The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-07
Hans and AIishaps.

AT Jackson, Mich, Mrs. Mary Ann
Barrie and her two childrenwere suffo-
Gated by coal gas.
j. F. Hall, of Lake City, Mimi,
was buried alive by the caving in of a
well he was curbing.
"A little son of Charles Gift, of Mum
Gle, Ind, was choked to death by but
ton which lodged in his throat.
"A 7-year-old girl named May Jones
was burned to death near New Albany,
Ind, from her clothes taking fire.
"A young child of Lott Mott, of Tiff
fin, O., was choked to death by swal-
lowing grain of corn, which lodged
in the bronchial tube.
Otis Daniels, an old citizen of Ken
ton, o., was choked to death while eat
ing supper, by piece of meat sticking
in his throat.
"A 3-year-old son of John Klein, of
Burlington, Iowa, fell into a tub of boil
ing water which had been prepared for
scrubbing, and was literally scalded to
death.
Julia Coleman, widow, 30
years of age, residing at Lawrence,
Mass, attempted to extinguish a kero-
sene lamp from her bed, when it ex-
ploded, burning her fatally.
VIM. Hester, 80 years old, a boat
builder, of Reading, Pa, was feeding a
circular saw at his mill, when a piece
of wood flew from his hand, striking
him in the abdomen and instantly killing
him.
Two boys, each about 10 years OF
age, the sons of widows named Gold
borough and Hicks, started out hunting
near Covington, Ind. Hicks stumbled
and fell, discharging his gun, which
took effect in GoldbOrough's side, in
flicting a fatal wound.
Some recent suicides: Joseph Wat
kins, a well known farmer who lived
near Franklin, o., drank himself to a
state of desperation and then hanged
himself to cherry tree in his yard
jeremiah Mackey, of Huron, o., COM
mitted suicide by taking laudanum.
Mackey was a strong Spiritualist, and
said before taking the beverage that his
spirits condemned him to death, and
told him to kill himself on a certain day.
Some time ago Della Wright, beauti-
full girl of 16, living at Tecumseh,
Mich, returned from an evening
literary social with a young gen
tleman friend, chatted, played the
piano, and sang for short time, in the
parlor of her home, then went to an
other apartment, deliberately swallowed
quantity of strychnine, and in twenty
minutes was corpse. A few days age
her brother, Willard Wright, who has
been travelling for a Jackson firm, went
to the old home, and, lying upon q
lounge, put q bullet through his head
with a revolver.-Mary Gabel, aged %,
who had been blind for II years, hanged
herself near Evansville, Ind.-M. p.
HARRISON, of Bloomington, Ind, Depu-
uty County Auditor, cut his throat in a
vacant room of the Courthouse, with a
razor. He was strict member
of the United Presbyterian Church,
leading member of the
Young Mems Christian Association,
and a Jealous temperance worker. He
is thought to have been partially insane.
"A young lady named Callett, of Wash
ington County, Ky, shot herself on ac-
count of her parents having ordered her
to break off her engagement with a
young man.-Jos. Newman, a mer-
chant of Hearne, Texas, arrived at
Little Rock the other day and commit
ted suicide the same night by taking
strychnine. No apparent reason was
assigned for the act.