The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-11-04
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CHARLES HEARD, aged 20, attempted
to chastise his sister Laura, near Tazewell,
Ca, Oct. 20, whereupon the girl seized
shotgun and killed him.
HARVEY SMITH, prominent physi-
clan of Manchester, Ohio, who had Just re-
covered from an attack of brain fever, cut
his throat the other morning and dropped
dead.
FREDERICK KLINGBELL, desperate
character, attacked his sleeping wife with
knife, near saltwater, Mimi, the other
night, cutting her horribly. A son who in
terfered was stabbed to the heart and fell
dead. Another son informed the officers of
ihe law, who found the murderer in barn.
A desperate fight ensued, Klingbell resisting
like mailman. The officers shot him
through the body and finally lodged him in
Jail, MORALLY wounded. He Is said to have
killed two men previously, and served a
term In the penitentiary. The wounded
woman is in critical condition.
Mrs. WELSH, mother-in-law of Sed-
den, the prisoner burned to death in Cincin-
natl recently, was probably fatally injured
in quarrel with Mary Stockton, the other
evening, who poured a bucket Of boiling I've
over ueT Hehu anu SnOuluers.
W. L. RANsoME, the young railway
and express agent who managed to get into
Jail at Jefferson City, Mo-, tried to cut his
throat with case-knife the other day. AZ
ter attempting his life. he begged the by
ISLANDERS to shoot him, and with sobs con-
fessed he had been acting badly, and wished
TO die to end his disgrace. While on the way
to Sedalia, for treatment, he slipped out Of
the car at Smithton and placed his neck on
the rail and was killed. ffe
FOUNTAIN TANKERsLY, who poisoned
his wife and two children, in Lancaster,
KY, the other day, surrendered to escape
lynching.
GEORGE WOODRUFF, aged 20, Presi-
dent of the First National Bank of Joliet,
ILL.,, was killed by falling into bin at the
new elevator the other afternoon.
NEAR Geneva, Ca, the other evening,
Captain Samuel Daire, a prominent politi-
clan, fatally stabbed Calvin Calhoun, re-
Gently candidate for the Legislature.
WILLIE CONNOLLY, IA years old, was
whirled to death by machinery In the Nc
Donald pump work at Dubuque, Iowa, the
other day. Nearly every bone was broken.
DENIS BoHLEN and Joseph Holman
were blown TO atoms by boiler explosion
on the tug De Soto at Memphis, Tenn, the
other morning.
THE body of John Ryan, the variety
theater manager missing from Chicago for
some days, was fished up in the lake the
other day.
THOMAS TALBOT, of Cheyenne, w.
t., was fatally shot by his wife the other
morning They were quarreling, and Mrs.
Talbot says she killed him in self-defense.
ALoIs REGER, grocer at Buffalo, N.
Y, his wife, and three children, soon after
eating some potato pancakes the other day,
exhibited all the symptoms of arsenical
poisoning. Mrs. Roger and one son died in
great agony, and the others were in criti-
cal condition. Mrs. Gertrude Miller, q
neighbor, visited the house after the poi.
soning and ate morsel Of the remaining
cake. She also was soon Frustrated, but q
physician got her out Of danger. The sugar.
bowl showed traces of some foreign SUBJ
stance, and its contents were secured fol
analysis. a..
THE tug Wetzel was completely de-
molished by the explosion Of her boiler
while racing. north Of Racine, Wis, Oct.
2s. f. E. Lowell, VIM. Kelly, and Patrick
White were killed.
SHEPARD +. KNAPP, a son of the
millionaire carpet-deaer of New York,went