Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-23
THE NEW S .

4hE IeIegraph brings information OF a
great fire in Petroleum Center.
Pixies Opera House, Cincinnati, took fire
at II o'clock last night and burned down.
Loss, half million of dollars.
TIE people of st. Paul, Minp., on the 22d,
were celebrating their one hundredth day
OF uninterrupted good sleighing.
Mr. and Mrs. Minister Adams, and sew
eral other Americans, were presented to
Queen Victoria at her last reception"
A COMPANY of soldiers are engaged in ex-
huming the bodies of soldiers buried on the
battlefield OfshilOh, and are interring them
in cemetery near by.
THERE were More than twenty divorces
granted at the recent term of the court at
Woodstock, Vermont-nearly half Of which
were on account of adultery.
A RESOLUTION has passed both houses of
the Iowa Legislature calling for the trial of
General Custar for authorizing two Iowa
soldiers to be fogged.
JEFF. DAVIS health is said to be good.
TEE Ways and Means Committee, it is
reported, cannot agree upon the Loan Bill.
1t will not be reported, therefore, for some
days yet.
The Cincinnati Times says Benno Speyer
has returned to that city. His departure,
although sudden, did not deter him from
again visiting the scenes of his former busi-
ness"
GEo. y. SANDERS has been arrested for
debt in London. He owes the little matter
of ten thousand pounds sterling, which he
contracted on account of the C. S. A. His |
trial has been postponed until the 23d inst.
The United States Senate yesterday passed
bill authorizing the building of bridge |
across the Mississippi at St Louis also, a
bill making provisions for canal to con-
meet the waters of Lake Superior with those
of Lac Belle, in Michigan.
tbs office of the Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Sun newspaper was destroyed by fire on the
2lst inst. An addenda to the telegram sug
gestively announces that the Sun was
staunch friend of the United States during
the rebellion. How much money does it
want?
The storm on Tuesday night was general.
A dispatch from Connersville, Ind, saws the
tornado visited that section and blew down
and unroofed several houses, and carried
Away the east span of the railroad bridge
across the river east of the town. A freight
engine and four cars, bound east, went
down, leaving the balance of the train on
the bridge. No passengers were injured.
LITTLE Rock, Arkansas, must be delight
full place to live. On the goth inst there
was an enthusiastic johnson meeting there,
and the next morning, according to dis
patch in the Cincinnati Gazette, "an old
citizen was found dead at his residence, with
thirteen stabs in his body. D. Paine, a
neighbor, was arrested on suspicion"
A WEEK or so ago the Cincinnati papers
contained highly colored accounts of an
outrage on white woman by a negro, in
that city, the woman being young widow
who, it was claimed, was belated at the
railroad depot and outraged while endeavor-
ing to reach hotel. The case has just been
tried before Cincinnati court and the ne
gro discharged on the ground of his having
proved an abb In disposing of the case,
the Judge said: " If the outrage was com
mitted, the act was not committed by the
defendant The proof is conclusive that he
was not at the I. C. Railroad Depot on the
night stated, and the testimony of the plain
tiff is, therefore, not to be relied upon
There is no faith to be placed in the state
ment Of the woman, and there is not a
shadow of suspicion against the prisoner"
FITHE storm on Tuesday night extended as
far west as Chicago. In the vicinity of that
city it was accompanied by hail. AT Hyde
Park, seven miles south of the city, and at
Evanston, twelve miles north, the storm
was the most terrific. At both places hail
fell of the full size of hens eggs, some of the
stones measuring full six inches in circum-
ference, and so fast did they fall that in
very few minutes the ground was covered
with these nuggets of ice to the depth of
three or four inches. The windows of all
the hot-houses in the vicinity, which are
quite numerous, were left without a whole
pane of glass, and there was not an exposed
window in either locality but suffered in the
same manner. All the plants and flowers
were destroyed, and many trees were Sc
riously injured. A railroad train at Hyde
Park was completely arrested in its progress
by the piling of the hail stones on the track.
During the progress of this storm the
thunder was heavy and the lightning vivid.
The storm also visited Davenport, Iowa,
doing much damage.