The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-07-05
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the Vir-
ginia Midland Railroad at the James River
bridge at Lynchburg on the Goth. Two
sleepers were thrown into the water, and
the passengers miraculously escaped Sc
rious injuries.
On the 2S5h 81 Niclerson and Ed. Owens
stole horses near Helena, NJ. T. Cowboys
volunteered to pursue them. Nickerson
was shot dead and Owens was wounded
and then hanged.
ON the 2Sth a mob attacked the Protest
ant mission at Celacca on the Mexican
Central Railroad. A minister and others
being fred on, returned the fire, killing one
and wounding several of the mob.
! AT an election riot at Madeira on the
30th seven persons were killed.
AT Youngstown, o., three children of
Mrs. Patrick Murphy were burned to death
on the Both.
AT Helena, Montana, Mrs. G. Kemp
tried to kill herself on the 30vh, and her
daughter, who attempted to take away the
pistol, was instantly killed by the dis
charge.
! A DESPERATE character named Lucian
Evans, shot and killed Town Marshal
Vanter, of Turner's Station, KY, on the
Both, and then defed arresG with assist
ance of eight men of his kind.
| On the Both, fire at Mantanzas, Cuba, de-
stroyed three warehouses and 100 hogs.
heads of sugar. Loss, $3.50, 900.
ON the Both Orangemen and Nationalists
had conflict at Warren Point, in County
a.. 80 Il
most stabbed to death.
SEVERAL ESQ counterfeit Bank of Eng
land notes were passed on a Toronto
| (Ont.) exchange broker on the % h.
On the 30th the Theater Royal, Edin-
burg, burned. The fire began at noon in
the property-room under the gallery. The
interior was soon a mass of flames. The
| roof fell in forty-6ve minutes after. The
theater was wholly destroyed within an
hour. Several adjacent buildings were
| burned.
SOME miscreants threw train from the
track near West Rutland, VT, on the 3Oth.
| The engine and several cars were badly
damaged, and the engineer and fireman
were seriously injured.
On the Both James Ostermeyer and
Henry Hofer pleaded guilty to charge of
counterfeiting at Dayton, o. Both are
jewellers, and have been carrying on the
business for six years, making dangerous
counterfeits of halves and quarters.
On the night of the Both a construction
train went through a bridge on the Coun-
Gil Bluffs & Kansas City Railway, falling
thirty feet to the river below. Several
men were reported killed and injured, but
particulars were lacking.
On the 30th the body of a man supposed
to be newspaper reporter from Pitts
burgh, Pa, was found on the shore of Lake
Erie, twelve miles from Toledo, o. The
clothing bore the initials "W. NJ"
On the Goth ult., while out riding, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Murphy, of Huntsville, o.,
were thrown from their buggy by reason
of their horse becoming unmanageable.
Mrs. Murphy was instantly killed and Mr..
Murphy was fatally injured.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Dundee (Scotland) jute spinners
have reduced wages five per cent. d
NOTICE has been given the Post-office
Department at Washington by the Italian
Government that in view of Asiatic chol-
era in France all mails to Italy must be
sent in tarred sacks, as they have to pass
through England and France.
THE report that he indorses Ferry's in
depreciation of the clause in the Anglo
French agreement relating to the evacua-
ton Of Egypt is denied by Gladstone.
THE crop reports from Iowa indicate a
bountiful yield.
In the towns of Western Russia there is
panic among the Jews, owing to contin-
ued prosecutions.
On the 30th Mrs. Eliza Blakney obtained
Judgment f'c 5000 against Cincinnati
saloon-keeper who sold liquor to her dissi.
pated husband.
THE cattle men who have ranches in the
Cherokee Nation are exercised because the
Sheriff is confiscating wire fences and re-
moving them. All inclosed tracts of more
than fifty acres are being SO served.
TEN THOUSAND miners are on q strike al
Staffordshire, England, against a reduc
tion Of wages.
ON the Both the British House of Com
mons defeated the bill to censure the Gov.
ernment's Egyptian policy.
For the month of June the decrease OF
the public debt was about $9,00o,0O0 Re
duction for the fiscal year ending the 30th
about SOL ,0O0, 900, as compared with $751;,
S23,253 for the previous year.
THE pugilist, "Bill" of England, who
came over to knock out Sullivan, tried
his muscle on Geo. Rookie, who fought the
Englishuan all over the stage.