The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-06-20
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

HAGGERTY, the man who fooled the po-
lice to give Odlum chance to make his
fatal leap from the Brooklyn Bridge, was
sentencel ON the 18th to eight months in
the Penitentiary. He was allowed to APP
peal and released on bail.
THE greater portion of the town OF
Groduo, Russia, including the government
offices and numerous churches, has been
destroyed by fire. The loss amounts to
several million ru bles.
BRITISH residents of Cashmere report
that earthquake shocks continue OF great
severity. The towns of Baramulla and
Sopur have been utterly ruined and 4OO
persons killed. There has also been great
loss of life in adjacent villages. Many
cattle and sheep have been killed. ~,
FIVE men were killed in the construction
train wreck on the Cincinnati Southern
Railway on the 18th. rr
A RECENT shock Of an earthquake COM
pletely swallowed up the town Of Sikuch,
Eastern Caucasus.
FIRE in theIbuilding in London on the
18th, used by the International Inventions
Exhibition, did great damage to the In
dian museum and several departments.
CAPTAIN LAwToN's supply camp at
Cloverdale ranch, A. T., was surprised by
Indians and five men killed.
THREE children of Henry A. Altmeyer,
at Larentum, Pa, were terribly burned
on the 18th; caused by lamp explosion.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina
has affirmed the death sentences against
Thomas Gee, Thomas Mcneil and Joseph
Howard, all colored, for murder. They
will be executed at Fayetteville, June
25th.
A CYCLONE passed over Council Bluffs,
Ia, the evening of the 18th, doing con-
siderable damage. The fourth and fifth
stories of the State Deaf and Dumb Asy-
lum were blown off. Damage, $4,000.
No lives lost.
DURING an alteration on the 18th be-
tween Henry Neirte and Peter Guidinger,
farmers residing about twelve miles north
of Milwaukee, Wis, the former was shot
aud killed by Guidinger, who delivered
himself up to the au tn critics soon after
A HEAVY wind storm at Omaha, Neb.,
on the night of the 18th demolished q
four story brick building belonging to
G. A. Lindquest & Co., which was being
erected at the corner of Jones and Tenth
streets. The building was almost COM
pleted. In falling the walls crushed in
the adjacent dwelling, fatally injurlng
one man.
On the 18th Ed. Hall, a famous counter
feiter and forger, was arrested in New
York.
FREDERICK GRoTEGUrH confesses to kill
| ing his wife. He is in jail at Vincennes
Ind.
On the 18th high winds destroyed much
property in Iowa. In Pulaski County
three people were killed.
HARVEY THRAsHER, who is wanted IL
Indiana for murder and embezzlement
was captured in Arkansas on the 18th.
On the 14th, in a railroad collision a
Jacksonville, Ind, Thomas Eads, fire
man, was fatally hurt.
MORE lood-letting is reported from Ire
land. A farmer has been killed and
farm laborer shot
OK the 14th George Cuff killed Richard
Duffy at candy party at Scranton, Pa
The quarrel began in JOKE.
On the 14th woman of Temperance
vile, near Pittsburgh. Pa, jumped int
the river with her child in her arms. Bot
were drowned.
On the 14th three garroters assaulted
wealthy citizen of New Orleans. Officer
gave chase and killed Joseph Martin,
noted criminal, after desperate fight
JOHN H. MILEY, prominent lumbe
dealer of Indianapolis, Ind, was struc
by train on the 10Th and killed.
JOHN COOPER pleaded guilty to embe2
Element at Philadelphia on the 18th, an
was sentenced to five years. Imprisonment
HARRY L. MCGLARY committed suicid
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th.
ANOTHER bank defalcation is reporte
from Vienna A trusted clerk got ava
with $4,000.
THE British bark Western Belle frol
Sydney, N. S. W., for Wilmington, Cal
: has been aband oned in a sinking cond
ton. The Captain and crew were take
to London.
SOME laborers, while excavating at r.
mira, N. Y, on the 10Th, unearthed II
: remains of man, evidently an India
chief of General Sullivan's time. Sewers
pipes and other Indian relics were ali
found.
THE Vice. Consul at Copenhagen has il
formed the State Department that he ht
just received from Greenland locke
mail pouch and several loose letters +,
the Greedy relief expedition. He will TO
ward them to Washington.
kuSCELLANEOUS.
THE seventeen-year locusts have al
peared in Indiana and Michigan.
In Southwest Virginia people are suffe
3 ing great distress for want of food.
1 FORGED Spanish bonds are said to be
circulation in Europe and the Unite
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