The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-02
Haps and arishaps.

CHARLES E. Ferguson was buried
alive by the caving in of well which he
was cleaning, at Manton, Mich.
AT Catasauqua, Pa, tight-rope
performer fell from rope distance OF
50feet to the ground and was fatally in
jur ed.
Albert Walker, aged Ii, while play
ing a game of baseball at Cleveland, o.,
stood too close to the batter and received
fatal blow on the temple
AT Maysville, Ky, S-year-old
child fell into the fire and was immediate
" burned to death.-A5-year-old daugh-
ter of j. B. Buckley, living near Bloom
ington, O., was burned to death by her
clothes taking fire from burning log
heap.-Mrs Hinkle was fatally burned
at Botkin, o., while engaged in boiling
varnish.
Killed by lightning: Harry X.
House, at Newburg, O.-JOhn Chattle,
near Newcomerstown, O.-Mrs. Jane
Blue, near Bunker Hill, Ind.-A son of
VIM. Corners, aged 10, near Frances
vile, Ind.-Celinda Croxell, aged 16,
near Drury's Landing, Iowa.-Mrs.
Maggie Mcdonnell, at Evart, Mich. 3.
The Princess Beatrice of the Royal
Family of England, is called the ''baby.' y
She has always been her mothers pet,
and carries about with her a beaming
countenance. She has been well brought
up and will make a good-natured wife
for any poor Teuton who may venture
to ask her hand.
Shooting casualties: James G..
Bard, a young lawyer at Gallatin, Tenn,
accidentally killed himself with a pis-
tol.-At New Orleans, Philip Badger,
aged S,was killed by his brother, aged z,
with a shotgun. They didn't know il
was loaded.-At La Crosse, Wis, Mr..
G. Werner, a tobacconist, accidentally
shot and killed himself while target
shooting with reyolver.-Thomas Du-
val, of Burlington, Iowa, fatally shot
himself while out gunning.-At Daven-
port, Iowa, Johnnie DOugherty shot
himself through the forehead while hunt
ing squirrels with revolver.
-Curiosities of suicide: Sidney An
drews, a well-to-do young farmer living
near Wilmington, o., shot himself
through the heart with a revolver. He
left a written statement, saying that he
committed the deed from no ill-will to-
ward his wife or father, but from causes
known only to mself.-Peyton Chris
man, aged 90, sOn-in-law to old Simon
Kenton, of renOwn in Ohio's early his
tory, committed suicide at his home in
Madison County, o., by taking NOR
phine. Mr. Chrisman was about to lose
his sight, and seemed to think death
preferable to spending the balance of his
natural life in darkness.-Miss Florence
Bowen, aged ~ years, daughter OF
well-to-do farmer living near
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, commit
ted suicide by shooting herself
with shotgun. No reason given
A man aged about 80 leaped from the
new suspension bridge at Niagara into
the river. An envelope in the pocket of
his coatwas addressed to Edward NJ.
Groat, Waterford, Racine County, Wis.
"A well dressed man, about So years
of age, stepped to the bar of the Howard
House, East New York, and called for
a glass of lager. The beer was placed
before him, and, taking a small vial
from his vest pocket, he quickly I'M
corked it and poured its contents into
the beer, swallowing the draught. He
died in Is minutes On the inside of his
high silk hat was written, {" H. Harri-
son"-the only scrap of writing found
on his clothing.