Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-08-18
STATE SIFTINGS

of infantile paralysis.
Franklin RAIDER, 20, of Oberlin,
drowned in Vermillion river.
Miss Angeline Keer, "a, Marion,
died after falling from porch.
Mrs. John North was stricken
speechless by lightning at Greenville.
Edward Thompson was killed at
Cadiz when his auto plunged down
a hill.
Adam Fridley, 72, was beheaded at
street crossing in Van Vert by a
passenger train.
William Flint, co. of Cleveland, is
dead at Geneva after shooting him
self at his wife's grave.
Jack Monroe, 4, and his brother
Joe, 2, were badly burned by carbolic
acid at their home in Lima.
William T. Kreisher. 40. Ashtabu-
la, was killed at Millersburg when
his auto was hit by a train.
Jacob Karch, IS, civil war veteran,
was electrocuted when he picked up
a live wire at Phillipsburg, near Day
ton.
Jay Garrison, 35, was killed in
stantly at Sandusky when struck by
an auto truck. He was riding bt
cycle.
Alice H. Myer. Columbus. was
elected principal of the commercial
department of Wilmington high
school.
Miss Evelyn Metcalf, Democrat,
has been named by Mayor Mitchell
of Findlay to succeed C. f. Riser as
city auditor.
Bandits held up V. Staupas and
wife in jewelry store at Cleveland
and escaped with 5000 in gems and
some money.
Two men are suspected of the
murder of Jacob Snider, farmer, near
Cincinnati. He was killed while
alone at home.
Because they refused to work Sun
day without time and a half. so en-
ployes of the Erie railroad shops at
Marion were laid off.
Eugene l.. Lewis, former United
States marshal of the southern dis
trict of Ohio and auditor of Hamil-
ton county, died in Delmonte, Cal.
Jerome Jeffries, 81, an uncle of
James j. Jeffries, former heavy
weight champion. died at his home
near Newark. He was a retired
farmer.
Typhoid cases at Castalia, Erie
county, are said to have been caused
by the pollution of the springs and
wells in that vicinity from Bellevue
sewers.
F. E. Perkins, 40, Cleveland bust
ness man. was killed by the over
turning of his automobile on a road
south of Mentor. He was on his way
to his summer home.
Threatened general strike of team
sters and truck drivers at Cincinnati
was averted when an agreement was
reached over wages The existing
scale will be continued year.
Many officers, soldiers and guests
narrowly escaped serious injury
when a storm of hurricane proper.
tions swept over Camp Perry. More
than 200 tents were blown down.
Wilbur Murry, farmer. near Lon.
don, made one of the record stock
sales of the summer when he solo
270 head of 225-pound hogs to South
Charleston stock buyers for $1,000
Clarence ]. Clouser, 2S. shoemaker
killed himself at Columbus as he
stood beside the coffin of his divorced
wife, who had committed suicide
The Clousers had been living apart
A crowd of bus line sympathizers
at Bridgeport attacked c. P. Billings
general manager of the Wheeling
Traction company. He was rescued
by police. Traction service was sus
pended.
Specialists say that the epidemic
of eye, ear and nose infections suf
fered by swimmers in Cincinnati and
vicinity is caused by impure water
in rivers and bathing pools, due tC
the hot, dry summer.
When their automobile overturned
six persons were injured near New
Carlisle, the most seriously hurt be
ing Judge Golden C. Davis, judge Of
the Springfield police court, anC
Miss Hazel Fenimore.
A. ]. Thompson, 6S. attendant al
gasoline filling station in Colum
bus, was shot and fatally wounded
by two auto bandits. who escaped
Thompson, it was said, was slow il
complying with the robbers com
mands.
Farmers will get % cents per 10t
mounds less for their milk when i
is delivered at Toledo 'dairies. Thi!
will make the milk price about $1.9l
per 100. The announcement followed
a reduction in retail milk prices a
Toledo last week.
Harry Mitchell. alias Carmen
wanted on a first degree murde
charge in connection with the deatl
of Harry D. Cummins. Steubenvillt
automobile dealer, was arrested b!
authorities at Salem. He was late
removed to the county Jail at Lisbol
/ for removal to Steubenville.
J. J. Sullivan, Cleveland attorney
was appointed to be judge of the nev
/ Eighth district court of appeals, ere
ated by the last general assembly.
Congressman Edwin D. Rickett
has obtained for Logan and Hockin;
county a 6,16O-pound cannon, a lC
O0O-pound carriage and cannon ball
/ sufficient for four pyramids.
State hospital for the insane a
Cleveland has transferred 26- of it
patients to the state hospital for TIL
criminal insane az Lima. Othe
transfers will take 13 to the stat
hospital at Dayton and 13 to an Att
ems hospital.
Obtaining wire from the springs o
his cot, Atone Strenza, 2S, held il
Jail at Cleveland on a charge o
shooting to kill, hanged himself.
John Wholesome, 40. farmer, nea
RouscuIp, Allen county, was gore
nerhanS fatally when a bull which h