The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-07-01
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
MINNIE CHIoUEN, II years of age,
was murdered by her jealous lover, James
Triton, while walking with a young man
named Henry James, near Dover, N. j.,
the other night. Triton fred two shots at
his rival, but the youth took to his heels
and escaped. The girls body was found
in the canal, where it is supposed to have
been thrown by the murderer.
FOUR colored criminals were hanged
in Kingstree, 8. c., June 23-Anderson
Singleton and Lucinda Tisdale, for murder,
and Boston Singtary aud Abram Anderson,
for arson. The woman was the bravest of
the lot. The drop was five feet. All four
dangled In the air together. George n.
Woods was publicly executed at Durango,
Colo, on the same day, for the murder of
M. g. Buchanan.
GEORGE Blown, City Marshal of
Caldwell, Kans, was assassinatsd by
cowboys, June %. The men mounted
their horses and escaped, but were hotly
pursued.
ORIN HELBRUCK was killed and Louis
Thomas seriously injured by falling from
trapezs At Cazenovia, N. Y, the other day.
MASTER RBIMAN, of Racine, Wis,
died on the 22d from leckjaw caused by the
bursting Of toy pistol.
WILSON GLOVER and two children
were killed by lightning near Charleston, S.
c., on the nd. The Confederate menu
ment at Columbia was badly shattered dur
ing the storm, ,,..,
A LITTLE daughter of Mrs. Goings,
eolored, was burned to death Ia Cincin-
maid tenement, June %. 3. q Z
A MAN supposed to be Frank stratton,
Of North Lebanon, Ohio, was arrested near
Dorkes, Ind, the other day, for stealing q
buggy and harness from Jessie Nixon.
While being taken to Muncls, securely
bound, the thief threw himself from an ex-
press train and was killed. He was abo ut
26 years old. medium height, slender build,
and had dark hair. '.|
A BOILER at the St. Catherine gold
mine, near Charlotte, N. c., exploded on
the oath, fatally injuring three men.
AUGUSTUS ROSENBERG and w. S.
Carpenter were drowned while bathing at
Big Rapids, Mich, the other evening.
"a <AeNhioOht lNoosy CuuC zt, IldT-
rison and W. Wilson, negroes, had dis
pute about some money matters and
adjourned to a basement to fight 1t out.
While Harrison was laying down his coat,
Wilson picked up chair and broke his an
tagonist's neck.
THERE was disaster on the Manitoba
Railway, near Atwatsr, Mimi, June Gath.
gravel train went down an embankment
ard into eight feet Of water. Eleven men
were killed and number injured.
JACK SHELDON, Thomas Beeson, and
VIM. Beavers, in Jail at Neosho, Mo-, threw
some lime in Jailer Nutt's face, June "a,
knocked down the guard, and made a dash
for freedom. Nuts son shot Beesen down
about 200 yards from the Jail. A hundred
citizens started after the others, and Beav-
ers was recaptured mile from Jail. Shell
don took refuge in the woods, where he was
surrounded and shot down. Itf fT p
A COACH in which number of Young
people from San Francisco, CAL, who were
camping out in the vicinity, were taking
ride, went over the bank OF the turnpike
near FELTON,, June %, killing Misses Iva
Crowdery, Eva Massey, Celia Scott and
Master George Scott, aud seriously injuring
Masters Burr, Burling and William
Mockles.
THOMAS j. FOSTER, representing Fort
Wayne in the Indiana Senate, and publisher
Of the Journal, killed himself with q re-
volver the other day.
II. SMITH, saloon-keeper at Chico,
CAL, killed his wife, June %, and was taken
ma Of 10.
order to disappoint large party of lynchers
who were trying to get at him.
A BUGGY race near st. Joseph, Mo-,
on the 18th, ended In a collision, Mr.. Fl. 4.
Below was fatally injured, aRdi his wife and
a lady friend were badly hurt. sSn
DISGUISED assassins fatally shot
Thomas Magoghe, constabulary pehsioner,
while sitting in the lodge OF wealthy farm
er at Kilkellar. Ireland, June %.
A FEUD existed at Cimarron, Kans.,
between j. A.. shumate. merchant, and
j. w. Dixon, hotel Keeper, the former de-
claring that he would kill his enemy. The
other morning the merchant went to Dix
on's bar, and after a few words, was hit five
times with revolver bullets, dying in the
street.
JASON RICHARDSON, a, rich and re-
speoted farmer near Leavenwerth, Kans. =,
kissed his wife good by, a few days ago, say
Ing that she would probably not see him
again. He drove to the city. mailed her a
draft for a large sum OF money, and mystsr-
iously disappeared. His body was subss-
qusntly found near the water works. He
had taken poison. ....
MIS- SIMULTANEOUS.