The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-04-25

ing the bread and butter, asked for it to
eat. Her aunt gave her some, and soon
she went into spasms and was dead in
about half an hour.
jeff Harvey, son of Mr.. I. G. Har-
vey, living near Water Valley, in Hiek-
man County, KY, went into the barn
with his half-brother, Willie, to kin
some rats. They had run several rats
between two sills in the house and had
their pOcket-knives killing them. In
the excitement Willie slipped, and in
falling threw up his hand in which he
held his knife and stabbed Harvey it the
left breast, inflicting a wound from
which he died in about 10 minutes.
Shooting casualties: Frank Max
well of Steubenville, Ohio, went out
duck-shooting, and while dragging his
gun carelessly out of the boat, both bar
rels were discharged, the contents pass
ing through his body, causing instant
death.-Thomas George, aged 80, of
Frazersburg, o., went hunting and the
next day his lifeless body was discover
ed in the woods near his home with a
| bullet hole in his head and his empty
gun lying near him.-Upton Longshore,
aged u, whose parents live near Larue,
/ o., was playing with u loaded gun in
company with little girl. The latter
pointed the gun at the boy and pulled the
trigger, the charge passing through his
/ cheek.-At Airline Junction, near TOle-
do, o., Paul Rudolph, aged s, shot and in
stantly killed his playmate, Otto Benning,
aged Is, with pistol. There are CON
| flicting reports as to whether the shoot
| ing was intentional or accidental.-At
/ MOoresville, Ind, a child of Geo. STEMS,
| about 9 months old, was accidentally
shot through the head by its sister, s
/ years old, while playing with a loaded
pistol which her father had carelessly
left lying on the table.-At Plymouth,
Ind, Edward Schaffer was instantly
killed by the discharge of his gun while
hunting Frank NJ. Beatty, of Fort
Peck, a scout, was accidentally shot
through the heart by James Leeds. Both
| are well-known frontiersmen.
Some recent suicides: Mollie
Carnes, an orphan girl of McConnells-
vile, o., was betrayed and deserted by
her lover and killed herself with strych-
nine.-John Hassler, aged 60, a well
known resident of Summit County, o.,
hanged himself on account of financial
embarrassments.- II. Dana, a
young physician, committed suicide at
Marion, o., by taking four grains of
morphine. He was disappointed in
love.-Augustus Aull, travelling sales
man, Frank Straub, q shOemak-
er, and Horatio Burgoyne, aged
/ 80, are among recent suicides
i'll Cincinnati-J. NJ Brown, aged %,
a drummer for an Eastern boot and
shoe house, got on a spree in Chicago
and wound up by taking a dose of chic
raj from which he died in a short time.
A young man named Flick fell in love
with the daughter of his employer, "a farm
er near Appleton, Wis, and because
the girls parents objected to her re-
ceiving his addresses, he killed himself.
Henry GrOemer, who resided near
Parker City, Pa, went to the
woods, and stripping the bark
off sappling which hung over a
ravine, twisted it into a rope without
detaching it from the tree, tied the end
about his neck, and mounting pile of
logs jumped into the gulch. He was
killed.. Merrill, son of Gylles Mer-
rill, of Haverhill, Mass, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
heart. The cause was unrequited love.
Geo. 2. Anime, employed as a section
boss on one of the western divisions OF
the Kansas Pacific Road, committed sui
eide by blowing his brains out with a
carbine. He shut himself up in a sec
ton house and pulled the trigger with
his toes. He is thought to have been in
sane from recent sickness.