The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-02-18

SoteIdo, who accompanied his brother, have
made conflicting statements. In an inter-
view at the police station the latter said:
my brother handed Barton statement
which he wished to have published in the
Republican. Barton became very much ex-
cited and put his hand in his pocket, drew a
revolver and began shooting. Barton then
came toward me,pistol in hand. When saw
him pull out his revolver drew mine. Bar
ton and 1 then cinched and in the scufle
his pistol went off and believe he shot
himself. We then wrestled out OF the room
toward the stairway and both fell down
stairs, Barton on top OF me. Then we sep
arated, and when we reached the pavement
number Of employees came down and
struck me several times and handed me to
the police. My brother had nothing to do
with the shooting. Barton shot himself
first and then pointed his pistol at me.
then pulled my revolver in self-defense and
fired one shot" The Coroner's Jury brought
in a verdict that A. NJ. Soteldo came to his
death from a wound inflicted by pistol in
the hands Of his brother, A. G. Soteldo.
GEORGE ROBINSON and Mary Bag
gan, of Chicago, were engaged to be mar
ried. On the 10th, Robinson called upon
his sweetheart and sent bullet into her
head. He then placed the revolver behind
his left ear and fired again, expiring imme
diately. The girl only lived few minutes.
Mary had refused TO 90 out with Robinson
the night previous.
THREE murderers were executed on
the 1Oth-Quirino Gaitan, Mexican, at
Brownsville, Texas; Jesse Barber, colored,
at Winnsboro, S. c.; Henry H. Hall, Pres
colt, Arizona. Charley Hing, Chinaman,
was hanged at Winnemucca, Humboldt
County, New, on the 9th, for the murder Of
ALI Lick, one of his countrymen.
HAVING failed to execute some trans
portation contracts with the Government,
James Callaghan, prominent citizen Of
San Antonio, Texas, shot himself dead the
other day.
WILLIAM LEDERE, of Syracuse, N.
Y, loved Nellie TAFT so passionatey that he
forced entrance to. her residence the other
day with the avowed purpose of killing her.
The proprietress OF the house tried to pre-
vent this, and he shot both. He then went
home and killed himself by emptying his
revolver into his head. Jealousy.
LAKE RANSOM, an employee of the
D. NJ. Osborne Reaper Company for eight
cen years and manager Of the Chicago office
for the last nine years, was found dead in
the suburb of Hinsdale, Feb. 18th, half
way between his house and the depot. Near
him was a revolver with two chambers emp
ty, and there was pistol shot in the back of
the head from which the brains oozed.
There were evidences of struggle, but no
traces Of the murderer. The clothes and
wallet had been rihed of their contents. He
leaves family in moderate circumstances.
PARIS advices say the Marquis de Jo-
cas-, a large shareholder in the Union GEN
erale, has committed suicide. He had in
vested 100000 francs in shares of the Union
Generate. 1t was he who introduced Amer
lean vines in the south of France.
JOHN HUDSON, of Piqua, o., attempt
ed to leap from train before it stopped, at
Urbana, on the 10Th, and fell between two
trucks. He was crushed to death instantly.
THREE outlaws in New Mexico have
for some time been robbing and woundng
travellers at a point 1856 miles west of AL
buqurque, known as Crane's. A deputy
sheriff led party Of citizens to the cabin of
the robbers few days ago, and bloody en-
counter followed. The villains were shot
dead, but one of the attacking party was
killed and two others so seriously wounded
that they were sent to Fort Wingate by
special train for surgical treatment.
ALBERT WEILE, an architect, once a
wealthy citizen of Cleveland, o., recently
imprisoned as vagrant at Kansas City, Mo-,
hanged himself in his cell.
FIVE trackmen were killed in tun-
mel on the Potomac Railroad, near the Union
depot in Baltimore, Feb. 10, by locomo-
tive on the Western Maryland Railroad. The
men were named David Grier, Timothy
Kennedy, Edward Birmingham, James IT.
win and Patrick McGoff. They stepped
from one track to get out of the way of
passing train and walked directly in front of
a locomotive on the opposite track.
NEWPORT, Washington County, Ohio,
has been startled by cold-blooded murder.
Elmer Hartman, twenty years Of age, be-
came enraged at his uncle, John Hartman,
nearly eighty years old, and picking up a
club began most brutal assault on him.
The old man, being totally blind and help
less, could not escape his nephew, who dealt
his victim blow after blow with the heavy
weapon, and left him for dead after cutting
horrible gashes in his face and crushing his
skull. The young murderer fled, and it was
thought he would be lynched should he be
found.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TWO young men recently entered the
works OF the Chicago Car-wheel Company
and asked some information from NValtar