Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-08-13
STATE SIFTINGS

Springfield.
Oil was found in six test wells sunk
on the farm Of Frank Knowlton. near
Ashtabula
Fifty-gallon barrel and fve-gallon
keg of whisky were seized in a raid
on Lorain store
Harold J. Rowe. Is, resident at the
Licking County ChildreD's home, was
killed by lightning.
Half million foot gas well was
drilled by the city of Lancaster on
the Clint Pence farm, near Lancaster.
Grant Wheeler, Woodfeld farmer,
was shot by a gun which he had ar
ranged as a trap in his granary to
catch thieves.
Captain R. w. Schroeder. holder of
the worlds altitude record, was in
jured when his plane crashed into an
auto at Wilbur Wright field, Dayton.
Plant of the A. B. Rim company,
makers Of auto steering wheels. at
Spencer, near Elyria. was destroyed
by fire with loss of 100000.
A grievance against his employer is
given by Arthur Spohn, 81, as the rea-
son for burning the barn on the farm
of the National Stock Food company,
Mansfield.
Freight thefts aggregating more
than $4,000 are said to have been
cleared up at Maude when railroad
detectives arrested five men at Ham
ilton
Police are searching Steubenville
for Mike Boskish, AZ, charged with
shooting four men at a railroad camp.
One of the victims, Dominic Monacul,
died.
Sherman W. Bishop, 54, died at his
home in Blackjack road, near New
ark. at exactly the same hour as his
brother, Daniel Bishop, 81, died at
Tif1n.
Abraham Shumaker, 80, farmer at
Clearport. Fairfield county is dead of
heart failure. He died in the same
room he was born in and lived in the
same house all his life.
Miss Maude Hoyle, trained nurse
and ordained elder in the United
Brethren church, plans to leave soon
for Rotifunk, Sierra Leone, West At
rica, to enter missionary work.
Fifteen hundred employees of five
potteries at Sebring, east of Alliance,
struck when one employe who was
dismissed from one plant was refused
employment by the others.
George Moore. %. was held to the
grand jury at Alliance on a charge of
man anslaughter in connection with the
death of Helen Coe, A. who. it is al
legged. was struck by Moore's auto.
Mangled body of Thomas Mercer
II. elevator operator, was found by
workmen on the first floor of a plant
at New Comerstown 1t is believed
Mercer looked out of the shaft and
was caught.
State Prohibition Director J. A
of several Cleveland physicians
charged with violation Of the federal
regulations in issuing permits for the
use of liquor
Lowell Lee, II, of Clarksfe1d, ant
Lucille Sackett, II, of New London
were instantly killed at railroad
crossing, three miles west of New
London, when train crashed into
their automobile.
Price of the two Cleveland after
! noon daily papers, the News and the
Press, and the morning daily, the
Plain Dealer, has been increased
from 2 to cents, because of the in
creased cost of newspaper production
J. Frank Hanly, So, former cover
nor of Indiana, and DR.. and Mrs
Charles Baker of Kilgore were killet
when the auto in which they were
riding was struck by a freight trail
near Dennison. Hanly was a notet
dry leader.
Willard Miller, farmer nea
Reedsburg, Wayne county. bought TO
his 6-year-old boy Waldo a pair O
rubber boots so he could take tn,
cows to pasture. On his first trip tn,
boy tried out the boots by wading il
a creek. He was drowned
Two men are held in Cleveland il
connection with the theft of S53 3,00
in liberty bonds, stolen while il
transit between the First Nationa
bank of Cleveland and the Secont
National bank of Toledo, while beinI
shipped for an Akron bank.
Lafe Newman, so, a prosperou
farmer near PEBBLES, Adams county
was shot three times with a revolve
by his daughter, Mrs. Ramsey, and in
stantly killed. A divorce suit wa
pending between the Newmans. Mrs
Ramsey says her fathers cruelty t,
her mother forced her to do the kill
ing. She was exonerated.
Sale of the historic Neil House wa
authorized at Columbus after tn
court had heard arguments and test
mony in a suit brought by William
Neil, trustee. against other heirs t
the property for permission to sell
The court held the sale may be mad
for S2,1S0.000.
Employees of Ashtabula Rapid Tran
sit company, who went on strike il
protest against retrenchment polio
by which a one-man system of ca
operation was to be adopted, returne'
to work following a settlement
Census bureau announced the fo
lowing 1920 population results: But
Ter county. S7.025. an increase of 16
754 or 2SS per cent; Clark county
S0.72S. an increase of 1929 or 81
per cent; Fairfield county. 4e.4SS. a
increase of 1898 or 3.3 per cent: Ros
county 40.556, an increase of L487 o
81 per cent; Stark county, 7,21S
an increase Of 54.231, or ~ per CEN
Ohio Conservation and Fire Pre-
veEtion association has made NOR
than 1900 inspe ections OF food repos
itories the past year.
Sandusky police seized a Detroi
motor boat carrying 50 cases of Cans
dian whisky and gin valued at $5.00f
Two arrests were made.
New occupational tax proposed i
Cincinnati city council is expected t
raise income from this source fror
S302,0e0 to $3.50 .00o annually.