The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-01-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Pioneer Press for 5000 for alleged libel
MorKHTAR PASTA, Turkish Commission
er to Egypt, started for Cairo on the 23d.
A DIABoLIcAL attempt was made at Ce-
dar Rapids, Ia, on the 23d, to burn up the
Salvation Army.
PHILLIPS, the indianapolis wife-mur-
derer, was sentenced on the 23d to hang on
the Sth of April.
QUEEN VICTORIA has sent sword of
honor to King John Of Abyssinia.
THE New York book-makers think they
now know the telegraph operators who
swindled them so artistically on the New
Orleans races.
Six persons were injured by boiler ex
plosion at the Lochiel Rolling Mill, Har-
| risburg, Pa, on the 23d.
THE Colonial Cordage Company's Rope
works, at st. John, N. F., the largest in the
world, were destroyed by fire on the 23d.
THE bodies of Hovey and Skates, who
were buried in snow-slide near Silverton,
Col, have been recovered.
THE Coshocton (O.) Iron and Steel
Works have shut down, owing to their
inability to do work at present prices.
BURGLARS at Milton, Ontario, made a
clean sweep of everything IN Ramsey &
Co.'s jewelry store son the night of the 22d,
using a cart to carry off the goods.
j. II. HANLEYKE, formerly proprietor of
G0dey'S Lddy's Book, has been arrested at
Philadelphia Pa, charged with obtaining
money under false pretenses.
A TRIO Of Western Union messengers,
Of nil Ia,
terror of large number of houses in New
York, became professional thieves, and are
now under arrest.
THE mad dog scare is on the increase at
New York.
JACOB HAMMERsTEIN, Of indianapolis,
Ind, committed suicide on the oath.
The imports of dry goods at New York
the seven days ended the oath were valued
at 81, 167,54j.
CHOLERA is said to be raging in Cay
enne, French Guiana.
A BIG bank-swindling scheme has been
unearthed at Toledo, o.
GERMANY and Zanzibar have signed o
| treaty Of commerce.
THE steel rail workers at Pittsburgh, Pa,
want fifteen per cent. advance in wages.
| The London Times suggests exclusion Of
| the Irish members from Parliament and
martial law as q remedy for the Irish
| troubles.
The Hendricks Monument Association of
Indianapolis, Ind, will not ask help from
the Government.
SMALLPOX continues to rage at Mont
real, Quebec and other Canadian cities.
FIFTEEN thousand miners in mass meet
ing near Elizabeth, Pa, on the oath, re-
solved to continue the strike.
| VIM SHEEHAN confesses at Dublin to the
murder of his mother, brother and sister.
RICHARD N. HoTcHKIss, a school-teacher
| of Prospect, Conn, assaulted scholar so
brutally on the oath that death was thought
ifssoi5aUts.
| WIN. GILES, champion wing shot of En-
| gland, arrived at New York ON the oath, and
extends general challenge to American
marlsmen.
ROMAN NOSE, the Indian chief who has
been in prison at Fort Leavenworth, is to
be tried by the civil authorities formurder.
JOHN r. ELMoRE, Baptist minister,
committed suicide on the oath by drowning
near Clayton, Ind.
| In fight between negroes and tramps
at Johnstown, Pa, on the 18th, one tramp
was fatally and ano Their seriously wound
| ed.
HUGH SHERMAN, q mechanic, shot and
fatally wounded his wife at Buffalo, n. Y,
on the 25th.
THERE is marked improvement in the
condition of the Archbishop of Armagh,
and hopes are entertained for his recovery.
FIRE in the hold of the British steamer
Petriana, at Leith, from New Orleans, on
the oath, badly damaged her cargo.
HITCH has occurred in the settlement
of the trouble between the Cork Steam
Packet Company and the cattle dealers,
resulting in renewal of the boycott.
CAPTAIN NoRDEFELDT of the Swedish
barkentine Karman, wrecked during the
recent storm at Colon has arrived at New
York and gives graphic description OF
the disaster.
SIX boilers of the San Francisco (Cal)
Water.works exploded on the 25th, killing
two men and dangerously wounding two
others
JOHN DENNIS was shot in the abdomen
| ana MS DrOJner w llllam IN bne arm during
a street fight at Wellsville, o., on the 25th
D. J. BEGGRs, prominent merchant at
Clinton, o., was robbed on the 25th and
left for dead in his room with several cuts
in his neck and face.
IT is reported that revolt among the
Servian troops is not improbable, and
that King Milan's life is constantly threat
ened.
JOHN BIGELow, who was recently APP
pointed Assistant United States Treasures
at New York and confirmed by the Senate
has resigned.
ONE-HALF of a $500 legal not
was received at the Treasury Department
on the 2Gth in an envelope postmarked New
York, with the following letter: "Restitu
ton, internal revenue; publish receipt
Keep record of number of bill. Nor
later"
THE Pope is suffering from kidney com
plant, and has been ordered by his physi
clan to take a complete rest.