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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

IN the Senate on the LIST, the bill 20
ascertain expenses incurred by the people
of Idaho in the Bannock war was placed on
the calendar. The bill for relief of the
Jeanette survivors passed. The educa.
ton bill was further debated and consider
able miscellaneous business disposed of.
In the House, among numerous bills re-
ported, was one for inspection of stock and
dressed meats. The measure is substi-
tute for several others. The trade-dollar
bill passed. The Keifer Boynton commit
tee reported resolution that the charges
against Boynton were not sustained. The
report was laid over.
THE actual decrease in the public
debt for March was ia, 2aS,a24.
UNDER protection of the troops an
other murderer ventured to take up MS
abode in the Cincinnati Jail on the 1s7.
SEVERAL robberies of the mails be-
tween Toronto and Quebec, Cam. ave oc-
CURED recently. No clew.
ROwELL, the pedestrian, says he is
going to make mil IS in the six-duy race,
and that it S all be his last appearance on
the track.
The carpenters OF Troy, n. Y, are
on strike, their Il Iclnd being our
O'Clock kncck-ctf SATURDAY afternoon.
THE United States Treasury holds
Slas, ,2lJ cash.
BURGLARS robbed the County Teas
urel's cffice AZ G. e'r,,'nr-, Pa. 'n tbe ist.
GENERAL Gordon conciliatory OIL
ley having faieI, he mas undertaken Wig
orous offensive.
THE annual fish exhib ton at Flu ton
Market, New Yo~k, opeur, 90 r'r is.
TURKISH agents are attempting to
close schools conducted i'll Asa n hat by
American Protestant missi"unri".
GENERAL GRAHAM and troops have
left Suakem for Suez. TIE inhabitants are
their cattle.
THE returning Ohio troops were
warmly welcomed at all stations along the
line, and at Columbus a perfect ovation
was given them.
HoN. HENRI b. PAYNE, of Ohio, has
announced that he will not be a candidate
for the Presidency.
THE high license people carried the
election at Saltwater, MINI, on the lSt.
Two hundred mules have died neal
Grenada, Miss, within u Jew days, from
the buffalo gnat.
THE Dubuque Qo.) Board of Trade
has adopted res utions opposing the pres
ent route selected for the Hennepin Canal
ELIJAH WRIGHT, Il brakeman wa:
run over by the cars at Union City, Tenn.
on the 3ls5, aud received injuries likely t.
prove fatal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-05
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the 28th building in process Of
demolition in Cincinnati suddenly fell,
burying half dozen workmen. Four were
taken out badly hurt and one was miss.
ing.
THE popular dissatisfaction over the
verdict in the case of Berner, one OF the
murderers of Kirk in Cincinnati, culmi-
mated on the night of the 18th, in an attempt
to execute mob law on the culprit. The lat
ter had been secretly removed Immediately
after sentence. A mob of from ten to fit.
teen thousand persons attacked the Jail
and were fired upon by State troops sta
toned therein and a number were wound
ed, some mortally. Berner escaped from
the officers who were taking him to pris-
on.
On the 2Sth Cincinnati Juror was
fined $50 for Offering TO procure verdict
for one of the parties to a suit for small
consideration.
JUD CROUCH and d. S. Holcomb have
been held for trial for the murder of the
Crouch family at Jackson, Mich.
AFTER three days and nights OF ter
ror the situation at Cincinnati appeared on
the morning of the 3lst, q little more peace
| able. This was only brought about by the
concentration of troops from all parts of
the State and the application of stern Ie-
pressive measures, which have involved a
| deplorable loss of life, and the wounding
| and manning of very many more. The
city has suffered almost irreparable loss in
the destruction by fire of its Courthouse
with all the records and one OF the finest
| law libraries in the world, and some private
buildings, while large amount of plumb
ering has been carried on in the os ensible
search for arms and ammunition by the
| mob.
IsCHIA has had another earthquake.
By an explosion of nitro glycerine at
Thompson's Point, N. j., eight men were
killed on the 10Th.
OK the 29th an engineer was killed
and large number of cars wrecked by a
collision near Salisbury, Pa.
A GIRL fourteen years old named Jes-
sic PEBBLES, committed suicide at Hamilton
Can, on the 10Th.
