The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-09-13
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

four districts.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THERE was burned on the steamer Meri-
do, at Havana, a valuable collection OF
Mexican rarities, geological and botanical,
destined for the New Orleans Exposition.
General Diaz, head of the Mexican Com
mission, is much affected by the loss, and
says it can't be replaced in ten years.
On the 9th a coal mine caved in at Port
Burnley, Pa, rendering the property use
less for many months TO come and en-
failing a loss of fully $l,0)O,OoO. Five
hundred persons are thrown out OF en-
ployment
IT was reported on the 9Th that the emf
grant ship Lastingham, from London Tor
Wellington, New Zealand, was wrecked in
Cooks Strait, and all on board except
fourteen OF the crew drowned.
BY premature blast of dynamite on the
Pennsylvania Railway, near the Union
Depot at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th, one
man was killed and Superintendent Pit
CAIRNS private car was wrecked.
On the evening Of the 4th, during po'
litical discussion at Dawson, Pa, W. D.
Mullen became so enraged at his friend,
Samuel Short, that he plunged knife into
bis side, INJECTING fatal wound.
Two hicks in knife blade led TO the
Identification of Howard Sullivan, negro,
as the murderer of Miss Ella Watson near
Salem, N. J.
ON the night of the 4th John Graham,
aged twenty eight, locked upat Avondale,
o.. for stealing, hung himself with strip
torn from blanket.
The fall of the grand stand at the g. A.
r. reunion at Fremont, Neb., resulted in
the injuring of sixty-four persons, sew
eral of whom it is thought will die. The
cause is said to be the insecure bracing of
| the stand.
FIRE destroyed Mckee Brothers cream
| cry at Vincennes, Ind, on the 18th.
| AT Cleveland, o., on the It'll, Jonas Hun
kens had his throat cut in bar-room
| brawl and died in few minutes.
In New York on the 7th there were 1853
| deaths. The intense heat is said to have
| caused most of them.
NEAR Wheeling, w. Va, on the 7th,
James Nelson shot and killed Peter Seip.
! They were out hunting and Nelson mistook
| Seip's head for squirrel.
| In Brussels on the 7th clerical parade
was made the occasion for a riot, in which
many people were injured, three being
| killed. The police were powerless to pro-
tect the paraders.
| ON the night of the 7th an extensive con-
| fiagration in Cleveland, o., destroyed an
immense amount of property in that por'
ton of the city known as "the flats" The
buried district includes lumber yards and
manufacturing establishments of many
kinds. At midnight the fire was still burn
ing and it was impossible to estimate the
loss.
On the Sth Dr.. Geo. F. Lswelling, OF
Scottsburg, Ind, fell from a ferry boat
and was drowned.
On the 9Th union stove molders at Gin
cinnati severely beat two non.union men
who went out after beer. Several of the
strikers were arrested.
SUNDAY nights destructive conaagra
ton at Cleveland, o., occasioned losses
exceeding million dollars. The fire was
not under control until late on tae morn.
ing OF the Sch.
New BRUNSWICK, N. j., was in the wild
est state of excitement on the Sth over TIL
failure of the First National Bank, caused
by Cashier HIPS rascality. Runyon, tn
President, followed HIPS example and
committed suicide. A depositor who hat
. lost all he had cut his throat. Farmer
were in town demanding their money; es
tates are wrecked and the city is mixed u
with the affair and will probably be bank
rupted. Directors are sick aud worried
and altogether it is one of the worst fail
ures ina ginable.
On the 8ih Oliver Bateman confessed t
the outraging and numbering of the tw
Mclaughlin girls at Flagg Springs, Nc
He was alone in the commission OF tn
, deed.