Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-10-24


President Of state board Of agriculture, |
who was fined $50 and costs on charge Of
the health code of Columbus.
ticket, first, because it has selected a
stated name and second because it |
has issued a declaration of principles.
On this ground the board also holds
that candidates on the Republican
ticket cannot also have their names
appear on the non-partisan ticket in
view of the ruling of the secretary of
state last year that candidate could
not have his name on more than one
party ticket" The ruling has caused
much excitement here, and the charge
is being made that the board has been
inspired by political influences.
Fights New Auto Law.
Arguments have begun in the courts
here on the question of the constitu-
tionality of the new auto law which
threatens after Jan. l to compel the
payments of auto fees as high as SIS
a year. The highest fees are now Sc.
The Ohio Automobile association,
which is fighting the new law, is con-
tending that it amounts to double tax
alton and is unconstitutional for this
and other reasons. A decision is eX-
pected before the law becomes oper-
ative the first of the year.
sandes Fined 500 and Costs.
A. p. Sandles, president of the state
boarAof agriculture, was fined $50 and
costs Friday in police court by Judge
Osborne on charge Of violating the
borne on 4 charge of violating the
health code of Columbus.
The case is the outgrowth of the
refusal of Sandles to obey the order Of
the Columbus health officer to remove
a pile of refuse from the state fair
grounds, which, it is charged, attracted
flies.
TWO Slayers Are ParoIed.
Two Clevelanders in the penitentiary
under life sentences for second degree
murder were given paroles Friday.
Bushrod Kelch, who began his term
July, 1897, and Nicholas Heeney, who
came in March, 1901. Kelch killed his
wife and Heeney killed Pennsylvania
flagman at the Payne-av crossing.
Kelch gets out Nov. 1, but Heeney
was released Saturday Both will re-
turn to Cleveland. Kelch was a loco
motive engineer at the time of the
murder and tried suicide after shoot
ing his wife.
He has been prisoner with good
record and for nearly two years has
been driving the auto truck that oper-
| ates between the penitentiary and the
prison farm, 20 miles out of Columbus.
He was trusty prior to that time.
Heeney, while loafing about Cleye-
land in 1901, made the acquaintance OF
a fiagman, Johnson, at the Payne-av
son shared his MONDAY meals with the
boy. One day after the pay car had
left the old mans monthly envelope
Heeney beat Johnson to death with o
coupling pin after climbing into the
elevated flag shanty.
The old man was found dead by q
switch crew that investigated to learn
why the gates were not operated
Heeney has made good prison record
lnOIldS SOluHlDld, SGutelCeu lToiI
Cuyahoga county for five years in 1917
for criminal assault, was given pa
role, but is required to report for one
year. Being paroled ahead of the ex
piration of the short time limit, thu
parole board retains custody.
John G. Capener of Cuyahoga coun
ty, sent up for manslaughter in April
1912, for Is years, will get parole
Nov. 1.
The application of Rodney ], Diegle
former Ohio senate sergeant-at-arms
for parole was called before the parol
board and indefinitely postponed
That means Diegle probably will serv
ont his sentence.
: SCOT Found In Mars Lungs.
,!hree-fourths of a pint of SCOT ha
been found in the lungs of man liN
ing in a smoky city, says the Octobe
number of the Ohio state board c
healths bulletin, issued Friday, in a
editorial on the subject. Smoke, a
Internal old nuisance" Smoke
blamed for promoting many diseases
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