The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-04-11

The entire Democratic city ticket was
elected at Evansville, Ind, by increased
majorities.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FIRE destroyed the Courthouse at Min
neapolis, Mimi, on the I'd.
BY the burning of steamer at the re-
cent Asplnwall conhagration, heavy mails
of the United States were destroyed.
WHILE in the act of robbing a store at
San Vego, on the night of the LIST, gun
was accidentally discharged by one of
twelve Mexican bandits, causing the in
slant death of the robber the ball struck.
Citizens pursued the robbers.
PETER JOSEPH SCHROEDER, the ex-
Aims house attendant at Philadelphia,
Pa, who was arrested on charge of muir
der, growing out of the recent fire at the
Aims house, by which twenty-five lives
we're lost, was discharged by the Court on
the ground that there was not sufficient
evidence to hold him.
On the I'd a stranger giving the name OF
NJ. M. Smith presented a check at a Mad
ison Qowa) bank. Banker Richards sus-
pected forgery and called an officer. The
man escaped and was pursued, shots be-
ing exchanged, killing one of the pur-
suers' horses. The stranger wrote in a
memorandum book that he would die be-
fore being taken, and drawing a revolver
shot himself through the head. Papers
found on the body gave his name as Ar
thur Muller.
THE boiler of David Hulz' saw-mills,
near Scipio, Ind, exploded on the I'd and
killed Anthony Cleaver, engineer, and IA
tally injured David Hulz Morton Hull
and Alfred Hull.
NEAR Alexander, Genessee County, N.
Y, on the I'd, Mrs. d. s. Spring, In fit OF
passion, saturated her bedding with kero-
sene, applied a match, and herself and
two childrea perished in the flames.
JAS. S. WHITE, charged with embezzle-
ment of 5000 in Milwaukee city bonds,
was arrested at Niles, Mich, on the I'd,
while on his way to Canada.
ROBBERS entered farmers house near
| Lancaster, o., the night Of the ID. shot
him dead and secured 5000.
ALVIN ALLEN, Vermonter and fugi-
tive from justice, killed himself in Iowa
| on the Sd, rather than be arrested by Off
GERS in pursuit.
CITIZENS were still in pursuit of Howard
| Cooper, the negro brute who outraged @
young lady near Rockland, Nd, and indi-
cations were that Judge Lynch would have
work to do when he was caught
A TERRIFIC explosion of fre-damp &C.
Cured on the Sd in coal mine neal
Charleroix, Belgium. Eighteen miners
were killed outright and many more
wounded.
On the 9th the paint shops and the spal
shed of the Gosport navy yard, at Nor
folk, Va, were burned with heavy loss.
!. AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th, during
wind-storm, one young lady was killed by
a falling sign and another was seriously
injured. ..f li
| A CONFESSION has been made by DAME
| B. Blatt, who lives in the finest house il
! Youngstown, o., and who is a deacon il
the church, that he is a forger to th'
amount of 5000.
FOUR people were burned to death in q
house near Asheville, Tenn, the night o
the 9th. Foul play is suspected.
DURING the month Of March the losse
by fire were $9,0O0,O OJ in the United State
and Canada.
On the 9Th, at fire in Halifax IN. s.
boarding house, Jas. Fuller was burned t
death. Several fishermen, who were sleep
ing in the upper part of the house, escapes
by jumping from window to the arm @
a telephone pole and then sliding to tn
ground.
FIRE destroyed o. c. Steenaburgh's sas
and door factory at Fond du Lac, Wis
together with large stock Of product, o
the 9th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $12,
900. ........ ......