The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-10-02
Personal AND GENERAL.


THE leader of a company of German
swindlers has been captured in Hamburg
bv London detectives. The sums realized
by the swndlins operations OF the gang
are said to amount to l, 100000 francs.
Mrs. ALICE TTCoNB died at Omaha
Neb., on the 2Sl, from the effects Of being
burned by lamp explosion. A gentle
man caller and her brother, in attempting
to extirgush the flames, were severely
burned. She was visiting friends in Oma-
ha. Her husband is chief engineer Of Cape,
Cod canal.
JULES GAUvREAU, belonging to one of
the best families in Lower st. Lawrence,
has confessed 10 shortage sSSOO0 in his
accounts. He was employed by A. Gold
stein g. Sons, tobacconists, of Montreal.
THE Sultan gave audience to the Duke
of Edinburgh and Prince George of Wales
on the 23d. He received his visitors most
cordially, and conferred upon both the
decoration Of the Imperial Order of Os-
mamie. It's reported that the Czarewitch
is about to visit the Sultan.
CHOLERA has broken out among the SOL
diers in the central barracks at Buda
Pesth, Austria, and a general flight from
the city of the wealthior inhabitants has
begun.
THE fifth annual meeting of the Union
Veteran Army convened at Trenton, N.
j., on the 23d. Twenty States and
21S,0O0 men We're represented by about
fifty delegates. b. B. Manchester, of
Providence, r. l., was elected commander
n-Chief.
FRANK S. HUMPHREYS was hanged at
Milledgeville, Ga on the 9th.
STAIN has demanded the expulsion from
French territory of Ruiz Gorilla.
Mr.. ABRAHAM, NJ. P. for Limerick, is
trying to procure therelease Of dynamiter
DAILY.
MRS. c.. II. RUDOLPH, bride Of few
weeks at Baltimore, Md, committed sui
eide on the oath.
THREE soldlers,were killed and twenty
wounded in a railroad collision near Ber-
lin on the oath.
THREE thousand diseased cattle at Chi
cago are to be slaughtered by the State
| Live Stock Commission.
ARGUMENTS in the telephone case at
Cincinnati closed on the 2tth, and the de-
| cision was reserved.
A GRAND operate performance was
given at Metz on the 9th in honor of the
presence Of Crown Prince Frederick Will
! lam.
THE Dewitt County (Ill.) Fair Associa-
ticn has to settle its premiums at seventy
five cents on the dollar, owing to rains.
IT is denied that the visit of the Gov
ernog- General of Canada to England is in
connection with the fishery question
Four officials connected with the Gin
cinnati Board Of Public Works have been
arrested on charges of embezzlement
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH unveiled the
column erected to the memory Of Admiral
Baron Won TegethoG at Vienna on the
oath.
THE Sovereign Grand Lodge of odd
Fellows, in session in Boston, selected
Columbus, o., as the headquarters of the
order.
FoRTY-FIvE persons were killed and six
teen injured by the explosion of fire damp
in a coal pit near Sthalke, Germany, or
the 24,h.
S. S. Cox, Minis err to Turkey, now a
home on visit, intimates strongly tina
he would prefer a seat in Congress to hi
ipresent position.
No INFORMATION can he obtained II
Canadian official circles regarding thu
ALLEGED new treaty between Canada anC
the United States.
The schooner Mary Ann was cut in tw,
by the schooner Summerset in st, John
(Newfoundland) bay, and four person
, were drowned.
/ In a fight between moonlghters am
, policemen at Fealebridge, County Kerry
Ireland, on the oath, one of the forme
was shot and twelve taken prisoners.
THE Louisiana orange crop is reported
as being an almost total failure.
MoRTizA FISCHER, of NJ. A. Fischer &
Co., foreign agents, London, was fatal,
assaulted and robbed in a compartlr en-
y car on the London Underground railwa,
on The oath.
THE acting Secretary Of War has re
ceived dispatch from the Indian agen
at San Carlos agency, stating that the re
| moval of the Warm Spring and Chiraca
hua Indians Is cause Of rejoicing TO tn
| Indians lett there, who are relieved o
, their fears Of attack and are afforded
better opportunity for acquiring habits o
industry.
THE Navy Department is informed tina
; the steamship Atlanta has not gone {
sea, as was supposed, upon her trial triI
but is making a short trial in Long Islam
Sound to test her speed.
THE published report OF the dismissal c
7 Mrs. R. A. Johnson, a granddaughter c
the late Robert Morris, signer of tn
t Declaration of independence, is correct
/ The reason given for her removal is thG
= she was incompetent.
n THE first section Of an oil train on tn
t Allegheny Valley railroad ran into til
t second section near Logansport, Pa, o
= the morning of the oath, and both train
were demolished. After the accident tn
cars took fire and were entirely consumed
The loss will reach so 900. No one wa
injured.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE THOU
5 SAND strangers isited st. Louis durin