The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-05-27
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

New York Post office on the 21st.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
GEORGE FARKow, an old resident Of
Peoria, Ill.,, attempted Suicide TIE other
night by means Of strychnine. On his per-
son was found a letter severely deno1neing
the .Overseer OF the Poor for refusing to as
sst himself and wife, aud saying he would
haunt him after death.
r. A SMITH, City Marshal at Mount
Vernon, ILL.,, killed Charles w. Yost, ci-
gar manufacturer, the other day, and
escaped from town on horse.
THE Allan steamer Progress was pro-
visioned at Montreal and sent to the relief
Of the Peruvian, which was disabled in the
Gulf OF st. Lawrence by fee. While the Prog
ress was of Riviere Da Loup, a few days
ago, flames broke out, and so rapid vast their
progress that three of the crew were burned
10 death and the steamer was destroyed.
The loss will exceed 500, 900. 1stR tAtt#'
THREE murderers were executed on
the 10Th: w. w. Rea, at Pulaski, Tenn;
Stephen G. Effler, at Marion, Ca; A. d.
Leighton, colored, in New York City.
AN explosion of sulphur in the Buck
Ridge Colliery, near Sbamokin, Pa, May
20, caused the death Of James Lawrence,
Frank Osman, David Green, and Frederick
Hoffman.
NJ. b. CowDEN, City Surveyor of
Harrisburg, Pa. was accidentally killed at
shooting match the other day.
JOHN MoMENoMoN, a farmer. living
near Muscatine, Iowa, was shot and killed
by his 10 year-old daughter the other day.
The two were quarreing, when the girls
brother, aged 1s, handed her revolver,
with which she shot her father through the
breast. 1t is supposed the children desired
to get possession of their fathers property.
The mother is in the insane asylum.
JACK BRUMMAGE and Charles Axline,
of Roseville, Ohio, quarreled on a Mus
kingum Valley train, May 20. AAslme was
stabbed in the breast, and knocked Brum-
mage off the platform while the train was
in rapid motion, and in falling his head
struck telegraph pole, knocking his brains
out. Brummage died in short time. AK
line was not expected to live.
Mrs. HIRAM WILLIAMS, of Young
Hickory, Ohio, was drowned in Lake Erie,
May 81. She was visiting relatives in Cleve-
land, and her brother in law, named Ernst,
took her out fishing. The skiff capsized, and
Ernst was found clinging to the keel!
PRICE, the Englishman who was
serving life sentence for the murder OF a
fellow countryman named Neaves, died in
the Canon City (Colo.) Penitentary the 9TH
er night. He committed suicide by starving
himself to death. He had not partaken Of
solid food for three weeks. He drank
water, but resisted all attempts to force him
to eat. He claimed to be an English noble
man. Price was an expert knife-thrower,
and had killed five men in this manner.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, May 81, Alfred
Robinson, aged "a, shot his wife, aged 80,
from whom he had been separated since last
September. The wound may prove fatal.
Jealousy was the cause.
HARRIET w. DARE, a teacher at the
Ohio Institute for Deaf and Dumb, fell dead
the other evening while gathering flowers
near Shadevile. Apoplexy was the sup
posed cause.
A LARGE crowd gathered at Schuetz-
en- Park, Davenport, Iowa, on the 21st, to
witness the children's annual shooting con-
tests. Just after the eleventh shot had been
fired the target wiper, VIM. Kuehl, arose
from his pit and dropped forward as il life
less. He had been hit in the forehead, and
physicians pronounced the wound mortal.
VIM. WHITE, feeble Irishman, with
out home or friends, threw himself in front
of train at Indianapolis on the 21st. The
engine knocked him aside, breaking his left
leg and arm, and inficting internal injuries
from which he died in a few hours. He
had recently been discharged from the In
sane Asylum.