The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-06-03
GRIMES AND CAsUALTIEs.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
PARTICULARS have just been received
of tragedy near Benefits Mill, Dallas
County, Mo. 1t seems that an ill-feeling
existed for some time between George and
William Matthews and some Of their neigh
bors. The other afternoon disturbance
occurred between George Matthews and
James Ford, after which the brothers, in
company with Marion Wilson and Homer
Sharp, were fired upon by persons In am
bush. The Matthews boys were killed in
stantly, William receiving two buckshot in
the breast, and George eighteen just above
the point of the right shoulder blade in the
back. Wilson and Sharp were both wound
ed, the former very seriously. The mules
that the four were riding were also shot.
DURING fire in Philadelphia, May
20, an explosion of coal-oi shattered the
building and injured some thirty persons.
Daniel Shrink, Howard Shuster, Pat Tiegel,
John McNeal, Joseph EnglehRrt, Peter
Rice, John Nicely, Henry Kane and Henry
Fellows were seriously burned, some of
whom can not survive. ....,I
G. l.. Comfy, the well-known basso,
and Herman Rictzel, pianist of the Clara
Louise Kellogg concert company, were
drowned in Lake Spofford, Chesterfield, N.
III. =, on the 26th, while fishing.
A TRIPLE shooting ARRAY occurred in
Denver, Colo, on the 9th, in which Phil
Hubbard, jockey, WAS mortally wounded;
John Denny, a telegraph repairer, was shot
in the leg, and Mackey, a well-known horse
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was done by G. II. Wood, a real estate
agent. Mackey and the jockey were coming
along Sixteenth street and brushed against
Wood. The latter showed them into the
street. The jockey knocked Wood down
and commenced beating him furiously, when
Mackey pulled him off. Wood then drew
self-cocking revolver and commenced shoot
ing at the jockey, who ran into the crowd.
The Jockey fell, badly wounded in the back
and hip. The first shot struck Denny.
EIGHT prisoners, including two muir
derers and one highway robber, effected
their escape from the Jail at Tuscaloosa,
Ala, on the 9th, by cutting the hinges off
the cell door and running over the taller.
AT Springfield, Ohio, May 20, man
named Kitzmiller, becoming enraged at his
daughter for keeping company with man
Of whom he disapproved, drew a revolver
and shot her dead. He narrowly escaped
lynching at the hands Of his neighbors before
he was taken to Jail.
WILLIS EDWARDS, notorious des-
perado, was killed in the Jail at Monroe
rt-house, n. c., the other day, in an
ARRAY with the Sheriff and his posse. Ed
four men who attempted to subdue him.
FRANK MILLER, while robbing the
residence OF II. p. Moore at Erie, Pa, the
other night, was nearly beheaded with a
scythe.
F. H. SToNER and Arthur J. Cole, of
Chicago, were drowned, May 81, by the cap
sizing of boat.
ALT. BURNETT committed suicide at
Topeka, Kans., on the 2Sth, by shooting
himself in the temple. He had been re-
leased from the County Jail the day before,
having served out a sentence of thirty days
for selling liquor without license.
! A NUMBER of Dunkards assembled in
Eapho Township, Lancaster County, Pa, a
few days ago, for the purpose Of raising the
framework OF meeting house. The lower
story and about one-half of the second story
had already been successfully put together,
and between forty and fifty persons were
standing on some ioists on the second story
on the unfinished part OF the building, plac-
ing the rafters in position. There was q
span of forty or fifty feet, and over this had
been stretched some grders, upon which
these persons were standing. They worked
without accident until between and Il
O'Clock in the morning, when, with a loud
crash, the timbers broke and fell, carrying
their living freight with them. The weight
Of the falling mass caused other parts Of the
building to topple over and fall on the strug.
Cling human beings below, six OF whom
were fatally injured and forty-two more o.
less seriously hurt.