The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-10-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


MAJOR w. POWELL, director of the Geo
logical Survey, has informed the Interior
Department that for 1867 work under
him is contemplated in no less than sew
enteen States and two Territories. Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas are included
among the States.
CANON BIANCHINI, while leaving st.
Marks cathedral at Vienna on the 14th,
was stabbed to the heart by man who
cried, "Behold thy victimp The assassin
was arrested and proved to be Sig. Wan
ELI, formerly a deacon, whose conversion
to Professionalism caused futter among
Catholics few years ago.
Two weeks ago Nicholas Schumacher,
living east of Hersey, Mich, disappeared,
and search for his body was without sue
cess until the 18th, when two boys, while
fishing, came across his body in creek.
A post-mortem examination indicated
that death resulted from being hit on the
head several times by some blunt in
strument The whole affair is a mystery.
LATEST reports indicate that fully ninety
| lives were lost by the terrible food at
Sabine Pass, Tex, and that every house
in the place was demolished except two.
The condition of the survivors, is pitiable
in the extreme calling for prompt efforts
to afford them relic.
| A SLIGHT earthquake shock was felt at
| Charleston on the 18th.
GERMAN exports to America for the last
fiscal year amounted to $2O,OOO,OOO more
| than for the preceding year.
THE Windsor Hotel, at Roselle, N. j.,
was burned on the 10Th, and Johanna
Sullivan, a laundress, persisted in the
flames.
KosNIrsKY, alias Bismark, charged with
the Haddock murder at Sioux City, Ia,
arrived at Sioux City on the 18th, from
San Francisco, in charge of an officer.
ABBE SARoURET, Of Vienyille, Germany,
is being prosecuted for having had pa
triotic French hymns sung in his church.
CHARLES THOMAS, who was serving a
term in the West Virginia penitentiary
for murder in Arkansas, has been pardon
ed by the President.
TEN sardine factories, two hotels, thirty
dwellings, the custom-house, post-office
and large number of business houses
were destroyed by the fire on the morn
ing of the 10Th at Eastport, Me-, causing
loss of half a million dollars and throw
ing two thousand persons out of employ
ment
EMPEROR WILLIAM has accepted an in
vitaton from the Prince regent of Brussels
to go boar hunting in the Hartz mountains
at the end of this month.
j. B. HILLS, sewing machine agent OF
Ell Paso, ILL.,, disappeared a few weeks
ago, and nothing was heard of him until
the 18th, when relatives of his in Ohio
telegraped that they would not offer any
reward, knowing that Hills is alive and
we'll.
ROBERT JAMESON, a stonemason, about
twenty EIGHT years old, was instantly
killed at Detroit, Mich, on the 18th, by
being knocked from a scaffold by a fall
ing stone at the new engine house Oh
Russell street. The scaffold was twenty
five feet above the ground.
EIGHT Polish landowners held a meet
ing at Posen on the 18th, and resolved t
establish a land and trust bank with
capital of 100000 marks to assist tn
Poles in resisting the efforts of the Gov
eminent to Germanze the Polish prov
inCes.
The jury in the case of Janitor Titus TO
the murder of Title Smith at Belvidere
9 N. j., rendered verdict of murder in tn
the first degree on the 18th. Foreman
Lake burst into tears after announcing tn
] verdict.
, THE London Post claims authority 70
, stating that although no explicit agree
m ent has been concluded, England, Aus
, tria, Germany and Italy have mutual
3 determined to oppose Russian aggressio
in Bulgaria. Sweden has also declare
her disfavor of Russia's course.
IRISH landlords held a meeting in Cor
on the 10th, and expressed themselves o
the rent and eviction question.
4 1T is understood that Mr.. Fairchild wi
continue as acting Secretary of the Treas
ury for some time, and will do much {
the work on the annual report. Hereafte
Mr.. Manning will usually attend th
Cabinet m meetings, however, and will hav
q supervisory knowledge of the work of h
t department.
o CAPTAIN BAILEY, a bar pilot at Poi
e Eads, La, reports that there were TWEEN
0 ty-six lives lost during the recent storl
| on the bay leading from the gulf in tn
direction of and back of the quarantin
station.
THE Bulgarian Government will send
:, deputation to each of the Powers, inclut
: ing Russia, to ask them to name a cand
> date for the Bulgarian throne. If I'll
Powers do not reply the Government wi
g act independently and probably appoii
Stambuloff regent.
The gale which visited Buffalo, N. Y
=, on tho night of the 14th did vast amour
d of damage. For time the wind reache
~ a velocity of seventy miles an hour. Q
1t the lake front in the vicinity of what
It known as the sea wall, forty small houst
L were totally destroyed by wind and watt
= and their occupants had to fly for the
lives. Several persons are known to hay
! persisted.
JUDGE TULEY has dis solved the injunt
y ton which the Chicago milkmen had S,
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