the 10th Jessie Gordon, aged six
years, was suffocated in a corn bin at
Hastings, Neb
THE Detroit (Mich.) Daily Times Office
was burned out ON the l0oh.
On the 18th two men were killed by fall
of earth in a brick-yard as Pittsburgh, Pa
On the 18th the body OF Mrs. Celia Bush
a mserly recluse, was found in n thicket
near her home at fredericksburg, Md, with
her throat cut. Her home had been robbed
On the 13Sh nine buildings in one of the
principal business blocks of San Francisco
CAL. burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$65.0)0.
NEAR Buffalo, on the 18th, a prize-figh
between two Pennsylvania pugs was
broken up by the police in the seventh
round.
THE United States and Brazil Mail Steam
ship Company's steamer, Reliance, is re
ported lost.
AT Naples, Italy, drunken soldier OF
the l4th killed I've of his comrades anC
wounded three others by shooting them il
their dormitory.
OK the 14th a fire-damp explosion oc
Cured in colliery near Elizabeth, Pa.
killing two men and injuring others.
TIE conference of Osnan Digna witt
the sheiks friendly to the British failed t.
produce any pacific result.