The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Capitol building at Washington on the
10th between Congressman Cobb, Of In
diana, and Laird, Of Nebraska
The erhearing in the divorce case of
Crawford against Crawford and Dixie
opened by the Queens proctor, was begun |
at London on the 10TH The evidence puts
a new color on the matter.
THE committee on pensions recommend
the passage over the Presidents veto of
the bill granting a pension to John W.
FarriS, of Missouri.
Two clerks and chief of division in the
Treasury Department at Washington have
been dismissed for tampering with exam
ination papers.
AFTER being locked up five hours, the
coroner's jury in the case of Policeman
Gardner, who was shot in the Belfast
riots, were discharged, being unable to
agree.
COLONEL JUNIUs B. WHEELER, formerly
a profe sor at the West Point Military
Academy, died at LeNoir, N. c., on the
10th.
THE Dubuque (Ia.) oatmeal mills were
destroyed by fire the evening of the 10th.
Loss estimated at 100000; insurance, 4O,-
900.
THE paper mill at Rockton, ILL.,, owned
by Bradner, Smith & Co., of Chicago, and
operated by w. T. Randall, of Beloit, Wis,
burned the evening of the 18th. Lost esti-
mated at $4,000; well insured.
ONE of the boilers in the Port Austin
(Mich) Manufacturing Company's salt
block exploded with terrific force on the
10th, SCATTERING the engine room, injuring
two men and killing boy.
BERNARD JUssELL and Martin Benker,
of Akron, O., while attending a church
picnic at Cleveland on the 10th, got into a
boat for a row. The boat capsized and
both were drowned. Their bodies were
not recovered.
FoREPAUGH's circus train was wrecked
on the Maine Central railroad at Vassal-
boro, on the 10Th, four cars plunging down
ffty-foot embankment. Twenty-Five
valuable trick horses were killed and a
number of others badly injured. A num-
Der of the employees were caught in the
wreck and injured.
THE contemplated clerical changes in
the Treasury Department, which were to
have taken place on the 10Th instant, will
| be make as soon as the Legislative bill
becomes a law. The list is now being pre-
pared, and while it will not be as large as
at first supposed, the axe will be swung
with considerable effect.
The Knapp g. Stout lumber yards at
st. Louis burned on the 18Th, thirty acres
of ground being burned over. The loss is
estimated at over a half million of dol
lars, with an aggregate of 100000 insur-
! ance.
A MEETING of London Socialists on the
18Th refused to disperse when requested to
do SO 10y the police, and they were not dis
| turbed.
The Shoshone Indians, who for twenty
years have been friendly with the Gov
eminent, are said to be threatening re-
volt, being on the verge Of starvation
PAYMAsTER CHARLES p. THOMPSON and
several other officers of the United States
war ship Lancaster are to be court-mar
tailed for alleged crookedness in purchas-
ing supplies at Cape Town.
THE duel between General Boulanger
and Baron de Lareinty came off near
Mendon on the 18th. The latter's shot
went wide, the Generals pistol hung fire
and honor was satisfied. General Bou.
LANCER gained little cheap notoriety by
the spread of story that he had fired in
the air after facing Lareinty's fire.
MARIE VAN ZANDT, the American prime
donna, is suffering from paralysis al
Vichy, and no hopes are entertained Of
her recovery.
AT an early hour on the morning of the
18th BENZ, Ramage, merchant at UnioI
coal works, eleven miles down the river
from Wheeling on the Ohio side, was killed
and his store blown to atoms by dynamite
deposited beneath it. Henry Campbell, {
former partner of Ramage, was arrested
on suspicion.
JAMES JOHNSON, Burlington & Mis-
souri, railroad bridgemen, fell Off the Plat
river bridge near Ashland, Neb., on tn
18th, and was drowned.
A COMMERCIAL treaty has been consum
Nated between France and Corea.
SAMUEL K. GAY, chief clerk in the Pitts
burgh (Pa.) pension office, has joined tn
United States contingent in Canada, tax
ing with him $4,000 which he secured b,
forgery and embezzlement, with which t
make himself solid with the gang.
AN unused house near the city of Cork
Ireland, was blown up on the 18th, and th
bodies of two men, supposed to have bee
making dynamite, were found in tn
wreck.
A DAMPFR was thrown on Albany
BIZ centennial celebration on the 18th by
terrible thunderstorm accom- anied b
heavy rain and a high wind. Some q
tue outdoor decorations were ruined.
The walls Of an old building located 0
South and Roosevelt streets, New Yorl
and containing stock of out D 600 bar
rels OF -four beIon ing to NJ. I. Sweeney 1
Co., gave way on the 18th. Three person
we're seriously hurt.
MARTIN IRONS, the head and front of tn
Southwestern railroad strike, has resigue
as chairman OF the executive hoard of hi,
lrict Assembly No lol, X. Of L., and
said 90 he in Kansas, broken in pocket, in
duenge and spirits.