Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-28
STATE SIFTINGS

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Clinton county reports the largest
blackberry crop in its history.
Russell Knots, 80, Marion lineman,
was electrocuted while at work.
Columbus was chosen for the 1922
sncampment of Ohio Odd Fellows.
David S. Miller, 40, lost his life
while bathing il a reservoir at
Akron.
E. C. Davis, 80, was crushed to
death in an elevator in a Columbus
office building
Charles Snyder, 81, laborer, was
killed when buried under carload
of material near Sandusky.
State Director of Highways Her
rick has, appointed Robert S. Harss
of Alliance state architect and engi-
neer.
John Van Pelt, so, farmer near
Washington C. H, ended his life with
a pistol during fit Of mental de-
rangement.
Despondent, Mrs. Betty Hostler, 10,
wife of Russell Hostler, 19, Dover,
swallowed rat poison. She is not ex-
pected to live.
| Body of a newborn baby, partly
devoured by hogs, was found in d
hog lot on the E. J. Shorts farm,
west of Sidney.
William F. Horton, So, is under ar
rest at Steubenville, charged with
shooting with intent to kill his wife,
Mrs. May Horton, 35.
Prohibition inspectors raided the
farm of William Singleton, two miles
north of Oxford. They claim to have
found 40-gallon still.
4 Diving from skiff into the Ohio
river without removing his clothes,
Wylie Farmer, 43, East Liverpool
plumber, was drowned.
Eight Martins Ferry men arrested
by Belmont county dry raiders were
fined total of $4,000 on charges of
violating prohibition laws.
Report of George F. Miles, head OF
the free employment bureaus in the
seven largest cities of Ohio, shows
the labor situation unchanged.
Six sticks of dynamite were dis
new Rayen high school, now under
construction at Youngstown.
William B. Guitteau, who resigned
several months ago as superinten-
dent of schools at Toledo, will be re-
tanned as director of schools.
At least "a per cent of Ohio's
wheat crop has been harvested, &C
cording to the weekly crop report OF
c. J. West, federal crop statistician
James Knapp, James Kocsmar and
Charles Mcfarland, three 9-year-old
boys, were drowned in Lake Erie of
one of the bathing beaches at Ash
tabula.
Middletown police have given ur
the search for the body of Laura
Fletcher, IS, who disappeared last
December and who it is believed was
murdered.
Mrs. Howard Shank, 90, Doyles
town, a bride of two weeks, died OF
burns suffered when gasoline, which
she was using to bleach clothes, ex
ploded at her home.
Vernon V. Howe, 43, and Curtis
Borroff, 35, we're overcome by sewer
gas and fell to their death into II
feet of water in the municipal pump
ing station, ST. Marys.
Taking his dog with him to the
spot on which he selected to end his
own life, Frank Fisher, 40, commit
ted suicide by drinking poison il
Crandall park, Youngstown.
Rev. John S. Rutledge, executive
secretary of the Methodist union ot
Cleveland, was named superinten
dent of pardons and paroles by State
Welfare Director MacAyeal.
Mayors and police judges have
final jurisdiction in trying cases O,
violations of the automobile code gov
erning illegal use of dealers licenses
Attorney General Price holds.
Delirious as the result of being i'll
with peritonitis, Judson Barker, 25, &
farmer living near Cardington, killed
himself by leaping from a fourth
story window of Columbus hospital
A total of 394 deaths resultins
from homicide, accidents or cause.
unknown in Toledo were reported BY
Coroner Henzler for the year endin,
July 1. Of the total 81 were mur
ders and 43 suicides.
An attempt to wreck an American
Railway Express company train of 1.
cars was made two miles west O.
Willoughby. Spikes had been pulled
and plates removed from the rails
The train was derailed.
Appointment of a receiver to take
over the factories and business in
terests of the Ohio State Rubber
Tire company of Port Clinton wa,
asked in complaint filed in United
States district court at Toledo.
L. R. Campbell, former safety di
rector of Cambridge, pleaded guilt,
to one count of an indictment re
turned against him as the result O
the shooting March II of Thoma
McNiece, Barnesville garage owner
and was sentenced to serve one yea
in the penitentiary.
Abolition Of the eight-hour day a
the National Tube company plant
Lorain, is announced by company OF
fciels, with the 10-hour day substi
tuted.
, Four masked bandits held I'D s.
men at a crap game near Middle
town. More than $4,000 and watche
and jewelry were taken from tn
victims.
State Director of Industrial Rela
tions Tetlow announced he had takel
steps to establish five rescue sta
tions in the eastern, southeastern
and southern mining districts O
Ohio.
Monuments to Ohio's war heroe
may be established along Ohio's priu
cipal highways if a plan now unde
consideration by Highway Directo
Leon c. Herrick is carried out.
John H. Patterson, 73, retired a
president of the National Cash Reg
; lister company of Dayton. Mr.. Pat