The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-15


Francisco October LIST, on n cod-fshing
cruise, was wrecked Off the Choumagin
Islands, Okhotsk Sea, and all hands lost.
THE wholesale clothing store of Thomas
Dissell & Co., Syracuse, N. Y, was burned
out the evening of the 7th.
WHILE a salute was being fred in the
City Hall Park, New York, on the 7th, a
wad from one of the guns knocked out a
little boys eye.
On the 7th the store of Hart Bros, deal
ers in general merchandise, burned at Re-
public, Mich. Loss, 100000; insurance,
$4,000.
AT Baltimore, Nd, on the 18th, Judge
Phelps, in the Criminal Court, sentenced
Gilbert w. Hazeltine, convicted of man
slaughter in the killing of Mamie Thorpe,
to eight years in the Penitentiary.
On the It'll a boy named Demers, living
on st. Foye Road, Quebec, applied a match
to a canister of powder. An explosion fol-
lowed, wrecking the house and seriously
injuring himself, mother and three sisters.
A TERRIFIC explosion shook Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the night of the 9th. 1t was
caused by the explosion of over two tons of
powder at the Pascoe lime quarry. 1t is
claimed that fuse was laid and fire set to
it. Considerable damage was done in the
vicinity, thousands of tons of rock being
thrown down the hill. Considerable rail-
road track was torn up and a number of
cars destroyed.
OK the It'll two West Shore passenger
trains collided on the Buffalo, New York Sc
Philadelphia Road, on which the West
Shore trains enter Rochester, N. Y. Both
had "
wrecked, and several persons injured.
On the 8th Prof. Jones, of the city
schools, Burlington, Ia, and three young
ladies were drowned in an artificial lake.
| FIRE destroyed nine million feet of lum-
| Der on the Sth in Mark Paine 81 Co.'s lum-
ber-yard, at Northern Pacific junction,
| twenty five miles from Duluth, MINI.
BY colliery explosion at Wasmas, near
Mons, Belgium, ON the 9th, twenty persons
were killed and five others were injured.
AT Tredegar, England, on the 9th, col
liery explosion resulted in the death of fif-
teen persons and forty three horses.
| NEAR Penn Yam, N. Y, on the 9th,
Michael Hughes, aged twenty three, shot
and mortally wounded his father, whom he
waylaid on his way from church. The
murderer escaped.
On the 9th Joseph Evans, convicted at
Salt Lake City, Utah, of polygamy, was
sentenced to three years and six months in
the Penitentiary and to pay a fine of $3.50.
HENRY MOORE, surrendered to the police
at Cleveland, o., on the Sth, saying he had
killed a man in his township, near the
city.
NEAR Audubon, Ia, ON the 9th, Hon
Silas Beason, formerly of Lincoln, ILL.,, met
with an accidental death. His remains
were sent to his old home.
Mrs. w. S. HOWARD, of Mill Creek
Mich, aged fifty, deliberately locked her
self in room, poured kerosene oil ovei
her clothes, set fire to them, and burned
herself fatally. She was mentally de-
ranged.
THE recent lumber fire near Duluth
Mimi, involved loss of over $275,00
WHILE driving to a fire, Fritz Groskoff
foreman Of truck in the Milwaukee Fir
Department, was accidentally killed on tn
10th.
On the morning of the 10th the remain
of an unknown man, believed to be a horse
thief, were found just outside the limits o
Washington, Pa, with bullet holes through
his head.
On the 10th news was received of tn
loss of the brig Julia f. Haskell, Captain
Paine, in a hurricane off Caicos Island
while en- route to Baltimore with a carg
of guano. Six of the crew wore lost