The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-10-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


public and signed by the Duke de Seville
has been circulated in Spain.
A STOCK company proposes to complete
the old st. Louis & Western railroad.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt |
at Charleston on the 1st.
TRADE in Russia is said to be paralyzed |
owing to the Bulgarian crisis.
SPRoULE, the American under sentence
of death in British Columbia has been re
spited to October 80.
GENERAL BULwER is to be sent to Ulster
with powers similar to those given General
Sir Redvers Butler in County Kerry.
SECRETARY MANNING is to resume, for a
while at least, the duties of his Office at
Washington. He will not return to his
post, however, before the 10th.
THE Congo Free State has refused
railway concession to a firm of English
men because they were too exacting.,
THE London Tines says England has
reason to be satisfied with the statements
made by the Austrian Premier.
THE hearing of the motion for a new
trial in the Chicago Anarchists cases was
commenced on the 1st.
CHARLES EDWARDS, alias Charles Cor
ham, colored, who murdered his mistress
in Algiers, La. on June 90 was executed
on the 1st.
SHANKLING & KEARNs' store, at Bring
hurst, Ind, was wrecked on the LIST. A
clerk was weighing out powder as he
smoked cigar. He was badly burned
and nearly killed.
S. S. HAMILTON, prominent citizen
and pork packer at louisville, KY, fell
down the stairway of his office on the 1st
and broke his neck. He died almost in
stantly.
THE extension of the special delivery
system of the Post Office Department to
all post-offices and to all classes of mat
ter went into effect on the 1st.
FIVE bows were out in the harbor at
Lynn, Mass, on the LIST, in a small boat,
when the wind capsized the boat and
three Of them, Henry Sears, Michael
O'Neal and Darby Green, were drowned.
LAND offices have been established at
Chadwin and Sidney, Neb. The land Of
fee at Bayfield,, Wis, has been removed
to Ashland.
The Roman Catholic clergy in Canada
have been forbidden by Cardinal Tasch-
ereau from taking any part or exer-
clsing any influence over their parishion-
ers during the coming elections.
A GREAT lockout of packing house en-
ployes Is threatened at the Union Stock
Yards, Chicago, in order to settle the
| Eight question.
The effect in Bulgaria of Premier Tlsza's
Speech it is thought, will be to encourage
the government to resist Russia.
A STARTLING story is given to the
world by St. Paul, (Minn.) paper to the
effect that the late Emory A. Storrs was
poisoned with digitalis to prevent him
telling the secrets of the Chicago gang,
which he had obtained as Mackin's at
! torney.
EDWARD SOLOMON, the husband of
Lillian Russell, charged with bigamy, has
been remanded by the London magis-
trates pending the arrival Of witnesses
from the United States.
| SENATORS SALISBURY, Edmunds and
Frye of the Senate fishery committee ar
rived at Provn ceton, Mass, on the 1st, on
the revenue cutter Gallatin, and took testi-
mony regarding the effects of reciprocity
in fish in Cape Gods interests.
A COMMITTEE of the Union Veterans
| Union called upon the Public Printer on
the LIST, in behalf of their comrades who
had been discharged from the Govern
ment printing office. Mr.. Benedict as
sured them that the Union soldiers in his
Office need not fear discharge if compe-
tent and attentive to duty.
DAVID NJ. CHADWICK, aged sixty-five
years, was caught by secret-service off.
GERS and local Diet sctives at Albany. N. Y.
on the LIST, manufacturing counterfeit
coin, large quantities of which have beer
shipped to New York and other cities.
THE British Government has sent Col.
onel Maienlie, chief inspector of explo-
sives to America to inquire into the laws
regarding the storage Of explosives in the
United States. e.
BEACH CT inns to have made $4,000 ou
of his boat races, and intends to retire tc
his Australian farm the unconquereC
champion of the world.
THREE English publishing houses have
offered tempting inducements to Prince
Alexander to write the story of his ex
perience in Bulgaria, and 1t is thought h,
may be induced to comply.
SEVENTEEN boys escaped from the Re
form school at Waukesha, Wis, on thu
night of the LIST. They gained egress
by means Of key made out of a comb by
an eleVen-year-ol boy.
, A DEFALoATIoN of nearly $4,000 in tn
Union Dime Savings Bank Of New Yorl
, has just come to light, Otto Baumann, tn
receiving teller, being the defaulter. Tn
} bank is thoroughly solvent. t
THE Kings County IN. " grand jury
has found an Indictment against Chart.
Commissioners w. H. Ray, Thos. W
Hines and Joseph Reeve for misdemeano
, in wilfully neglecting to provide safe an
I suitable accommodations, care and at
tention for certain insane persons uude
their care.
PUBLIC PRINTER BENEDICT decapitate
= seventy more employees ofthe Government
printing office on the I'd, making in all 46
discharged TO date, among them being thir
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