The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


The proposed International Exhibition
at Berlin in 1883 is to be abandoned If an
Exhibition is held in Paris in
1899.
Mr.. PENDLEToN has protested to the
German Government against the expulsion
of the five German Americans from the
Island of Fohr.
EIGHT young men, hitherto esteemed re-
spectacle, were fcund guilty at Ottawa,
Ont, on the 18th, Of rape, and were all SEN
fenced to life imprisonment. The scene in
court, while the sentences were being pro-
nounced, was agonizing.
FITZPATRICK, Riel's counsel, arrived in
Toronto on the 18th to urge communication
of Refs sentence. Several influential
French Canadian members Of Parliament
were Also there in the same connection.
WAR has been declared against Bulgaria
by Serwia.
The smallpox cases in Montreal on the
18th numbered thirty-two, Total deaths
since the outbreak 2,641. Two cases oc-
CURED at Quebec. @
A FAMILY named Blanchette, consisting
of woman and five children, belonging in
st. Luce, Quebec, arrived there lately from
died of smallpox. Shortly after their ar
rival the mother gave birth to another
child. Smallpox broke out among them
and they all died ON the 18th. The whole
:amily is extinct.
CHINESE merchants of New York have
addressed letter Of thanks to President
Cleveland for his efforts to protect their
race.
A GREAT fire swept through the resi-
dence portion of Galveston, Tex, on the
morning of the 18th, burning over an area
of 100 acres, destroying 400 houses, and
rendering thousand families homeless.
The loss will reach over 100000.
SIDNEY DILLON has subscribed $1,000 to
| the Grant monument fund, and Jay Gould
gave his check for 5000 for the Galveston
sufferers.
j. D. PALMER, a mail agent, was arrest
ed at New Orleans on the 18th for robbing
! the mails .at
EX-SENATOR SHARON died at his home
in San Francisco, Cal, ON the 18th, sur
rounded by his family and friends
/ X-CoNGREssMAN BEN FRANKLIN, OF
Kansas City, Mo-, will go as Consul to
Callao, Peru. sii.i.t E
HowARD's cotton mills at Bolton, En-
gland, burned on the 18th.
A BOILER exploded in Touring mill at
Hopkinsville, KY, on the 18th, killing
three persons.
/ IT. ffpuu Il, ha T1nikad Gfotao for Tho
seven days ended the 18th numbered 227;
for the year to date, 1921
THE Toronto, (Ont.,) Sentinel, an Orange
paper, violently opposes Communication Of
Riel's sentence.
THE efforts Of the sculptors to get plas.
ter cast of John McCullough's face were
highly successful.
REPORTS are in circulation that Russi6
intends to withdraw her consuls from Bull
garia.
THE President, it is stated, will make the
silver question one of the principal fea
lures of his message.
DIVORCE has been pronounced between
Nine. Nicolini and M. Nicolini, by thu
French courts. Now Nicolini's heart viii
go piti-pat-ti.
EDWARD CoFFEY was convicted at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 14th, of murder in thu
first degree for killing John Evans in Au
gust last.
THE Grand Rapids (Mich.) Furniture
Company's factory fell on the 18th, killing
Henry Epping and seriously injuring tire
others.
REV. Mr.. HICKS, Guiteau's spiritual ad
wiser, was awarded one cent damages in hi
libel suit against the Washington ID. G..
Star.
DETECTIVE A. NJ. POUND, of Omaha
Neb., was convicted of manslaughter OF
the 18th for killing James Griffin, VIII
robbed the Treasury of Nebraska last Feb
ruary.
THE Paris municipal authorities hav
adopted resolution in favor of the am
nesty of political prisoners.
PARsoN Downs and Mrs. Taber wer
held in $500 bail each to appear at the Su
preme Criminal Court at Boston, Mass, o
the charge of adultery.
AT meeting of the Minneapolis (Minn
| millers and the st. Paul railway official
on the 18th the latter declined to reduce th
tariff on flour and wheat.
| The steamer Arthabaska arrived at Owe
Sound, Ont, on the 18th, with the bodie
of two of the victims of the Algoma disas
ter.
STEPHEN C.WnsoN,o of Indiana, has sue
the Indianapolis, Decatur g. Springfield
!, Railroad for $4,000 damages for KILN
his wife and daughter.
THE Vienna National Press is publishin
in serial form "Austria and Hungary
, Word and Picture" under the personal d
, rection of the Crown Prince Rudolph
1 1T is announced that the souvenirs give
i John Mccullough by citizens Of New Yor
a Memphis and st. Louis are missing an
are supposed to have been stolen.
DURING a heavy storm on the mornin
D of the 18th, Frank Johnson and his wifi
a living eight miles from Hopkinsville, KY
n were killed and their child fatally injure
e THE Treasury Department last week pu
d chased 200 ounces of silrer for deliver
g at the Philadelphia and New Orleans mint
THE health officers of Montreal were +
pulsed twice on the 18th while attemptiI