The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-11-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


THERE is great alarm at Madrid, owing
to reports of a threatened outbreak
against the gov eminent.
Z. j. BYLEs, freight agent of the Mis-
rouri Pacific at Leavenworth, Kan, has
mysteriously disappeared.
The King of Denmark declines to allow
his son, Prince Waldemar, to accept the
Bulgarian throne
TEE Chicago Avenue Church, at Chi.
cago, known as Moody's church, was dam
aged by fire on the 18th to the extent of
$1,000.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN, editor of United Ire
land, declines to sit in Parliament for the
South division of Sligo.
The Cameron Lonsdale opera troupe
has decided TO return to England after
filling their New York and Brooklyn en-
gagements.
RAIN amounting almost to deluge fell
in France for four days en- ding the 18th
causing great damage to property.
ABOUT eight hundred pounds of cleo
margarine were seized at Davenport, Ia,
on the 18th, by the United States au-
thorities, the stamp law not having been
complied with.
AN Afghan General, sent to subdue the
Ghilzai rebels, sent ten carloads of their
heads to Cabul as a token of the victory
his forces had won.
TIE platform adopted by the Farmers
Alliance at Chicago favors union of
farmers with labor organizations, to
ameliorate all evils expressing both class
es in common.
WILLIAM KENNEDY, aged fifty, fell
into 2 tub of boiling lime water at the
Newark (O.) paper mill on the 18th. He
was, it is thought, fatally scalded.
THE Harding Casino in Berlin took fire
on the night of the 18th, while ball was
in progress. Four persons were killed
and large number seriously injured.
The steamer Northerner was burned
near Sandusky, o., on the 18th. She was
valued at $4,000 and was insured, both
marine or fire losses, for the amount
Of $4,000.
DANIEL MCCORMICK, a painter, sixty
three years of age, committed suicide in
New York, on the 18th, by throwing him
self into the cistern in the rear Of his
house.
AN equestrian statue of Washing ton,
destined for the city of Philadelphia, has
just been finished at Berlin. 1t will be
shipped in December.
The Government revenues in the first
half of this month aggregate $l9,36j, 573.
The expenditures during the same pc.
Rod, including $3.50, 900 pension payments
were $7,O56, OG3, being Sj,3OO,j07 less thar
the receipts.
JUDGE COwING, in the New York Cour
of General Sessions, on the 18th, disposed
! of the case of "Boodle" Alderman Nc
Cabe, holding that he need not be sent &c
, on institution, but that he might be cared
for by his wife. The judge fixed bail a
$2O. 900.
! A SHOCK Of earthqua Ike was experienced
in the province of BeirS, Portugal, on tn
! 18th. Much alarm was felt in Lisbon il
consequence.
a DESTRUCTIVE FIRE was reported in tn
village of Townshend, VT, on the 18th
The post office, two places of business AM
several residences were destroyed and
number of others were momentarily ex
pected to go.
c. b. CHATFIELD's large Touring mi
and elevator at Bay City, Mich, burne
l on the 18th, with 400 barrels of flour an
! 5000 bushels of wheat. Loss, $4,000; in
:, surance, So, 900.
=, IT is now stated that Russia favors tn
= Montenegrin prince, Blazo Provitch, fc
the Bulgarian throne.
f THERE were 23l failures in the Unite
o States and Canada during the seven day
= ended the 18th, as compared with a tote
d of 1856 for the preceding like period.
= SULLIVAN knocked Paddy Ryan OF
cold at San Francisco on the night of til
18th and then picked him up and carrie
y him to his corner. The set-to was wit
. messed by an immense crowd.
EDWARD SHIELDS, an ironworker, die
: at Pittsburgh Pa, on the 18th from IL
effects Of injuries received in a saloo
brawl several weeks ago, when he I,
q ceived blow on the head from a bee
B., glass, said to have been thrown by OF
= Henry Ford, who is now in jail.
IL SHORTLY after midnight on the 18th
|, fire broke out in st. Peters Roman Catl
Ollie pro-cathedral, in Allegheny City, P
luo III hdt Edllbi SuOh u6uu"dy W 1T
Y firemen appeared on the scene that all e
OF forts to extingulsh it proved futile. I'll
oi cdilce was totally destroyed. Loss est
TO mated at 100000, fully covered by insu
III auce.
PROF. JOSEPH SCHRENK, the principal
the German academy at Hoboken, n. ,
Il" was arrested on the 18th upoE a charge
:. cruelty beating Theodore Willisich, one
= his pupils, The boys body was shown
; court and was found to be covered wi
! black and blue welts. Schrenk was he
to answer to the grand jury.
u, TIE Frisco express robbery continu
to puzzle the detectives, notwithstandir
- the claims continually set up that tn,
win soon have the culprits.
~ The will of Mrs. Stewart was probate
- in New York on the 18th without any o
lection having been made
THE Treasury Department has col
nj menced the issue of the new two-doll
NJ silver certificates.