INDICTMENTS have been found against
five of the men engaged in the recent street
butchery at Hot Springs, Ark, for murder
in the first degree.
A LARGE number of wrecks were re
ported on tho Atlantic coHs' on the 3tSt.
On the 31st Edward Bennett was sen
fenced to six years imprisonment for burn
ing his own house in Milwaukee, Wis.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-05
THE OLD WHISKY RING.

General Mcdonald Proposes to Stick Pins
in Those Members of the Old Ring Who
Turned the Cold Shoulder on Him in His
Hour of Adversity-' Sylph" His First
victim-Others Later.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April l.
General John Mcdonald, who has been
here some days working in opposition
to the promotion of Major Orville Z. Bah
cock to Lieutenant-Co lonelcy, says he
has no vindictiye feelings toward "Sylph,"
but feels it his duty to the public
and to his own record for con-
sistency not to allow the promo
ton to be made without some
effort to prevent it. He has filed with
the Senate Military Committee Il protest.
against the promotion, based on the
ground that Babcock not only had guilty
knowledge of the famous whsky-ring
frauds, which was all that Mcdonald
was convicted of, but that Babcock was
beneficiary of the frauds. Having
filed this protest General Mcdonald
says he shall do nothing more unless the
committee invite him. He is ready to
prove his charges, and is anxious to have
the committee give him chance to do
so, but has not much expectation that
they will When Babcock was tried, Nc
Donald was shis friend, but now that
Grant and his private secretary have
turned him the cold shoulder in spite
of his serving Il year and half IN
the Penitentiary, as he claims, to save
them, he is anxious to tell all he knows,
and produce letters that have never yet
been made public. If Babcock is con-
frmed, General Mcdonald says he will
take the stump next summer in OPPOSE
ton to the Republican ticket, and will UNI
bosom himself notonlyas to distinguished
persons who have already figured in con-
nection with the whisky ring, but rs to
prominent Republicans who were involved
| but whose names have never been men
! toned in connection with the matter.
| General Mcdonald says that he sees Il
movement to make Grant the Republican
nominee for the Presidency already or
ganized, and number of 'Grants
old cronies hayc been at the Airing
| ton, where he is 'stopping, within the past
! few days Among these are Clint Wheel
er, of New York; Davis, Il national bank
er of Tennessee; ex-senator Alexander
! Mcdonald, of Arkansas; ex-senator
! Spencer, of Alabama, and Judge Whar-
ton, of New York. lie believes that men
who are ostenSibly pushing Logan's in
terests are really working for Grant,
using Logan's boom as a blind or cat s.
paw, confident that delegates who are for
Logan can be turned for Grant, while del
egates for some of the other aspirants
could not be.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-05
FOUKTEEN DAYS

In the Heart of Lookout Mountain without
Food-Terr.bie aud Perhaps Fatal Exp-rr
ence of "a Couple of ExpIor, rs--rheir Ae-
cidental Discovery and Rescue.
CHATTANOOGA L nm, April l.
March 18th two men from Cincinnati,
Chas. Cover and Christ. Schmidtson, en-
tered the cave under Lookout Mountain,
near this city, provided with Il glass Ian
tern, bottle of coal oil, Il lunch, etc.
The men had not been seen to come out
of the cave, but the gate-kceper supposed
they did so while he was at dinner.
The beauties of the cavern and
its marvellous curloslties had excited their
ambition to explore 1t. jeff Harper,
Emerson and Calvin Leslie, recently from
Indiana, to-day entered the cave on an
exploring expedition. When about three
miles into the cavern they were started
by deep groans in close proximity to them.
Trey FASTENED forward and discovered
the forms of two men lying PROSTATE on
shelf of rock. The men were unable to
articulate a word, but could only give
vent in sobs to their Joy at rescue. After
| being removed TO the outside world, the
men said that they had entered the cave
at niue O'Clock on the morning of March
| II. They had only small lantern, not.
| lHItuulnS W EO ibl lllO llt NdNts AlltI
they had proceeded about three miles,
Cover stumbled and fell, the lantern fell
from his hand into the water, and the
bottle containing the oil was broken
They had no other means of making
light. They CROPPED their way back
4 few hundred feet, but found the
undertaking useless, las they were in danger
of falling over unseen precipces. They
could hear the trickling of water and
crawled towards it, and by lowering their
hats by means of strips torn from their
clothing, into the crevice, they obtained
a small supply of water from time to time.
