The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-22
Hans and Mishaps,

Miss Wall, music teacher of Fond
du Lac, Wis, was thrown from a bug
gy and fatally injured.
Lizzie Coley, aged Z, of Portland,
Me-, was fatally poisoned by sucking a
painted slate-pencil.
"A 3-year-old daughter of Jack
Johnson, near Nashville, Ind, was
burned to death by her clothes taking
fire.
The first skating casualty of the
season is reported from Manistre, Mich,
where two boys broke through the ice
and both were drowned.
Thomas Daily, aged So, jumped
from a fourth-story window in Man
chester, n. H., and was killed. He was
suffering from delirium tremens.
"A little daughter of James Arnold,
who lives near East Saginaw, Mich,
was fatally burned by her clothing tax
ing fire while standing by the stove.
Deacon William B. Spoener, of
Bristol, X. L., died through mistake of
a druggist, who put up the wrong medi-
cine. Isaac H.Wadleigh, of East Green
witch, Mass, died from similar cause.
James Crow died at Louisville from
the effects of scalding by hot lard, an
entire thankful having suddenly poured
itself upon him while at work in pork
house.
Jacob Smith, of Dayton, o., was
going up the stairs to bed, carryinga lit
tie child in his arms. His wife, ahead
of him, heard an exclamation, and he
slipped and fell backwards, striking the
back of his head against the door-sill at
the foot of the stairs with such force that
his neck was disloeated.
An infant child of Mrs. George Da-
Wis, who lives near Chillicothe, o., was
left alone by its mother in a chair neal
the stove, while she went to neighbours
During her absence the babes clothes
caught fire, probably from a spark, and
when the mother returned she found the
house on fire and the child burned near
" to a crisp. The fire was eXtinguish
ed by the neighbors The mothers ag
ony was so great that she went into con
vuisions and her life was almost despair
ed of.
Suicidal: Perkins Hatfield, {
wealthy farmer of Maquoketa, Iowa
hanged himself. Cause not stated
Homer j. Ball, of Council Bluffs, Iowa
shot himself on account of losses by
grain speculations. Muer, ageC
%, of Columbus, Ind, shot himself OF
account of family troubles. -Michae
Lands, an old resident of KosciuskC
County, Ind, hanged himself withOu
any known cause.-A 16-year-old boy
named Warne shot himself in Ulster
County, n. Y.-Andrew Cyrus ThOmp
son, of Providence, K. L., milkman il
good circumstances, killed himsel
through fear of coming to poverty
Charles Z. Witt, respected citizen o.
Hudson, Mass, first hung himself will
q clothes-line, from an apple-tree. The
rope breaking, however, he plunged
into the Assabet River, near by, drown
inc himself His wife had recently be
come insane.
Shotgun record: At Dresden, o..
Marshal Bogart, II years old, was shot
in the abdomen by the accidental dis
charge of a gun in the hands of his
brother.-Near Washington Court
house, O., George Knice, aged 10, was
instantly killed by the discharge of hi;
own gun while crawling through fence
Near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, George
Grigg, who had been hunting, was found
dead in the woods with load of shor
from his own gun in his neck.-Guy
Richards was killed by the accidental
discharge of his gun while hunting neal
Charlotte, Mich.-Johnny Malone, aged
IS, while hunting in Hatchie Bottom
Tenn, was killed by the
accidental discharge of his gun
The elder of two sons of Timothy Stowe
of Newry, Me-, while cunning, fired al
a partridge and shot his 13-year-old
brother through the heart.-George E
Smith, of South Norwalk, CT slipped
and fell while duck-shooting and one
barrel of his gun was discharged into
his leg and the other into his bowels
killing him.-Christian Adder, of Shell
burne Falls, Mass, aged Is, while cut
hunting, shot himself while trying tC
fix the lock of his gun, the muzzle being
pointed toward him.-Benjamin Niles,
a West Springfield, Mass, farmer, was
killed by the accidental discharge of his
own gun, while driving on load OF
hay.