The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-08-16
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hone, and Hon. John n. Daniels.
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Two men, named Lewis and Bailey,
have been arrested upon suspicion of being
the murderers of the Spencer family, in
Clark County, Mo-, on the night of the I'd.
Lewis was Spencer's brother-in-law.
The Poor-house at Simcoe, Ont,
was burned on the night of the 4th, and II
of the inmates persisted in the flames. Four
others were badly burned.
On the Sit ult. Indians made raid on
Muerto Springs, Texas, killed a stage driver,
named Henry Dill, and run off II head of
mules.
Hannah Dunn, aged 8, was fatally
burned at Anderson, Ind, on the night of
the Sd, while kindling a fire with coal oil. She
died the next morning.
A desperate named Bill Sampson,
alias "Wild Bill the Second" shot and kill
ed an inoffensive young man named Enos
Mosley, in herder's camp near Dodge City,
Kansas, on the night Of the LIST. The muir
der was apparently without the slightest
provocation, and the murderer Immediately
mounted a horse and fled. He was pursued
by party of men and Overtaken on the fol-
lowing day, and after making a desperate
fight, in which he received three wounds, he
surrendered in dying condition. His only
explanation of the murder was that he had
skilled the wrong man."
According to the statement of the in
surance adjusters, the total amount to be
paid by insurance companies on account of
the st. John fire is So, 10000. OF this En-
glish companies will pay "a 500 600, Canadi-
an 81 400 900, and American $445,0O0.
Bertha Wallin, aged ID, of Milford,
Wis, is another victim to the kerosene kim
ding mania.
The village of Garnsee, near Marien-
werder, Prussia, has been destroyed by fire
and 500 persons rendered homeless. The
town of Sundsvall, Sweden, has also been
almost totally burned.
The celebration of O'Connell's birth
day i'm Belfast was the occasion Of great dis
turbances, a number of houses being wreck
ed and several persons wounded.
A shooting affair took place at Hope
well, Greenup County, KY, on the 9Th, the
participants being David Floyd and his two
sons and Lick Floyd, an old man aged so,
on the one side, and Joseph A. Martin and
his two sons on the other. David Floyd was
shot through the bowels and Lick Floyd
shot in the forehead. The Floyd boys were
both shot, it is thought, fatally. The affair
originated in a dispute between the parties
in June last.
The main building of the Wesleyan
Female College, at Murfreesboro, N. c.,
burned on the 5th. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
A wing of the new Deaf and Dumb
Institution, near Council Bluffs, Iowa, was
blown down on the morning of the 9th dur
ing severe storm. Loss, $4,000.
John Butler, miller, was shot and
instantly killed by John Sutterfield, at Max
vile, Washington County, KY, on the 9th,
on account of dispute regarding a sack Of
flour. At Gardeners Store, near Millers-
burg, in the same county and on the same
day, an old feud between neighbors broke
out afresh, resulting in a general shooting
affray, in which one Sheridan was killed and
Gardner wounded. And third affair of
like fatal character, in the same county, was
the shooting of L. S. Brown by a boy named
Smith, who succeeded in Kidding his antag-
onist with five bullets, none of which proved
Immediately fatal, however.
The tobacco factory of John A. Bur-
ton, in Henry County, Tenn, was seized by
revenue officers on the night of the 9th, and
he
they were surrounded by some % armed
men and compelled to abandon the proper
ty and leave instantly.
In the trial of Prof Pike, for the murder
of S. s. Jones, of the ReligiO- Philosophical
journal, at Chicago, in March last, the jury
rendered verdict of acquittal on the
ground Of insanity. The evidence showed
that Pike had formerly been an inmate of
two different asylums for the insane, and he
will be again sent to a similar institution
Lieut.. Bulls crossed the Rio Grande
on the 4th, recaptured five stolen horsesd an
returned to the Texas side. On the 9Th
Major Schofield arrested 45 of Valdez fill
busters at Eagle Pass. Valdez himself was
at Laredo, and a warrant was issued for his
arrest, but he escaped. Escobedo and party
are at Laredo without funds.
The first bale of the new crop of Flor
ida cotton was received at Savannah, Ga, on
the 9Th, and sold at auction for II cents per
pound.
The village of Eaton, Brown County,
Wis, has been destroyed by forest fire and
30 families rendered homeless.
The Protection Life Insurance Com
pany of Chicago has been placed in the
hands OF receiver.
AT San Francisco, on the 9TH, John E.
Daley, stock broker, was shot and instantly |
killed by Leslie C. Hanks, Consul General |
for Guatamala in that city. The shooting
was the result of business difficulty.
The celebration of the Tooth anni-
versary of the Battle of Oriskany, n. Y,
Aug. 6, was attended by 5000 persons.
Elk Gov, Seymour was the principal orator. /