The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,


ington that the State Department is not
pleased with the part Consul Porch took
in the Sedgwick matter.
The latest accounts show that ten white
and twenty two colored persons were
killed by the earthquake at Charleston.
The suffering and damage to property are
even greater than at first reported
The wholesale stores of j. f. 81 B. Gar
ret, dealers in paper and printing materials
at Syracuse, N. Y, were burned out on
the I'd. Loss, $4,000; we'll insured.
JEROME r. HURD, a farmer living in
Greene County, Mich, was killed on the
I'd by the accidental explosion of dyna-
mite cartridges he was carrying in
basket His limbs and neck were broken
and his body was horribly mutilated
A VIOLENT outbreak of cholera is report
ed near Naples.
The revolutionary regiments at Sofia
have surrendered Internationally to
Prince Alexander.
THERE was a shortage in the supply of
natural gas on the south side of Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the Cd, and several fac
tories suspended operations. Some people
attribute the decrease in the flow to the
earthquake, and officials of the companies
are investigating.
AN official of the coast survey has been
sent to Charleston to make soundings Of
the harbor and adjacent coast in order to
see whether any remarkable depressions
or elevations of the bottom of the ocean
have been caused by the earthquake.
MINISTER ROMERO denies that Mexico
wants to sell any of her territory.
SEVEN Hungarians were burned to death
in shanty near Sonestown, Pa, on the
night of the I'd.
A COLLISION on the New York Central
railroad at MARCEL us, N. Y, on the 3D.,
caused loss of $4,000.
IT is reported that the Cars reply to
Prince Alexander has paralyzed the move
ment in favor of the latter in Bulgaria
AT Washington the authorities discredit
the story telegraphed from Arizona Of
Geronimo's escape and collision with
Mexican troops.
PRINCE ALEXANDER's letter to the Gar
is generally conceded to be a mistake, and
, the opinion is expressed that his abdica-
tlon must follow.
ROBERT A. TODD, of Milwaukee, Wis.
was viciously, and it is thought fatally
assaulted on the Sd by his son Robert, who
is insane.
WILLIAM r. KUEPP, of Kansas City, Mo.
has sued Colonel E. H. Phelps for $50, 0O(
damages for alleged defamation of char.
acter.
( LEXINGTON, Mo-, is making great prep
arations for the coming celebration Of thu
twenty-ffth anniversary of the battle
there.
The will of the late Joseph T. Temple,
otPhiladelphia, probated on the Sd, be-
queaths over 100000 to public institu
tions.
THE Standard Oil Company will build
large refinery at Lima, o., where it ha
l struck both oil and gas. The works will
, be on the line of the New York, Lake Fri
& Western railway.
t FIRE destroyed twelve houses at Noun
Carmel, Pa, on the Sd. One woman an,
a child are thought to have been burned.
!. A SOUTH BEND Ind.) dis catch of the 8
n n says Mrs. Emma Molloy attempted to com
'. . NIT suicide at that place by drowning.
MRS. ELIZABETH BUNNELL, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, was arrested on the 3D. on
@ charge of administering poison to Edwar
G s. Shaw, nephew of Mr.. Shaw, the rail
$, road magnate. Mrs. Bunnell strongl
: protests her innocence.
G GENERAL b. F. CHEATHAM, the famou
ex-Confederate general and postmaster
died at Nashville, Tenn, on the Sd. II
y. was appointed postmaster at Nashville b
~ President Cleveland and had been con
% firmed by the Senate.
~ The first volume of General John {
i Fremonts memoirs Is to be publishe
this week in Washington. 1t is said tina
p that fifty thousand sets of the work hav
= been engaged in advance.
I, JOHN WALSH, aged seventeen, was in
l. stantly killed in the Union Foundry an
n Machine Company's works, Allegheny
Pa, shortly before noon on the ID. He wa
caught in the betting and his body wa
- terribly mangled, nearly every bone ben
u broken.
=, AN agreement was reached at Whining
. ton, Del, on the Sd, by which the strikin
% morocco-workers formerly in the emplo
Of w. j. McClary will be taken back
1t they are needed, at an advance of abol
at fifty cents per week in wages. The avel
l. age advance struck for was about thirty
l., four per cent.
l. THERE is trouble threatened among IL
d, Baltimore & Ohio miners. The difficult
is that there is no uniformity in the wag,
paid, each operator fixing scale for hin
J. self. Secret meetings were in progress G
he the Sd, and arrangements making for
Sc mass convention. They will probably il
OF sist on the Columbus scale.
n ANOTHER slight shock of earthuual
re was felt at Charleston, S. c., on the nigl
IN of the 4th. The shock was also felt at c,
L. lumbia, S. c., and at Savannah and A,
gusta, Ga. There was another shock al.
on the night of the 9th.
% THE sensation of the day at Charleston
- S. c., on the 4th,w showers Of pebbles
~ the lower part of the city. Where the
20 came from is an unexplained mystery.
NJ SUBSCRIPTION lists have been opened
rs all the principal cities of the country f