The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-12-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


MILE CoLBURN, a colored woman,
threw herself under train at Peach Tree
Creek, Ca, on the 18th, and was torn to
pieces by the wheels.
AN outbreak of the Ute Indians in Utah
is threatened on account OF the refusal of
the Union Pacific Road to pay for one Of
their number who was killed by the cars.
A FAMINE is threatened in iron ore in
the East, the only district accessible in
winter months being the Pilot Knob region
in Missouri.
The State authorities at Monterey, Mex
leo, have surrendered to the Federal forces,
and martial law has been declared.
THE remains of VIM. II. Vanderbilt were
consigned to the tomb on Staten Island on
the 18th.
THOMAS KAHoE escaped from the Ohio
Penitentiary on the 18th. He was en-
ployed on the outside, and walked away
while the attention of the guards was tenn
porarily withdrawn.
EMILY BURTON has been arrested at New
port, Mass, as an accessory to the murder
of her father.
THE Supreme Court of Ohio has reversed
the decision of the lower court in the Ham
ilton County mandamus case, and the
Democratic Senators will get the certili-
Gates of election.
THE striking weavers at Gloucester City,
Pa, are boycotting the business men who
have anything to do with the employers or
employees of the bingham mills.
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ing the Swiss end of the st. Gothard tun-
mel.
THE weather throughout England was
reported on the 18th as being intensely
cold, the temperature being lower than at
any time during the past five years.
COMPTROLLER CANNON is endeavoring to
bring the affairs of the Freedmens Bank
to final settlement.
A REDUCTION of one-third of present
rates has been made on the cost Of interna-
tional money orders.
EIGHT of the survivors of the wreck of the
propeller Oconoto succeeded in effecting a
reached Tawas City, Mich, on the 18th.
They reported all the Survivors living in
hut on the island where they were wrecked,
with provisions enough for a few days, but
growing respondent.
MINISTER Cox seems disguised with life
at Constantinople, and has written that he
intends to return home next year in time
to secure the nomination for Congress in
his old district.
THE Second Comptroller of the Treasury
has disallowed the claim of Samuel Archi-
bold for compensation and expenses
amounting to $1,5l2 for services as
civilian member of the Naval Advisory
Board from June 10th to September 3Oth,
1885.
SECOND COMPTROLLER MAYNARD, has
given an opinion that pensioners who live
in the United States can not give other
persons power of attorney to receive and
receipt for their pension money.
Rev. w. W. Downs and Mrs Annie
Taber have been indicted by the Boston
Grand Jury on three counts for adultery.
SOFIA was decorated with flags on tn
18th, and the people were rejoicing over
the news that the Roumelian union with
Bulgaria had been officially recognized
KING MrLAN'S acquiesence to the de-
mands Of Bulgaria was announced on the
18th, just in time to prevent an assault on
Nissa.
THE Catholics of Paris are greatly ex-
ercised over a municipal order expelling
all nuns and Sisters of Charity from the
hospitals.
The bi-centennial anniversary of the in
PRODUCTION of printing was commemorated
at Philadelphia, Pa, on the 18th, by an ex
hibition illustrating the progress of the art
during the past 200 years.
VIENNA is agitated over one of the bold
est jewelry robberies on record in the Aus
trian Empire, in which the burglars Sc
cured 100000 FORMS worth of diamonds
and pearls, cutting through three safes to
get at them.
AN additional $4,000 of fraudulent In
diana township warrants signed Ernest
Kitz has been discovered in Chicago.
Kitz maintains that the signature of his
name is a forgery.
THE Tonquin Committee in Paris is
warming to its work, and the regulations
of several public men of note seem likely to
be seriously compromised by the develop
ments.
MINNIE PALMER concluded fifteen
weeks tour of the British provinces at
Cardiff, Wales, on the evening of the 18th.
After fortnight's rest she will open the
Metropolitan season at the Strand Theatre,
London, and will leave in May for her
Australian tour returning thence to En-
gland.
BLOODY engagement occurred on the
18th between the Bulgarian and Servian
forces at Veliki-Izoor, near Prot, in which
the Bulgarians were defeated
WIN. REYNOLDS, one-armed veteran
was stabbed to death by his son during a
drunken quarrel at GAINESVILLE, o., on the
18th.
GEORGE b. SHERMAN, son of a Fort Plain
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