The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-21
SOUTHERN eLEANINos.

ALI. Little, on trial for pension forgeries
at Louisville, KY, is said to have killed
fourteen men.
Lima Johnson, nine years old, and Char
lie Morris, twelve, were playing with a
pistol near Plano, Tex, a few days since.
| Lima is dead.
Bill Moss, a murderer, was tracked by
oloodhounds in Marion County, Miss
lssippi, few days ago and captured. He
killed one of the dogs.
The retail liquor license in Fulton Coun-
ty, Georgia, excepting Atlanta, has been
increased to $500, five times the original
tax, and presumably prohibitive.
A prominent physician of Athens, Ca,
who has had many cases of sore throat
lately, made an investigation and found
noarly every one Of them was caused by
cigarette smoking.
| Thirteen bodies were found along the
track of the recent cyclone in Alabama;
several others are missing, and forty or
fifty are dangerously wounded.
The body of a Mrs. j. w. Taylor, who
died at Louisville, KY, six years ago, was
removed tn a new cemetery recently and
was found to be completely petrihed.
Every feature was well preserved and life
like.
An exchange noticing that geese are
now flying southwark in great numbers
satirically remarks that the northern
goose resorts must be closed.
James Gibson, former st. Louis street.
car driver, was killed a few days ago by
| John Strong, Waterman in the Illinois
Central shops at jackson, Tenn.
Anna Davenport (colored) was recently
convicted at Nashville, Tenn, of murder in
the first degree, with mitigating circum-
stances, the crime with which she was
charged being the administration of con-
centrated I've to colored child.
The heaviest hail-storm ever known in
Corinth, Miss, and vicinity, fell there
few nights ago. Some of the hail-stones
were as large as hen'seggs.
William Easley, who was shot recently
at Graham Station, Tenn, by Buck Brown,
died of his wounds.
Riley Pyle, who murdered United States
Commissioner Mcdonald in Pickett Coun-
ty, Tennessee, and who has evaded arrest
for the past sixteen months, was captured
few days since after a desperate fight
between his friends and Marshal's posse.
Ben Now was recently sentenced at AL
exandria, La, to Imprisonment for life for
the murder of Alfred Boone, whom he beat
to death with a club and mutilated in
shocking manner.
Ohio capitalists have discovered on the
farm of j. Graves, in Franklin County,
Tennessee, gold quartz which yields $500 to
the ton. They have also found a very
valuable vein of coal, and are arranging ia
bore for oil.
The seventh annual State Fair Of the
North Carolina Industrial Association
(colored) was held at Raleigh last week,
Governor Scales being present at the open.
ing and delivering an address.
The Tri-State Medical Association Of
Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee held
its annual session in Nashville, Tenn, last
week. Owing to illness, President 7. K.
Powell, of Danceyville, Tenn, was absent
Many valuable papers were read.
At Edgefeld, s. c., in the CulbreetLl
lynching case, an indie tment with seven
} counts, charging murder and the abetting
of murder against thirty three prisoners,
was submitted to the jury.
Ford and Murphy, who were sentenced
to be hanged at New Orleans on the 18th
have been granted respite for thirty
days by the Governor.
q Citizens of Ell Paso, Texas, have agreed
to give $4,000 to an English syndicate
toward the erection of a smelter worth
$250,0OO. Vast quantities of ore are con-
stantly passing through the city from
Mexico.
At Fannin, Texas, few days ago lad
of thirteen years, named Valentine San
ford, killed his mother with rife. He
confesses having intended to murder his
: father, sell the plantation, and organize a
band of stage-robbers.
Beverly Kelly, Coroner of Christian
County, Kentucky, the only colored man
ever elected to office in the State, died q
few days ago.
Judge Thomas H. Ford, of New Orleans,
has confessed that it was he who shot A.
II. Murphy in December last, and not his
brother, Pat H. Ford, who is now under
sentence of death for the crime.
An attempt was made few nights ago
to assassinate j. T. Henry, a prom
inent merchant near Springfield, Tenn.
some unknown person firing at him from
II behind fence.
i Theodore Hines, Harry Forbes and AL
bert Chici1ering aged respectively fourteen
sixteen and twelve years, were arrested a
Louisville, KY, few days ago charged
= with arson and demonstrating. The!
. intended to start West and establish a rosC
agency business.
Sam Robinson, a negro, who has bee
living honestly and industriously nea
Dawson, Tex, for the past eight years
3. and managed to buy a small farm, to mar
a ry and raise small family, was arreste
W few days ago, and proves to be conviC
= named James Music, who escaped fror
III the State Penitentiary eight years age
e having served nearly year and half {
10 a term of twelve years, to which he wa
i sentenced in 1915 for manslaughter.
RI A distillery and ffty-four barrels