The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-02-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,


stone is the only English statesman that
has the courage to grapple with the Irish
problem and establish peace between En-
gland and Ireland.
JOHN MCMAHON defaulting ex-collector
Of revenue of Hoboken, N. j., was sen
fenced on the 9th to five years in State
Prison.
DIR. ARMSTRONG was convicted by the
ecclesiastical court at Atlanta, Ca, of vio-
lation of his ordination vow.
MRS. CARRIE, who has been on trial at
Morrisville, N. Y, for the murder of her
husband, has been acquitted.
No further evictions have taken place in
the Pennsylvania coke regions, the sheriff
refusing to serve writs while the cold
weather lasts.
HENRY Ivy was convicted at Lawrence
vile, Ind, on the 5th, of the killing of Tim
lin and was sentenced to fifteen years. inn
prisonment.
THE farmhouse of Albert Cooley, near
McGregor, Ia, burned down on the 9Th,
and Cooley, his wife and three children
were burned to death.
THE New York Assembly on the 9th
passed the bill to submit the question of
holding constitutional convention to a
popular vote.
THE President has pardoned George r.
Sims, who was convicted of participating
in conspiracy ito defraud the govern
ment in pension case, and was sentenced
to five years Imprisonment in the South
ern Illinois Penitentiary.
SIR WIN. VERNON HARcoURT promises
the electors that he will support the new
Government in solving the Irish question
in way that will maintain the union and
the supremacy of the crown.
In consequence of the strike of the Penn
sylvania coke burners, the Catoctin Com
pany at Frederick, Md, has been COM
PEELED to bank their fires and temporarily
suspend operations because of the lack of
fuel.
WELLS carriage factory at Montgomery,
Ala, was burned on the 9Th, and E. S.
Horton, of Richmond, Ind, persisted in the
flames.
THE executive committee of the inter-
national Range Association in session at
Denver, Col, adjourned on the 9th to meet
in Denver again in March. 1t was decided
to incorpora ate the association under the
laws of Colorado. The papers will be
taken out Immediately.
FIRE broke out in Hibberd g. Brooks
Touring mill in Bridgeport, Pa, on the 5th
The Office contents and about one hundred
and fifty barrels of -four were saved. The
mill was totally destroyed. The insurance
is not known.
ALL the Chinese were driven out of Seat
tie, Washington Territory on the 18th.
PROF. c. D. MORRIS, of Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Md, is dead.
The residence in Berlin of Bismarck's
adjutant was burglarized on the night of
the 9Th.
FRANK BAUER accidentally killed him
self, near indianapolis, on the It'll while
trying to shoot rabbits.
MADRID police suppressed big Repub-
lican demonstration on the 7th.
LIBERAL appropriations for naval con.
struction are looked for from Congress this
session.
Two leaders of the Carthagena (Spain)
revolt have been sentenced to death.
FRIENDS of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur-
nett deny that she is or has been in an asy.
lum for insane.
IT has been decided in France to con-
tinue the prohibition against American
pork
A YOUNG man giving his name as Rogers
died at sea on the way to America in the
ship City of Chester.
THE coke strike is causing many iron fur.
naces to be banked, thus throwing many
men out of employment.
HENRY BRoADHURsT, q workingman, has
been made under secretary for the English
Home Department
DEPUTY marshals failed to find Georg,
Q. Cannon in Salt Lake on the It'll, but
they have not given up the chase, and Offer
$500 reward for him.
JOHANNES ABR tried to hang himself al
Indianapolis on the It'll. The breaking Of
the rope dropped him into creek, where
he was drowned.
THE London Economist strongly objects
to giving Harcourt the CHARACTERISTIC o
the Exchequer, saying it is hazardous
experiment.
THE steamer E. B. Ward arrived at New
Orleans from Ruatan, Honduras, on tn,
It'll, and reports great excitement on &C
count of American filibusters.
, UNDER the Gladstone government, tn
following officials in Ireland have been ap
pointed: John Mash, Lord Chancellor
Samuel Walker, Attorney General; Tn
McDermott, Solicitor General.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS of Baltimore ha
received from the plenary council in Aus
tralia a circular letter of congratulation
! addressed to all archbishops and bishop
in America.
GOVERNOR RUsK of Wisconsin has par
= doned two sisters, Mrs. Rebecca Merroo
and Mrs Margaret NJ. Cooley, convicted c
perjury nine months ago,
UNFAvoRABLE stories are published a
= Washington concerning the eccentricitie
of Judge Stallo, minister to Italy.
MAYOR SMITH of Cincinnati has sus
pended Edwin Hudson, Superintendent
s of Police, and appointed Arthur G. Moor
in his place.
e A FIRE in the synagogue of the Congre