Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-12-22
STATE SIFTINGS


Marion Coaster companys plant,
Marion, suffered a 5000 fire loss.
Hooking Valley railroad shops at
Columbus closed, not to reopen until
Jan. l.
Coal contracts for 92,65O tons were
let to low bidders, it was announced
by Finance Director Waite.
James Billson, 30, died of a frac-
tured skull suffered while he was un-
| loading gas piping at Cuyahoga Falls.
Henry J. Davies, 62, secretary
treasurer of the Cleveland Railway
company, died after a years failing
health.
Joseph Grondim, 70, Lorain ship
builder, died, leaving Is children,
children.
Judge Charles F. Shaber of Buoy
rus announces he will not be can
didate for secretary of state on the
Democratic ticket.
Zorn-Hornung Merchandise COM
pany at Gibsonburg was robbed of
$500 worth of mems furnishings by
bandits. who used truck.
Thomas Moore of Lima was ar
rested at Toledo by police, who said
they had apprehended him while he
was selling narcotic drugs.
Five sheet mills at New Philadel-
phia and three at Dover of the Amer
ican Sheet and Tin Plate company
closed, laying off about 25O men.
At Wooster Mrs. Hester Franks,
6S, was found guilty on a charge of
torturing her daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Salome Franks, by burning her with
acid.
At Youngstown Charles Markovitz
was found guilty of first degree muir
der. There was no recommendation
for mercy. He was charged with
killing Stella Korn.
Vittoria Pisselli, who is said to
have stabbed to death Daniel Kaber,
wealthy Lakewood publisher, two
years ago, has been captured in Ri
palimosani, Italy.
Bellaire Ministerial association in
resolutions says it favors short
skirts, short sleeves and reasonably
low necks for womens clothing and
opposes return to styles of 1860.
John Rike, 40, Baker, was shot and
killed and Eva Dig, 80, was shot and
wounded, probably fatally, at the
home of Miss Dig in Dayton. Harry
Smith is charged with the shooting,
Fred Lessler and wife of Piqua
were seriously injured near Sidney
when the car in which they were
riding was crowded from the road by
another machine, which attempted to
pass them.
Rehearing on the proposed Ports
mouth, Columbus and Sandusky
barge canal will be held in Colum-
bus late in January or early Feb
ruary, the federal board of rivers and
harbors engineers decided.
Special joint committee on taxa
tion began work at Columbus with
out definite word from the governor
as to whether he will call special
session of the legislature if the COM
mittee agrees on a tax program.
Michael Ricto and Samuel Marko-
vitz began suit at Cleveland fol.
$4,000 damages against the milk
drivers union. They allege that they
were beaten by sympathizers while
purchasing milk at a substation.
Jealous infatuation is believed to
have led to the murder of Mrs. Edith
Wise, 43, and subsequent suicide of
her alleged lover, Edward Horlocker,
so, at the latter's home in Wester-
vile, Franklin county. Both were
shot.
Leadership in the movement to Sc
cure old age pensions in Ohio has
been taken over by the Ohio State
Federation of Labor. and it will at
tempt to rally all the factions of the
state favoring age compensation to
initiate a law.
In a gun battle at Dayton with al
legged coal thieves, Sergeant Joseph
Wheeler, railroad detective, was
wounded, and he killed one of his as
sailants, Governor Bradley Connors,
25, colored and wounded another,
Turner Miller, also colored
Liverpool and Beaver Valley Trac-
ton company said that the wages Of
their employees would be increased 5
cents an hour when fare increases
granted recently by the Interstate
commerce commission become ef-
fective.
Police at Dayton recovered about
$4,000 worth of jewelry alleged to
have been stolen from the residence
of Colonel William Cooper Proctor,
Cincinnati, on Nov. %. Two men,
Victor Bellou and Peter Velker, were
arrested and are said to have con-
fessed to taking part in the robbery.
A counterfeiting plant was found
at Cleveland. Huge quantities of
spurious whisky and gin labels, reve-
nue. stamps and the plates from
which they were printed were seized
were also found, as well as a consid-
cradle quantity of inferior quality
gin and whisky.
There are at present 1000 prison
ers in the state reformatory at Mans
field.
Edward Marks, Tiffin business man,
was fined $1,10O on each of two
liquor charges as result of a raid
on his basement, where three stills
were found, it is alleged.
Appointment of the director of
highways by a commission of three
members, instead of by the governor,
was recommended in the annual re-
port of w. A. Alsdorf, secretary of
the Ohio Good Roads federation,
adopted at a meeting of the fedora
tion.
Mrs. Frieda Peterson, %, was killed
and three men suffered serious in
juries when a motorcycle and an
auto collided at Cincinnati.
Toledo police are holding Carl Ad-
ans, 81, driver of a mail truck, in
connection with the death of Joseph
Barone, Sc, who was killed instantly