The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-06-24
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


LOUIS SrssLER and Miss Bigford, of
Plattevllle, Wis, were united In marriage,
under most happy auspices, a few days'ago.
Two days afterward the bride arose at an
early hour, seemingly in the best Of spirits,
and deliberately shot herself dead. No
cause is assigned.
JAMES IRWIN, hard character in the
county Jail at Geneva, H., was killed by
Adolph Lawson, Deputy Sheriff, the other
night. Twenty prisoners were riotous
and mutinous. Lawson went among them.
Irwin threw a bucket OF slops in his face,
and advanced threateningly. Lawsou's call
to halt being disregarded, he drew his re-
volver and fred shooting the prisoner
through the nose into the brain, killing him
instantly. The Coroner's jury rendered
verdict of justiiable homicide.
GEO. ARNOLD, principal of the Mitch
ell Spring School, Cherokee Nation, l. T.,
was murdered by Baxter Prather, prom
nent Indian, the other day. Arnold had
chastised Prather's younger brother.
A FIERCE storm at GAINESVILLE, Tenn,
the other morning unroofed several houses
and destroyed trees and fences. William
Bird and Edward Sinclair were killed by
lightning. .. ...
AT Canton, Ohio, on the morning of
the 18th, officers were attracted to the house
of George Mcmillan by pistol reports and
cries OF "Murderv' Mrs. Mcmillan was ly-
ing in bed, with a fatal wound in her tenn
pie, and her husband was losing blood from
a scratch in his breast. George told an un-
satisfactory story, and was taken to Jail.
A PASSENGER tram on the Western
Atlantic Railway dashed into some freight
cars at Kingston, Ga, June II. Andrew
West, engineer, was killed and George Bass,
the fireman, was fatally injured. A number
of persons were badly hurt in the coaches.
Two burglars raided the residence of
Revenue Collector Bicke, at st Paul, Mimi,
June IT, but were bafiied, and escaped to
the woods. Officer Daniel O'Connel fol-
lowed them, and was not again seen alive.
His body was subsequently found with
bulleth hole in the temple. The fatal shot
had been fired at such close range that his
head was powder burnt.
Two hostlers and thirteen horses were
cremated in a stable at Cambridge, Mass,
June II. ..
THREE little sons of Duncan Taylor,
OF Brussels, Ontario, were suffocated on the
18th. The boys were playing about barn,
and got into an oat-bin, the lid Of which
fell and fastened them in.
SIX boys were, drowned near New
Orleans on the 18th. A pleasure boat cap
sized. ....
j. n. BROWN, Justice of the Peace at
Dallas, Greg, took fatal dose of chloro-
form on the 10Th. He had been suffering
from asthma.
HARRY FINLEY, son of ex-Congress-
man Finley, committed suicide at Bucyrus,
Ohio, June IS. He had Just resigned his
position of midshipman on the steamer Ten
nessee, and the cause is supposed to be
something connected with recent exami-
nation. r..... "a.
HENRY HUDDLESToN, negro, was
lynched at Winchester, Tenn, for assaulting
a woman.
JARVIS GAY, an old veterinary sur
geon, of Norwood, Mass, asked G. w. Ed
mund to direct him on his way at early hour
on the 10Th. Edmund mistook him for a
burglar and fatally shot him. .
The schooner Massasoit was sunk by
an iceberg off st. John, Newfoundland TN .
10. Four Of the crew persisted.
FIVE laborers were drowned at Pas
pebiac, Quebec, June 10, boat sinking.
The rising tide at Isle Aux Grues drowned
two children, named Lapointo and Harvey,
covering the islet upon which they were at
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