The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05

from fNe eHtCA OF ultnltIlub u
mercury poison, taken with suicida
intent, Mrs. Elsie Moreland, 20, Pa
taskala, died at a Columbus hospital
She had quarreled with man after
lie had purchased the poison for heI
at her request.
Corporal Charles +. Ford, a. De
troit. was instantly killed near Camr
Sherman when the automobile IN
which he had driven General Perkins
TO Columbus. overturned Private
Arthur Hale, who accompanied Fort
escaped without a scratch,
State defense council, acting on thu
Columbus war chest idea, has taken
steps TO organize Ohio. It IS planned
to coordinate all the various war ac
tivities into one big machine linked
up through the state with the fed
oral government
Arrest OF Harry Henne, Jeweler OF
Troy, on charge OF assault, was caus.
ed by G. T. Thomas, attorney. HeGne
is charged with striking the plaintiff
when he went into Hcnne's llacc OF
business to collect q note. In q
counter claim Thomas is accused OF
threats 10 stab ana shoot the defend
ant
Ohio now has a home guard organ
ization aggregating more than 6,00p
men, equallng the strength of the
Ohio national guard at the time Of
the 1913 food. Thirty cities have
such guards or are forming them.
Rev. Thomas F. Conlon, AS, for l3
years rector OF st. Mary's church
died at Hot Springs. Ark, where he
had gone in search Of health
Clifford r. Taite, "a, late of the
18th machine gun battalion, killed
himself in a Cleveland cafe after n
love quarrel
A total Of S5 cars OF good seed corn
has been imported from Pennsylvania
by the state Of Ohio. Distribution is
under supervision OF Dean Alfred
Vivian of the college of agriculture
Ohio State university.
Assistant State Fuel Administrator
Z. d. Leach has resigned his position
to go to farming for the summer.
Leach is a Cleveland attorney. Thc
has heen serving without pay
Bucyrus Industrial plants viii he
converted into night schools for reg
istered men who wish to iit them
selves for special work in the army.
Soldiers uniform OF the 10th aero
squadron and containing letters adj
dressed to T. A. Haner, was found IN
a railroad bOxcar at Marion.
Governor Cox issued proclamation
urging appropriate observance Of Lib.
orty day, April 6. He urges actiyit?
for the sale of liberty loan bonds and
war savings stamps.
Four robbers, three womer and
man, made Il daylight raid on the
Office of a Cleveland theater, struck
down Palmer Slocum, the manager
and escaped with $1,000
Court refused to grant a new trial
70 Mrs. Belle Wardlow, convicted at
Hamilton of first degree murder IN
poisoning her husband, Lorell l.
Wardlow, a year aGa,
Rev. Julian Mayer OF near Portland
Ind, has been appointed pastor of st
Joscphs Catholic church in WapakG
meta. succeeding Rev William Ross.
deceased
Harry Jones, colored, was shot and
instantly killed by Russell Hunter
The shooting followed a celebration
at the Hunter home at Newark.
Hunter made his escape.
w. A. Hunt, civil war veteran and
former publisher of the Belmont
Chronicle, died in YOUNGSTOWN.
Harry Cowdry, main witness in tie
case in which Mrs Belle Wardlow
was found guilty of the first degree
murder of her husband by poisoning.
near Hamilton, was himself arrested
in connection with The murder, on
complaint oG a Dayton sister of tina
late Mr.. Wardlow, for whom CowGry
formerly worked.
Rev. f. B. Ruff, four years pastor
Of First Reformed church, Gallon, has
resigned to engage in the army Y. NJ
c. A. service at Camp Sherman.
Hamilton county was the first in
Ohio to cross the $I,000,000 mark in
war savings stamps sales according
to State Director H. p. Wolfe.
Grand tax duplicate OF Ohio for
1917 is $S,547, ,046,660, compared with
81, ,697 $50, 232 in 1916, a gain for 1911;
of $840,41G,42S, a growth of almost
double that of 1916.
Mildred Nash, IA, daughter of W
G. Nash, has disappeared from Ler
home in Marion.
State board of administration filed
with the governor its report for tho
year ending June 80. 1917. The pop.
ulation Of the state institutions, ac'
cording to the report, was 22,e18. To |
tai cost Of operation was $4,612,S2G. !
The report shows q reduction OF
$1336 in the per capita cost Of op-
Grafton, as compared with the cosl
under the o!d system.
State Representative John D.
Hayes, ST. Clairsville, was notified OF
the death Of his sister, Mrs. Thomas
B. Holiday, so, at Sarehoda, India.
where she has been a missionary for
many years
Chester Holt, Marion national |
reported killed year ago
by a Mexican sniper and mourned as
dead, is alive and we'll at the army
barracks at Houston, Tex.
Fuel administration fixed Ohio Goa.
prices Ut the mines as follows: Run
of mine So; prepared sizes, 1925;
slack or screenings, $175.
A man giving the name of Wade
"a, attorney, of Xenia,
wac found o11iltv at Cincinnati oY