They remained at this spot about three
days, and driven to desperation by hunger,
made another effort to escape their
terrible doom. About the fifth day they
threw themselves down in hopeless de-
spair to meet their awful fate, and were
unable to move from that time until res
cued. When brought to this city the men
presented a pitiable spectacle. The or
deal seemed most severe on Mr.. Schmidt
son. At times he is delirious. Late this
evening physicians say that the men are
doing as well as could be expected BY
careful nursing their lives may be spared,
but the chances are against them. Their
entire sustenance during those fourteen
days consisted of their scanty lunch and
what water could be procured in their
hats.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-05
IT Is ,noucht that postal relations

IT is thought that postal relations
with Mexico Will shortly Oe established on
a basis similar 10 those with Canada.
Ir is reported that a collision has oc
Cured between Russians and Treomans
in the Merry district,
OK the 2gth q mob attacked Tour
United States prisoners at Dayton, Ohio,
who were being transferred from Cincin-
natl, in charge of deputy Marshals, the i'm
preston having spread that they were
murderers from the beleagured jail.
THE War Claims Committee will re-
port a bill to the House at Washington this
week, in which several States are interest
ed. 1t provides for the payment of interest
at six per cent. per annum on advances by
various States for equipping and maintain
ing troops i'm the late war, which advances
have since been refunded to the States 10y
the Government.
Oh the 3lst large part of the militia
of the State was still on duty at Cincinnati.
The barricades about the jail were main
tanned in perfect state of defense, but there
were no indications Of further serious
trouble. Threats of vengeance were still
made, but the Mayors Advisory Committee
recommended that all outside troops be
withdrawn and the city be left in charge oil
the police. The County Commissioners
were looking for rooms in which the courts
may hold their sessions.
For March the debt reduction is es-
timated at S15,OO0,C0J.
TRooPs are being massed by Ger
many on her eastern frontier.
AN officer of the British army has
been detailed to inspect the deienses oil
| Canada.
In the first quarter of this year there
were 400 more business failures than in the
same time last year.
THE bogus bogus butter trade of thit
country is being Investigated by the British
Foreign Office.
On the 3lst the steamship San Marcos
with 1s5 passengers aboard ran agrounC
near Galveston, Tex.
GULF, the gas trust fund embezz'ei
in Philadelphia, Pa, goes to the Peniten
tiary for one year.
PREPARATIONS are being made by The
North German Lloyd Comnany to run
line of steamships rom Vera Cruz, Mexico
to Germany.
THE boat race between Oxford anC
Cambridge has been postponed to April
on account of Prince Leopol l's death.
INTEREST amounting to S24, O00,00'
on Mexican National bonds fell due on til
LIST and the company was unable to pay.
For the quarter ending Decembe
81, the gross receipts of the fost-otfice De
partment were S,06j less than for tn
last quarter of 1892.
THE Chamber of Commerce of Rot
terdam asks the Dutch Government to pre-
vent the consummation of the Anglo-Port,
guese Congo treaty.
Mr.. McCoID will Introduce a join
resolution in the House OF Representative
for the appointment of commit
sion of two members from each Stat
to take steps for calling conventio
to propose constitutional amendments r
lating to the Presidential succession, exc
else of the veto power, woman suffras
4 mo
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-05
Dick Liddii's Cases Dismissed.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April =.
In the Criminal Court yesterday Prose
cutting Attorney Wallace filed lengthy
statement formally dismissing the two
indictments for train robbery pending
against Dick Liddil. The statement sets
forth the reasons for the dismissal as on
account of his having turned States evil
dence and given testimony against Frank
James. Mr.. Wallace says he has
abundant proof of the truth of Liddirs
testimony, and that the dismissal was
made in pursuance of the tacit agreement
entered into by Governor Crittenden,
Commissioner Craig, himself and other
officers of the State and county at the
time of Liddll's surrender. Liddil inn
mediately departed for Huntsville,
Ala, where his case for completely in the
Mussel Shoals robbery will be called in
the United States Court on Monday next.
