The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

llJ-ldIleIS IuOJuer ana cnlQ-Wd' cap
sized in the st. Lawrence, opposite Isle de
Grace, and all were drowned.
The rejection on the Goth for delegates
to choose members of the Prussian Diet
was strongly in favor Of the new German
Liberal party. OF the 1900 delegates
chosen $50 REPRESENTATIVES,, 10 National
Liberals and the remainder new German
| Liberals,
EIGHT buildings were destroyed by fire
at New Hartford, Conn, on the Gosh. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, partly insured.
AN express train on the railway from
Lisbon to Madrid left the rails on the
10Th, while on a bridge over a river
near the boundary between Spain and
Portugal The train fell into the river,
and several persons were killed and many
injured.
HoLMAE's senatorial committee arrived
at Fort Reno, l. T., on the SOth.
Elk JUDGE VINCENT, OF New Mexico,
called on The President on the Goth and
presented his case.
MAJOR GENERAL GEO. B. MCCLELLAN
died suddenly of heart disease at his resi-
dence at Orange Mountain, N. j., on the
Goth.
THE Earl of Buckingham died in En-
gland on the Goth.
IT was showing hard in the Champlain
Valley, New York, on the 3Oth. Il showed
also in Chicago on the same day.
KING ALFONSO has been ordered by his
physician 10 take complete rest for a
month.
hoE ifa
dead in a boarding house at Wausau,
Wis, on the Both.
THE steamer Georges S. Dana was burned
near Cincinnati, o., on the Both.
JOHN MCCULLoUGH's wardrobes and
stage belongings were sold at New York
on the Both. There was good attendance
of bidders.
In Bulgaria the opinion prevails that
the Balkan conference will prove failure.
THE schooner George B. Sloan was
wrecked in gale on Lake Ontario on the
Goth and the cook was drowned.
The Servian Government is endeavoring
to cancel its orders for uniforms for the
troops. A peaceful sign.
An engine on the Richmond & Allie.
gheny Railway went through a trestle on
the 18th, killing the engineer and fireman.
WILLIAM B. GILES, alias William Geoch,
the British forger, has been sent back to
England, sailing from New York on the
31st.
A NUMBER of young women we're badly
scalded by the explosion Of a steam drum
in Roberts laundry, New York, on the
Both.
THE Marquis of Harrington, in an cleo
toral address, says it is imperative til at
the union of Great Britain and Ireland be
maintained at any price.
THE eleventh annual convention of the
National Woman's Christian Temperance
Union began at Philadelphia, Pa, ON the
30th.
The examination of VIM. s. Warner.
charged with conspiring with Ward to
de'raud the Marine Bank, was resumed in
New York on the Both.
The German War Department is en-.
gagged in improving the military estab-
lishment, and is arranging to furnish the
army with the latest improved riffs.
In the Walkup case at Emporia, Kas.,
on the Both, the defense closed their case
and the State began evidence in rebuttal.
The arguments were expected TO begin on
the 3lst.
LODI SMITH, who killed his father al
Morristown, n. j., in defending his mother
, and sister from the fathers brutality,
of justifiable homicide.
AN effort is being made by river pilots
and engineers to recover from the Govern
ment money alleged to have been wrong
= fully collected from them in the shape Of
; occupation tax.
DR.. KMBALL, Directo, \ the Mint,
, has reduced the estimate appropria-
ton for the mint service for the mex
fiscal year over 900 as compared with
, the estimates for the present year, and
, over $4,000 as compared with the actual
expenditures of the last year.
SECRETARY MANNING has rendered a de
cision in regard to the duty on rice
which, it is thought, will settle the differ
ences between producers and importers.
GENERAL MILES has received official in.
formation that 40 boomers, under Captain
Couch, are marching to Oklahoma, and
has issued orders to head them off ahC
eject any that have entered the territory.
The Commissioned of Eiuca' ion has in
formed the Secretary of the Interior that
: he has teen diligently endeavoring to per
! feet the arrangements for the education O.
children ofschool ,e in the Territory O.
Alaska, without reference to race. Two
! schools have been esslblis he'd, one at Sit
q ka and one at Juveau, and the reports
received indicate favorable progress.
{ UNITED STATES CONSUL WINGATE al
Foo Chow reports to the Secretary o
, State, in reply to instru cions from thu
latter, that after careful inquiry, be is un
able to ascertain chat any adultera ed te,
: is sold to Foreigners, there being stringent
rules against its manufacture and sale.
SIXTY-oNE new cases of small pox wert
: reported in Montreal on the 9th, of which
U forty.four were verified. There were ~
: patients in St. Candles Hospital, forty
five in st, Sauyeur and ninety three in 81