Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
STATE SIFTINGS

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o marry Mrs. Jessie Jones, 81, at
Martins Ferry
Akron city cars are carrying an
,verage of $1,000 less passengers
iaily than a year ago.
Seven men and women were fined
IN aggregate of s1,125 at Findlay as
result Of a raid under the Crabbe act.
An interurban trolley car struck an
automobile at crossing in Canton,
Killing one man and injuring three
others.
George Morrison shot and killed a
wildcat that was clawing his bulldog
+ % death on his farm two miles east
II Newark.
Two oldest banks in Marysville, the
Peoples bank and the Bank of Marys-
Vile, will be merged into the Bank
Of Marysville.
Rev. d. o. Cunningham, formerly of
Findlay, missionary of the Church of
Christ in India, died at Indianapolis
from pneumonia.
C. A. Cullumber, farmer, Greenfield
township, Fairfield county, picked a
quart of strawberries while snow COW
cred the ground.
Ffndlay merchants report that
much merchandise has been stolen
from their stores. Professional shop
filters are suspected.
Nine stills were confiscated and So
alleged liquor law violators were ar
rested at Cleveland in raids by the
police vice squadron.
William Miller, 60, of Mercer coun-
ty, an inmate of the Toledo state hos
pital, was instantly killed when
struck by a freight train.
Two autos, several horses, much
hay and grain and farm implements
we're destroyed in barn fire on the
farm of Henry Keech. near Dayton.
Ten thousand dollars damage re-
suited when fire partly destroyed a
two-story brick building at Saline
Vile owned by the United Mine
Workers.
Judge Evans sentenced Lloyd Barr,
alits Jack Smith, and Herbert Schnei-
der, both convicted for burglarizing
a residence in Columbus. to the peni-
tentiary for life.
Tony Spero, who was driving an
automobile containing $4,000 worth of
liquor which was seized while pass
ing through East Liverpool, was taken
to Youngstown by federal officers.
The 300 sets of automobile IL
= censes and 1900 motorcycle licenses
to be furnished the state Of Ohio for
the year 1921 have been practically
completed at the Ohio penitentiary.
Purchase Of 1,562 acres of land near
Bucyrus as a site for the new institu-
tion for feeble-minded was announced
by the state board OF administration.
Nineteen farms were bought for
y422 ,24O.
Edward luncheon, convicted of the
murder Of a merchant at Youngstown
in a fake whisky deal, was sentenced
to die in the electric chair on April
s, after a motion for a new trial had
been overruled.
Plans for the merging OF six Cleve-
land banks, with capital and sur
plus Of $4,000 900 and resources in
excess OF 1910, 200. 900, were completed
when stockholders created the Union
Trust company.
Five prizes were won by Ohio
Wesleyan students in a nationwide
contest to select rest designs in dress
silks, cottons, cretonnes and other
printed fabrics, conducted by the Art
Alliance Of America.
Bandits in an automobile kidnapped
an Ohio Dairy company messenger on
the street at Toledo, carried him to
the city's outskirts and elected him
after taking $3.50. Checks amounting
TO 81, 800 also we're taken from the
messenger.
Damage resulting from the burning
of two factory buildings of the Culver
Art and Frame company at Wester
vile. Franklin county, will amount tc
nearly 100000, T. G. Tussey, presi
dent Of the company, estimated. Loss
included about 5000 worth of glass
Report of the state bureau of vita
statistics shows that there were 72,
651 deaths in Ohio last year and thai
10,131 of these were children under
one year Of age. Almost one-fifth o.
the total number of deaths, or 14,010
we're children under five years of age
Approximately 400 of the small rail
road and wagon mines in the Hook
ing valley have been closed down il
the past week, following a heavy
slump in the price of coal, it is an
nounced at Athens. Many of the
larger mines are working from one
third to one-half time.
Governor Cox asked the state tai
commission to reconsider it's order O
Nov "a for reappraisement of rea
estate in 81 counties. He gave two
reasons: That the commissions dati
IS based on valuations as they existed
in 1919 instead Of this year, and sec
ond. that district conferences held b.
the commission were attended largel,
by county officials and not the tax
payers themselves.
H. w. Graver. collector for thu
Thrift Grocery company's chain o
stores at Toledo, was held up on tn,
street and robbed Of $1,000 by TIVE
bandits. who escaped in an auto.
John Hancock, ticket agent, ant
Jesse Pemberly. baggage agent at thu
New York Central depot. Elyria, wer,
slugged and robbed by two men. TIL,
robbers escaped with about $500.
Six thousand eight hundred ant
seventy-three rats, mice and sparrow
we're exterminated in a roundup o
pests by two teams Of ~ men each il
South Richland township, = Defianc,
county.
Paul Smith and Clyde Kelly, Is an,
rs respectively, escaped from tn,
county Jail at Ashland The boy
had been sentenced to the Lancaste
Industrial school.
Losing his balance while oiling tn,
equipment, Charles Davis rs, fell int,
pig mill and was crushed TO de Il
At the Clay Products company's plant
near East Liverpool.
Whisky valued at several thousan,
dollars which had been confscated ii
federal raids in Cincinnati disap