Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-14
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{ { Cola ciessd last night at l5esz.
!. negro suaersa the death penalty at Bowling
: Grsea. Ky,, yesterday. aa 1-l
e General sherman had an sntL usiAstis reception
in Boston yesterday.
e One case Of cholsra in New York and one in
8rooksyn yesterday. only. -
The failure q B. P jenkins, head of pickle
aad preserve house in New York is announced.
Five hundred bank clerks have been thrown out
! Of employment by the recent bank stOppages in
England. NJ
I The Kirkvins branch of the Bank Of ST. Louis
has been closed, and its notes will not be redeemed
sitter the 10th inst.
The deaths iu the city OF Ee= York last week
were sixty.on less than those of the correspond
ing week Of last year.
Some proceedings of the Plasterers' Convention,
now in session in Philadelphs will be found in the
telegraphe reports.
A duel was fought Thursday by parties from
Memphis, the Mississippi State line. One
poor man fell dead at the first fra.
The Rhode Is'snd Democratic Convention viii
meet in Providence on tbs I'd of August TO elect
delegates te the Philsdelphia Convention.
Senator lanes fanssalsEas fixed Tor Friday, bat
in eonsequenee Of the rapid decomposition of the
/ body, it took plaes yesterday, in Lawrence.
The loss Of the lBtna Insurance c mpany By :he
Portland IRE is Absut $4,000. 1t has been err
roaeOusly reported at three times that amount :
The largest fire that ever occurred in Portage,
Wis, happened last Saturday. About dozen
buildings in the business quarters were destroyed.
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The Chicago water works tunnel under the lake,
has now reached four-nfths Of its entire distance
aad wi reach tho termination shout October first
1t is stated that man in IndiaBa obtained di-
Torce from his wife because she went skating
against his wishss. He concluded t. "Iet her
slide''
Mrs Mary u. Williams, wife of L. A. Williams,
of Taunton, .MSss-, drowned on Saturday
evening Ehile tsthing with her husband She had
been married only six weeks.
The telegraph reports an niatsrrieR between some
Missouri Conservatives and the President, in
which stafements Of sensation character seems
70 have been made.
At tho request of the citizens of Portland,
guard ofmarines has been seat by the Government
from the Portsmouth Navy Yard to help take care
Of the city.
The sales Of the thee leading dry good houses of
Chicago, for the year ending May lst, were as fol-
lows Field, Palmer Letter. $3.50, ,594; J.
Fsrvel 4 Co., 81, ,522. SIC; Bowen Bros, $780,
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An Organization of cOuntsrfeiteTs. reaching from
the ST. Lawrence to the Rocky Mountains, has |
been disclosed By the arrest of parties in Kansas
which is said issued spurious bills to the
aunOuDtof 81, $4,000.
George A. MiEch.ll, OF Turner Maine, the in- |
veltcr Of copper tips for childrens shoes, and his
son, six years Of age, were drowned near their
residence, on Thussday last. The father was en-
n a1arine "a saxe- LIE OF hisz son
An d / man named Wilson, 50 years old. cut his |
throat with a razor, in Faribeult county, Mimi,
few dAys ago, because Of illtrestment by his |
daughter and son-in-law, W. J. Dickerman, who |
boarded him as q pauptr, receiving pay from the |
toEn. On learning that he wss boarding as pau
per hs committed suicide.
A. c. Robinson and some Of his friends, near |
0skAloosa, Iowa. INDUCED in the pastims of hang
ing 3 negro, whom they suspected Of stealing /
pair Of pants. The negro hung three minutes,
when ha was rescued BY some persons who passed |
that way, anil A c. Robinson is in jail, aud " Tn
fair prospeet for the State prison.
At Memphis, q day or two ago, sccundrel pre-. |
lending to be United Slatss dstectsve, arrested |
nsn and his wife, conined them fn different rooms
at ons Of the hotels and committed an outrage |
apou the woma7. She gave the alarm as soon as |
possible but he succeeded in making his escape and
had not been arrested at last accounts.
The down passenger train OF the Louisvills and |
Nashville Railroad ran over little girl named |
Conner, near Edgefeld, on Monday night, cutting |
her in two, and killing her instantly. Five cars
passed over her. As. the train WAS approaching !
shs Suddenly ran upon the track and sat down,
and tbs cars could not Be checked 10 time to save
her lifs Her father killed BY thee cars at the
same place about one year ago.
Ohio IS likely - have the National Soldiers |
Home, authorized by Congress- located within her /
borders. General Butler, President of the Board |
Of Trustees, has entered into negotiati ms with
Colonel Ferry, owner of White Sulphur Springs,
for the purchase of that property to be devoted to
the proposed Home. No contracts have yet been /
signed, but the bargain is reported to be virtually
closed The purchase price will be in the vicinity
Of sl0O. .Oso
Major John Tyler, son of ex-Presidsnt Tyler, |
delivered the annual address last week at the |
cOmmencement exercises Of William aud Mary |
College, at Williamsburg, Va. His snbjsct was |
Virginia and the destinies of the American people
under the Irovidsnces Of God and after showing
how mnch greater Virginia has been than New /
England, hs declares that we are now entering |
upon ne~ era, and that empire is the solution of
history.
man living at a village near Mobile attempted /
TO frighten some girls by wrapping white cloth |
around his body aud persouAting ghost. All ran
hut one, WHO pulled ont revolver and fired six
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