The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-01
cRInrEs AND CAsuALTIEs.

Washington, and was passenger on Full
toms first steamboat.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the night Of the 22l the Southern
Barbed.Wire Compsny's buildings in st.
Louis, No., wssS damaged by fire to the
extent Of about $50,OOO. The insurance
amounted to So),75o.
SOME scoundrels are said to be poisoning
cows by wholesale at Hamilton, Canada,
by feeding them turnips impregnated with
strychnine.
DISPATCH from Mattawa, Ontario, do
tails toe poisoning of thirteen perscns'in
that village from eating oysters which had
bscome tainted. They were attacked with
violent spasms and vomiting, and at one
time 1t was thought that several OF the
victims could not recover. Simil ar cases
of poisoning were reported near Kingston
q few days since.
On the night of the 23d, I. A. Cnapman's
mammoth dry.goods house at Milwaukee,
Wis, burned. Loss, 1000, insurance,
$40, 900. Stark Bros, who occupied por.
ton of the building, lose 500, 900 on stock;
| fully insured. Four hundred persons were
employed in the building.
TIE Pittsburgh (Pa.) Penitentiary
was considerably damaged by fire on the
oath.
OK the 9th VIM. Hall, OF Delphos, Kan,
was shot and instantly killed by his son,
Lincoln n, aged eighteen years. Cause,
family quarrel
OK the Gath Mrs. Aanie Logan, of Phila-
delphia, Pa, killed her three-year-old boy
and then herself Poverty and desertion
| h., I,a,. h,,s ha a xuara ha careaa
| On the night of the 23d the steamboat
Henry Frank, bound from New Orleans to
Memphis, burned to the waters edge near
Davis crevasse. The boat and cargo were
a total loss. No lives lost.
NIHILIsTs recently attacked a mail train
near Kharkoff, Russia, for the purpose of
securing $4,000 which it was carrying.
| The engineer put on extra steam and pull ed
his treasure safely to its destination. The
Nihilists escaped.
FIRE destroyed the shops of the Mil
waukee & Northern Railway at Green
Bay, Wis, the night of the Odd. Loss,
$25,000; insured.
ON the 26th Griffin Halstead, father of
| Murat Halstead of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial- Gazette, fell from bridge and broke
his neck.
THE Sheriff of Nance County, Neb., left
Omaha on the Goth for Mississippi with
requisition papers for man believed to
be George Furnival, who is charged with
the murder of the Percival family and
two others.
On the 18th Miss Amelia Burguer, a
teacher of Columbus, o., was killed by be.
ing thrown from buggy.
JAMES HARPER from Nebraska, shot
himself dead on the streets at st. Jos
eph, No., on the 25th. No cause assigned.
On the 25th a gas explosion completely
wrecked-the residences of j. r. Hutchins
Montreal, Can, and seriously injured
most of the inmates.
On the 18th, during a Democratic parade
at Rondout, N. Y, two cannons exploded
while the salute was being fired. Five mer
were seriously injured.
The city of Loogootee, Ind, was visited
by $4,000 connagration on the 9th.
WHILE ON voyage from Ibraila to Rot
terdam, the ship Little Beck was wrecke,
recently, and fourteen persons wer,
drowned.
THE stables attached to Samuel j. Til
denis residence at Greystone, N. Y, wer
burned on the night of the 9th. Hi
Wclo NdNcu. flO,OSUs
A PACKAGE consigned to Pittsburgh
Pa, by bank at New Lisbon, O., is re
ported to have been stolen last week from
the express car. The amount missing i
$500 No clew.
On the 276h Lottie Francis, thirteen
, year-old girl, tried to commit suicide b,
cutting her throat at Jamaica, Lon
Island, on account of a family scandal
OK the 9th a negro woman in Pitts
burgh, Pa, killed colored man becaus
she loved him, she declared, so much sh
| could not bear to have him go back to hi
, wife. She kissed him in his dying me
+ ments.
On the 27th George McVeety, aged fifty
' of Jersey City, N. j., was arrested o
r the charge of throwing oil over his wifi
S setting it on fire and burning her {
4 death.