The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-08-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


port Poor-Law guardians on his accession
to the honor of knighthood.
MISS CARRIE, of Ishpeming, Mich,
espoused the Jewish faith and was mar
ried at St. Paul, Mimi, on the 18th, to AL
bert Rullenberg.
FIRE on the 18th at KoscluslSo, Mich, de-
stroyed twenty stores and offices. Loss, |
$4,000; insurance light.
MAJOR S. W. CLARK, recorder of the |
General Land Office, declines to resign at
the request of Commissioner Sparks. He
is Republican, and has held the office
twenty years.
WHEN Congress meets in December an
effort will be made to restore the old rule
requiring all the general appropriation
bills to be reported within given period.
ANTI-JEwIsH riots have occurred in the
province of Kieff, Russia, The houses of
many Jews were wrecked.
| THE schooner Orion capsized in Boston
herbor on the night of the 18th, and four
! of the five men composing the crew were
/ drowned.
! CANADIAN artillerymen won both the
Londonderry challenge cup and the Mar
quis of Lansdowne's prize in the contest
at ShoeburYness, England, on the 18th.
DR.. j. II. MCLEAN, of st. Louis, died on
the 18th at Dansville, N. Y.
Mrs. EMMA FRANCIS SHAW, while en-
route from San Francisco, committed sui
eide at Pittsburgh Pa, on the 10Th, by
taking strychnine. Her husband, Isaac II.
Shaw, is general manager of the Electric
Light Company at Williamsport, Pa.
| Domestic trouble is said to have been the
cause of the rash act.
Mrs. SARAH j. ROBINSON, Of Somerville,
Mass, has been arrested on charge Of
having caused the death of her son Will
liam by administering poison in his food.
She is forty-ssven years of age and has
| been a widow for four years. AT the
same time Thomas r. Smith, of Hyde
Park, was arrested ch rged with being an
accomplice to the crime. A dozen similar
charges are laid against Mrs. Robinson.
THE receipts Of the Government since
July 1 have been nearly $l,OOO,OOO in ex-
cess of the receipts during the sameperiod
of st year. The increase was about
100000 from customs and about $780,
600 from internal revenue.
THE Chief of Engineers of the army
states that it will be almost impossible to
make much Roadway with the work to be
done under the provisions of the River
, and Harbor bill because the season is so
far advanced.
THE Hungarian town of Sillein has been
destroyed by fire. The property burned
| t,,o ri hran IraH OH n
nunnerY and school. The loss is $3.50,
600.
FIRE destroyed Newton's planing-mil
at Hastings, Mich, on the 18th.
MRS. CLEVELAND is sadly afflicted by
the warm weather at Washington, and i:
anxious to get away. r~..h
A ROYAL commission is to be appointed
to inquire into the recent Belfast riots.
FOUR lives were lost by the capsizing o.
the schooner FroTic in Boston harbor
+ FURTHER indictments in connection will
the Squire Flynn affair at New York arr
expected.
D IT was expected that fifty thousand
workmen would attend the Socialist meet
ing at Brussels on the 18th.
4 THE loot secured by the British in Bur
nah was sold at auction at Calcutta fo
n 100, 900 rupees.
o A GASOLINE stove explosion at Sedalia
: Mo-, on the 18th, fatally burned Cora E
Shepherd and caused an $4,000 fire.
. C. j. RICHIE, president of the British
: local Government Board, has been re.
: elected to Parliament.
AN explosion occurred in colliery il
4 Lancashire, England, on the 18th, in whic
40 men were at work Forty lives ar
said to have been lost
= JOHN DoUGHERTY, of Mount Union, Pa
II has invented folding paddle which h
II expects will revolutionize steamboating
Is DR.. RICHARDSON made an incision i
q the abdomen of John McCarty at Bosto
on the 18th, drew out and cut open th
). stomach and removed a set Of false teet
4 which he had swallowed, The patient
10 recovering.
NJ JOHN WAGNER, who has wife an
= three children living at Columbus, o., she
and fatally wounded his mistress at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 18th.
TO NEAR indianapolis, on the 18th, light
1, ming killed Mrs. Buckhart while asleep
ID bed with her husband and child, neithC
~ of the latter being hurt.
} THE amount of three per cent. bono
held to secure National bank note circulg
-, ton, included in the 10th call, issued o
=. the 14th, is $7,s56,75O.
q. THE Scholarship Constellation, with IL
6 Annapolis cadets on board, arrived
= Fortress Monroe on the 18th. Cad
Schley, of Indiana, fell from aloft on Al
gust and was killed.
R. FIRE destroyed twenty-six of the pril
I'd cipal business houses at Folsom, Cal,
IS. the 18th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 50;
ne 600,
n MRS. GEORGE DEAKENHART and hi
49, eight year old daughter died at their hon
at Bakerstown, Pa, on the 18th from ca
a ing toadstools, which they thought we
MT mushrooms.
s. GOVERNOR IRELAND expresses the grea
d est respect for Secretary Bayard, and
y the same time expresses his own views
n the Mexican matter in terms that are II
hard to understand.
r THE grand jury at New York on I
l. | 18th dismissed the case of Colonel VIM,