Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-03
STATE SIFTINGS


Lancaster.
Jay X. Secor, Toledo broker and
banker, died suddenly at Boca
Grande, Fla.
John Brainard, 33, was drowned
when he fell into a new mine shaft
near Port Clinton.
Gallon Kiwanis club organized with
more than so charter members. E. P.
Monroe was elected president.
Mrs. Iphia Doke, SO, committed sui
eide at her home in Blanchester by
hanging herself with shirtwaist.
After she had been reprimanded by
her father, Julia H. Harner, 16, Xenia,
committed suicide by taking poison.
Five bandits held up a mail truck
at the Toledo postoffice and escaped
in an automobile with II mail sacks.
Peter Charley, IL, Cleveland, was
electrocuted when he seized high
tension wire while climbing fence.
National agents of the General Fire
proofing company, Youngstown, split
$4,000 melon under a proft-sharing
plan.
hospital left their posts following al
legged difficulties with the superin-
tendent.
Twelve men were injured, one
probably fatally, in an explosion at
the Youngstown Sheet and Tube COM
pany's plant.
At Bellefontaine Mrs. Sarah Heas-
;,1c
Charles Heaston four weeks after
their marriage.
Price of bread at Cleveland was
cut Q cents to 9 cents pound loaf,
and cents to Is cents for a pound
and a half loaf.
Rev. Q. A. Randall, 7S, for 56 years
an active minister of the Church of
Christ, serving in many Ohio towns,
died at East Liberty.
Conneaut council passed an ordi-
nance authorizing the purchase Of the
Conneaut Water company's plant by
the city for 100000.
Lena Xrug, 26, charged with the
murder of her sweetheart, Joe Penna,
on May II last, pleaded guilty to man.
slaughter in court at Akron.
David D. Williams, 54, barber at
Diamond Station, Portage county,
was killed when his automobile skid
ded into a ditch at Edinburg.
Mrs. Nola Gascia was robbed Of
1,6O0 in cash and $500 in gems by a
stranger in wayside inn near Cleve-
land, where she stopped for food.
Youngstown building trades EN-.
ployers will ask all building unions
to accept a reduction in wages for
the new scale to take effect May 1.
Fire completely destroyed the plant
of the Logan Clay Products company.
Two hundred men are out of employ
ment as a result. Property loss
$15O,000.
A raise in fares has been granted
the Richland Public Service company
at Mansfield from to 8 cents for
streetcar tickets or seven tickets fol-
so cents.
Edward Davis has been identified
Toledo police say, as one of the mer
who bound a Strand theater porter
and then carried away a safe contain
ing $1,000.
A streetcar franchise for the North
ern Ohio Traction and Light company
was approved by the Akron city coun
Gil. The city turned the same fran
chise down several weeks ago.
Rev. DR.. William A. Scullen ha:
been named administrator of the
Cleveland Catholic diocese, pending
the appointment of a successor tt
the late Bishop John P. Farrelly.
Fire, originating in the basement
Of the Ohio Slater lunch room, Co
lumbus, caused damage estimated a
100000 Adjoining store rooms suf
fered smoke damage and basement
were flooded. Three firemen wert
injured.
Letters were sent to the 5000 mem
bers of the Ohio Sugar Growers Co
, Operative association in northwest
ern Ohio asking them not to sigl
contracts that are being drawn up b,
sugar companies.
E. C. Shaw, president of the Secon,
National bank of Akron, and Marshal
Sheppey, head of Berdan & Company
I wholesale grocers, Toledo, both Re
publicans, have accepted appointment
to the state board of administration
Misses Louise Wolf, 81, and Mabe
Foote, "a, rural school teachers a
? Parma, near Cleveland, were brutal,
murdered, while on their way hom
, from the school, on "a lonely spot il
Dean road. The murderer or murder
ers, who escaped, slew the womeI
with a plank.
I Following members of the Assoc
+ ated Ohio Dailies have been appoint
I ed delegates to the Press Congress @
! the World at Honolulu, Oct. to l.
!. by President G. w. c. Perry: F. "
Bush, Athens; Homer Gard, Hami
, ton; Roscoe Carle, Fostoria; w.
D Calvin, Lima; Mrs. Zell Hart Den
I ing, Warren; John Kaiser, Marietta
; L. H. Brush, Salem; Egbert H Macl
I Sandusky, and Mr.. Perry.
e Hindo & Dauche Paper company
!, factory at Delphos was closed bt
! cause employees refused to be vacc
? mated. The health board issued tn
: closing order.
/. Motorcycle Patrolman August Dyke
1 &c, Cleveland, was shot and probabl
i fatally wounded during a pistol battl
t with three holdup men attackin
: George Akron.
|. Attorney E. A. Tinker of Chillicoth
y was named a member of the publ
= utilities commission to succeed Beecl
q er W. Waltermire, Findlay, who r,
S signed last week. His salary will b
$4,000.
James Slentz, "a, Akron, one of tw
alleged bandits who ordered Ere
: Corwin, poolroom proprietor, to thro,
r up his hands, was shot and wounde
s probably fatally by CorWin.
+ Canton's water improvement pr,
l. gram, covering a period of nearl
tbraa vaarc has hpoO Virtua11v cor