The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-01-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

reported in financial trouble.
TIE Fulton Market New York; fishing
smack Eliza Baker and crew are missing,
supposed to be lost in the recent gale.
SEVERAL British and German otter
hunting vessels are reported captured by
Russians and sent to Kamschatka.
FOURTEEN miners were killed by an ex-
plosion in the Amy coal mines, near
Evanston, Wyo., on the 14th. Seven
bodies have been recovered.
A SYNDICATE of French contractors has
been formed to compete with the German
syndicate in supplying China with ma
terial for the construction of railways.
FIRE at Lexington, KY, on the 10th, de-
stroyed lines &c Sons grocery store, the
Opera house and the Adams Express
Company's Office and stables.
A TENEMENT house on the premises Of
Captain Bell at Kings Mountain, N. c.,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th and
three colored persons, Gertrude Rendle-
man, Julian Earle and Julia, a child eigh-
teen months old, persisted in the flames.
The jury in the case of Enoch Cook at
Louisville, KY, charged with killing
James Prewitt, sentenced the prisoner to
two years in the Penitentary. Cook and
Prewitt quarreled last July, and Prewitt
was beaten and kicked to death.
A LARGE hy-wheel burst at Harper's roll
ing mill at Newport, KY, on the 18th, a
piece of which struck the boiler, causing it
to explode. Several of the employees were
injured, some seriously, and the building
was badly wrecked.
TEN sailors were lodged in jail at Phila-
delphia on the 18th charged with mu-
tiny.
LAIDLAw denies that he has made a
contract with Teemer to row in Australia.
The Irish Exchequer Bench has ruled
that the National League is rot illegal.
The Puritan shirt factory at Province
town, Mass, was totally destroyed by fire
on the 18th.
SIR HENRY DRUMMoND WOLFF, British
Commissioner to Egypt, has been recalled.
Two men were killed and number in
jured by a snow-slde at Mount Sneffles,
Col, on the 18th.
THE Grecian Ministry will resign unless
the King assents to an alliance with Ser
1 via.
CHARLES MITCHELL who killed Simon
Cox at indianapolis, Ind, has been ar
rested at Chicago.
| PRINCE NIKITA of Montenegro protests
against the Bulgarian union and wants an
extension Of territory.
PARsoN BRIsToR, Of New York, who
was charged by a servant girl, Ida
| ha, hoC
suspended.
THE Pope, on receiving the French envoy
to the Vatican, on the 10th, complained of
the conduct of the French Government to-
ward the Church.
THE striking employees of the Edgar
Thomson steel works, at Pittsburgh, Pa,
rejected an offer of the firm through
Father Hickey, Catholic priest.
THE London & Northwestern Railway
Company has decided to substitute iron
sleepers for wooden ones, and other roads
will probably follow suit.
COLONEL MoRRIsoN's new tariff bill, in
stead of being framed on the horizontal
plan, will, il is said, be confined to the re-
peal Of few very grave tariff mistakes.
THE arrest of an Akron CO., saloon
keeper on charge of adultery on the 10th,
developed the fact that he was living with
a woman whom he bought from her hus-
band for a nickel
JOSEPH Cook, of Boston, in an address
at New York on the 18th, said: "We are
the most drunken race on the planet and
the palm for red noses should be awarded
to Irish, Germans and Americans"
Mr.. MAsToN, Chairman Of the Commit
tee on Invalid Pensions, has been author.
lied to report his bill to increase the pen
sions of soldiers and dependent relative
of deceased soldiers and sailors.
JAMES w. MURRAY, ESQ, editor of the
Pittsburgh (Pa.) Legal Journal, and one
of the brightest young lawyers at the ALE
gheny County bar, died in Jail on the nigh
of the 18th, of delirium tremens.
THE Government of Madagascar haI
consented to allow France to have a min
lister resident at the capital and to matt
tain special reference guard.
AT convention of Irish societies of Bos
ton, held on the 18th, it was voted to have
no parade on st. Patrick's Day, but insteaC
, to have lecture in the evening.
NOTHING has been heard from the over
due steamship City Of Nassau, which pass
ed out of the Delaware capes on Christ
mas morning for Jacksonville, Fla, and
beyond doubt she is lost with all hands
seventeen in number, on board.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th tn,
works of the International Starch Com
pany at Black Rock, near Buffalo, N. Y.
were totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $50,
600; insurance, 81, 900.
THE Westover Block at Bay City, Mich.
containing the Opera house, Second Ma
tienal Bank, Post-oflice, Sirmeyer & Ed
wards clothing store and a number of Of
fees were totally destroyed by fire on tn
night of the 18th. Nothing was saved
The loss is placed at from $4,000 to $40,
600, with an insurance Of about one-fourtl
that amount.
THE cabin at the Ruby Trust mine Of
Mount Sneffies, Col, was carried away Of
the 18th by a snowslide, burying six men
A call was made on 0uray for help, bu
before the relief party arrived, the sevel
men who were fortunate enough to es
cape had uncovered those who wer