Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-02
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/, THE remains of Senator Foot were burieC
|. : in Rutland, VT, yesterday.
E An election in Memphis Saturday, resul
j ted in johnson victory.
TIE evening session of the Legislature
Saturday, was prolific of business. Sewers
important bills were passed. Our COlum'
bus special gives a full summary of the pro-
ceedings.
TEE Governor has granted "Jack Coop
err" the Ravenna murderer, respite until
the 27th day of April,
ANorHER great fire occurred at Oil Greek
Saturday. Our special dispatch from Reno
gives the particulars.
TIE man who has been held in arrest in
Washington as Quantrell, proves to be some
body else. He has been released and furn-
ished transportation to New York.
ANOTHER Andersonville torturer, named
jas. W. Duncan, is on trial in savannsh,
Georgia.
Mrs. JEFF. DAVIS, accompanied by for
mer private Secretary Of her husband,
passed Memphis yesterday, en- route to Can
eda, via Louisville
The lower House of the Wisconsin Legis-
lature, on Saturday, by vete of every
Union member but one, passed resolutions
instrueting the United States Senators from
that State to vote for the Civil Rights bill
over the Presidents veto.
A SoUTHRRxER, who lost s., 600 at gamb-
ling house on Broadway, New York, made
complaint against the Institution and
the police made a descent on it, arresting
the proprietors.
IT is asserted that Napoleon recently made
a proposition to eminent American politi-
clans to give them a contract for collecting
the Imperial revenue in Mexico for five
years if they would prevent the United
States from acting against Maximilian.
Gas. MYERS, Collector of Detroit, ab-
seconded few days ago with several thous-
and dollars of public money leaving his
bondsmen to make up thesdefciencny. A
detective traced the gentleman to Chicago
where he arrested him. He had been hsv-
ing splendid time iu various parts of ILL
Eois, spending his money with looseness.
Mr.. Myers is now chewing the bitter end
of reflection in jail at Detroit.
A NEGRO named Thomas Minis, who was
convicted in the Hamilton county Court in
1861, of the murder of G. W. Waters, is to
be hung in Cincinnati on the 25th of May
next. His case was carried up to the Su-
preme Court on a writ of error, and last
Thursday the Supreme Court decided that he
should be executed During his long i'm
Prisonment, and while under sentence of
death, his conduct was so exemplary that
he was allowed, many privileges, having
held the post of assistant turnkey.
A PEW days ago the police authorities of
Detroit, ed information of the arrival
in that city of several notorious burglars,
and couple of shrewd officers were de-
tailed to discover them. By some means it
came to the knowledge of the officers that
the first raid of the new arrivals was to be
made into the house of a widow woman, on
Thursday morning last, and accordingly |
they posted themselves near by. About 3
o'clock two of the scoundrels made their |
appearance, entered the house, frightened |
the inmates into silence by threats, collected |
what valuable property they could carry, |
and were about making off, when the po-
licemen swoop,.d down on them and bore /
them off to prison
MERE MENTION: There have been but
two executions of criminals in Cincinnati |
during the last fifteen years, yet within that |
time over twenty murders have been com |
mitted. measles is prevalent in Leb- |
anon, o., over a hundred cases having oc- |
CURED within short period, but only one
terminating fataDy.......H- n. Durfee, the |
man who was arrested in the oil regions |
and ts.Sen to Grand Rapids, Mich, few
days since, charged with the murder of a
woman and the abandonment of q little /
girl, has had his trial, plead guilty, and |
been sentenced TO the State Prison for life. |
"A. T. Stewart and Messrs. Clafflin & |
G O.. of New York, have purceased lots of
ground in a business quarter of New Or |
leans, anil intend erecting magnificent |
stores.......A tornado passed over portion |
of Montgomery county, Indiana, last Tues
day, causing the death of three persons, s |
woman and two children, and the destrue- !
tion of great deal of property.......The !
boarding house of D. Hartman, Napoleon, |
O., was entered by burglar one night last |
week, and robbed of $50 in money, several
watches, some clothing, ete.-.....A notorious
despersdo, named Flynn, who had formed
the design of killing half a dozen people,
last week, in Medona, Jackson county, In
diana, and made arrangements to escape so
soon as he had carried his diabolieal purpose
into execution, was himself killed by one
of his intended victims, in whose favor pub
lie opinion set so strongly that he was not
William Mcguire, who was suspected to be
the person who stole some S3e, 900 from a
safe in the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago R. R. Co.'s Office in Pitttburgh, last
September, was recently arrested in Phila-
deIphia, confessed his crime, and is now in
jail in Pittsburgh, having spent some $1,000
of the stolen money.......It is stated in N
Y. paper that the man who committed the
great Lord bank robbery was an intimate
friend OF Mr. Lords, and that he only took |
the bonds to play practical joke upon the
old gentleman, but finding he had gone too
far, and not knowing what to do with his
elephant" compromised with the detec-
tives and returned the money y.......T Two nep
were killed and one severely injured, by |
the explosion of a steam boiler in Keokuk,
lows, on the 25th ult......It is said that
fpnS of S2OO,OO0 has been raised to secure
the parSon of young Ketchum, row in Sing
sipf.....Ie is expected the Pope will soon
issue bull against Fenianism....-..The De-
mocracy of Bridgeport, Connecticut have
issued a call for q meeting, which is head
ed: Fssliaas, rally for English !"..-..:It is
stated that to-day, the ID there vii! be
general strike among the workmen OF Brook
| ivn, n Y, for higher wages. THE city OF
| Springfield, Mass, is building new set OF
| school houses, each to cost $50, GOO. .-The
/ eoroner's jury in the case Of the artist VINO
was accidentally killed by apistol shot the
other day in n. Y, returned verdiet tnst
the man who held the pistol was guilty OF 4
great carelessness and he was bound over
70 await the action of the grand jury -....,
The N. Y. Post says the excitement IN re-
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