The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-08
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

age Road.
. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE calaboose at Edgerton, Miss, was
partially burned on the night of the 18th,
and a young man named Gunderson, con-
fined therein, was burned to death.
EDDIE LARDoN, who was found dead in
the outskirts of Keoluk, Ia, with bull
let-hole in his neck, proves TO have been
accidentally shot by a companion while
they were engaged in shooting neigh
boris chickens.
On the 31st two ron-roofers fell from the
roof of an elevator at Duluth, Mimi, dis
lance of nearly one hundred feet, and were
mashed ALMOST to a jelly.
On the 31st Ben Heffner, farmer living
near Linn, o., killed his wife and then tried
to kill his son and daughter in-law.
On the 31st while George K. Raposky,
John Mollenwitz and John Unglovitch,
Hungarians, were cutting coal in mine,
near Centralia, Pa, a huge rock fell, kill
| ing them.
DAVID JONES, Sanford Hastings and
| Charles Higgins broke out of the San
| dusky (O.) Jail on the 31st and escaped.
On the 31st George Smith, on trial for
the murder of Henry Struck at Lancaster,
Pa, pleaded guilty to murder in the sec
| ond degree. Winfield Smith, indicted
with his brother George for the same
| crime, was acquitted.
AT Allegheny City, Pa, during politi-
cal quarrel on the LIST, VIM. Case, white,
fatally stabbed Albert Johnston, colored.
| A BALTIMORE g. OHIO passenger train
was badly wrecked near Mansfield, o., on
| IaI l,,t,, 70 a
Der were seriously injured.
On the evening of the 1st, during per-
Torrance In the Star Theater in Glasgow,
Scotland, some one yelled "fre." A panic
ensued, which resulted In the death of six
teen persons; twelve were fatally injured,
and number seriously hurt.
AT Logansport, Ind, on the I'd, George
Hayne, white, killed William Brooks, col
ored.
THE Willow Spring Distillery at Omaha,
Neb., was damaged by fire on the morning
of the 1st to the extent of $4,000. The fire
nearly destroyed the elevator building and
still house, but the fire department sue
ceeded in preventing the destruction of the
extensive establishment.
OK the evening of the 1st, during the
progress of a church fair at Greencastle
Ind, Thos. Richards, a twelve-year ole
boy, was fatally shot. Among other at
fractions of the fair was a shooting gal
lery, and while Flobert gun was being
loaded the weapon was accidentally dis
) charged, the ball striking young Richards
Immediately over the right eye and pene
trating the brain.
MICHAEL CONDOR, an Indianapolis
| Qr "a
shortly after one o'clock the morning o
the I'd by footpad near indianapolis
Ind, and upon refusal to surrender hi
money was shot three times, once in tn
shoulder and twice in the back, one bal
passing clear through his body. His re
covery was pronounced improbable.
AT Kingston, Ont, a premature explo
sion of gunpowder ON the Sd caused tn
death of John McCrimman and seriousl
! injured Alpheus Brown.
AT Manti, Utah, Hans Ottasen, age
about fifty, was found on the morning c
the Sd murdered in his home.
On the evening of the Sd the STEAMSHIP
Ramon de Herrara, of the Havana lint
took fire between decks at her dock in Me-
York, and $4,000 damage was done
vessel and cargo.
THE Knoxville coal mine, near Pitts
burgh, Pa, was burning on the 3D., havin
been fred by incendiaries, and much proI
erty had already been destroyed.
!, On the Sd the towns of Myas and AL
. cante, Spain, were inundated. The fooC
did great damage to property. Sever
: lives We're lost.
On the I'd an entire family, consisting
> David Whitmore, his wife and three chi
dren were killed by a locomotive, whiC
. struck the wagon in which they were rio
u ing to church at Maquoketa, Ia.
j. MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 30th the German corvettes BIZ
Q. marck, Gneisenan, Olga and AriadI
sailed for West Africa. The Bismarck
the flagship of the squadron.
70 A REPRESENTATIVE of the French Go
i eminent has been sent to Corea to wat,
the interests of Frenchmen there, as h
20 German influence predominates in tn
70 country.
y THE discharged book-keeper of the N
tional Bank of America, Chicago, j.
% Bailie, is accused of being $1,000 short in
10 accounts.
=. On the 31st Bill Bass, colored, was hang
=, at Paris, Tex: George Hill, in Cherok