The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-07-25

JO1N DONCn buOb anu klltu dlllto hpA-
Is, driver of Richball, in a stable at the
Pittsburgh (Pa) Driving Park on the
18th.
OK the 10Th Joseph Palmer was hanged
at Cincinnati for murder Hereafter all
executions in Ohio must take place at the
Penitentiary at Columbus.
EDWARD WETHERs, OF the Halifax IN.
s. Custom house, killed his daughter and
himself on the 18th. He was insane.
A FARMER named ]. w. Stout, living
six miles south east of Greenfield, o., was
shot and ms family killed BY Elijah Nevin,
a neighbor, during an alteration, on the
14th.
AT Oakdale, Cal, the night Of the 14th,
fire destroyed eight business buildings
with their contents. Loss estimated,
$50, 900; partially insured. Much excite
ment prevails, as it is believed the fire
was the work Of an incendiary.
On the 18th q Mrs. Jones, OF Buffalo,
N. Y, who was with a party OF ladies
at Bath Island, Niagara, fell into the
stream and was carried over the Amerl :
can falls
AT Debusk's ranch, twenty miles from
Trinidad, Col, on the afternoon OF the
14th, twelve out of herd OK eighteen
horses in a pasture were killed by light
ming. A hail-storm had driven the horses
against a barb wire fence, which con-
Quoted the lightning through the herd.
FIRE destroyed the buildings of the
Philadelphia Rubber Works on the 10th.
On the 10th two Norwegans were suf-
located while digging we'll at Pleasant
Valley, Wis, and third came near los
ing his life in recovering the bodies
J. N. LYNCH, of Gibson County Indi-
ana, is suspected of poisoning his children
by scattering arsenic on pie. He can not
be found.
On the 10th an incendiary fire on the
lumber docks at Bay City, Mich, was
checked in its incipiency.
Or the 18th Miss Agnes Roe, John He'd
den and William Tickenor, of Patchogue,
L. l., were accidentally knocked from q
yacht and drowned.
AN empty chair car in the Denver &
Rio Grande yards at Denver, Col, was
wrecked on the 10th and the switchmer
slightly injured. Dynamite had been
placed on the rails, and caused the acct
| dent.
FIRE destroyed most of the buildings on
the northeast side of the public square at
Covington, Ind, on the 10th. The totaI
loss will reach about $40, 900. Insured fol
a very small amount.
On the 10th the Mothers House Of the
Holy Order of st. Joseph, at Delhi, eight
miles below Cincinnati on the Ohio River
was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $751;
900; insurance, $4,000. No one was in-
jured. The building was the result Of the
savings of the Sisters for many years.
The town of Highmore, OAK, has been
completely wiped out by a cyclone.
ALBERT LoNGsTRETH was murdered by
tramps at Union City, Pa, on the 18th.
SAMUEL ALIFF and John Hoffman were
arrested in Kansas on the 18th fora muir
| der committed in Kansas in 1867.
IN a collision on the Pittsburgh
Western Road at Zelionople, Pa, on tn
| 18th, two brakemen were seriously in
jured and three cars wrecked.
GEORGE JOHNSON murdered his sister
in claw and committed suicide by cuttin;
his own throat, at Alden, Ia, on the 18th
| He mistook his victim for his wife.
MARY KLEEMAN, who attempted t.
poison her sisters family in Chicago, wa
let off with one years imprisonment.
THREE young men and q young lad.
were drowned at st. Alers- des- Mont
Province of Quebec, on the 18th.
A MAN named Martinez and the wife @
Jean Lopez were found in a field nea
Davisvlle, Cal, on the 18th. Probabl
murder and suicide.
AN engine plunged into an open dra,
across the Railway River on the Phila
delphia g. Reading Railroad on the It'll
badly lnjuring the engineer and fireman
MISCELLANEOUS.
BRITISH soldiers stationed at SualIir
and other Sohdanese ports are sufferin
from the intense heat and the mortalit
among them is described as frightfu
enteric diseases being very prevalent
TERRIBLE famine is said to be deci
mating the population of Kordofan.
AT Toronto, Ont, on the 10th publ
HooUih6 PAOVosVou oSeihoV 'no luI Vnel au
mission of Chinese into Canada.
The Russian authorities promise to in
vestigate the recent fogglng by Rus STA
officials of British Consul's clerk.
AS test case a newsboy was arreste
in Chicago for hawking a reprint of tn
Pail Mall Gazette disclosures. he We
fined 500 for distributing obscene liteI
allure, and the Judge suspended the fin
The police of Dresden summaril
stopped Social project to raise funds 70
Socialist candidates in French elections
A REPORT from St Petersburg says tina
Russia counts on the assistance of Franc
in case of a contest with England.
On the 18th the French Senate ratifi e
the Ten Tsin treaty. The Chamber