Frank James case comes up at the same
time, and Liddil will probably appear as
| e witness against him.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE managers of all the permanent
expositions in the country will hold con-
vention in st. Louis, Mo-, June 3.
On the 2Sth the steamship Lydian
Monarch arrived in New York with the
white elephant not long since captured in
Siam. .,.. ~
IT was definitely decided at mass
meeting held in Louisville, KY, the night
of the 2Sth, to hold another exposition in
that city. The capital stock of 100000 has
already been subscribed. a.t-.4-
On the 2Sth the sealing steamer
Aurora arrived at st. Johns, n. T., from
the ice fields with $4,000 prime seals, worth
$60,0O0 all taken in five days. The voyage
lasted only eighteen DAYS. Other sealers
were equally successful.
Irf is asserted by the Manchester
(Eng.) Guardian that negotiations are
pending between England and America
with view to adding to the eXtradition
treaty clause which shall cover the
authors OF the dynamite outrages.
THE British Government shipped by
steamer Grecian, leaving Glasgow tor Bos-
ton, March 20, 30 emigrants taken from
Mayo, Ireland.
Ok the 2Sth the steamer Balbec,
bound from Liverpool Tor Havre, Went
ashore at Lansden and filed with water.
All on board were saved by rocket appa
/ ratus.
! AT the close of business on the 29th
the New York banks held S7,725, 40 in Elk
cess of legal requirements.
ARAB sheiks have asked for the APP
pointment OF British Governor for Tokar
News from Missouri River points il
Dakota to the 30th continue to cause anx
iety. Bismarck and Mandean were threat
ened with inundation.
THE new German tariff provides tina
consular supplies shall no longer be ad
mitted to that country free OF duty
Retaliation in meditated.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
decided that the SOB saloon licenses, ISSUED
in Chicago to forestall the Harper highli
cense law, are valid.
THE bill to pension all the soldiers o
the late war at the rate of TWENTY-FIVE
cents per month for each month of service
will be reported adversely.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, haunte,
house is creating great excitement. 4
committee has been appointed to find on
what causes the nightly disturbances.
For February the excess OF export
over imports was $6,6O1 1914. In the twelv
months ending with February imports fel
off S67, 555, 466, and exports decreased $40
404, 100 as compared with the year preced
ing.
OK the Goth, meeting of college IN
dergraduates, held in New York, adopte
resolutions deprecating faculty interference
! in college athletics.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE lroluois Club, of Chicago, has
extended an invitation to the Democratic
members of the House of Representatives
to seats at a banquet to be held in Chicago,
at the Palmer House, April IL.
Tie newspapers of Berlin assert that
Mr.. Sargent has declined to accept the APP
pointment as Minister at st. Petersburg
They say he intends to retire from diplo-
matte service and return to the United
States, with the expectation of re-entering
the Senate.
On the morning of the 28th Prince
Leopold, youngest son of Queen Victoria,
died at Cannes, France. He was in his
thirty-second year.
The Archduohess Marie Valerie,
daughter of the Emperor Francis Joseph
of Austria, is affianced to Archduke
Charles Louis, brother of the Emperor.
The Directors of the Western Union
Telegraph Company at meeting in New
York, on the 2Sth, passed resolutions of sym
patty with the family of the late Augustus
Schell, who was one of the company's direc-
tors.
In an address in New York, the
night of the 2Sch, Rabbi Browne replied
to DIR. j. p. Newman's recent sermon on
foreigners as citizens. The Rabbi stated
that the Jews of New York paid one
quarter of the $40,O00,0O0 of the annual
taxes raised in the city. They
were in other respects model citizens.
KING JOHN of Abyssinia will receive
Admiral Hewitt and other members of the
English Mission. The King has 5000 war
riors around him.
MOONEY, the Illinois convict who
killed his cell-mate, has been sentenced to
hang.
BERNER, the murderer, who was the
cause of the riot in Cincinnati, has been
safely lodged in the Penitentiary.
QUEEN, VICTORIA has received eX'
pressions of sympathy from all the poten
tates in the world in the hour of her be
reavement.
