The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29
Haps and NIishaps.

Haps and Mishaps.
An enraged bull attacked and gOred
to death Joseph Jessup, aged 43, farm
err who lived near Lansing, Mich.
"A 5-year-old boy named Phillips
was fatally burned at Cleveland, o +,
from having his clothes set on fire while
playing with matches.
A 2year-old daughter of James
Arnold, of Midland, Mich, was fatally
burned, her clothes having caught fire
from a stove.
"A dispute arose at Monticello, Ky,
during a game of croquet, when Silas
Conditf struck John Burk with a mallet,
fracturing his skull.
"A little child of l.. Persinger, of
Liberty Mills, Ind, was burned to death
by its clothes taking fire while playing
in the ashes, in the absence of its moth
er.
While threshing at Farmer Bears
place, near Claypool, Ind, with steam
thresher, the boiler burst, killing and
terribly mangling Gideon Hartung, an
unmarried man % years of age.
Near Grand Island, Neb., the prop
erty of VIM. Parks, a farmer, was in I'M
minent danger from prairie fire. Mrs.
Parks ran to the stable to let the horses
out, and was unable to get out until Sc
verely burned. She died in two hours.
The house was also destroyed, and one
child fatally burned.
AT Bridgeport, o., an infant child
of Edward Lenhart, while fastened in a
child's chair, fell with its head upon the
hot grate-bars in the fireplace. The
child was alone in the room at the time
of the accident, and before assistance
arrived was seriously, if not fatally,
burned upon the back of the head and
neck.
The fatal shotgun: DR.. Nally, a
dentist of Columbus, o., was fatally
wounded by the accidental discharge of
his gun while hunting.-Wm. Knight
received a serious wound in the head
from his companion, Geo. Mumford,
while the two were cunning near Ur-
bana, O.-Johnny Waite, AGED 10, and
Charlie Bush, aged 10, started on gun
ning-expedition from Muncie, Ind.
They were going along the road, Bush
leading, with his gun over his shoulder,
and Waite close behind, when Bush'S
gun was in some way discharged, the
load striking his companion in the fore
head, laying bare his brain. He died
in an hour.-George Foegell, of Kala-
mazoo, Mich, was hunting with COM
panion. The latter pushed FOegell's
gun towards him, muZZle first, which
Foegell grasped by the muzzle. In
some way the trigger caught, the piece
was discharged, and Foegell was in
stantly killed, the charge entering his
heart.-C. f. Sayers, Il young man Of
Neenah, Wis, was killed by the acct
dental discharge of his own gun while
hunting near Shawano.
Suicidal: Harry Russell, son of a
well known banker of GAINESVILLE, o.,
shot himself; cause not known.-Philip
Leiber, farmer in good circumstan-
ces residing near Monroeville, o., shot
himself no cause assigned. LAT
ferty, a widow, hanged herself on tree
near her residence at Princetown, o.;
her second attempt.-Michael NJ.
Landesburg, aged 80, hanged himself in
his house about ID miles south of War
saw, Ind; partially deranged.-Samuel
Jackson, of Connersville, Ind, and
Levison Patterson, a farmer residing near
Jacksonville, Ind, each made an I'M
successful attempt to take his life-the
former with a razor and the latter by
pistol.-Mary Koch, a beautiful girl,
whose parents reside at Dixon, Iowa,
drowned herself in the river at Daven-
port, where she had been employed
She was seduced and deserted by a
scOundrel named Bartels.-Thos. Bran
non, LAWYER, of Missouri Valley
Junction, Iowa, shot himself on
account of domestic troubles and over
in whisky.-The body of a
young woman was discovered by tramp /.
in a barrel in an unoccupied house at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, the throat cut .
from ear to ear. 1t is supposed that she
got into the barrel and cut her own .
throat with a razor, which was found .
near the barrel A letter found on her |
person would indicate that her name /
was Anna c. Dole, and that she came /
from st. Joseph, Mo.-A young serv
lnt-girl named Clara Stanley killed her |
self with strychnine near Davenport, .
Iowa; disappointment in love the sup
posed cause.-FranciS Frost, a young
man aged 81 years, who had been stop
ping at Eaton, Madison County, N. Y,
ell in love with little 15-year-Old girl,
Miss Lucy MOrey, and because she re-
used to marry him committed suicide
~ taking laudanum.-An exceedingly
novel suicide is reported from Balti-
more. John Leonard, aged &c, walked
o the Patapsco River, hung his hat on a
,ush, and waded into three feet of water.
lie then deliberately held his head under
water until he drowned.