The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-04-08
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


compete with other districts.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
TRUMAN DUNHAM, President of the
Cleveland Linseed Oil Works, an old and
honored citizen, was caught in machinery,
March 30, and killed. He wss alone in the
basement, where there was large belt
which runs the grinder; in some unknown
way he was caught in the belt, carried into
the machinery and the body shockingly
crushed. Deceased had been trustee OF the
Cleveland water-works many years.
THE following murderers were sus-
pended on the 3lst Doc. Wright, colored,
at Chatham, Va; Al. Weisinger and Bill
Ludlow, at Selma, Ala. At South Pueblo,
Colo, w. T. Phebus and J.. w. McGrew,
eminent horse-thieves, were taken from Jail
and hanged by masked men. The vigilantes
then rode to q ranch ten miles away, cap
tured the Chastine brothers and an accom-
plice named Owsby, and strung them up in
the adjacent timber. 1t is stated that but
one of the gang is left as sample, and
necktie is ready for him.
j. w. SHEEHAN, a young man stop
ping at the Metropolitan Hotel, Kansas
March 30, having taken poison. The fol-
lowing note was found on the table: "My
fathers address is William Sheeban, North
Walpole, N. H." Sheehan had a letter Of
recommendation from the Smith Refrigera-
tor Manufacturing Company, of Michigan
City, Ind, speaking of him as a sober, in
dustrious man. 1t is supposed he took the
dose in fit of dependency, finding himself
out Of work and among strangers.
DURING severe storm near Reading,
Pa, April I'd, a number of persons sought
shelter in a shed behind which large water
tank had been erected. The tank rested on
a heavy stone wall, and was also supported
by Orders of heavy timbers, but the force of
the wind was so great that the girders were
twisted off, and the entire mass fell on the
shed, crushing the people under it, and
completely burying them in the debris.
George Shelthorn, aged As, and his daugh-
ter Rosa, aged 8, were crushed or smothered
to death; Mrs. Shelthorn was terribly man
gled, and will probably die, and Charles
Shelthorn, aged IA, was badly injured. John
Cruise, aged 18, was also killed, his head
being mashed to pulp. George r. Full,
owner of the farm, was severely hurt about
the head and had three ribs broken. Fred
r. NELL and several others escaped with a
few slight injuries. The storm ragged furi-
ously In other sections, barns were blown
down, fences were leveled, and fruit trees
greatly damaged
CORNELIUS j. VANDERBILT, brother
of William II. Vanderbilt, fatally shot him
self at the Glenham Hotel, New York City,
April I'd. From the time Of the shooting
until his death Vanderbilt was unconscious.
Many friends of the dead man and members
of his family were present when he passed
away. The reason for the act given by his
friends is that it was the result OF mental
arrangement brought on by years of suffer-
ing from epileptic fits. No other cause
could be given, as his financial affairs are
said to be in most prosperous condition.
LILLY and Hany, two Indian muir
derers, were recently shot dead at Okmul-
gee, Indian Territory. The spectators were
nearly all Indians, mainly friends of the
prisoners. There was no disturbance,
scarcely a word being spoken from the time
the criminals were led from Jail until the
sharp report Of the rifles announced that
their doom had been sealed and the law
indicated. They were found guilty of the
murder OF an Indian sixty years old, who
had been robbed by Lilly, and who was
prosecuting him for the theft. The MUIR
derers protested to have been converted and
united with the NJ. e. Church. They died
expressing the hope of eternal life.
OFFICER JONES, of Kansas City, Mo-,
was fatally wounded, April 8, while at
tempting to arrest two negroes who had
been charged with theft. The men started
to run away, but one OF them, Dick Har-
rington, was captured. AS the officers were
taking him to the Central Station they were
overpowered by mob, who took the
prisoner and swung him off from the Bluff
street bridge. As he went over he shrieked
that he was innocent. One of the crowd
fred pistol shot, the rope was cut, and he
fell a corpse to the track below. The mob
quickly dispersed and no arrests were made.
The other man was captured in Kansas
City, Kan, and is now in Jail.
MISCELLANEOUS.
BLoDGETT, an ex-keeper in Sing Sing
Prison, N. Y, testified before the legislative
investigating committee, March 30, that he
resigned because he could not stand the
sight of all the brutalities practiced toward
prisoners.
Mr.. JACQUES, an electrician of Bos-
ton, Mass, has so improved the telephone
that the full tones of the voice can be trans