The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-08-12
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FOUR circus elephants escaped from
their keepers in Troy, N. Y, Aug. 3.
Patrick Ryan and wife were Knocked down,
the former receiving fatal injuries. Several
other persons were hurt. One Of the ami
mails charged bloom Of red-hot iron in a
rolling mill.
THE engine and mail car of Union
Pacific train went through burned bridge
spanning Granite Creek, between Glen
Elder and Cawker City, Kans., Aug. 8.
Britton Craft, engineer, and G. MCGEE, fire.
man, were fatally injured and died soon af-
ter. Mahaffy, express messenger, and
Wentworth and Chamberlain, mail agents,
were hurt, but not dangerously. The pas
senger coaches remained on the track.
There Is curve and cut near the bridge,
and the engineer could not see the fire in
time to stop the train.
w. H. YEATS was hanged at Chat
ham, Va, Aug. 4, for the murder of p. e.
Anderson. Two negroes mounted the scat
fold in Florida on the same day-Merriclt
Jackson, at Fernandina, and Harrison Car
ter, at Jacksonville. 7
AT Indianapolis, the other evening,
two colored boys, Charles BLY, and James
Jones, engaged in friendly spairng match.
Bly, was struck in the stomach and expired
before medical aid could be secured.
THERE was fight between rustlers
and citizens in Phoenix, CAL, the other day.
Three cowboys were captured, one killed
and one badly wounded. As the prisoners
were being taken an attempt was made TO
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removed them to the jail.
"A WILD coal train collided with cars
standing on the track near Oil City, Pa,
Aug. 4. Six miners were killed and num-
Der seriously injured.
MRS. FORD, Martin johnson, VIM.
Bosrum, and John Fehrerman were drowned
| in, South Park Lake, Chicago, Aug. 4. A
pleasure boat upset.
Mrs. SUSIE RODGERS, of Kansas City,
Mo-, took a fatal dose of poison, Aug. 3.
IT is said that Frank L. Gould, the
youngman who died of starvation at Port
land, Me-, few days ago, went without
food himself in order that his mother. three
brothers, and sister might live He could
not get enough for ALL. Of,
JOHN SHEA, a laborer living in Ham
let, R. L., attempted to butcher his wife
with pocket knife the other day, but was
felled by blow with bed -slat in the hands
OF his twelve1year old son.. Mrsa Shea was
cut in four places, once near the the heart,
but she may recover. ,sy.-l ~.
JOHN MILLER and John Holmquist
were burned to death In flour mill near
North Branch, Mimi, Aug. @.
A BOY named Huber and colored
girl named Rodgers were killed by lightning
at Kickapoo, Kans., the other day.
WV. PARKE, q laborer, was grossly
insulted by four bad characters as he was
entering bis dwelling, in Chicago, on the
9Th. They ordered him to bring down his
daughters, and tried to force their way in,
but Mr.. Parke happened to have pistol In
the house and Frank Thornton got fatal
bullet in his forehead. ,ll
GEORGE WILSON fatally stabbed Johu
Sheavy, fellow convict in the Penitentiary
at Waupun, Wis. Aug. 6. George had
stolen something and John informed tie
officers,
Miss JULIA LEVI, of Philadelphia, was
thrown from carriage and fatally injured
near Davenport, Iowa, on the 9th.
TEN firemen were injured by falling
walls in Pittsburgh, Pa, the other morn
ing. John Green,, Charles Little, Robert
Kilhon and Philip Mcguire may not sur
vive. C,---re.... .....s 7..-,.. .-....
FIVE persons were Frustrated by light
ming near Worcester, VT, on the 9th. Mer-
ton Young, aged IA, died. Charles Young
was seriously injured.
AT a camp-meeting of colored people
near Eastman, Ga, the other day, a deputy
marshal shot fleeing prisoner named Jake
Tarropy, killing him. This Infatuated the
mob, who ran the deputy in house, where
an innocent white man named James Har.
ward was shot and beaten horribly, resulting
in his death. The negroes mIstook him fol
the deputy.