The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

murder her lover.
MARQUIS TsENG says the Russo-Chinese
difficulty has vanished.
READIND, Pa, celebrated the one humid
red and third anniversary of its incorpor-
alton as borough on the 10th.
JACOB REESE, inventor Of the Basic
steel process, has won a suit against the
Bassemer Steel Company.
THE work of renovation and reconstruc-
ton is actively progressing at Charleston,
and the city presents a scene of great ac-
tivity.
MISS LULU BATES, of Cincinnati, made
balloon ascension at Charlottesville,
Ind, on the 10th, and had narrow escape
from death, owing to the collapse of the
balloon at height Of three hundred feet.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas, who is
spending a vacation in Wisconsin, was
rendered reception at Milwaukee on the
night of the 10th by the Juneau Demo-
cratic club at their rooms. He will return
to Washington this week.
MRS. PICKETT, widow of the Confeder-
ate General who made the famous charge
at Gettysburg, has been appointed to
position in the Interior Department.
HOFFMAN g. Co., fancy dry goods i'm
porters, San Francisco, made an assign
ment on the 10th for the benefit of their
creditors. Their liabilities are about $780,
600.
SHAW and Harrison, Pittsburgh police
officers charged with assault and kidnap-
ing, have been acquitted.
On the 10Th the main building of the
Nation Furniture Company's factory at
Sheboygan, Wis, burned. Loss, between
$50, 900 and $1,000; insurance between $780,
600 and $4,000 Three hundred and fifty
men are made idle by the fire.
JOHN SHAY, in a drunken quarrel with
another man at Lowell, Mass, on the 10th,
threw brick at him, but hit his own son,
four years old, on the head, crushing the
skull He was arrested.
JOHN BACHMAN, of Reading, Pa, aged
sixteen, playfully pointed a revolver at
his brother Francis, aged eighteen, snap
ping it several times, when cartridge
was exploded, the ball striking Francis
just below the eye and inflicting mortal
wound. He did not know it was loaded.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT BELL granted
a request of the mayor of Charleston that
Inspector Pierce be permitted to remain in
Charleston another week from the 10th to
assist in the work of examining into the
condition of damaged buildings.
THE Secretary of State, notwithstand-
ing the release of Cutting, will, it is said,
| insist upon the abrogation of article 1865 of
the Mexican penal code, which cOnfers
upon Mexican courts jurisdiction under
certain circumstances over foreigners for
offenses committed outside of Mexican ter
ritory.
ACoURIER arrived at New Laredo, Mex,
on the 10th, from the frontier with a re-
port that FL Coyotes gang was surround
! ed by three attachments of troops, one
regiment of artillery and two of infantr y
from the City of Mexico, and two cavalry
regiments from San Luis Potosi were ex
pected to arrive in Saltillo within few
days for service on the frontier.
A PARTY of Southern gentlemen arrived
at Aberdeen, OAK, on the 10Th, with the
remains Of c. Hooper Phillips, ex-mayol
of Nashville, Tenn. He was accidentally
shot by James Rains at Nine-Mile lake
north of Britain, Oak, while duck hunt
ing.
THE Mayfower won the second race o.
the international series with the GalateG
on the 18th, thus deciding the contest fol
this year.
THE two $4,000 bonds, the bank book
and other papers belonging to the SeconC
Presbyterian Church, of Newark, N. j.
which were stolen from the Office of Treas
urer j. G. Harrison on the 9th, were fount
on the 10th. The thief, finding himself un
able to negotiate the papers, placed then
on a pile Of feed bags in Mr.. Harrison
store.
MARY ANDERSON is organizing a com
pany to play a six nights season in Dub
lin for the benefit of the Charleston earth
quake sufferers.
THE body of a woman about twenty
eight years of age was discovered in
trunk at the Union depot in Toledo, o., Of
the 18th, and a medical student for WHOM
the trunk was checked was arrested,
Much excitement has resulted in En-
gland over the alleged ordnance frauds
and an official inquiry is inevitable.
NoTwITHsTANDING Envoy Sedgwick'
denial of the disgraceful allegations as t
his conduct in Mexico, and Secretary Bay
ards acceptance of the same, the evidenc
is accumulating that the affair was full
as black as it was painted.
PRESIDENT FITZGERALD of the Irish Ma
tional League of America has ordere
10000 copies of Mr.. Gladstone's pamphlC
on the Irish question.
ONLY four Of the defenders of Baltimor
at the battle of North Point in the war q
1872 survive, three of whom are ninety ION
and one ninety-two years of age. The
were given dinner at the Hotel Renner
Baltimore, on the 18th.
MISS CARROLL, daughter ofex-GovernC
Carroll of Maryland, is soon to MARI
Baron Louis de la Grange. Miss Caro-
has three nieces who are respectively, Ii
{ Duchess Of Leeds, the Marchioness {
WELLESLEY and Lady Stafford.
DIR. STEPHEN H. TYING, of New York,
in Paris, and is said to have embarked
an enterprise out Of which he expects