The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-08-01

An accident occurred at st. Louis o
Thursday which has exploded theory that
has been held immu,able for many years.
During the heavy thunder storm in that city,
on the day named, Angela Arata, while ly-
ing on feather bed entirely insulated from
any other material substance, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed.
A Ruby City Qdaho) letter says that
much excitement was created there by in
telligenoe that Capt Jennings and party,
fifty miles distant, were surrounded by In.
dams. Two hundred volunteers went to
their rescue, but on their arrival, the In
dams had disappeared. The besieged party
fought two days without food. They killed
forty Indians and lost but one man.
Major Ross, just appointed U. 8. Senator
from Kansas, in place of the late J. II.
Lane, went to that State during the bloody
scenes Of 1856, and has resided there ever
since, being engaged in the publication of
papers at Topeka and Lawrence. He has
taken an active part in the history Of Kan
sas, and served with distinction through the
war Of the rebellion.
A Leavenworth, Kan, dispatch says the
Indians have been committing depredations
on the Smoky Hill route. Three men were
murdered eighty miles west Of Junction City,
Kansas. The Governor is taking active
measures for the defence Of the Kansas
frontier. Great excitement exists among
the border settlers. The time set for the
Indian attack was when the corn is ripe.
The terrible rain storm Of the 22d and
23d in Eastern Iowa and Western Wisconsin
swept away fourteen bridges on the Nc
Oregon Western railway, between McGregor
and Postville A culvert was washed away
| on the Milwaukee and Prairie du Chen
road, two miles west Of Wauzeca, in the
night "A freight train came up early next
morning, and the engine was precipitated
into the culvert, endwise.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette, the 23d, says that
during the thunder storm Of Sunday which,
prevailed at Brodhead, nine horses, which
were on an open prairie together, were
killed, and were found lying in heap after
the storm was over The theory is that the
animals being frightened by the glare Of
the lightning and the revcrbcrations Of
thunder, huddled together, and one shaft Of
lightning killed them all.
DR.. Lehman Of Mount Vernon, ILL.,, man
Of standing and wealth, committed suicide
on the 25lh, by taking strychnine. His
practice had fallen off Of late, and he had
become possessed with the idea that he
should come to want and took this way to
relieve himself Of anticipated misery.
About the same time, John Hubbard, living
about ten miles south Of Pekin, Ill, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself through
the head. lie had been living in q state of
of disagreement with his wife for som etime.
The East.
Seventeen thousand five hundred emi-
grants arrived at New York, between July
LIST, and 22d.
Eleven hundred and two burial permits
were issued in New York city during the
week ending at noon on the 2lst.
The anti rent war, near Albany, N. Y. is
virtually at an end. can quiet at the front +"
has been the report for the past three days.
The cholera is again increasing in New
York with the return of warm weather.
Sixteen new cases were reported on the
25th, of which several have been fatal.
The mercury on the 18th, indicated l02 !
degrees, being the highest temperature
known to have been observed in New Haven
since 1888, q period Of eighty eight years.
There were seven hundred and sixteen
deaths in Philadelphia last week-somet hing
unprecented for that city. OF these eight
were caused by cholera and forty-four by
sunstroke.
1t has been enormously stated that the
recent convention Of the underwriters a.
New York had advanced the rate Of insur.
ance ten per cent. No action whatever was
taken by the convention on that subject
: Another explosion occurred in the OF! re.
gion at Cherry Run Tuesday morning last
which resulted in the killing of one mar
and the destruction Of twenty five wells,
five thousand barrels Of oil, and other valu.
able property.
The wigwam for the accommodation of tn
Union National Convention at Philadelphia
is already in process of construction or
Broad and Wallace streets. 1t is to be a
monster in size, covering the whole block
and having three main entrances.
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