The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-05-09

CN .Oho o'Ou IWO pOllColhou VI Hf"uS-
vile, Ind, were arrested on a charge of
grand larceny.
ANGUS M. CANNON, brother Of the Con-
gressional Delegate from Utah, has been
convicted of polygamy.
ON the 3Oth Feed Roth, Prussian, who
recently arrived in Cincinnati, committed
suicide because he could get no work.
On the 3Oth Ruperto Lara, who muir
dred the Nesmith family in Dona Ana
County, New Mexico, was executed at
Las Cruces.
On the 30th the trial OF Richard Short,
whoystabbed Captain Phelan, was called
at New York. Bob Phelan, son of the
Captain, was compelled to surrender the
pistols he was carrying.
On the 30th train on the Louisville,
New Albany g. Chicago Railroad, in In
diana, was entered by robber and the
express company's safe robbed of consid-
cradle money, and two train men fatally
beaten and shot.
AT Altoona, Ia, on the 1st, 7. Osborn
endeavored to commit suicide by cutting
his throat with a scythe.
THE police of Omaha, Neb, raided the
Chinese opium dens in that city on the
night of the 1st, and made number of
arrests.
On the night of the SOth Fred Stelberg,
of Rapid City, ILL.,, blow out the gas at a
Omaha hotel and died from the results.
On the 1st, Rev. jesse Cook, colored,
killed his wife with an axe at Butler, Ga.
w. H. JONES, locomotive engineer at
Macon, Ga, shot his wife and then killed
himself on the 1st.
AT Dallas, Tex, on the 1st, Jim Hunni-
cult, one of the members of the notorious
"Scyene gang" was sentenced to the PEN
itentiary for life.
AT the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Union Depot a
baggage-master opened a trunk on the
LIST that gave out suspicious odor, and
found the body of man badly decom-
posed.
SHOCKS of earthquake were felt on the
1st in several districts of the Alps and
also in Vienna, Several houses were dam
aged and a number of women killed at
Kindboerg, in Syria.
IT is thought at Chicago that the body
found in trunk at Pittsburgh, Pa, was
that of Phillipo Caruso, and it is believed
by some of the Italians that he was MUIR
dered for money.
News received at Winnipeg from the
front on the I'd confirms the massacre of
the priests at Frog Lake.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the
Burnett House, Cincinnati, on the I'd, by
which one man was instantly killed.
A POSSE started after gang of CATTLE
thieves in Indian Territory on the I'd. The
latter offered a strong resistance, and four
of the posse were killed.
A JAPANESE village located in London,
Eng, in which 100 natives lived and
worked, was completely destroyed by fire
on the I'd.
WAINwRIGHT's brewery at Pittsburgh,
Pa, caved in on the 3d. causing loss OF
over 100000. No one hurt.
EIGHT persons are known to have per-
ished in a tenement house fire which &C.
CURED in New York ON the. night OF the
I'd.
FIVE million feet of choice grade lumber
belonging to Sorren & Wadleigh, of Stew
ems Point, Wis, were destroyed by fire on
the 3D..
PAT BENAN, murderer of Deputy Sheriff
Kohl, at Marquette, Mich, was captured
at Escanaba on the Sd. At first it was
thought he would belynched when caught
but that is no longer feared.
Two men, Davis and Snyder, were
drowned on the 1st, in Elkhorn River, foul
miles below Waterloo, Neb., while cross
ing in boat, which upset. Both were
drunk. The body of Davis has been re-
covered; the other body has not yet beer
found.
CHAs. E. FULLER, a business man o.
Cincinnati, o., shot himself dead at Lin,
wood on the 4th.
FIRE destroyed the ILackawanna iron
mill at Scranton, Pa, ON the 4th. Loss
$250,0r0.
DURING the month of April the aggre
gate loss by fire in the United States anC
Canada was S7,750,000.
ONthe 4th an attempt was made to burr
the Children's Home at Cincinnati, o. Tn
fire was, fortunately, extinguished with
out much damage.
On the 4th twelve jurors were secured
for the trial of Richard Short at New
York, for stabbing Captain Phelan, ant
the trial began on the 9th.
A DISPATCH from Gainesv vile, Tex, O
the 4th, said that a special posse had sur
rounded the cattle thieves who murdere,
Rolf and others in the Indian Territory.
On the 4th the militia had conflic
with the stone quarry strikers at Lemont
Ill Two of the strikers were killed, an,
number received bayonet thrusts. Tn
troops were badly stoned by the strikers
Two of the wounded have since died.
: A CHILD of a wealthy man was recent,
kidnapped on the Arizona and Mexican Dor
der. The ransom was not paid because o
failure to receive the demand. The kid
napers killed the child and threw it in tn
yard. A sister of the boy dropped dead o.
seeing the mutilated body, and the fathe
is a raving maniac.
The man arrested in Chicago charge
4. II