The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

on the night OF the 24th, at which fully
1900 were present, it was decided to go on
a strike at once against the proposed re-
duction of half cent per yard in their
wages.
MARY, the six teen year-o daughter of
Robert White, a rich Shrewsbury IN. J.)
Quaker, is missing from home. Charles
Billings, young man of Eatontown, is
also missing. As the couple were fond of
each other, contrary to the wishes of the
girls parents, it is thought that they have
eloped.
MRS. CLEVELAND, assisted by Miss
Gregg, held an informal reception at the
White House on the afternoon of the oath.
THE President was so much occupied on
the oath in considering a large batch of
private pension bills, that he denied him
self to all callers, and even postponed the
regular Cabinet meeting.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND left Washing
ton on the 25th for yachting trip to Fort
ress Monroe and the capes.
| PEORIA was visited with a $780, 900 fire
on the 25th, caused by the ignition of
gasoline tank and its consequent explo-
sion.
r. H. LAwToN, of Columbus, Kas., died
| at Cincinnati on the 18th with indications
of suicide.
QUEEN VICTORIA returned to Windsor
castle from Balmoral on the Doth, and Sent
her message to the House of Commons dis
solving that body.
Four laborers were killed by railway
accident on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy, near Creston, Ia, on the 25th.
FRANK WENTAND, an inmate of the
State House of Correction at Ionia, Mich,
was seriously shot by guard on the 25th
while endeavoring to escape.
THE manifesto of the Comte de Paris has
created great excitement in France and
newspapers containing it were sold in
large numbers.
MISS ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND is to
edit Literary Life, of Chicago.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND had, up to the
25th, vetoed seventy -four bills-within
thirty-six of the whole number by all the
presidents since the Government began.
REV. JOHN E, O'SULLIvAN, q Catholic
priest of Syracuse, N. Y, has been sem
fenced to eleven years Imprisonment for
a criminal assault on domestic.
The Emperor of Germany has bestowed
gold medals on Messrs. Herkemer and
Mullers in recognition of the merit of pic
lures hung by them at the Boston exposi-
ton.
TWENTY -FOUR men were killed and six
teen entombed alive on the 25th by an ex'
plosion in the collery at Rochamp, in the
department of the Saone, France.
THE remains of the late Benjamin
Moran, ex- United States Minister residen
5 at Lisbon, were inferred at the village of
Panfield Essex, England, on the 25th.
l ROBERT DLLARD and James Emmette
both colored, were hanged at Greenville
Miss, ON the 25th, for murder, in the pres
ence of legal witnesses.
FORMAL notice of Bishop Tuttle's accept
, ance has been given the clergy and laity
of the Episcopal diocese of Missouri.
THE business failures during tho savel
days ended the 25th for the United State
J were 1SS and for Canada "a, as compare,
8 with 155 for the preceding like period.
= THE total imports of dry goods at til
e port of New York during the past wee
q were valued at 81 ,745, $3.50, and the amour
thrown on the market at 81 $685. 0S.
GEORGE B. DAVIS was hanged at Scale
:, Ala, on the 25th for the murder of VIM
y McClermend, alias Archie Ree%s, las
. spring.
q THE Cigarmakers' Union of Pottsvillt
Pa, on the 25th presented scale of price
to the employers involving an average ad
= vance of one dollar per thousand, an
Il stated that unless acceded to a genera
: strike would ensue on the 2Sth. The EN-
II ployers declared lockout, applying {
d every factory in the city.
GENERAL FITz-JoHN PORTER sent a tell
gram to Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, o
- the Goth thanking him for his efforts in Sc
4 curing the passage of the bill restorin
: him to the army.
J, Hon. DAVID DAVIS died at his home i
Bloomington, ILL.,, on the 26th, in his sew
entY-frst year. Arrangements were mad
% for his funeral to take place on the 29tl
p Deceased left an estate estimated at be
= tween million and quarter and mil
d ion and half dollars, which will be in
If herited by his wife and two children.
lHE ITeslueuJ anu MIS-. cleveland nav
been invited to attend the fall carnival
~" st. Louis, the preparations for which al
" on a scale eclipsing all former occasion
10 ALEXANDER MILLER and his wife wei
= killed by the cars at Lafayette, Ind, c
70 the Goth.
The total imports Of merchandise at IL
port of New York for the week ended Il
is Goth were valued at S6,5O9925; of dr.
to goods at $1,745,S69.
at WILLIAM GALLAGHER was found dea
We in the Mahoning river at Youngstown, c
n on the 26th, with indications of foul pla,
E. THE strike of the Lake Shore switchmC
at Chicago assumed a serious phase
the Goth. the efforts of the company
>. move trains being met by hostile mea
ures on the part of the strikers, which
y. turn brought them into collision with Il
I police, with the result of several men b
y ing wounded by pistol shots.