Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-12-29

dividend totaling $76,250
Retail milk prices at Bucyrus was
reduced to 10 cents a quart.
Bachelor of school music is to be
a new degree at Oberlin college.
Work started on the $4,000 addi-
tion to the postoffice at Findlay.
Lloyd Hannah, 2S, Middletown, died
of injuries received in an auto spill.
Templar Motor company's plant at
Cleveland was damaged $250,000 by
fire.
S. Showalter filed 16 oil and gas
leases at Chardon, covering 1854
acres.
A drive for $4,000 for Boy Scout
work will be held at Canton early in
the year.
Barnett Pugh dry goods store, Orr
vile, suffered $500 loss when the
safe was blown.
Twenty of the 23 tin plate mills Of
the Laughlin plant at Martins Ferry
are operating.
Rev. E. T. Mohn, treasurer North
eastern Ohio NJ. E. conference, died
at Steubenville.
Glover Whitacre, 80, farmer near
Blanchester, was killed when caught
in a sawmill belt.
Jack Hardy of Elyria, who enlisted
with the Spanish Legion, is reported
killed in action in Morocco.
Lafe Murstein, Cleveland jeweler,
was robbed of 1000 in cash by four
bandits who held up his store.
A roundup of stray dogs followed
the killing of 7S sheep on the Will
liam Hoover farm, near Lima.
Charles Day of Philadelphia was
elected president of the Indiana, Co.
lumbus and Eastern Traction COM
pany.
Dominic Benigno, convicted of the
murder of w. c. Sly at Cleveland,
was sentenced to be electrocuted on
April 27.
Kenton officials believe that search
will reveal that Mrs Barbara Alice
Koehler, who committed suicide, pos
sessed fortune.
Postoffice department certified to
the white house the name of DR..
Loren c. Weimer for appointment as
postmaster at Dayton.
Several hours after he escaped
from hospital the body of John
Jacobs, 81, Cleveland, was found
hanging to tree in a park.
Mike Dobich, prisoner at the peni-
tentiary from Cuyahoga county for
manslaughter, jumped from the fifth
tier in the old cell block and was
killed.
Abe Six of Kimberly, Athens coun-
,ty, was shot and killed by Barney
.Pierson, who is held under $4,000
bond on a second degree murder
charge.
State supreme court holds it is not
necessary to specify the kind of in
,toxicating liquor a violator of the
prohibition law may be charged with
handling.
Oliver Leightner, 19-year-old Bluff
ton high school student, was shot to
death at Columbus Grove when he
attempted to hold up Charles Doty
and his 15-year-old son.
John F. Eckhart of Portsmouth as.
sumed Office as head of the depart
ment of justice agents at Cincinnati
At Dover the retail milk price was
restored to 13 cents quart.
Lester Bowersock, %, suffering
frozen feet and his legs temporarily
paralyzed as a result of AZ hours ex.
posure on a platform in Lake St
| tMarys, was rescued by hunters.
A gang of bandits raided the Of
fees of the Olympic theater, Cincin'
natl, bound the manager and an ad
vance agent with wire, beat the as
sistant treasurer and stole $100.
Robert H. Day, common pleas
judge, made formal announcement
that he would be a candidate for
judge of the state supreme court
Judge Day resides in Massillon.
Charles Walsh, Pittsburgh, and s.
H. Houston, Chicago, were killed
near GAINESVILLE when their automo
bile buckled as they hit ditch in
the road at a railroad crossing
| plunged from the road and into a
small creek.
President Harding sent to the sen.
ate the nomination of George w
Upton of Warren to be a member of
the federal trade commission, and
the nomination of Carl F. Routzahn
of Mansfield to be collector of inter
nal revenue for the Cleveland dis.
trict
Following her refusal to accept
Christmas gifts which he had brought
for his two children, Raymond Fort.
ner, q, interior decorator, shot and
killed his wife, Viola Fortner, at To.
| ledo, and then shot himself through
the body, inflicting a probably fatal
wound. They had been separated.
One of the most extensive dope
rings ever operated in Ohio, with
vealed when suspects now under sur
veillance are arrested and brought
to trial, Federal Narcotic Agent E.
H. Staley announced. Staley said he
hoped to complete his investigations
soon.
Louis Friedman, a cattle dealer,
was held up and robbed of $4,000 by
two thugs at Cleveland.
Reeds hotel, the Odd Fellows hall
and Robert Haynes meat market in
Adelphi, Ross county, were destroyed
by fire. Loss $4,000.
George Bush was convicted at
Youngstown of the first degree mur-
der of Lucius Lee Oct. 27, 1920. The
jury did not recommend mercy.
Harry Cation of Fresno was elected
master of the Ohio State Grange,
which has been in session in Cincin-
natl. He succeeds l.. ]. Taber, state
director of agriculture, who resigned.
Body of Jennie May Applegate, %,
! Columbus, for whom police have
! been searching for two weeks, was