The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-10-24
Personal AND GENERAL.

fenced at Dodgeville, Wis, to imprison'
ment for life.
EIGHT corpses have been taken from the
ruins of one house at Palermo, which was
thrown down by an earthquake.
IT has been decided that the pressure Of
their public duties will not permit the
President and the members Of the Cabinet
to attend the Virginia State Fair.
THERE are indications that the Burmese
trouble will be settled by the annexation
to India of King Theebaw's dominion
In speech at Trowbridgs, Eng, on the
10th, Mr.. Chamberlain declared that Mr..
G. Goshen was to the Liberal party what
a deaths head was to an Egyptian feast.
A NEW indictment having been found
against Ferdinand Ward, on which he is
to be tried shortly, he was arraigned on
the 18TH in the New York Court of Oyer
and Terminer and pleaded not guilty.
The storehouse OF Schuyley & Blood's
knitting-mills at Amsterdam, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire on the 10Th, together
with stock which it contained. Loss,
$4,000; fully insured.
SCoTT ELLIS, who some time ago killed
a ranchman in Colorado, was arrested at
Aurora, N. Y, on the 10Th, where he was
serving as janitor of the Military Acad-
envy.
A PRAIRIE fire started in the west por-
ton of the town of Steele, Oak, on Tire
10th, caused by spark from locomotive,
and burned the Minnesota Chief Thresher
Works, belonging to Barker Bros, with
house and barn belonging to Deputy
Sheriff Riggs, and a stack of wheat be-
longing to F. j. Woodmances.
A PETITION has been numerously signed
at Stockton, CAL, in which the signers
pledge themselves to drive out the Chinese
by all lawful means within their power.
MEssRs. Hill and Jones, Democratic
nominees for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor of New York, have sent in their
letters Of acceptance.
THE st. Louis Browns defeated the Chi
cago League club at st. Louis on the 10Th.
Score, to 4.
THOMAS ATKINSON, Of Chicago, has fall
en- heir to a large fortune in England.
RIGHT HON. HUGH HENRY ROLF, Field
Marshal of England is dead.
IvoR WILLIAMS, boy, fell down mine
shaft 600 feet deep at Wilkesbarre Pa, on
the 18th, and was mashed to jelly.
Two men stealing ride in a wheat car
near Aitken, Mimi, on the 10Th, were suf-
located.
PORTUGAL, it is stated, has seized two
French stations on the Gulf of Guinea.
THE attempt to boycott the Cork Steam
ship Company by cattle dealers at Cork
has proved failure.
A DISPATCH from Cons taniinople says
battle between Turks and Servians is
imminent
CHARLES RICHARDS got twenty-o one
years at Rockport, Ind, for killing Reuben
johnson.
The steamer Foscola, from Antwerp for
Quebec, is missing, and fears are felt for
her safety.
THREE workmen were badly injured at
Louisville, KY, on the 10Th by the falling
of brick wall.
TIE gendarmes' barracks at Leghorn,
Italy, were wrecked on the 10th by the
explosion Of an Internal machine.
A SALOON named Osborn, of De.
troit, Mich, was shot and killed ON the
10th by an unknown person.
In all the departments at Washington
the heads of bureaus are busy preparing
data for the annual reports to be incor-
porated in the message of the President
to Congress.
ARCHDEACoN FARRAR, the distinguished
English divine, is sojourning in Washing
ton, and lectured on "Dante" in the Con
gregational Church on the evening of the
10Th.
VIM. MCGAUGHEY, colored, was hanged
on the 10th in Monroe, Walton County
Ca, for the murder of his wife.
AGAsoLINE street lamp exploded at st
Paul, Mimi, the night of the 10Th, burning
up horse and wagon and severely injur
ing boy.
Two old bachelors of Seibertsville, Pa.
were killed on the night OF the 10Th by
tramps for refusing to give up theil
money.
SUPERINTENDENT SMITH, of the Cleve
land TO- Police Department, has ordered
all the gamblers in the city to close theil
rooms. The order has been obeyed, anC
the gamesters are leaving for other cite!
in swarms
The ambassadors of the powers whc
have been considering the Balkan trouble
at Constantinople have asked for more
| time.
OFFICERS made raid on a thieves re-
sort at Detroit, Mich, on the night of th,
10th, captured number of crooks and 10
of stolen property and killed burglar nam
| ed Charles Strong.
In Saunders County, Nebraska, younl
man named Hingin killed his brother
wife and child, set the house and barn oil
fire and committed suicide.
COVER NOR EATON of Colorado has is
sued proclamation raising the quaran
tine against cattle from Missouri, indiana
and Ohio.
THE Prison Reform Congress was il
session in Detroit, Mich, ON the 10th.
MRS JAMES QUAYLE, Of Cleveland, o.
has mysteriously disappeared.
THREE persons were killed in railway