The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-12-20

FoR the authorship of "Sarah Barnum,"
Nine. Colombier is undergoing fourteen
days Imprisonment in Paris.
Ell MAHDI has written Osman DigRa APP
pealing for reinforcements.
1T is now thought certain that Mr.. Bayard
will receive the Treasury portfolio in Pres
ident Cleveland's Cabinet.
LATEST reports from Khartoum stated
that General Gordon was well, and that
he recently severely defeated the rebels,
killing large number and blowing up
their forts.
MR.. BLAINE says he has not been inter-
viewed since he went to Washington, and
that the story concerning his relations
with Mr.. ConIKling was forgery.
On the 10Th the win of the late. Reuben
r. Springer, of Cincinnati, o.. was pro-
bated. He makes large requests to public
and private institutions and to relatives
and friends. The estate is estimated at
S3,OOO,O0O.
CHARGES have been preferred by Gener-
al Hazen, Chief Signal officer, against
Lieutenant Darlington for disobedlence OF
orders and neglect of duty in connection
with his command of the Proteus expedi-
ton for the relief of the Greedy party.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ON the 10th James L. Flint, member OF
the New York Union League Club, was
arrested on charge of having persuaded
a man to vote under another's name for
Cleveland.
NEWS was received at st. Paul, Mimi,
on the 10th, that q commercial Traveller
named Baird had been killed and robbed
of $4,000 near Golden City, British Column
bia. Eddy, Hammond q Co., for whom
Baird travelled, have offered reward Oh
81 900 for the capture of the murderers.
THREE young men, J. w. Mckee, Frank
H. Mcdonald and Charles Fl. Locke, all OF
Buffalo, N. Y, were arrested in St. Louis,
Mo-, on the 10th. The first-named was
book keeper for firm in Buffalo, and
| took away with him $l,14S.70 of his en-
ployers' money. The young men spent all
but $505, which was recovered. They were
willing to return without requisition.
JoHNP. HAIDEN, who resides near Little
ton, w. Va, accidentally shot himself,
wife and four children on the 18th, while
taking a load from gun. None were
fatally injured.
BY the burning of candy factory ct
Detroit, Mich, on the 18th, three lives were
| lost.
| DURING storm in the Rappahannock
River, Virginia, ON the 18th, many colored
oystermen were drowned.
! On the 18th two Oregon cowboys tied one
hand behind them and fought duel with
knives, in which both were killed.
On the night of the 18th Hooking VAL
| ley miner, who deserted the ranks of the
strikers, was made the victim of a piece
of yillainy. An attempt was made to
blow up his house and murder his family.
ON the 18th Alfred W. Beardsley, of the
First Michigan Volunteers, an inmate OF
the Soldiers Home at Dayton, o., was
found dead at Middlepike, 300 yards from
where his wife and child lived.
DAYTON, o., is exercised over mysteri-
! GUS poisoning case in two families living in
/ a double tenement in that city. Four per-
sons were taken violently ill with indica-
tions of poisoning. All is theory, but sus-
picion points to street-car driver.
On the 14th the town Of Brookville, Ind,
was almost entirely destroyed by fire.
DYNAMITERs made another attempt to
blow up a miners house at Jacksonville, o.,
on the 14th.
The Calumet sewer-pipe works near
Toronto, o., burned on the 14th. Loss,
100000. 1t was the largest establishment
of the kind in the country.
SOME severe snow storms have recently
occurred in the Swiss Alps. The great
Hospital of st. Bernard is said to be full OF
wounded people, and many tourists are
missing, supposedly lost in the snow drifts.
THE city of London was thrown into @
state of ferment on the afternoon of the
18th by an attempt to blow up London
bridge with dynamite. Windows on either
side of the Thames were broken and few
pedestrians Frustrated, but beyond this ne
damage was done.
On the 18th Joseph Taylor, convict
was sentenced to death at Philadelphia
Pa, for the murder of Overseer Michael F
Doran.
On the 18th Mrs. Hatch, wife of an ex
Mayor of Mandan, Dakota, committed sui
eide by cutting her throat with butcher
knife.
On the 10Th Marshall H. McGeary,
Pittsburgh (Pa.) lawyer, shot himself in
Cincinnati boarding house. Death was in
Simultaneous. He was stopping there un
der an assumed name.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 18th a hundred hosiery operatives
left Nottingham, Eng, for America, wher
places had already been engaged.