The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-16

lost and many persons injured. The Pacific
Express train, composed of seven sleepers,
four day-coaehes and mail and baggage-cars,
left Detroit 40minutes late, and was running
at high rate of speed, when it came into
collision with a switch-engine standing on
the main track. The tender of the express
locomotive was telescoped into the baggage
car about half its length, and this forced its
way into the mail-car. Tho first passenger
coach was thrown off from the track
and escaped with comparatively slight
injuries; the second and third
coaches were smashed to atoms;
the fourth coach was not badly damaged, and
the sleeping coaches remained intact. The
occupants Of the forward car were mostly
emigrants and second-class passengers, a
large number of them being French Cana
dian wood-cutters, en- route for the pineries.
Both locomotives were demolished. The
engineer and fireman Of the passenger train
were both instantly killed; these of the
switch-engine escaped by jumping just in
time to clear themselves. The responsibility
for the accident seems to rest between the
Yardmaster and the engineer of the switch
engine. The number of passengers killed
was from Is to 20; the wounded numbered
about as many more.
General Grant left San Francisco for Ore
gon on the 9th.
A project is on foot for the extension Of the
st. Louis and San Francisco Railroad from
Vinita, its present western terminus, to some
point in New Mexico, say distance of 600
miles, where it will connect with the Cali
fornia Southern, now extending its line east
ward in that direction.
Judge Henry Hayden of the Wood County
(Wisconsin) Court, politician well known
throughout the State, candidate for Attor-
ney-General on the Greenback ticket two
years ago, was shot and killed at Centralia,
Wis, recently, by w. II. Cochran, Cashier
of the First National Bank. The affair
grew out of an alleged intimacy on the
part Of Hayden with COchran's wife,
the scandal being one of long standing.
Cochran had separated from his wife some
time ago, although no divorce had been OBJ
tanned. The weapon used was shotgun,
loaded with five buckshot, the entire charge
penetrating the right side of the victim, kill
ing him instantly. No words passed between
them, so it is supposed the killing was pre-
meditated.
Another life-tragedy was enacted at Gin
cinnati on the 18th, in which a woman was
again the leading actor. Mr.. S. NJ. Hickey,
agent for Mary Anderson, the actress,
was shot through the head at the
Burnet House by his discarded
mistress, a young woman named Florence
Mcdonald, who then put the weapon to her
own head and blew her brains out, dying in
ten minutes. Hickey's wound was
thought likely to prove fatal. Miss
Mcdonald was a native of Syracuse, y. Y.
Her parents are respectable people and she
was educated and accomplished. Her liaisOn
with Hickey began about a year ago
He says that she was a rather fast
young woman when he met
her and that he never had any idea of mar
rying her. She, however, it seems, was
jealous of his reported attentions to other
ladies, and insisted that he should make heI
| his wife, and to attain this object
she had followed him about the country
! like Nemesis. Before shooting him she
| exclaimed: "He has scorned me; he mus
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