The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-22
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES,


On the 18th Hippolite Gonzales was ar
rested in st. Louis, Mo-, on a charge of as
sault with intent to murder, committed in
Hoboken, N. J.
ON the night of the 10Th policeman Jo-
seph Edgar was fatally shot at Newport,
KY, by burglar who made his escape.
On the 18th Rev. Henry Williamson, an
Episcopal rector of Trenton, N. j., COM
mitted suicide. No cause assigned.
NEAR Toledo, o., the magazine of n giant
powder factory was blown up on the 18th
by an explosion that was terrific, being
felt over q radius of hundred miles. Sew
eral men were injured.
THE residence of Captain John Morrow,
at Mansfield, Pa, was entered by masked
burglars on the night of the 18th, who
bound and gagged the inmates and then
plundered the domicile.
WHILE in New York drinking room on
the night of the 18th, with James Ryan,
an actor, Lille Ellis, of Brooklyn, N. Y, was
shot in the head. Ryan declares the
woman killed herself. The case was under
investigation.
Oh the 14th James Rowe, of Rondout, N.
Y, went home to dinner, and finding the
WIZ UNI
kicked her TO death.
On the 18th Truman B. Handy, we'll
known commission merchant of Cincin-
natl, o., was thrown from buggy and
suffered fracture of the skull.
PETER LEWIS OTTo shot his wife dead
at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 14th.
DoxEY's Opera house at Anderson, Ind,
burned on the night of the 14th.
A LARGE cotton seed oil mill at Monroe.
La, burned on the 18th. Loss, 100000.
On the 14th fifteen persons were killed in
railway collision near the depot in Ha-
nau, Germany.
On the morning of the 18th passenger
train on the Houston & Texas Central
Road was thrown down an embankment
near Hampstead, Tex. Several persons
were killed and number wounded.
On the night of the 18th fire at the Grand
Trunk Railway Depot in Mount Clemens,
Mich, destroyed five cars and property
to local merchants.
On the 14th Mrs. Lily Dunlap, of New
York, was ARRESTED in st. Louis, Mo-,
charged with robbing a man of SIPS at the
Everett House. Her husband was also
taken in, being charged with completely in
the case.
FIRE destroyed the Northern Hospital
| for the Insane near Oshkosh, Wis, on the
10Th.
On the 10th a carriage, in which were
three young ladies, was struck by train
near indianapolis, Ind, and one of the
party was fatally injured, the others seri'
ously.
On the 10th Robert McPhun, alias Brice
was arrested in Louisville, KY, charged
with having forged the name of the Cal
cutta Tea Company to the amount of 3d.
900. Sergeant Webb of the Calcutta (In'
dia) police is awaiting the completion OF
extradition papers, to take him back tC
India.
AN Athens dispatch says party o
Greek brigands, armed with revolvers, re-
Gently attacked and killed two employees o
French mining company carrying 500
to pay miners. Extraordinary steps hav'
been taken by the authorities to capture tn
murderers and robbers.
FIRE destroyed three blocks of bushes
buildings at Millbank, Dakota, on the 18th
FIRE destroyed the Continental Hotel a
Fargo, Dakota, the morning of the 18th
The guests all escaped, but with the loss q
their baggage. Loss, $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
SEVERAL villages in the Province c
Aleppo, Syria have been desolated by re
cent floods. Many persons have bee
drowned, and hundreds of camels and cat
tie have persisted. Some villages were en-
tirely destroyed.