The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-02-07
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

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"Pharoah Serpent mandatory in London.
two customers were tltering the room. One
was blown out OF the window, and the 9th
er was found dead inthe room. Rather q
warm reception.
a defalcation has zone to light in the
Sub Trcasury at San francisco, the amount
being $4,000. The ,efaulter is brother
in-law Of the Sub-Tre;surer.
At Hartford, Jan 81 the jury in the case
| OF Albert Starkweatnr, on trial Tor tho
murder of his mother and sister, found
verdict Of guilty of murder in the first de-
gree.
BY the recent burning Of the steamer
Asher Ayres, on the Altamaha river, Geor-
gia, ten or twelve lives were lost.
by the explosion of an engine on the
jackson (Miss.l railroad, few days ago,
three persons WSe killed and four wounded.
The Bremen ship Albert Meyer arrived at
New York on the LIST, after stormy passage
of 70 days, during which there were IS
deaths on board.
The town of Elmore, on the Cleveland &
Toledo Railroad, eighteen miles east Of To-
ledo, was visited by destructive fire on
Saturday night, the 9th ult, when six
buildings in the business part of the town
were totally destroyed. The total loss is
fully o,U00-insured for about half.
The first load of emigrants from Mobile
| for Brazil, A. N number, were shipwrecked
on the coast OF Cuba. The lives of the pas
sengers, and their baggage, were saved.
An aged man in Glasgow recently fell on
the sidewalk. broke his spectacles, and a
piece of glass entering his eye, he bled to
death.
At Milwaukee, Michigan, on the 1st.
man named Hendricks killed his wife, and
| then shot himself.
A cattle drover at Quincy lost 40 head,
which rushed out on the river, broke through
| the ice and drowned
| The loss by the burning of the United
| States Express Car on the Erie railroad,
Jan. so, is estimated at 100000. An over
land mail for the Pacific coast was de-
stroyed.
The Buffalo papers have thrilling ac-
count Of a night-ride on an ice..cake down the
Niagara River of two men, who had started
from the Canada shore for Black Rock in n
small boat, with companion who was
drowned when the boat first struck the
floating ice,) and who saved themselves by
getting on large cakes of ice. They were
over two hours on the ice, and were only
rescued when they reached Grand Island,
seven miles above the Falls If they had
passed that point, they would inevitably
have gone over The Falls. They had drifted
seven miles in this terrible manner, and
were frozen almost solid when brought to
| shore.
The steamer Belfast was captured recently
| BY band of guerillas on the Tombigbee
| IF Sfpla
A man named Lyon was recently frozen
to death in Meridian, Miss. The "sunny
south Z" is not all sunshine.
At Ottawa eleven stores and several other
buildings were destroyed on the ID. At
Fort Riley the Commissary and Quarter
masters warehouse vas burned on the 31st,
causing o loss Of Sl,OOO,OOO.
On the 1st inst, by the breaking of rail
a freight train on the Toledo, Wabash and
Western railroad was thrown down an en-
bankment over hundred feet high, near
the Illinois river. The cars were broken
to fragments, and four men were so badly
! injured that two of them have since died,
and the others are in very critical condi-
ton.
Durihg the late severe storm in Minneso.
ia. a young man engaged in teaching school
in the town Of Viola, Olmstead county,
started from the school-house TO his board
ing place, distance of about six miles. He
did not arrive home that night, and in the
morning inquiry for him resulted in the dis.
covery Of his body, frozen stiff, leaning in
an easy attitude against fence, in sight Of
house, within mile of home.
Mira. Ruth Clark aged sc years fell down
stairs in her house in New Bedford, Mass,
last week and broke her neck
A woman went into house at Boston,
the other day with an infant in her arms
and asked leave to stay awhile, as she was
weak and tired. She also asked for some.
thing stimulating. saying that she had re-
Gently been confined. The lady of the
house went out to get glass of ale for the
stranger and, on returning, found that hel
own infant, which she left asleep in the
cradle, had been taken away by her visitor
and a negro baby left in its stead Nothing
has been heard Of the woman since, and The
affair creates great excitement among the
interested party.
In the late severe weather David H. Pert
Ter, Of Mefker county, Mimi, had his fee
frozen, and after the frost was taken out BY
immersing them in cold water, kerosene
was applied for about q week, when hi
died. Under the penetrating and weaken
ing qualities of the oil, his strength rapid,
failed. Its influence on his mind was sin
!. gular. He thought the oil would burn hin
, to death, and frequently fancied he could Sc,
the flame in the room,
{ A penitentiary convict who jumped from
train near Cleveland, the other day, wa,
chased by thirty men four miles before h,
was captured, and then would not give III
without Desperate struggle.
Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, ha.
been destroyed by an earthquake. Caracas
was one Of the largest cities in South Amer
lea, and was nearly destroyed in similar
manner ia eol2. D
The steamer Missouri exploded her boiler
Jan. 80, on the Ohio, near the month o.
Green river. She had crew of about 1O(
men, and there were a considerable number
/, of passengers on board, and it is reported
that only 70 persons were saved, including
the wounded.
The steamer Miami was blown up and
burned, on the 2Sth, six miles above the
mouth Of the Arkansas river. A hundred
and thirty lives were lost.
BY a collision on the Mobile and Ohio
railroad, Jan. 20, one soldier of the 47th
Illinois infantry was killed, and several
members OF the regiment were wounded.
| The Jail at Marietta, Georgia, was de-
stroyed by fire few days ago, and thirteen
prisoners persisted in the flames.
Col. WOOD, proprietor Of Woods Museum
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