The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


children last winter, to be hanged Octo-
Der Both. The prisoner received the sem
tence with the utmost Indifference.
A WAGON load of dynamite exploded
near Lakefield, Ontario, on the 14th, kill
ing two men named Morton and Simmons
and team Of horses. The shock was
felt for miles around.
THE Second Comptroller Of the Treasury
has disallowed an account for 800 ex-
pended in entertaining distinguished
guests on the flagship Tennessee at the
New Orleans Exposition.
Brooks, alias Maxwell, made his Sec
ond appearance in the Court Of Criminal
Correction, at st. Louis, on the 81 His
lawyer was not ready, and the case was
continued one week, when examination
may be waived.
Hon. DAN. MANNING visited Mr.. Tilden
at Greystone on the I'd.
The National Convention of the Mason
ic Lodges of Relief, in session at Baltl-
more on the Cd, elected Martin Collins, of
St Louis, President
TIE American Watch Company of Wal
than, Mass, has received large order
for their goods from Japan. The casas
are to be specially engraved with Jap
anese characters.
A FLOUR mill at Hagerstown, Md, a
hundred years old, burned on the Sd.
GERMANY is willing to have a friendly
power arbitrate the Caroline Islands
question.
A SON OF Admiral Cooper was arrested
at New York on the 3D. on a charge Of
burglary.
DREYFUs aud Lebaudy, two French
Deputies, fought duel on the 81, in
which Labaudy was wounded.
Ir is said at New York thai the West
ern Union operators will quit work on the
10th inst, if their demand for increased
pay for extra work is not complied with.
In the Province of Quebec frosts have
severely damaged the buckwheat crop.
SPANISH residents OF France have been
admonished not to make anti German
demonstrations.
A MAN named Winney shot anil killed
his step father, Geo. Daniels, near Cedar
Rapids, Ia, on the Sd.
The morocco factory of Nicholas Web
Der at Lynn, Mass, was destroyed by fire
on the 81.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL JOHN H. NELL
VILE DARLINGTON, of the British army,
was accidentally killed while grouse
hunting on the Sd.
THE Daviess County Qnd.) township
trustees are charged with tampering
with the funds.
The French Embassy at CONSTANT =
nople has assumed an aggressive atti-
tude towards Sir Henry Drummond
Wolff.
Ex- SENATOR GwYNN, Of California,
who had been seriously i'll at New York
for several days, died on the 81
\ LIEUTENANT ScHUETz has reached
iIfomsk on his way to YakoutSk with the
presents for the natives who aided the
Jeanette survivors.
Hon. WIN. WARNER, of Missouri, was
elected President of the Waterways Con-
vention at st. Paul Mimi
AN order has been received by the Elk
Rapids (Mich.) Iron Company for ADO
tons of charcoal iron, to be shipped to En-
gland.
Mr.. STAED, editor of the Pail MW Ga
zette, telegraphs from Switzerland that he
alone is responsible for the abduction OIL
the Armstrong girl.
The health of the rebel leaders Riel ano
Dumont was proposed and enthusiastical-
ly drank at banquet at Papineau vile,
Province of Quebec, on the Sd.
JUDGE G. w. MCILvANE, of the Ohio
Supreme Court, has declined the Republi'
can nomination for reelection, owing t.
i'll health.
PATRICK HARTNETT, the Ohio wife MUIR
derer, who was to have been executed OF
the 4th, has been respited by Governor
Hoadly until September Both.
, Mr.. E. L. WAKEMAN, former proprietor
} of the Chicago Current, who disappeared
) some time since, has been found in
monastery in Wisconsin.
EX-CoNGREssMAN JAS G. FREEMAN, o
Atlanta, Ca, who appointed the cele
brated negro clipper" to West Point
died in that city on the 81 aged sixty.
He was a wealthy ciiizsn and one of tn
leading business men of Atlanta.
MAJOR CHERMsIDE telegraphs that tn
l garrison at Kassala has not surrendered
A GENERAL advertisement will be is
l sued on the 10Th instant by the Postmas
S ter General calling for proposals for rem
n dering steamboat mail service in all part
of the United States
LIEUTENANT WEIssMAN the Germa
: explorer, has discovered that the Rive
Kassai, heretofore believed to join th
> Congo above the equator, curves and fall
into Lake Leopold II.
ALEX MCLEOD, Anthony Ginness an
Michael Ginness were fatally burned b.
n an explosion OF gas a. No colliery
# operated by the Lehigh Valley Coal Com
;. pany, near Shenandoah Pa, on the 3.
A At No. coliery of the same compan,
d Henry Lord was Instantly killed by a ia
of coal.
LORD RAyDOLP I CHURCHILL. in an al
- dress at Sheffield on the 81, announce
e that the Afghan frontier question ha
It been settled, Russia having largely mod
n fled her CT aims, and also stated that h