The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-03-14

gr0unu, IN CINCINNATI, OH tuc o'"S ouu"o'y
felt the rope giving way that supported one
end of his scatfold. After falling some DIS
tancc he caught the sound rope, gradually
checked his descent, reached the ground in
safety, and went to work again.
Col Bowers, Adjutant- General on General
Grants staff, was killed instantly on the 9th
by falling between the cars while attempting
TO get on Just rs the train was starting from
Garrison's Station, on the Hudson River
Railroad. Gen. Grant ordered his remains
TO be sent to West Point, in care of Major
Ill.,
Three men, who were plundering flour
ing mill in Middleport, N. Y, on the MORN
ing of the eth, were detected by man
employed in the mill. On refusing to CON-
ply with their demands to keep still, one of
them shot him in the head. lie is not cx-
pectcd to live. One Of the rascals was
knocked down by the miller.
A family named Grazicr, consisting Of
ten members. and Mexican, came down
the Ohio river in q dug out on the night of
the 9th, and, in attempting to land at Cairo
were drawn between the steamers South
ernor and Atlantic, and five Of the number
were drowned,-the father, grown daugh-
ter an infant, and little boy and girl.
VIM. Thompson, aged 65 years, married a
young woman three weeks ago, and shot
himself for jealousy on the LIST inst. The
- hnu
Her first husband was VIM. Jackson, who
was hanged in Chicago some years ago for
murder; her second was Jail bird, and
the third has just died the death of sui
eide.
A young man Of Titusville, Indiana, was
found on Sunday, the Goth, shot through
the head with the pistol lying on the bed.
and his hands folded. His wife, from whom
he had recently been divorced, and who had
obtained an alimony of 200 from him,
mad been to see him that morning and the
neighbors are at u loss to know whether it
is murder or suicide.
The frcshct in the Dcs Moines river, has
been very severe. On the % inst. at Gro
ton the large mill was totally destroyed, and
more than half the houses were swept away,
many of the inhabitants barely escaping
with their lives. At Bonaparte and for
quarter Of mile below, the ice is piled out
upon the land in an immense bed, many feet
in depth. One railroad bridge west of Gro
ton has been destroyed, and another upon
this side Of that place.
In Rochester, N. Y, on the evening of
the 7th, an attempt was made to burn the
house Of Mrs. HyEer, on Atwater street,
during the absence Of Mrs. ii. from the
house. The clothes in cradle in which a
child three years old was sleeping, were set
on fire. The house had previously been
ransacked by some pesson who evidently
expected to obtain o considerable amount of
money which Mrs. Hyzer was known to have
received within day or two. Failing to
obtain the money, the villain set fire to the
cradle clothes, with the intent to burn the
child.
Mr.. Lorin Blodgett, well-known citizen
of Marcellon, Columbia county, Wis, in a
momentary fit Of insanity, on the 9th, took
dose Of strychnine, from the effects Of
which he died the next night. Soon after
taking the poison he became perfectly RAJ
tional and was greatly Mortified at what he
had done. He conversed freely about it, and
said the poison had been purchased for the
purpose Of killing rats; that he had watched
the effects upon them, and while holding it
in his hand became suddenly possessed with
the idea that he would try it, and was soon
after thrown into commissions. Physicians
were Immediately called, but oil efforts to
save his life proved fruitless. He was a
middle aged man, in good circumstances and
highly respected.
A week ago last Sunday afternoon, an af-
fair occurred on the steamer Gen. Lytle, at
Cincinnati, which has proved fatal. A
young colored man named Lewis Robinson,
aged twenty-five years, was engaged in
scrubbing the upper deck, and spattered
some water upon the coat of John Reese,
the second mate of the steamer. This SO
incensed Reese that he Immediately ran up
stairs, and without listening to an explana-
ton, which the negro tried to make, struck
him with an umbrella which he happened to
have in his hand. The end Of it penetrated
the right eye, lodging in the brain, and
broke off short. The piece remaining in
the eye was about three inches in length,
and was SO firmly wedged that it required a
strong pair of pincers to draw it out. The
poor man fingered in great agony until Sun
day last, when he died. Reese has es-
capped.
It appears on evidence that the pilot Of
the Mamie Byers, which was sunk by the
collision with the Hillman, was carried on
board helplessly drunk, when the boat left
Cincinnati. 1t is o well-understood fact
that steamboat captains are now employing
such incompetent men, because they wish
to break down the Pilots Association, and
will not pay the wages adopted by the or
ganization. The accident occurred at Madi-
son, Ind, where, out Of eight bodies exam
ined by Coroner's jury, five were found
to be Of one family. They were from Pad
dy's Run, Ohio, twenty miles above this
city, and were on their way to Missouri, to
settle on their farm. On the old man there
was found $2,43O. A daughter, fourteen
years old, is tho only one of the family
saved. married daughter and her hushan nd