Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-07-04
OHIO GLEANIuGS

denly at a sisters home in Granville.
Robert Speck, 65, janitor of the Pa
taskala schools for many years, COM
mitted suicide at his home by
cutting his throat with a razor He
had been in i'll health.
Resistance is being prepared by
city councilmen to the streetcar fare
increase at Toledo. The fare is
raised from to 6 cents and trans
fers cost 2 cents each instead of /.
At Akron, Pietro Caferelli, charged
with murder for the shooting of Pa
trolman George Verne March 8, 1919,
was sentenced to die in the electric
chair Oct. II.
Body of a woman who apparently
had been murdered and then burned
at Fremont was identified as Mrs
Tony Lerdo, the wife of g fruit dealer.
Lerdo, police say, has disappeared
DR.. Charles Frederick Wishart of
Chicago was elected president of
Wooster college by the trustees. He
succeeds DIR. j. Campbell, VINO re.
signed recently.
DR.. William H. White of Cleveland
failed in his final effort to secure re
instatement in the position of chief
medical examiner of the state indus.
trial commission, from which he wa
ousted by the commission Jan. 22.-
1918. In a ruling handed down, the
supreme court held against White.
Figures announced by State Veter-
marian Burnett show Ohio lost fewer
hogs through cholera last year than in
1917 or 1916, but the monetary loss
due to high prices of hogs, exceeded
! that of any previous year. The num-
ber of hogs lost last year was 49,.
881, valued at $3,246,S50, compared
with 120,623 animals and $1,471 90 /,
in 1917 and 250,628 animals and ST.
! 255, ,652 in 1916.
Streetcar fares at Youngstown will
go to Z cents on Aug. l, it is an
nounced by Commissioner Sause,
owing to the necessity for increasing
the operating fund allowed the rail
way company by the city.
Captain Francis NJ. Doyle was exon
|
Wood of charges of insubordination
filed against him by Colonel Franklin
o. Johnson, commanding officer at
Columbus barracks.
Former President Taft upheld the
league of nations proposal in his ad
dress at the Methodist centenary eel
ebration at Columbus.
On the ground that the editors VIC
lated terms of an injunction issued in
the WHY'S Overland labor contro
versy at Toledo, Federal Judge Killits
confscated an entire issue of the New
Voice soon after it came off the press
Postmastership at Spring Noun.
tain, iCoshocton county, is going beg
ging. AS no one can be found to take
the job the Office may be abolished.
Hugh Rohrabaugh, 35, farmer, was
found dead in a field on his farm
near Austinburg, Ashtabula county
1t is believed he shot himself.
Safeblowers cracked a safe in 9
Toledo movie house and got betweer
$3.50 and $1,000.
Captain Ivan L. Biggs, Fostoris
physician, recently discharged from
the army service, announced that b,
had discovered "an inexpensive an,
absolute cure for tuberculosis
Industries of the Steubenville dis
trict are facing a labor shortage, du,
to the exodus of foreigners.
William R. Hoel,' 80, Cleveland, ma
chinist, was held to the grand iur
without bond on a charge of murder
ing his wife, Gertrude Noel, 35.
At Cleveland Martin Gerbetsch, At
was sentenced to the Ohio peniter
tiary for life. He was charged wit
killing his wife, Polena, in their hom
on May 1, and pleaded guilty to set
ond degree murder.
Nicholast Friedsen, 81, shot an
killed his wife at Toledo when b
mistook her for chicken thief.
Despondent over ill health, Mr.
Nellie Bundon, AZ, widow. shot an
killed herself at Hootstown, near RI
VIENNA.
Mayor Davis of Cleveland is igno
ing the special grand jury's orders
remove Safety Director A. C. Sprost,
, County Prosecutor Samuel Doerfie
+ whose resignation was asked by tt
grand jury, has refused to resign.
DR.. H. w. Arndt of Lore City pal
$5,100 for three Hereford cows /
purchased from ]. w. Hill, Wap
\ koneta.
II B. A. Schnell, county Y. M. c.
secretary, Painesv' lie, resigned to /
to South Carolina as state work Sc
| retary.
II J. F. Burke has purchased Il
Elyria Chronicle and Evening Tel
| gram and will merge the two new
papers, suspending publication of Il
Il Chronicle.
Tuition at Oberlin college ne
year will be $135 instead of $100,
it has been in the past.
II Farmers and residents of Lovelan
Hamilton. county, formed a posse al
trailed two negroes whom tn
charge had held up a gambling gar
in West Loveland. One negro W
shot and seriously wounded when t.
posse surrounded them.
Representing themselves as ci
policement, six men entered t.
home of John Donomay at YOUNG
town and escaped with $512 in Anne
can money and $6O5 in Austrian c,
ESncy.
Harry Holmes of Toledo, arrest,
last week, was formally charged wi
completely in robbing the West CleV
land bank of $65,000. He denies Il
charge.
Donald Ross, Jr., who weighted OF
and One-fourth ponds when Dor