The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-03-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE London Daily Nel0s estimates the
humber of deaths in the Monte Carlo rail-
way disaster on the 10th at forty, includ-
ing seven railway employees.
The Pope has appointed the Belgian prl-
mate, Mgr. Gossens, to be chief of the
clergy in the Congo State. A Catholic
seminary is being founded at Louvain,
Belgium, where students will be especial
ly trained for service in the Congo.
A FAMILY of nine at Lyons, Ind, are i'll
with trichinosis.
THE custom house at Catslinas, South
America, was burned on the 18th; loss,
$5,0OO,00O.
THE wholesale druggists of Western cities
were in session at indianapolis, Ind, on
the 18th.
A FIRE at railway station at Oldham,
England, OIL the 18th, destroyed $350,OOO
worth of cotton.
NAT c. GOODWIN and several other stage
artists were fined ten dollars and costs
each at Cincinnati, on the 18th, for taking
part in Sunday performances.
In January a mad dog bit twenty per-
sons in Bradford, England, and on the
18th one of them died from hydrophobia.
The others are to be sent to Pasteur for
treatme nt
UNLESS Greece disarms the powers will
probably withdraw their representatives
from Athens.
BY the burning of the Orphanage for
boys in the town of Voerde, Germany, on
the 18th, five inmates lost their lives.
NINE. ADELINA PATTI partially failed in
the first act of "La Traviata" at Valencia,
Spain, on the night of the 18th, and was
roundly Kissed. She left the theater in
high dudgeon, aud had to be escorted to
her hotel by the police.
THE education committee of the House
of Representatives on the 18th, after q
sharp fight, voted to table the Blair Edu-
cational bill. This practically kills the
measure.
SENATOR JONES, "of Detroit" is wanted
in Washington by his colleagues of the
committee on commerce to break tie on
the matter of the Eads Ship Railway bill.
A DEPUTATIoN of Socialists at Amster-
dam, Holland, waited on the mayor on the
| 18th to urge relief measures. They were
subsequently dubbed by the police.
! AT Logansport, Ind, on the 18th, while
Sarah Hassett, cook at restaurant, was
filling the tank on a gasoline stove the
fluid took fire and the tank exploded. The
Hass EFT woman and a bystander named
Joseph Helfner were horribly and fatally
burned.
RANGooN advices state that 200 rebels
indend to march on Mandalay. British
reinforcements are pushing forward.
SIX HUNDRED employees of the Elizabeth
Cordage works at Elizabeth, N. j., went
out ON strike on the 18th.
THE Monte Carlo station master who
caused the recent railway collision was ar
rested on the 18th and committed suicide.
EDWARD CLAPPER, living seven miles
from Fremont, Neb,, was burned to death
in his house, which was destroyed by fire
on the 18th. He was unmarried and a
farmer. There is no explanation of the
affair, but the supposition is that it was
accidental.
THE committee Of the German Reichstag
to which was referred the spirit monopoly
bill rejected the first two clauses, thus vir-
tually defeating the measure.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for a
general strike for an advance in wages
among the 'longshoremen on non-uniop
piers at New York. On many of the piers
the men are paid only twenty five cents an
hour The union rates are forty cents All
hour for day and sixty cents for night
work.
ZELNo P. GORDON, the oldest telegraph
operator in the United States, died at Cas-
tile, N. Y, on the 18th, aged eighty-two
years.
Two HUNDRED and fifty thousand francs
have been donated for the proposed Pas.
teur institute at Paris
No business was transacted in Congress
on the 18th, the funeral services over tn,
remains of Senator Miller of California
occupying the attention of the Senate in it,
chamber, and which were attended by the
House in body. The remains were sen
westward under charge of the congress
sional committee.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the sugar interests
had hearing on the 18th before thu
agricultural committee at Washington,
THE Cunard line steamer Oregon cam,
in collision with a schooner off Fire IslanC
early on the morning of the 14th, and SUM
in twelve fathoms of water. The passen.
gers were all rescued by the Bremen
steamer Fulda and carried to New York
The schooner sank with all on board. Thu
the Cunard record is broken.
THE Dempsey LeBlanche fight came of
at Larchmont, N. Y, on the 18th and re
suited in victory for Jack Dempsey after
thirteen well contested rounds. Onl,
about twenty persons witnessed the mill
which is said to have been one Of the gam
est on record.
LEWIS the Wisconsin "strangler," wo
the catch as-catch- wrestling matcI
with Edwin Bibby in st. Louis on the llth
winning three out of five falls. He did no
have a walk-over, however.
The London Observer SAYS Gladstone,
home rule measures were unfavorably re
ceived by the cabinet at its meeting ON tn
18th, and if persisted in, will lead to tn
disruption Of the cabinet.
MRS. DELLA PARNELL is better and n