The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-12-10
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


A TRAGIC love affair has occurred at
New Orleans. Henry MEME, stalwart
young blacksmith, was engaged to Margaret
Massey, an unusually pretty blonde Of 49,
The girls mother had higher ambition for
her daughter and forbade her lover the
house. The two thercupon determined to
end their existence. They met, according
to previous engagement, to carry out their
tragic resolve. After hurried embrace
and few passionate words Of love, the
young man drew revolver, placed its muz-
zle against the left side Of the young girls
neck and fired. Supporting her in his arms,
he placed the pistol to his own head beneath
the left ear and sent a ball through the base
of his skull. The wretched lovers then fell
to the pavement in each others arms. In
the pocket OF the man was found letter,
signed by both the lovers, detailing their
desperate resolution, and bewailing the
wretchedness which drove them to their
fate. The wounds did not prove immediate
ly fatal but it was not thought that either
could survive.
LOUIS BURKE and John Booker, ne
groes, were in Jail at Oxford, N. c., charged
with robbing and numbering Charles Lynch,
jeweler. The other night an armed body
of fifty or sixty men visited the Jail and
| forced the jaier to deliver up the murder
ers. They made a full confession of the
crime, after which they were carried to the
outskirts Of the village and hanged to q
tree.
A SAN ANTONIO (Tex.) dispatch of
the LIST says: Sheriff j. +. Martin and Louis
Henry, returning from serving citations,
were waylnid and foully murdered six miles
! below Rio Grande City to-day. The Sheriff
was collecting taxes, and was robbed of all
he had. Citizens have appealed to the Gov
ernor by wire for State troops to come to
their rescue, as four similar murders have
occurred recently. The murders are attrib-
uted to MeXicans.
AT Big Spring, Montgomery County,
Va, John w. Burnett shot four times his
father-in-law, Fred. NJ. Northcross, caus-
ing instant death. Norlhcross was unarmed
and begged Burnett not to shoot. There
was bad feeling between the two, growing
out of family difficulties, but the murder
seems to have been without immediate prov
ocation and wholly unjustifable.
MINNEAPOLIs has again suffered a
serious loss to her milling interests, four of
her large Touring establishments being en-
tirely destroyed by fire on the morning of
the 4th. These were the Excelsior Mill,
owned by d. Morrison and operated by
Charles A. Pillsbury 81 Co., capacity 700
barrels per day; the Pillsbury b Mill, owned
and operated by the same firm, capacity 10,-
600 barrels; the Minneapolis Mill, owned and
operated by Croker, Fisk & Co., capacity
450 barrels; the Empire Mill owned by d.
l.. Watson, of Massachusetts, and operated
by Chas. A. Pillsbury e. Co., capacity go
barrels. A cotton mill, owned by d. NJ.
Morrison and operated by Henry Honkompt,
was also destroyed. The aggregate loss is
not far from S4l5,0OO, with insurance OF
about 215,0O0. The fire originated in the
Pnsbury b Mill, but in what manner is
not known. While the Minneapolis Mill
was burning a terrific explosion occurred,
throwing down the walls and burying sew
eral men in the ruins, Assistant Engineer
Fredericks, John Tuhey and Daniel Burke
tiremen, and a man named Robinson, were
taken out dead. Several others were badly
injured.