The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

broke down some time since, has been
placed in the Government Hospital for the
Insane at Washington, d. G.
GENERAL GRANT was severely in
jured on the oath by a fall on slippery
sidewalk.
IT is reported that Colonel Henry r.
Rathbone, of Albany, N. Y, killed his wife
and committed suicide in Hanover, Ger
many.
KING HUMBERT of Italy has acceded
to the Pope's wish that the monument to
Victor Emanuel be erected inside the chapel
instead of in the center of the Pantheon.
GOVERNOR IRWIN, of Idaho, de-
clines to receive his quarters salary on the
curious ground that he has been unable TO
attend to the duties of his office.
OK the 9th Captain Pike testified in
the Proteus inquiry that he told Lieutenant
Darlington the open water in sight to the
north of Payer Harbor was ''no good" but
Darlington insisted on going ahead. His
evidence was contradicted by another wit
ness.
On the 2Sth General Grant was re-
ported better.
A DESIRE to abdicate is expressed by
the Khedive of Egypt. &
On the night of the 9th General A.
A. HUMPHREYS died unexpectedly at Wash
ington, d. G.
AT Nevada, Mo-, William Fox was
hanged on the 2Sth for the murder of w. T.
Howard.
On the 28th Frank r. Sherwin, of
Albany, N. Y, was sentenced to the Peni-
tentiary four years for contempt of court.
THE trial OF Chief of Police Campbell
of st. Louis, NO., terminated on the 2sth by
the Board finding him guilty of all the
charges and specifications save one, and
they Sentenced him to be reduced to the
rank of patrolman.
THE Comte de Paris and the Due de
Montpensier have been invited by King
Alfonso to stay with him in Madrid. The
visit of the Comte de Paris is the result of
the German initiative of the Proclamation
of all the Spanish affairs.
PADDY RYAN, who was to meet Slug
ger Sullivan in San Francisco, took a sud-
den notion to go East instead of West. He
evidently has no stomach for the fray.
IT turns out that Samuel C. Blodgett,
recently dismissed from the Providence
Savings Institution, Providence, r. l., had
embezzled $4,000 in the past eight years.
The crank, John j. Mcbride, who
has been reported as threatening Canada
from Buffalo, is said to be an itinerant
photograph peddler, who does considerable
labor in writing pronunciamentos and i'm
portuning newspapers to publish them.
The negro Foote, one of those killed
by the lynchers at Yazoo City, Miss, was
graduate Of Oberlin, o.
ADMIRAL GoETz has been made Di-
rector of the German Admiralty.
IT is said that Archbishop Tache, of
Manitoba, is arranging to open schools for
Indians in the Northwest. ---9 ~ 81 !
The resignation Of Judge McCreary
of the Eighth United States Judicial Cir
cult is announced. He is 70 be attorney
for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail.
road. He became United States Circuit
Judge when Judge Dillon resigned to be.
come Jay Gould's private attorney.
IT has been decided by Secretary Fol-
ger that the Cinnamon who came to New
York in the ship Resolute can not land in
this country. s,a.e. z
SUIT has been brought by Rose
Koran, formerly maid to Lady Vaudeville
for SIC, 900 damages for false arrest on q
charge of larceny at the instance of hei
employer.