The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Loss, SIS, 900; insurance, $4,000. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The guests
escaped from the burning hotel without
injury.
A CARRIAGE containing VIM. Lewis, Jo-
seph Mullen and man named Carpenter,
was struck by train on the Philadelphia,
Wilmington & Baltimore railroad at
Chester, Pa, on the night of the 10 tn, and
Lewis was killed and the other two so
badly injured that their lives were de-
SPARED of.
THE Pope's course in favoring the
Jesuits has caused general dismay in
Italy. 1t is proposed to hold public meet
ings in Rome and other towns to urge the
government to inexorably enforce the
laws against the Jesuits.
THE schooner F. j. King, of Morristown,
N. Y, laden with iron ore from Escanaba
to Chicago, sprung a leak and sunk in
twenty five fathoms of water about six
miles off Cano island, Lake Superior, on
the morning of the 10Th. The crew reached
shore in the yawl. The vessel and cargo
are total loss.
A WARRANT, for $4,000 has been issued
to the assignee of John Roach in final
! settlement for the Dolphin and for the care
Of the monitor Puritan. This is accepted
! in settlement of all claims against the
| Government, and the Dolphin becomes in
law what she has long been in fact, the
property of the Government.
MRS. DELLA PARNELL sailed from New
York for Queenstown on the 18th in the
steamer Celtic.
CONSUL STEVENS at Victoria, British
Columbia, in report to the Department
of State, calls attention to the fact that
merchandise in considerable quantity
from San Francisco, destined for Chicago
and New York, is being shipped over the
Canadian Pacific railway.
CARL Won WELLER, a bogus Austrian
count, has been arrested at Jacksonville,
Fla. charged with larceny.
A GRANT of 100000 for the purchase of
Prince Aexander's property has been
voted by the Bulgarian Sobranje.
Ell CoYoTE's band was surprised by
Mexican cavalry on the 18th, and the lead
err and seven others were butchered.
TWELVE carloads of Apache Indians
passed through st. Louis on the 18th, on
the way to Florida, under escort of United
States troops.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made at
Bucharest on the 18th to assassinate NJ.
Bratiano, Roumanan Prime Minister.
A FARMER named Upsolp, living six
miles from Chetek, Wis, cut his wife's
throat from ear to ear on the 18th, and
then hung himself with a BEDFORD. Do
| To 1, Fol; tbo
THERE were six deaths from cholera
during the twenty-four hours ending the
18th in laramie, and sixteen new cases.
In all the other infected districts of Italy
there were thirty seven new cases and fif-
teen deaths.
A BLOOMINGTON, (Ill.) hack driver
twice attempted suicide in Clinton on the
18th by taking laudanum, and to prevent
any further attempt to take his life he was
placed in Jail. All efforts to learn his
name were unsuccessful.
Rev. JESSE Cook, colored, was hanged
in Butler, Ca, on the 18th for the murder
of his wife last April. The crowd at the
execution was estimated at eight thou
sand. Cook made full confession.
IT has been found that James l.. Litton,
the Englshman who was sent to the
Charles street Jail in Boston a few days
ago for attempting to defraud the pro-
prietors of the Revere House, is Stewart
Letablere Litton, the son of the late
Right Hon. Edward Litton.
THE Porte has renewed the entente cor
dale with England, and now sanctions
the formation of an extensive English
coaling station on the Island of Thaso,
concerning which there have been reports
of much i'll feeling on the part of Turkey.
THE lace manufacturers of Nottingham,
England, have combined in a proposition
to reduce the wages of their lace makers
fifty per cent. The employees, it is be-
lieved, will resist the reduction, and a
lockout is considered imminent.
HENRY ROGERS, keeper ofthe toll bridge
at Saratoga Lake, N. Y, was accidentally
shot and killed on the 18th by his nephew,
Allison B. Petit, of New York. The lad
had a shotgun and was loading it when
it was discharged in some way and the
load entered Rogers stomach. He died
almost instantly.
Mrs. MARIE GODFREY, wife of Rufus
Godfrey, a wealthy farmer Of Girard
township, Pa, left her husbands side on
the night of the 18th, and on the 18th was
found at the bottom of the Nickel Plate
bridge, near by. The unfortunate woman
, had thrown herself over the precipice, O
; distance of $50 feet and was dashed tc
death.
PETER b. LEE, tramp printer known
all over the u Mon, died suddenly of heart
disease at Lincoln, Neb., on the 18th
"Pete" began the business in 1919, and
, has been tramping for the last thirty foul
years.
: THE business failures occurring through.
out the country during the seven days
ended the Itch numbered for the United
= States l52, and for Canada SO, or a total Of
1855, as compared with a total Of IFS the
preceding week, and 100 the week previous
] OF the S15,OOO,OOO three per cent. bonds
included in the 1881 call, recently made
about one million dollars are held to Sc
cure National bank circulation.