Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
STATE SlFTINGS

General cleanup has been ordered
of all gambling devices at Lima.
Morgan Engineering company, AIli-
ance, has resumed full operation.
Richter & Phillips jewelry store,
Cincinnati, was damaged by fire.
Franklin c. Pore, 75, president of
the Woodruff National bank at Dun
kirk, died after three days illness.
Highland county's first known IA
tality from sleeping sickness occurred
when Russell Eyre died, near Hills
boro.
Mrs. Lewis G. Bernard, 70 wife of
the former Hamilton county Demo
cratic leader, died at her home in
Cincinnati.
Rev. Morgan Harris, 60, of Utica,
walked in front of passenger train
at Newark and was killed. Both legs
were severed.
Discouraged by the threatened loss
of his eyesight, Frank Swift, pioneer
resident of Hinckley, committed sui
eide by shooting
Ethel Dram Hills of Cambridge,
Mass, filed suit at Lima for $4,000
against John F. Cover, Jr., for alleged
breach of promise.
Elyria board Of education purchased
IS acres of ground south of the city
to be used as an athletic field for
Elyria high school,
United States shipping board re-
jected all bids for the purchase of
the 252 homes on the government
reservation at Lorain.
At Cincinnati Municipal Judge
Spiegel fined Henry Grayman of
Sharonville 500 and costs on a charge
of selling watered milk.
Workmen excayating for new build
ings on the property of the city hos
pital, Cleveland, discovered 25 skele-
tons buried 10 feet underground.
WilIam Heth, elevator operator at
"a Marion packing plant, was electro
,cuted when the cable became crossed
with high tension electric wire.
F'indlay Ready Workers associa-
ton was formed at Findlay to assist
the city's unemployed to obtain jobs
and to provide food wherever neces-
sary.
Jewels valued at upwards of $780,
900, belonging to John L. Severance,
cleveland, millionaire, disappeared at
the Union station or on a train be-
tween Cleveland and Sandusky.
Ohio Good Roads federation,
through its secretary, W. A. Alsdorf,
estimates that $S0,O00,000 will be
spent in highway and street improve
ment work in this state during 1921.
Police are investigating the death
of Miss Florence Stelzer, 80, whose
body was found floating in the Ohio
river near her home in Cincinnati.
| She had been missing since Jan. II.
Nearly II 900 men and $500 women
| applied for work at state free en-
ployment bureaus in Ohio's seven
| largest cities last week, according to
G. F. Miles, statistician for the indus
trial commission.
MRS. Agnes Mcdonald of Steuben-
vile, who is alleged to have aban-
doned 1-day-old baby in taxicab
at Cleveland, was fined $100 and costs
and sentenced to 10 days in Jail.
Jerry O'Shaughnessy, 67, superin-
tendent of the Columbus waterworks
department for nearly 20 years and
an employe of that department for
nearly half a century, died at his
home in Columbus.
While attending christening party
at the home of Tony Nasto at Zanes.
vile, Andrew Fontano, 80, and Tony
Bondero, 80, were summoned from
the house and shot. Fontano died on
the way to a hospital.
A gas vein producing $4,000 cubic
feet daily has been discovered on the
! farm of Fred Althaus of Miamitown
near Cincinnati. When the gas was
lighted it shot a fame 25 feet high
and four feet wide. The well is about
325 feet deep.
Body of Captain Ira Roush Young
riverman, was found in the Ohio river
near Gallipolis. The top of the skull
was crushed and police express the
| opinion that he had been murdered
The sum of $4,000 he had on his per
son is missing.
Fire destroyed the home of James
Adkins, IA miles north of Washing
ton c. H, and six members of the
family, including Adkins wife aRG
four children and Mrs. Adkins uncle
Walter Bennett, 20, perished. Jane.
Adkins was probably fatally burned
Angus Irvine, indicted on a first de
gree murder charge for the Staying O.
his father, Judge Walter A. Irvine, a
the Irvine home near Newark, wal
permitted to plead guilty to man
slaughter and was given an indeter
inmate sentence in the Mansfield re
formatory.
The plea Of his wife that he con
lfess caused County Treasurer Harr!
Forty, 35, prominent in lodge anC
church circles at Marion, to admit tt
authorities that the "holdup' of tn,
county treasury was hoax and sigl
a written confession that he himsel
had taken the $14,3O3 missing from
the Office He returned the entir,
amount and resigned as county treas
urer. He is under arrest.
At East Liverpool fire caused $50
900 damage at the Kenilworth Til
company's plant.
Joe Hanacek, Is, Medina, was killet
when a piece of buzz saw few OF
and pierced his heart.
| Otto Grove and wife resigned a
superintendent and matron of Fail
field County ChiIdren's home becaus
it is impossible to get help to run tn
institution.
After hurting a brick through tn
window of Suran e Sands jewelr
store at Youngstown, thieves stoI
rings, watches and other articles va
ued at $780,
Because ono man employed at min
No. 256 at GIouster was transferre
to another job, 300 men employed a
the mine went on strike.
Cleveland, Southwestern and CO
lumbus railway has been PRACTICAL
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