Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-07
STATE NEWS.

EXPLOSION AND Loss OF LIFE.-The
boiler in the paper mill of Hanna d st
Clair, of Coshocton, exploded q few days
since killing one man and w%ounding two
or three others. Their stable, containing
Il large amount of hay, straw, corn, &c
with four valuable horses, was burnt :
few days afterwards.
\ RASCAL CAUGHT.-One Charles D
Dunlap got himself into jail, the other
day, at Evansville, for going through the
country and poisoning the mouths o.
horses, then suddenly appearing as 4
"horse doctor, and offering to cure then
for $50 much" He ought TO be made
take a bit il his own month.
SLIGHTLY MNEp.-The printers in the
Office of the exchange FROM which We CLIP
the following item must have been consid-
erably bewildered probably by reading
the Fenian news: monument to Lorin
Andrews.-A monument to the memory
of Col. Lorin Andrews, late President OF
Kenyon College, has been erected in Roose
Chapel cemetery, Gambler, by the friends
ofthe deceased. 1t is a plain marble col
umn, four penalty, giving him this advice
that he must never be too positive about
anything he knows nothing about.
GREAT FAMILY GATHERING.-A fam
ily named Kumler had a meeting on the
Fair Grounds in Hamilton, o., on the 3lst
ult., no less than 2O4 persons, descend
ants of the family, being present Mrs.
Susan Kumler eighty-seven years old was
present. She has now living two hun
dred and thirty descendants of blood, as
follows IL children, 81 grandchildren,
1872 great-grand-children, and ; great
Observation-Disclosures, with 81 by marriage,
making a total of 2s2. OF this number
2O4 were present. Grandmother sat at
the head Of the table, and Immediately on
her right and left were seated her eleven
children. This was the first time the
children had dined together for nearly
forty years.
FATHER AND CHILD MIssING.-The
Columbus papers about q month ago pub
lished the fact that the wife of a man
named Parks, of that city, eloped with a
paramour. Mr.. Parks at the time was in
feeble health, and the circumstance under
which his wife left him showed a heart
l-essness seldom met with. Friday after
noon last Mr.. Parks and his son, some five
or six years of age, were missing from his
boarding house, and there was a report,
not authenticated however, that he had
taken the life Of his child and committed
suicide.
APAINEsvILLE on CONPANY.-The
certificate of incorporation OF the Union
Oil Company, of Painesville, was filed at
the Office Of the Secretary of State, June
ID. The capital stock is to.be $4,000, with
shares of 500 each. Operations are to be
carried on in Lake county, Ohio, and We
mango county, Pennsylvania, and the
principal Office is 70 be located at Paines-
Vile, Ohio.
NEGRO MAsoNs.-Dayid Jenkins, ID. d.
G. NJ, of Columbus, states hat since Sep
TENDER last, he has organized in this State
five Masonic lodges, composed of negroes,
one at each ofthe following places; Ham
ilton and Oxford, Butler county, Urbsna,
Delaware and Circleville.
STRANGE OCCURESCE.-On Monday
| night of last week while the family of Mr..
John A.Gormly, of Bucyrus, Ohio, were
| seated in their dining room, r pistol ball,
fred from a revolver in the hands of
some unknown person penetrated the
window and struck a young lady, the
daughter Of Mr.. Gormly, inficting only
a slight wound. A reward of 500 is
offered for information that will settle the
question whether the occurrence was the
result of accident or design.
THE SHIPMENT OF Arms AND AMMU-
MILTON FROM COLUMBUS TO THE FEM
ANs.-The statement that thirty-ive hun
dred Tor thousand) muskets were shipped
to the Fenians from Columbus last week
is pronounced untrue. -Four hundred
and eighty thousand rounds of ammuni-
ton, however, were purchased of the State
Arsenal by a Cincinnati manufacturer
who represented that he was en-
gagged in the manufacturing business
that required the use of lead. In part,
this was packed in musket boxes, but no
HtlSkets al all were shipped from the State
Arsenal. ]. is now understood that the
pretended manufacturer purchased the
ammunition referred to for Fenian use.
Had this been known the sale would not
have been made, for favorable PROPOSE
tions had been repeatedly refused from
prominent Fenian agents.
The ODD FELLows.-The following
statistics of the Order of Odd Fellows in
Ohio, viii be of interest TO many: During
the past year l,43l members were initial
ed. Whole number of members, rising
$4,000. The Grand Secretary says in his
report, "Our Order stands numerically su-
perior to any other organization in the
State The receipts of the Grand Lodge
for the year were 500, 00O. Within the
year 2,223 brothers were relieved, 445
widows cared for, and 24I brothers buried.
For relief to brothers, there was expended
S34,642; for widows families S9,296, and
for burying the dead Sc, 72s more than
$4,000 for these three items only. There
are 324 Lodges in the State. Revenue Of
the Order in Ohio, $l46,lI5.
HORSE FAIR-The Northwestern Ohio
Association will hold its annual Horse
Fair at Monroeville, Ohio, June 9TH, 9Th,
It'll and sth. 81, rs in premiums will be
distributed.
BUREAU Of SOLDIERS CLAINs.-The
May collections of Colonel Royal Taylor,
Commissioner of the Bureau Of Soldiers
Claims, amount to S6I,4s3 IS.
MAsoNIC.-It is announced that the
Masonic Lodges of Columbus, Dayton.
Springfield, and other ~neighboring towns,
will celebrate the 22G of June, at Mechan-
icsburg, on the Springfield Branch of the
Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Rail-
road, by a picnic and other Entertainments.
A NovELTY.-The Highland county |
Agricultural Society hold their annual
fair on the 9Th, It'll and Sth inst, at Hills |
boro, Ohio, and advertise the following |
attractive feature: an order to add inter-
est and zest TO the entertainment, and for
the benefit of the Agricultural Society of
the county, Corporal Pike, late r Federal
scout of the Army of the Cumberland, |
will run a mile heat againsts number one
horse. This race will exhibit to
the public the relative powers of endur-
snce between man and horse, an example
of teats of pedestrianism which govern
meut scouts we're frequently compelled TO
perform in the enemys country.
DEATH FRO INHALATION OF PoIsoN-
BUS GAs.-In Toledo, one day last week,
.wo negroes while engaged in clearing out
the tubes which connect the sewer with
The privy vault Of the American House.
we're sufocated by the poisonous gas which
through the tubing. One recov-
red, but the other expired soon after he
vas taken out.
Poodle Dogs and the Way they DIsap-
pear.
Poodle dogs frequently disappear in
mysterious way. Rewards are offered to
considerable amount by the fair owners
f the pets. A lady resident of Madison