The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-10-16
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News from Everywhere.
CUSTOMS officers at San Francisco on
the 9th seized $4,000 worth of opium
Struggled as tea.
PLANS for the Three Americas perma-
nent exposition at Washington appear to
be taking definite shape.
The French Senators Lafayette and
Grevy refuse to come to America to the
dedication of the Bartholdi statue
ACCORDING to the National Cotton EX-
change report the crop prospect was low
cred slightly during the past month.
No preparations were made to receive
General Kaulbars at Rustchuk, and the
project of the city fed to avoid meeting
him.
IT is stated confidently that several
changes are pending in the English Cabi-
net and will be announced early in No
Vember.
siderable space to Lord Randolph Church
lips sudden adoption Of the Chamberlain
programme.
Four more persons have died from the
effects of the La Mascotte explosion on
the Mississippi, bringing the list of deaths
now up to thirty.
GENERAL VILLACAMPA's daughter had
an audience with the Queen of Spain and
expressed her gratitude for the clemency
shown to her father
JACOB RoMEIs has been nominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the Tenth
Ohio district. Thus Hurd and Romeis will
fight the battle over again.
S
MARCUS KATE murdered John Rataza-
dol in a dance-house in Jersey City, N. j.,
on the morning of the 9th. The quarrel
was about some women present.
THR cultivation of tobacco in Germany
Is decreasing owing to thesystem of taxa
zion. The decrease in the number Of
planters is 10000, compared with 1885.
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THE Royal Inniskilen Fusileers, sta
toned at Aldershot, Eng, resisted draft
for service in Africa, and in the riot that
ensued on the 7th number of soldiers and
police were wounded.
AS the result of the final games of the
series the Chicago Base Ball Club is again
the champion of the League. 1t was a
close rub. The Browns, of st. Louis are
A.. i. S,FAl nns,
A
NATURAL gas was struck at Fairmont,
W. Va, on the Sth. 1t is said by eXpe-
rienced gas men to be the largest well in
the country. The noise from the rush OF
the gas can be heard from six to ten miles,
THE French Institute met on the 18th
and accepted the bequest of the Chantilly
estates by the Due d'Aumale The insti-
tute adopted a resolution declaring graft
tude for the Due d'Aumale's patriotic
generosity.
THE French Government has ordered
Prince Enrique de Bourbon, fugitive from
Spain, where he is under sentence of i'm
prisonment for insulting the Queen, to bt
Inferred in the department north of the
River Loire.
THE Bulgarian Government has notified
foreign consuls at Sofia of General Kaul.
timidation to induce the military com
mander at Rustchuk to release the polit-
teal conspirators.
THE American Consul at Kingston, Ont.
having been asked by the the United
States Government to report if any dis
ease existed among cattle it that district
made close investigation and has report
ed in the negative.
THE Admiral commanding the British
squadron on the American station tele
graphs that the distress in Labrador i
exaggerated and that the wants of the
distressed people in both Labrador anc
Newfoundland have been relieved.
AT a Cabinet Council at Madrid, on OF
the eth, Queen Christina signed the decree
committing the sentences of the condemne'
insurgents. The Queen also signed de-
cree freeing the slaves in Cuba from thu
remainder of their terms of servitude.
THE illness of ex-senator Withers, now
United States Consul to Hong Kong, is O.
an unique character. Dr. Lennon, on
of his physicians, calls it entero colitis
which is an inAammatory affection o
both the smaller and larger mites tines.
THE Dominion Government has just is
sued an order forbidding the SARGE In
dians TO leave their reservation. Thi
tribe has long been giving trouble to tn
settlers, but it is expected that prompt &C
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