THE chess champion, Zukertort, play
ed twenty-seven games simultaneously al
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Goth, winning
twenty-five and losing three. Two were
drawn.
TIE funeral of the late Prince Leo
pold will occur Saturday, the 9th.
THE latest sensational rumor receiv
ed from the seat of war in Egypt, is to TIM
effect that General Gordon had surrender
ed Khartoum to the false prophet.
1T is said that Joel Bryan, the Ameri
can citizen whose confinement i'll Next
can prison at Victoria caused so much con
troversy, has escaped and reached Texas
The Department of Justice is hunting
for Walsh, the witness whose testimony i
wanted in the case against ex-senator Kel
logg.
PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM of Prus
STA will assist at Prince Leopold's funeral
The recent defeat of General Gordon
was caused by treachery, but Khartour
still holds out.
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Ir l. proposed bv Genernl Million 10

Ir lie proposed by General Millot tn
hold Tonqum with native troops, and to
send home the French regiments after the
capture of Hong Hoa.
On the 3lst a conference committee Of
Independents Republicans met In New York
and adopted an address to be circulated
throughout the country.
THE Appropriation Committee of the
Senate will recommend the appropriation
of $40, 7s6,676 for naval affairs, being &c.
451,9SO more than the bill calls for as it
came from the House.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

In the Senate on the och the bill for al
iotmont of indian lands in severalty was passed
The transfer of Minister Sargent to the ST.
Petersburg mission was submitted aud
G ziDg TSe 6 certain snts S
souri, war claims. Debate on the edu-
catona bin was continued at con-
siderable l0ngth. The resolution appropriate
ing for the Mississippi River flood sufferers the
uneXpended balance of the Ohio flood fund,
amounting to $4,000. was adopted. In the
Tho bonded whisky bill was taken up and
motion adopted that the debate be closed in
an hour and half on the 9th.
In the Senate on the 9th a bill was intro
duced to prohibit the sale of indecent publica-
tons. The joint resolution authorizing re-
ward of $4,000 for discovery of the Greedy par
~ was reported with an amendment. fhe bill
TO pay claims for damages caused by the Ute
Indians passed. Also the bill to authorize
the Court of Claims 70 grant rehearing
for add itional compensation for building iron
clads The education bill was debated with
out the House the DO 69ndea eM
out the enacting clause. 1856 to 10. In the gen.
eral strife to secure precedence for the next
measure for discussion the bill to retire the
trade dollars was taken up but no action was
reached.
In the Senate on the 2Sth, joint resolution
was reported, proposing and amendment to the
Constitution for woman suffrage. The bill
passed authorizing a reward to private parties
for discovery of the Greedy expedition. The
education bill was taken up and Mr.. Lamar
addressel the Senate, favoring its passage.
Mr. Cullum wanted the bill modified so that
1t should only apply to the South. Mr..
George favored the bill as it stood In the
House n resolution was introduced and re-
ferred fixing June 2 as the final date for adj
tournament. The McGarrahan bill was ia
bled. Several private bills passed, and a
night session was held to consider PEN
sion claims. Adjourned till Monday.
In the Senate on the 31st a communica-
repeating his request for increased clerical
force. The bill to establish a forest reserve
at the hea1waters of the Missouri was report
ed favoraby. Mr. Platt addressed the Sen
ate on the bill to make the Patent Office u
separate department. In the House the
resolution for an Investigation as to food
adulteration was reported with a declaration
that the matter did not come within the
province of Congress The resolution was
TccOmmittei. Bills , were introduced
TO make Oakland, California, a port of de
livery; to repeal the tax on tobacco an6
the distillation of apples and peaches; tC
equalize taxation CT domestic and foreign
insurance companies: to appropriate 800,
sufferers; to authorize the appointment OF
Missouri River commission. Resolution
were offered commenting Minister Sargenti
services at Berlin calling on the Sherman
Committee to investigate the Cincinnati
rot; calling for report on the feasibit,
OF constructing coast line waterways. TIT
trade dollar bill was discussed without nc
lima, took the oath of Office.
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General Mcdonald Proposes to Stick Pins
in Those Members of the Old Ring Who
Turned the Cold Shoulder on Him in His
Hour of Adversely" Sylph'' His First
Victim-Others Later.