The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-11-03

On the 25th the saw-mill of Bliss
burned at East Saginaw, Mich. Loss, $50, 900.
On the morning of the 25th Captain
VIM. Cribbins, of the Erie pa Life-Sav-
ing Station, aged forty, was drowned in
the bay. He was one of the oldest men
in the service and leaves a large family.
OK the morning of the Goth two en-
gines and twelve cars were wrecked at the
Fremont (O.) depot of the Wheeling & Lake
Erie Road.
On the night of the Goth young
woman named Jennie Metzger was as
saulted at indianapolis by an unknown man
and woman and dangerously cut.
OK the Goth Dr. A. j. Leitch, of Min
eral Bridge, o., dropped lighted newspa-
per into gas well fifty feet deep and was
fatally injured by the explosion which fol-
lowed.
On the morning of the 26th freight
train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington &
Baltimore Railroad collided with con-
struction train at West Philadelphia. Both
trains were badly wrecked.
On the 26th Nicholas Halen attempted
to couple lumber cars at Tinkey River Sta
ton, Ia, when timbers projecting from the
cars caught his head between their ends,
crushing it like an egg-shell.
On the 9th at Talmadge, Ohio, Sam
uel Bull committed suicide by jumping into
a white hot furnace.
A MICHIGAN Central and Panhandle
train collided at the Joliet crossing on the
18th. Three lives were lost.
A CONFESSION has been made by the
man Sanley and his wife arrested at Wa.
dena, Mimi, for the murder of Steinback,
in Todd County. The woman assisted with
a pitchfork in committing the murder.
A FEW nights ago very cool robber
took apouch containing over $1,000 from the
Express messenger at Atlantic, la. The
robbery occurred on the depot platform.
BURGLARS robbed jewelry store of
$4,000 worth Of goods at Spring field, Mass,
on the morning of the 2Sth.
A SCHOOLGIRL named Mabel Stone,
shot herself dead, at West Newton, Mass,
on the 2sth while temporarily deranged.
On the 9th the body of a murdered
man was found ny the roadside near Cam
bridge City, Ind. The head was literally
beaten to pieces.
ON the morning of the 2Sth James
Courtney and Joseph McStein, of Danbury,
Conn, were suffocated in a New York
lodging-house.
On the 28th five men were killed by
the explosion of a dynamite magazine near
Brooks tunnel, Pa, on the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad.
BY an explosion of fire-damp on the
Goth in a mine near Pittston, Pa, in which
| thirty men were at work, many were in
jured, some fatally.
Two letter carriers, Charles Gehring
and John Isaacs, were arrested in Balti-
more, Md, on the Doth for robbing the
| mails.
On the night of the 28th freight
train of the Memphis & Charleston Rail.
road was ditched near Grissom Station,
Tenn. The entire train went down an en-
| bankment.
On the 29th report was received at
Salt Lake City, Utah, that six men who
tried to jump claim in the Cour de Lion
District were killed by the owners, who
were in possession.
On the goth William McClemingham,
/, Agent of the Northern Pacific Express
Company at Dawson, Dakota, was arrested
charged with the embezzlement of S., 900.
A LITTLE boy eight years of age
named Theodore Mansell, tried to assist in
blocking the wheels of heavy wagon go
ing up hill in Dubuque, Ia, on the Goth
when the wagon slipped back, crushing
him to death.