Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-08
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THE Republican State Convention o
Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg, yester
day.
The large City Hotel at Mound City was
burned down Tuesday morning, together
with most Of its contents.
The Touring mill of W. H. Rogers, eight
miles from Rochester, n. Y, was destroyed
by FIRE night before last.
IT was recently stated in the Georgia Leg
islature that there were 30, 900 people in
North Georgia perishing for food.
LATE and interesting items of news from
Brazil are brought by the steamer Havana,
arrived at New York yesterday.
II suspected that extensive frauds will
be brought to light in the revenue returns
of the brewers of New York and Brooklyn.
THE bill amendatory of the act to prevent
the spread of the cattle plague in this coun-
try, having been signed by the President,
is now a law.
The jury in the trial of Covert, for
the murder of the Roosa family, rendered
verdict of guilty of murder in the first de-
gree.
GEN. R. D. Rumsey, late private Secretary
to President johnson, is charged with en-
bezzling s2S,OOO, from the sum advanced
him for recruiting purposes.
JEwELER by the name of Collins, in
Brooklyn, N. Y, was attacked in his store
by burglars the other day, and from the eff
fects OF the injuries received has died.
The Captain of the ill-fats5 steamer
Lockwood estimates that 25 lives were lost
by the explosion, and that about the same
number were scalded.
IT seems that there is rumor ahoat in
New York that the steamship City of Lon
don, which sailed from New York last Sat
urday, has been captured by Fenian pri-
vateer. That's rich
TIE correspondence of the State Depart
ment relative to Provisional Governors,
transmitted to Congress by the President
day before yesterday, will be found on
the third page.
News by the City of New York - from
Liverpool says the suspension of the writ
of habeas corpus in Ireland was received
with universal appreciation in England
and general satisfaction in Ireland.
ONE George Gardner, alias Dutch Henry,
who has heretofore committed several heavy
robberies, but escaped conviction, was
caught yesterday in bank in New York;
in the act of stealing package of bills
from the counter.
An old woman, the wife of q farmer
named Gosswein, living on the Harrison
pike few miles from sCincinnati, was
strangled to death on Monday might by
some william who entered the house for the |
purpose of robbery.
DEs MONIES the capital of Iowa, Tuesday |
elected Union Republican city govern
ment, by $50 majority. against Is last year, |
polling the largest vote ever known there. |
The opposition elected but Eve out of thir-
teen councilmen.
TIE bill for the increase of the regular |
army, prepared by the House Committee, |
differs from the Senate bill, in this, that it |
does not revive the grade of General, and |
ignores the Recommendation of Generals
Grant, Sherman, Thomas and Meade.
SIXTEEN hundred dollars worth of cloth |
ing was received by Gen. Howard the other
dav for the freedmen from a benevolent as
sociation in Birmingham, England. The |
same association has sent in the aggregate
SO, ,aO0, in money and clothing, to the freed |
men of this country.
THR oberlin Nsios has received copy Of
the Matamoras Raaehero. "This is little |
half sheet printed in Spanish on one side
and English on the other, and on coarse,
red tissue paper. 1t is spunkily 'secesh
and pitches into everything on the green
back side of the Rio Grande."
THE funeral of Col. Bowers, Gen. Grants |
Adiutant will take place at West Point, |
whittier his remains were sent yesterday in
charge of an officer detached by the |
Lieutenant General. The dispatches of this
morning give further particulars of the /
manner of his death.
TIE eeunsel for Jack Cooper, who is un-
der sentence of death for the Rhodenbsgh |
murder, in Portage County, applied to the
Supreme Court at Columbus yesterday to
secure a suspension of sentence and a
new trial for The accused. Should the ap-
plication fail, petition will be presented
to the Governor asking the communication of
the death sentence.
Z A FAMILY named Frazier, consisting of
father, mother and eight children, together
with Mexican and another man, name
unknown, who went down the Ohio River
in canoe to Cairo, for the purpose OF work
ing on farm in Illinois, while landing at
Cairo, Tuesday night last were drawn un-
der the guards of steamboat and the faith
er. grown daughter and three children
were drowned.
LEGISLATIVE; In the Senate the bill
transferring SsO,0OO from the soldiers re-
lief fund to the sinking fund was passed;
it is now law. The bills to authorize the
incorporation of boards of trade, to limit
tolls on turnpikes and plank roads, and to
prohibit the erection of rolling mills within
l2O rods of State benevolent Institutions,
were also psssed.-In the House Mr.. Lock
the Cleveland petitions for the Metropoli-
tan Police bill. The new member from |
Washington County, J. B. Green. was sworn
in. Several bills of no general importance |