Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-16

STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
HORSE FAIR IN GEAUeA COUNTY
The Union Horse Fair is to come off at
Burton, on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday of next week. The premiums
offered are liberal, amounting in the az
gregate to $500, the largest purse being
$3.50.
An OHIO MAN CLAIMS Te BE THE IN
vENTER OF THE NEEDLE GUN.-A man
named Kronenburg, of Newark, Ohio,
claims that he is the inventor of the needle
gun, and proposes to offer it to the U. S.
Government. This gun has been manu-
featured, it is said, for. twenty years, but
until the war between Prussia and Aus
tria, it never come into much notoriety.
COVERT, THE RoosA ADMINISTRATIVE
Lebanon Star says Coovert is suffering
intensely. He is apparently filed with
terror. His brazen stoicism has left him
and he is completely unm AIMED; and
having eaten but little for several DAYS
he is weak and emaciated. He has made
no cOnfession-nOne whatever. In his
cell he can distinctly hear the saws and
the mallets of the carpenters who are
framing timber for a small building,
twenty feet square and sixteen feet high,
which will be erected west of, and ad-
joining the jail, and in which the gallows
will be placed.
A PLEASURE PARTY FIRED Ara
BIT OF RECKLESS SAvAGERY.-On Thurs
day last, while Mrs. Jewell, of DAYTON, q
lady Of culture and fond of the practical
study of botany, with her two daughters.
were walking through a field near Dayton
city, they were fired on by a party of
%scoundrels who were riding along the
road. Mrs. Jewell was wounded in the
thigh with with a revolver ball.
JAY Cocks WHOLE IsLASD.n-
Harpers Weekly says that Jaw Cookies
wealth has enabled him to purchase q
whole Island " in Lake Erie. The San
dusky Register comments thus One
would infer that this "whole Island"
must be at least as large as Australia and
as costly as a small kingdom. The ludi-
crous character of this blunder will be-
understood when we say that Gibraltar
Island, OH Sandusky, now the delightful
summer home Of Mr.. Cooke, cost that
gentleman all of three thousand dollars.
and that the Island contains Just seven
acres. Glbralter is now, of course, with
out a price, the wealth of its owner and
the excellent taste of its manager, to-
gether with its historic interest, having
rendered it a most lovely and attractive
spot.
A HAUNTED HoUsR-The latest sem
satlon IN Dayton is a veritable haunted
house. The dwelling house of a widow
lady has for some time been tenantless-
locked up with the furniture in it, while
the owner has been away. Every night
at the "witching hour strains of p~laintive
music from the piano in the parlor greet
the ears OF the passers by. As no lights
are seen, and nobody in the flesh is sup
posed to be in the dwelling, the conclus-
ion is irresistible that the "speerits7 have
taken possession.
HURRICANE IN THE SOUTHERN PART
OF THE STATE.-A terrible storm passed
over a portion of Butler county one day
last week, destroying the town Of Monroe, |
and laying waste the country along its
course. After the hurricane had passed
over Monroe, but half a dozen houses |
were left standing! The Methodist church
was among the buildings DESTROYED. 1t
was also stated that two men were killed,
and two Others were missing. A number
OF persons were injured. The damage to
property is very great. As a ludicrous
Incident of the storm a COW is said to
nave been caught up by the vSad, and
whIrled into an ample treel The storm is
sand to have passed over a narrow belt of
country, destroying buildings and fencing
and uprootlng trees in its way. 1t was
altogether the most destructive storm
which has been known in that c6un-
try since it was settled.
MCPHERSON MONUMENTAL MEETING
"A meeting of the citizens of CLYDE was
heId at That place on the Sd of August to
l~naugurate measures to secure the cree
tlon OF a monument to the memory of
Major General j. B. Mcpherson. The
Times says; "Colonel Eaton addressed
the meeting, explaining the different steps
which had been taken to secure the cree
ton OF a monument to General McPher-
Colonel Eaton stated that a fund of
about S., 600 was in the hands of the COM
mIttee representing the Army of the
Tennessee, and that there was also a fund
IN California of several thousand dollars.
Tor the same purpose, ready to be appro
On motion of Colonel Eaton q
committee of three was appointed 10 as
certain what steps had been taken if any,
and by whom, to erect q 10
General Mcpherson, as follows: Lieuten-
ant Colonel G. G. Eaton, DR.. j. W. Luse,
and j. NJ. Lennon"
A CONFIDENCE GAME.-A widow lady
named Porter, residing near Malverne,
county, was the victim of a most
'ascally confidence game not long since.
This lady has a son residing in the West
whom she has not seen for several wears.
Jne Emanuel Miller, formerly a soldier
n the s0th Ohio, got hold of the sons
lame, residence, and other facts, and cal
ed on his mother, representing to her that a
Ter son while on his way to Ohio had been
-rrested at Canton for counterfeiting
hat the judge would clear him for 500,
he had only SO and would like to
ave his mother send him the other $50. =
If course the mother procured the money :
nd handed it oYer to the impostor. A
time afterwards she became awar
f the nature of the transaction and
romptly made the matter known to the
authorities. We are happy to say that
lie scoundrel has been caught and is now E
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