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

Col. +. w. FILES, q well-known citi-
zen Of Ashley County, Ark, was recently
shot and killed in cold blood by James Ste
phens, aneighbor, for the alleged offeuse OF
killing some hogs belonging to the latter.
Stephens admitted the murder. He is in
Jail.
A NEGRO named Gabriel White was
hanged at Waltersboro, S. c., on the Goth,
for the murder of Frederick Bellinger, an-
other negro, in 1879.
AT Gore, o., an unknown man
opened the door Of the residence Of Mary
Terrell, widow, and sent bullet through
her brain. Two of her daughters were in
the room when she was killed. but failed to
recognize the assassin. Morgan Richards,
a farm hand employed upon a neighboring
farm, has been arrested charged with the
murder. No motive for the crime has been
developed,
WILLIAM II. ERB, the St. Louis wife
murderer, was hanged on the Both.
JOEL JOHNSTON, a well-known citizen
Of Baldwin County, Ala, was shot from be-
bind tree by negro as he was returning
home recently. Though mOrtally wounded,
Johnston managed to crawl to his house and
told his brother OF the assault. The brother
started out, and in an encounter with the
murderer both were fatally shot.
PAUL PRINGLE and Edward Butler,
both coored, were hanged at Mansfield, La,
n the 30th. The crime OF which they were
convicted was robbery and attempted MUIR
der, their victim. being also co!nred man.
He is not yet dead, but his physicians say he
can not live
A LARGE frame clearinghouse near
Richburg, Alegany County, N. Y, owned
and occupied by Carrot Abers,wa destroyed
by fire on the morning of the 1st and Mr..
Abers's three children, aged from ten to
thirteen, persisted in the flames. Mrs.
Abers was sick with fever at the time, and
her husband, who was watching by her bed
side, had fallen asleep. He was awakened
just in time TO seize his wife in his arms and
carry her out OF the burning building. He
then endeavored to return for his children,
but the flames barred his ingress.
Hon. THOMPSON MCKINNEY, late
Chief Clerk of the Choctaw Council, was
killed by Reuben Lucas, between whom an
old feud existed. 1t is said Thompson was
literally stoned to death.
II. I. ADAMS, proprietor of the South
ern Hotel at Selma, Ala, interfered to stop
a quarrel between Babe Burns aud George
X. Kelpp, and was shot in the cheek by a
bullet from Burns pistol, intended for
Keipp. Adams then drew revolver and
shot Burns three times, killing him on the
spot.
JOHN Ii. RUSSELL, the murderer of
John T. Smarr at Kansas City, died in jail
on the morning OF the LIST from the effects of
morphia, presumably taken with suicidal
intent. 1t is not known how he procured
the poison, but it is supposed through the
connivance Of outside parties.
THREE lives we're lost and some sixty
persons injured at Shanesville, Tuscarawas
County, o., on the last day of the year.
knights Of Pythias were holding fair and
festival, the floor gave way and red hot
stove and oil in the lamps came together.
Many of the wounded can not recover.
EMMETT CLOUD, a negro, was lynched
in Southampton County, Va, for having
murdered John Murrell and Thomas Clio
yer, clerks in Princes store. The double
crime was committed for the purpose of
robbery, the store being subsequently set on
| fire.
GEORGE S. REED, a young business
man of San Francisco, in tit of insanity
shot his mother-in law, Mrs.. Smith, his
little daughter, and himself, all fatally.
Grief at the death of his wife, augmented
by overwork, was the cause of his morbid
! condition.
THREE prisoners attacked their keep
ers at Graham, Texas, and were killed by
citizens. One Deputy Sheriff lost his life
and another was MORALLY wounded.
ANOTHER explosion, caused by the
careless handling Of dynamite, occurred on
the Pennsylvania Railroad extension, near
Beaver Falls, Pa, on the 31st. MILFORD
| Cunningham was fatally injured, John
Burns seriously, and others slightly.
A PASSENGER train crashed through
a viaduct at Kennebec, Me. Two persons
were instantly killed and several fatally in =
! iured.