The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-03

gentlemen. How il caught is Of course q
my stery, but it was probably from spark.
The fire was extinguished as soon as it reach.
cd the waterfall.
About 8 o'clock on Saturday evening last
the wife Of Thomas Mullany, coal miner
living in the town of liemlock, Pennsylvania
undertook to pour carbon oil from a vesse
containing about quart, into a lighted
coal lamp when both vessels exploded, set.
ting fire to the woman's clothing, as well as
other clothing lying near her which she haG
been ironing Mrs. Nj. in her fright rar
into another room where her husband anG
four children were asleep in bed. Mr.. NJ
awakened by her screams. sprang from hi.
bed opened the door and induced heft tx
leave the house enveoped in flame of fir.
which those who witnessed it declare as
cended to the height of fifteen feet. Tn,
woman ran screaming and plunged into 4
pool of water and thus succeeded in extin.
gushing the fire from the remnants of gar.
ments attached to her person. In the mean.
time, Mr.. NJ, by superhuman efforts, sue.
ceeded in quelling the flames in the house
and saving his .our children from q horrible
death. The unfortunate woman fingered
until six o'clock on Monday, when death re.
ieyed her Of her sufterings.
A Mr.. Morrison, and his wife, Of Madison
county, H., were drowned on the 22d
while attempting. with team, to cross the
river at st. Louis on the ice. W
A young man named Hershman, clerk IL
a railroad office in Pittsburgh, charged a
well-known citizen with taking his pocket.
book. The charge not being sustained. he
was committed in default of bail for perjury.
While there he took poison and wrote a
most plaintivc letter 10 his young and beau
tiful wife, concluding with the following
note:
$50 my cell mates: After l am dead,
take out my front teeth, which are artificial,
and give them to my wifc--the one for
whom l have died.
a prompt application of the stomach
pump was made, and he still keeps those
s. front teeth"
On the evening of the 23d, rs Bishop
Rosecrans Of Ohio was going to his home at
the Catholic Seminary near Sedansville, he
was accosted by two men, who demanded
his money. He made no reply, but FASTENED
his pace to q run. One OF the men then
drew pistol and fired at him, the ball TAX
ing effect in the left leg. just above the knee.
Even this did not stop the Bishop, who sue
ceeded in making good his escape. The
wound, upon examination, proved to be
merely one Of the flesh, and al hough pain
full Is by no means serious. No clue has
yet been obtained to the perpetrators of the
outrage.
laborer in the employ of the Chicago
City Railway Company, named Terence
O'Brien, while engaged yesterday afternoon
in cutting hay at the company's stables, had
the misfortune to sever his left hand from
his arm, at the wrist.
On the night Of the 21st, the house Of
James Smart, near Delta, Fulton county,
was burned, Mr.. Smart and his wife perish
ing in the flames
The Merchants Exchange at Montreal
was burned on the.night Of the oath. Three
men were hurt by falling stones.
The Edgar House at Paris, Illinois, was
destroyed by fire on Friday of last week.
The post Office had a narrow escape.