The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-05-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
PERSONAL AND POLITIcAL.

for Vice. President by the Brewers Ma
tional Association. W. ]. Lemp, of the
same city, is one of the trustees.
VICTOR HUGO died in Paris on the 22d.
WILLIAM 7. BISHOP has been appointed
Revenue Collector at Cincinnati, o.
PoUNDMAKER, the bad Indian OF the
Northwest, having learned Of the capture
of Riel, wants to stop the war. He is beg
ging for terms.
IT is said a son of Mana Sahib, the
East Indian butcher, Is an officer in the
Russian army, and is treated with prince
ly honors.
THE Legislature of Michigan, on the 22d,
adopted resolutions indicating Mr..
Lothrop, Minister to Russia, from charges
made by the New York press.
COUNSEL has been secured for Riel
through the generosity of friend.
SECRETARY MANNING has called for the
resignation of S. Willard Saxton, divi-
sion chief in the First Comptroller's office.
Saxton refuses to resign, insisting that
there are no charges against him, either
of incompetency or offensive partizan-
ship
Ell MAHDI is retiring his troops every
where. He himself is retiring toward
Job ell Etiri, leaving his steamers at Sabat,
on the White Nile.
COLONEL HUNTER BROOKS, of Ohio, a
clerk in the Adjutant- Generals office,
died in Washington, D. c., on the ODD, of
pneumonia, after a brief illness. Colonel
Brooke served as staff officer during the
war with Generals Robert l.. McCook,
Rosecrans, and George II. Thomas.
PROF. SAMUEL JONES, professor emeritus
of physics and chemistry in Washington
and Jefferson College, Washington, ID. c.,
died on the odd.
On the oath General Grants condition
was reported as favorable.
VIoToR HUGo's remains were laid in
state in the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.
The newly appointed ul-General to
Mexico, Hon. R E. Ewing, is at WASH
ington.
THE Commissioner of Agriculture is in
vestigating dairy products, butter imita-
tions, etc. 1921. 1928 e'i'''' '
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN will be present
at the Wool Growers Convention in st.
Louis. af
GDllOH " DhlhN VI OHttBU ITeCIUU uu
dressed the Nationalist at Culaville
County Armagh, on the 23j, and de-
nounced the Governments land purchase
bill. $50. .ff
THE New York Times attacks Mr.. Lor.
ing's administration of the Agricultural
Department. ,f"Ntni lf'f" 49,
THE President has appointed NJ. H. Phe-
Ian, of st. Louis, Consul at Halifax, Nova
Scotia. n.....I
VICTOR HUGO .bequeathed $4,000 to tn,
D. w. WEAR, of Missouri, is appointed
Superintendent of. the Yellowstone Park
The rebel Riel has been turned over tc
the police authorities at Regina, North
western Territory. His American citizen
ship will cut no figure in his trial or pun
ishment. ussss~as4as.a's-aa.ssssa
SECRETARY WHITNEY has issued an or
der abolishing Chandler's Naval Board o
Detail. n.... N.f4"Hy .'I "
GENERAL MANAGER ScoTT, of the Gin
cinnati, New Orleans g. Pacific Railroa
Company, has resigned. ...... L..
A RUMoR was current in Paris on tn
23d that the Emperor of Germany wa
dead, 1t was wholly unfounded.
GEORGE WHITE, of the st. Louis firm @
George White & Co., has been arrested i
New York on charges of fraud made by H
B. Clafin & Co.
NJ. H. PHELAN has qualified as Consul
Halifax, N. S.
HENRY F. PRENDLE killed DR.. N.
Bruck at Oakland, Cal, for alleged i'm
proper advances to Mrs. Prendle.
SECRETARY LAMAR refuses to order
ssurvey of Arsenal Island, at st. Louis.
The Canadian authorities are discussn
how Riel shall be tried.
PROF. RILEY says the seyenteen-yes
locusts will not be destructive of crops.
JOHN SHERMAN was entertained at Sa
Francisco on the 25th, and spoke on tn
silver question.
MENTAL overwork is responsible for tn
suicide of Lieutenant John LOOMS Shocl
U. S. N, in England. he had been takin
a course in naval construction at Woo
witch.
SLUGGER SULLIVAN has filed a cross bi
for divorce. He alleges cruel and ahusiv
treatment and intoxication on the part {
Mrs. s.
THE Emperor of Brazil has sent his cor
dolence to Victor Hugo's family.
THE Communists have resolved to a
tend Victor Hugo's funeral and carry re
flags. A riot is anticipated, and pr epara
tons will be made to meet it.
W. A. TOWERS and Thomas A. Lee,
Kansas City, No., are in Washingto
looking after the interests of Missouri
the pleuro- pneumonia scare.
JAMES EARLY, of Vicksburg, Miss, tel
a story that corroborates recent state
ments of others concerning the sufferin
and i'll treatment of laborers in Guat'
mala-
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
WADE E. HAMPTON, nephew of the Soul
Carolina Senator, postal clerk in low