The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-28

EARL DUFFERIN, Viceroy OF India, has
gone to talk over the frontier dispute with
the Ameer of Afghanistan.
OK the 23d General Graham expected to
reach lanai within a few hours, and pro-
posed to give Osman Digna battle as soon
as possible. The latter had 5000 men.
GOVERNOR SLOVENIAN of California has
refused to sign the bill amending the Con-
sttution, whereby the railroads would be
taxed two and half per cent of their
gross earnings, instead of being taxed OH
their property in the ordinary manner.
On the 23d Joseph Goss, the pugilst,
died of Bright's disease at his clubhouse,
"Saracen's Head" Boston, Mass. He was
born in Wolverhampton, England, in 1885,
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE glass-works of Francis Storms,
Brot klyn, N. Y, were damaged by fire on
the 18th to the extent of $4,000.
A PARTY of robbers entered Donaldson &
Co.'s bank at Columbus, o., on the 10th,
and stole $500.
AT Allegripus, Pa, freight train was
wrecked on the 10Th. One man killed and
several seriously lnJureui
Jos. SKELTAN and George K Osborn are
under arrest at Chicago, charged with
manufacturing and passing counterfeit
silver coin.
On the 10Th the residence Of Lieutenant
Thomas w. Fitch General Sherman s SON.
in-law,) at Cote Brilliante, a suburb of St.
Louis, Mo-, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000; insured.
AT Newton, Mass, on the Goth, Sam
Glass was killed by boiler explosion.
THE execution of Stephen Jones, ne
gro murderer, took place at San Francis
co, CAL, on the goth.
ST. JosEPH's Academy at Emittsburg,
Md, burned ON the Goth. Loss, 5000.
On the Goth two people were burned to
death in clearinghouse fire at Bridge
port, Conn.
On the Goth A. Silvas and NJ Martinez
were executed at Los Angeles, Cal. The
former murdered a man for brushing up
against him.
EARLY the morning of the Goth the ORR
entail Hotel at Seattle, w. T., was destroy
ed by fire. One man named Mike Tobin
was burned to death and number fatally
and seriously injured.
The hotel, store, butcher shop and a few
small buildings comprising about half the
business part of the town of Mecosta,
Mich, burned the night of the Goth. Loss
$4,000; insurance, $1,000.
In Crescent Township, Pottawattomie
County, Ia, ON the night of the 10th, lit
tie girl named Myrtle Perry was burned
to death by her clothes taking fire from
some burning brush, near which she was
playing.
On the evening of the 21st Chicago was
visited by disastrous confagration in
the burning of the Langham Hotel. Sew.
eral lives were lost.
On the 2lst the Continental Sugar Re-
finery storehouse at South Boston will
10000 barrels of sugar burned.
AT Lockport, n Y, on the 2lst, an en-
CINE and fifteen freight cars were wrecked
and set on fire by collision.
PORTION of the State Capitol building
at Trenton, N. j., was destroyed by fire OF
the 2lst. The chancery records were de.
stroyed.
AT Girardville, Pa, skating rink wal
blown up by dynamite on the night of tn,
DIST. No one was hurt.
On the ODD Fritz SCHNEIDER, of Allegheny
City, Pa, was found in an clubhouse in
badly mashed condition.
AT Ithica, Mich, on the 23l, two youn;
children were literally roasted alive.
THos. J. NEvIN, ex-Mayor of Adrian
Mich, pleaded guilty to forgery and wa
sentenced to ten years in prison.
A GERMAN hermit named Robt. Maui
was cremated in a dllapldated building
which burned near Blairsville, Pa, on tn
23d.
AFTER being e-bound in Lake Mich
gan for four weeks the propeller Michiga
sank. She was valued at $l6j,O0O
On the 23d Charles Mexicat, aged twelv
: years, was shot by his nephew, Dan, age
: ten years, at Carlton, Mich, and probabl
fatally wounded. Result of quarrel.
AT Charleston, w. Va, ON the 23d, a
explosion in wholesale grocery kille
one man, set fire to the building, whic
{ communicated to The Hale House, both o.
which were destroyed. Loss, $4,000.
: On the night of the 22d Albert Gamble
a boy of fifteen, living at Moultville Pa
: committed suicide by hanging.
{ POSTMASTER A. A. KENDALL at st. Pau
Neb., has been arrested by Inspector Stee
e on the charge of defalcation, amountin
. to between 81, 600 and $1,000. Kendall is
brother of the ex- Commissioner Of Public
, Lands and Buildings of Nebraska.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 22d the Fourth Italian flotilla fc
-, the Red Sea was about to start.
II VERY heavy snow drifts were reporte
in some of the Eastern and Middle State
: on the Dist.
THE French forces remain practically
: a state of siege at Kee Lung.
The extension paper of Oliver Bros.
Phillips, of Pittsburgh, Pa, has bee
s signed by all the creditors, and they wi
resume
The Prime Minister of Russia is re
!, ported to have resigned.
THE rumor that China has made over