The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-31
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FIRES on the 2lst: Harnisa tobacco fac
tory, Lancaster, Pa. loss, $4,000. Wood
rufus paper mill, Buffalo; loss, $4,000.
Kelly Nail and Iron Company's mill, Iron
ton, o.; loss, $4,000. African M. E.
Church, Moberly, Mo-, damage, $3.50.
In a collision between a nike train and
a freight train on the Panhandle Rail
way, at Wheeling junction, Pa, forty-one
miles from Pittsburgh. on the 2lst, ID. Bar
tholomew, travelling salesman fora Cincin-
natl house, was killed and five employees
of the road injured.
The British ship Syria was wrecked in
the Fiji Islands, and seventy coolis pas
sengers lost.
AN Italian murderer named Sabate AL
exander, committed suicide in Eastoa, Pa,
on the 22d.
On the night of the Dist, John Gilman,
wife and grown daughter were burned to
death at Portsmouth, o.
ON the 22d two men named Thompson
and Cook were fatally injured by rail-
road accident at Harms City, Pa.
DURING thunderstorm at Toledo, o.,
on the 22d Miss lilly Fear was struck by
lightning and instantly killed. Her sister
and two children, who were with her, mar
rowly escaped the same fate.
FIRES on the 22d: Forge department
Kelly Nail and Iron Company, Ironton,
o.. loss, $4,000 Sinks Shoddy Mills,
Philadelphia; loss, $4,000. Ward &
Gaennston's hide and tallow factory, Chi
cage; loss, $4,000. A. o. Salher's nipple
ment store, Cannon Falls, MINI; loss,
S3l 900, George w. Campbell's store and
dwelling, Fayette County, Pa; also the
MO,Mtdineer newspaper office and several
other buildings; loss, $4,000.
JOHN ScHors, Milwaukee travelling
man, was found drowned or murdered in
the river in that city on the 23d.
CHARLES A. HINCKLEE, paying teller of
the West Side Bank, New York, has abb
seconded, defaulter to the amount of 1885,
Co.,
On the 23d Charles Moore, trainrdis-
patcher; John Ford, baggageman, and
Thomas McEwan, brakeman, were
drowned by the upsetting of a row-boat,
near Port Huron, Mich.
FIRE partially destroyed the Toronto
(Ont.) Mail office on tte 24ch.
In the Atlantic Oil Works, Philadelphia,
Pa, on the 24yh fire did $500, 900 damage.
OK the oath lightning struck the petro-
leum tank at the Excelsior Works, Cleve-
land, o., doing 900 damage.
THE French brig Senorine, which went
ashore off Grand Banks, N. F., on the 23i,
is total loss with sixty five of her passen-
gers and crew.
BY railroad collision at Savannah, N.
Y, on the 18th, four men were killed and
five injured.
A FARMER named George Anderson, was
beaten to death by his wife at Bowling
Green, Ohio, ON the 25th. The woman was
insane.
On the 25th the Northwestern Storage
warehouse at Chicago, owned by Hiram
Siblay & Co., burned. Loss about $780,
900.
On the morning of the 25th Mrs. Augusta
Edmund, wife of Alexander Edmund, q
railroad engineer living in st. Louis, No.,
cut the threats of three of her children,
and attempted suicide by the same method.
Two of the children. are dead; the third
may recover. The woman will probably
die. She was insane.
WHILE attempting to enter the premises
of James b. Neal, a New York florist, on
the night Of the 24th, a burglar was shot
dead in the commission of the crime.
On the 9th Benjamin Johnson, jointly
indicted with Allen Ingalls, for the murder
Of the Taylor family at Avondale, o., was
found guilty of murder in the first degree.
FIRE destroyed the Mayall Rubber Fac.
tory at Reading, Mass, ON the Goth; loss,
100000.
AT Belle Plains, Ia, on the Goth, Samuel
Dunlap shot his wife and cut his own
throat.