The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


has a monopoly of the gas business in
New York, being made up of union Of |
several companies.
THE Secretary of the Interior has enter
ed rule ON the Atlantic g. Pacific Rail- |
road Company, returnable on the 14th day |
of May, proximo to show cause why the |
order reserving the lands Included within |
its indemnity limits should not be revoked |
GOVERNOR BATE of Tennessee has APP
pointed Hon. w. G. Whitthorne to sue
coed Howell E. Jackson as United States
Senator.
BISHOP CosGRovE of Davenport, Ia. has
returned from his visit to Rome.
Mr.. GLADSTONE propounded his Irish
land bill to the House of Commons on the
10th.
| A CLERK in a commercial house at Val
| paraiso, Chill, has absconded with $50, 900.
THE City Council of Minneapolis, Mimi,
on the 10th, passed a resolution appro-
prating $4,000 for the benefit of the cy-
clone sufferers.
A GREAT overflow is feared in Arkansas,
the Mississippi River, on the 10th, being
near the danger line and still rising.
THE output of pig iron in Great Britain
is to be restricted in order to maintain
prices.
GEORGE FoUsT has been indicted at &C.
dar Rapids, Ia, for killing his brother.
CHARLES ROBINSON, colored, was
hanged at Newcastle, Del, on the 10Th, for
an outrage committed on white woman.
THE mills of the Way Cross Lumber
Company at Waltertown, Ca, burned on
the 10th. The loss is estimated at $780,
0O0 insurance, $4,000. Four hundred
persons are thrown out of employment,
ALLEN j. ADAMS was hanged at North
ampton, Mass, on the 10th for the murder
in 1879 of his employer, Moses Dickinson.
Mr.. GLADSTONE left London on the 18th
for his country seat at Hawarden, where
he proposed to take a two weeks rest.
THE Liverpool Board of Trade has COM
menced an inquiry into the cause Of the
loss of the steamer Oregon.
HENRY TIssINGroN, the leader of the or
chestra in the Union Square Theater, New
York, died suddenly in the theater on the
night of the 10th.
SIXTY-EIGHT cases 'of cholera have oc-
Cured at Brindisi, Italy, ten of which
proved fatal. The officials declare that
the disease is sporadic.
THE sons of the late VIM. H Vanderbilt
have given $25O,O00 to the College of Phys
icians and Surgeons, to build and endow a
building to be used exclusively for clinics,
The building will cost S15O,OOO. II will be
known as the Vanderbilt clinic, in honor
of their father.
THE Ohio & Mississippi railway has
made general reduction of wages of sta
ton agents and foremen of departments.
Mr.. S. S. Cox, the United States Minis
ter, delivered lecture on the night of the
10th at the British institute in CONSTANT
nople. The audience was composed of the
best people in the city. Mr.. Cox took for
: his subject: "The Poetry of Mechanism,
or the Tenth Muse"
} THE development of cholera at Brindisi
causes alarm in France, particularly along
the Italian frontier. Precautions of the
most stringent kind are being instituted
to prevent the scourge from invading
France.
DR.. THos. S. TAYLOR, wealthy resi-
dent of Merrick L. l., formerly of Texas,
was amusing himself on the 10th by shoot
ing bottles from the head of his coach
man, Thaddeus Gritman, who had abund .
ant confidence in his employers skill.
= After knocking off six bottles a tomato
/ can was substituted, and on shooting at
that Gritman received the ball in his brain,
killing him instantly.
The jury in the case of McMullin VS.. the
Penn Bank directors, at Pittsburgh, Pa,
found for plaintiff in the sum of S24 ,G2341.
9 This was in an action in deceit, plaintiff
claiming $6S,OO0, because the directors had
induced him to leave his money in the
bank when they knew it was insolvent.
G GERONIMo's band is reported "discour-
D aged" again.
Two ladies were killed by lightning al
Newcastle, Pa, on the 18th.
THE total number killed by the Mime
t sofa cyclone is now ascertained to have
been seventy-three and the injured 2l3.
WALT WHITMAN is to visit England as a
guest of the poet Swinburne.
ALICE, the big elephant from the Zoo
y logical garden, London, arrived at New
e York on the 18th, on the Egyptian Mon
arch.
FRIENDLY relations have been restored
between Portugal and the Sultan of Zanzi-
= bar.
I A MOULD exploded at Pittsburgh, Pa.
a on the 18th, severely burning about fifty
h persons with molten steel.
LAKE navigation is open, the first pro
peller arriving at Buffalo from Cleveland
| on the 18th.
Mrs. ADELAIDE BARTLETT was acquit
= ted at London on the 18th of the murder o
her husband.
5 JOHN DoUTHETT and his wife, of Xenia
n o., an old couple, were burned to death il
= their residence on the morning Of the 18th
It There We're some suspicious circumstance
s about the tragedy.
CANADA has placed an additional duty
, of seven and one-half per cent. on sugar
I imported through the United States.
CHIEF OF POLICE REFS of Milwaukea ha