The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-07-12

The St. Louis agent for Thomas H. Por-
ter & Co., of Philadelphia, Rudolph
Mitchell, was arrested on the 9th on a
charge of embezzlement. He was released
on bond.
The National Association of Music
Teachers, in session at Cleveland, o., on
the 9th, elected DIR. S. w. Penfield, of New
York, President, and A. A. Stanley, of
Providence, r. l., Secretary and Treas
urer.
On his arrival at Chicago On the 9Th,
General Ben Butler was received by dele
cations from the various trade organiza-
tions, and, later, there was grand parade
in his honor. He made an address, and the
streets were thronged.
MINISTER LOWELL is improving in
health.
On the 9TH O'Connor, Nationalist, was
elected Lord Mayor of London.
THE husband of Nine. Janauschek, +.
L. Pilot, died of heart disease in Boston on
the 7th.
AT Berlin the appointment of Kasson as
United States Minister to Germany is well
received.
ADvICEs received at Paris from Suakim
on the 7th report the murder of General
Gordon by his soldiers.
The inventory of Grant & Wards af-
fairs, made by the assignee, show liabili-
ties of SIG, 792, 64S; nominal assets, SGT, 49,
O9S; actual assets, $67, ia.
| On the 9TH Joseph Grattan was arrested
at Hanley, England, with dynamite car
tridges and fuses in his possession.
| In dedicating a church recently Arch
bishop Croke exhorted his hearers to pray
| that Ireland may become nation again.
THE Senate confirmed Thomas G. Rey-
nolds, of Missouri, as a member of the
commission to secure more harmonious
| trade relations between the United States
and several countries in Central and
South America.
THE National Democratic Committee
selected Ex-Governor r. b. Hubbard, of
Texas, for temporary chairman of the
| Chicago Convention. Mr.. Prince, OF Bos-
ton, was elected temporary Secretary.
PRIME MINISTER FERRY, of France, told
| Lii Fang Pao, Chinese Ambassador, that
he held China responsible for the Lang
Son affair, and redress would be de-
manded.
THE celebrated German physician, DIR.
Koch, who went to Toulon, says that the
disease there is Asiatic cholera and of a
bad type. He thinks it will spread to Ger
many and other countries.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ON the I'd the Neptune House at Far
Rockaway, N. j., burned. The guests all
escaped.
| In election riots on the Cape Verde Is
lands, Spain, several persons were killed
and wounded.
j. AND j. l.. SCRoTH's, pork slaughter
ing house, Cincinnati, burned on the I'd,
and with it 125 live hogs. Loss, $4,000.
AT Clarendon, Pa, Patrick Connolly was
blown into minute pieces by the explosion
of nitro-gly cerine on the 4th.
AT East Saginaw, Mich, an unknown
man was killed by stray shot from a
gun of a military company practising at
target shooting on the 4th.
On the 4th the entire business portion of
Port Perry, Ontario, was burned. This
was the second disastrous fire within a
year. Estimated loss, $4,000.
On the night of the Sd John Vandeur, a
crippled janitor at the Gramercy Flats,
New York, was sand-bagged, red-peppered
and robbed of $500 rents collected, by two
robbers in the cellar of the fats. The rob.
bers escaped.
AT Lachine Canada, on the 9TH, fire de.
stroyed forty houses, rendering 300 poor
people homeless.
On the 9th William Ottenberger, of Os
borne, o., murdered his stepdaughter, ter
years of age.
BY the fall of the grand stand at the
Butte On. To- race-track on the 9TH, one
boy was killed and many others wounded
AT Newark, o., the Newark Machine
Company's works burned on the 9th. Loss
$3.50, 900; insurance, 100000.
On the 9th Gottfried Oswald, of Indian
apolis, Ind, quarrelled with his wife, ant
, then hanged himself.
, A WEALTHY Indiana farmer named
Rufus Barr, in jealous rage ON the 9th
shot his wife twice and then killed him
self.
The remains of a man supposed to b
w. l.. King, of Florence, Kas., or J.
! Smith, of Memphis, Mo-, was taken iron
, the river at Keol1uk, Ia, on the 9th.
: A YOUNG woman named Gertie Phillip
4 of Alliance, o., was found dead in grow
p at that place on the 9Th with bullet hol
: in her head. Two well-known young mel
= are in custody awaiting developments.
/. HUMPHREY JACKSON. while standing oil
T the street in st. Louis on the 9th, wa
struck in the face by bullet from an I'm
d known source. The wound was painful
: one, but not dangerous.
!, On the 7th the steamship Lincoln City
: on it, first passage, ran ashore during
! dense fog near Isaacs Harbor, ON tn
= Nova Scotia coast.
q MISCELLANEOUS.
: THE London Times discusses the commit
cations of an international nature tina
would arise in the event of war between
S China and France.
d On the 4th the formal presentation of tn
i Bartholdi statue by the French Govern