Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-08-25
STATE SIFTINGS.

eta, killed himself with poison.
Dorothy Doldow, 5, Akron, died
after being hit by an automobile.
At Ironton James F. Rhodes, 80,
secured a marriage license to wed
Elizabeth Fouch, Al.
Harry Tway, Milford Center pool
room proprietor, was fined $1,000 on
charge of violating the liquor laws.
John Flask, foreman, is in . crit
ical condition at Warren as a result
of being run down by an interur2an
car.
American Bottle company's plant
at Newark closed indefinitely for
lack of orders. About 1900 men are
affected.
At Cincinnati Raleigh Kincart, 45,
is held by police in connection with
the probably fatal shooting of Perry
D. Orme.
Lawrence Hiser. 16, of Columbus,
was killed near Pomeroy when he
fell from a freight train. Both legs
were cut off.
William S. Fitzgerald announced
he would be a candidate on the Re
publican ticket to succeed himself
as mayor of Cleveland.
Members Of two Lorain families,
seven in all, are in serious condi-
tion as a result of eating tOadstools,
mistaken for mushrooms.
George Yates, IA, and William Grif-
fin, Is, were badly burned as the re-
suit of picking the percussion cap
out of a dynamite cartridge.
Colby Turner of Xenia, armless
race horse driver, prevented a possi-
BILE accident at Washington c. H.
when he stopped a runaway.
Mrs. George Cole of Sullivan, near
Ashland, despondent because of i'll
health, threw herself in front of a
passenger train and was killed.
Increase in street railway fare
from the present rate of eight tick
cts for so cents to six tickets for 40
cents was announced at Toledo.
Edward Kimmet, insurance agent,
was held up, bound and gagged in
his Office at Tifin. Thugs ripped
open desks but obtained only SIS.
Cleves Massey, 80, of Cincinnati,
was dangerously wounded when shot
during pistol battle with Ham Har-
per, deputy sheriff Massey resist
ed arrest.
Charles o. Locke, for the last two
years state editor of the Toledo
Blade, has assumed charge as editor
and manager of the Tifin Daily
Tribune.
Lightning, striking a barn on the
state farm at Orient, killed Clarence
Hirnickel, 16, Cincinnati, a patient
at the state institution for the fee
ble-minded
Employment will be given to 500
persons next week when the Laugh
lin plant of the American Sheet and
Tin Plate company at Martins Ferry
starts IL mills.
A testing station for hydro-air-
planes will be established at Toledo,
according to w. S. Whitaker, assist
ant general manager of the Dayton
Wright company.
Five indictments were returned
against County Auditor William F.
Fisher by the RichIand county grand
jury at Mansfield. Forgery and en-
bezzlement are alleged
Chief of Police D. L. Moore has
brought suit at Washington C. H.
against George Coffee of that city for
| $4,000 damages, alleging Coffee made
false statements about his character.
At Akron Charles Bosley, 5. saved
| the lives of his 10-months-old baby
brother and then went back into his
burning home and saved his sisters
Oracle and Helen. His parents were
absent
Matthias Schuler, driver of a truck
containing $4,000 worth of grain al
cohol, which was held up by nine
bandits. died at Cincinnati from 'two
bullet wounds inflicted by the attack
ing party.
DR.. George T. Harding, n, father
at Marion admitted he and Miss
Alice Severns, 80, his stenographer
and Office attendant, had been mar
ried at Monroe. Mich.
Walter Wright of WeIlsvilIe, 2S,
| arrested at ST. ClairsviIle and
charged with the murder of Harry
| D. Cummins, whose body was found
near Steubenville July 26, confessed
that he killed Cummins, county Off
| cials announced.
Liability insurance companies may
write workmens compensation in
surance for employees engaged in
| maritime or admiralty business, ac-
| cording to a ruling of the state SUI
perintendent of insurance. In Ohio
| this includes Lake Erie and Ohio
river passenger and freight boats.
Miss Augusta Faucet, Cleveland,
on her way to her marriage in Ak
ron, was killed in an automobile col
| lision near Hudson. w. A Kinnell,
| so, of Hubbard, who was the groom
to-be, was injured internally. David
Evans, also of Hubbard, and Mrs. c.
H. Cook, Cleveland, were severely
injured.
J. E. Blackburn, Ga, merchant, of
Rardin, was instantly killed when a
truck which he was driving was
struck by a train at Otway, Scioto
county.
Reports received by the state agri-
cultural statistician indicate an in
crease in the condition of corn of
from 10 to 20 per cent, owing to the
recent rains.
Harry Gullum, United States treas
ury operative, was fatally wounded
and his assistant, J. L. Sharpsburg,
had minor wounds, as the result of a
| gun battle with alleged counterfeit
ers near Gallipolis.
| Crooksville's nine big stoneware
plants are idle as the result of the
refusal of the employees to accept a
10 to Is per cent wage reduction
From 300 to 400 gallons of whisky
was stolen from the residence of
Otto Armleder of Wyoming, near