The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-05-02
A little girl about 10 years Of age was

A little girl about 10 years of age was
drowned at Lansing, Mich, on the 20. Her
shaker blew into the river near the dam,
and she waded in after it, when, the current
being swift, she was carried over the dam.
The proprietor Of a restaurant in Dlairs-
Vile, Ind, we'll to do in the world, aud with
no family troubles, cut his throat few days
ago because new liquor law for the county
in which he lived had been passed BY the
last legislature.
A young man named James 4. Harris,
residing in the town Of Westfeld, Wis,
committed suicide on the 10th by taking
| strycbuine. This was tho fourth time he
had attempted 20 take his LIFE. Three times
he tried laudanun sld failed
4 laborng man in Boston, Mass, by
mistake, drank glass full Of solution Of
J Potash, used IN temperiag steel. Before he
could be made TO Ssomi,, his entire body
turned a bright red color. His life was
finally ssved after enduring terrible agony
for sevsral hours.
The ferry boa, Windsor, belonging to the
/ D S II. II. r. Co. as well as the passenger
and freight depots of that company and Of
! the Michigan Southern r. r. Co. at Detroit
, were all burned OF the night Of the 2sth
Twenty hit lives are helered TO have been
lost. Tae destruction Of property is valued
at $500 coo. -
Two brothers went into drug store at
/ East Sasi0aw, Mich, the other day, and
| bought q quantity of quicksilver and aqua
FORTS, which they put in the same bottle.
One Of them gave it a shake, causing an
explosion, throwing part Of tho contents in
| their faces and eyes, and causing tempo
rary, and perhaps permanent blindness.
An Old man in johnson county, H., was
kilied BY his two children, aged thirteen
and fifteen, who beat him to death with
clubs. after which they secretly buried him.
| The neighbors suspected all was not right,
visited the house and questioned the chill
dren, when they asceria!ned they killed
him because he was old and sick and
great deal Of trouble.
A gentleman named Barnes, living in
Jefferson county, Ind, was to have been
nsrried on last Thursday, to lady named
Jones. On Sunday he called at the house
Of his Intended, and the same day both OF
taem became sick; she died the same night,
and he on Tuesday. The affair is as sad
as singular.
English papers give an account Of the
destruction by Gre, April l, Of the packing
house Of Thomas Sinclair s Sons, at Belfast
the largest in Ireland-by which one,
eighth of the bacon packed in the United
Kingdom was destroyed. Among the items
were $4,000 hams. The total loss is estim-
ated at $4,000.
Gen Burnside met with en- accident q:
The New Haven Railroad depot, in Now
York, few days ago, which, fortunately,
was unattended by very serious results.
He was about getting on a car to start for
home. when q man getting off crowded him
back, and he was caught between the NOV
ing car and an iron post, and rolled along
in very narrow space. He suffers some
from the bruises, but the surgeons decide
that he is not internally injured.
Memphis despatch says that the steamer
John Raymond exploded her boiler and
took fire, when near Island No. 40, at 10
o'clock on the morning Of the Oath. The
first engineer was blown overheard and lost.
Tho second engineer was badly scalded.
Six dremen aud deck hands were more or
less injured. After floating Eve miles down
stream, the fire was cxtinguished, and the
passengers were rescued by the steamer
Tennessee. aad taken to Memphis. The
Raymond was valued at $4,000. The
damage will amount to about $4,000.
The Providence Journal notes it as a eng
ular coincidence that in he recent disaster
IN the Sound. David Crowley, who had
charge Of one Of the Eiectra's bots which
wen. to the succor Of the passengers and
crew Of the i'll fa,ed steamer City or Nor
witch, was one of the four men who suc-
cessfuly struggled for life in that terrible
night when the steamer City Of Lexington
was burnt, near the same place, twenty-six
years ago, while Charles 3. Smith, the chief
engineer Of the Electra, who had charge Of
another boat, which aided in the escape Of
50 many drowning people, was also sur
yivor Of the Lexington disaster.