Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-02-23
STATE SIFTINGS.

Sumeu operations.
Newark's industrial exposition net
ted $4,000 for the poor.
Nolen Fruchy, II, was drowned in
the Blanchard river at Ottawa,
Lewis Hensel, As, Corning, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head.
Frank B. Ward, sporting editor,
Youngstown, is suffering from rib
broken by sneezing.
Ralph King, %, clerk in the Spring
field postooffice, was arrested on a
charge of rifiing the mails.
President Harding sent to the SEN
ate the nomination to be postmaster
at Chillicothe of Milton ]. Scott.
Michael Locher, AZ, crossing watch
man in Youngstown, was instantly
killed when struck by passenger
train.
]. w. R. Cline, 81, former com
mandant of the soldiers home al
Sandusky, died at his home in
Springfield,
An Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows temple will be erected at To-
ledo to house nine lodges of the or
ganization in the city.
Parents of students in Wittenberg
college are to be notified each month
as to just how their sons and daugh-
Lers are getting along in classes.
A small but steady trend of i'm
provement in the coal mining situa-
ton in Ohio is noted by State Direc-
tor of Industrial Relations Tetlow.
Rev. Father F. NJ Woesman, pas
tor of St. Mary's Catholic church,
Marietta, is dead. He was one of the
oldest priests in Columbus diocese.
John S. Hutchison, 72, Martins
Ferry, engineer on the ferryboat
Charon, fell from a plank while oil
ing the wheel drive shaft and was
drowned.
Hy Yellar, who shot and killed
Former Chief of Police James A.
Baucus, in East Portsmouth yards on
the night of Dec. 6, 1914, is under
arrest in Wheeling.
Fred Coldway, dairyman, living in
Carthage, near Cincinnati, was prob
ably fatally burned while trying to
extinguish flames that destroyed the
upper part of his home.
Mrs. Lillian H. Pearson Of Van
Vert county, an inmate of the To-
ledo state hospital, died from burns
suffered when she attempted to end
her life by setting fire to her cloth
ing.
Eli Keeran, so, Putnam county
farmer, died of injuries received near
Findlay when he was thrown from a
buggy in collision with an automo-
bile
Mrs. Albert Holz, who had been on
trial in Cincinnati on the charge OF
second degree murder as a result of
the killing of Walter Haynes, 16,
negro, was found not guilty. She
pleaded self-defense.
Schools of the state will get $94,-
516,258 of the taxes levied on the
1921 duplicate, or about 43 per cent
of taxes levied for all purposes in
Ohio, according to compilation
made public by the state tax COM
mission.
Miss Mary Kirker, 10, and Miss
Nellie Tomlin, Is, juniors in the
West Union adams county, high
| school, were burned to death when
FIRE destroyed the six-room home OF
The formers grandparents. Mr.. ana
Mrs. Quincy Naylor of West Union.
Samuel Purpera, IS, Cleveland
youth under sentence of death for
murder, was granted 30-day stay of
execution by the state supreme
participation in the Sly-Fanner pay
roll robbery and murder at Cleve-
| land.
! With the arrest of nine youths,
Toledo police believe they have bro
ken up one of the most persistent
automobile thievery rings in north.
western Ohio. Police say the young
men, all under 20 years old, have
confessed to the theft of approx
mately 25 automobiles since Nov. TO-
Governor Davis has been asked to
| investigate the work of the state
commission for the blind Lengthy
| charges were filed with the governor
by committee of six representing
the Progressive Workers for Ohio
Blind. They charge the commission
with inefficient conduct and man.
agement."
Ohio supreme court upheld the
provisions of the Smith 1 per cent
Jaw as controlling tax levies and
bond issues, Notwithstanding home
rule city charters to the contrary,
when it sustained the Montgomery
county budget commission in it's re-
tusal in two instances to provide tax
levies authorized under Dayton char
ter provisions.
w. A. Russell and sons, John P.
and Waldo, pleaded guilty at Waverly
20 misapplying credits and making
false entries in the Beaver bank at
Beaver, Pike county, which closed
,ts doors last April. Owing to his
age, w. A. Russell, 6S, was given a
suspended sentence to the Ohio pen
.tentiary, while his sons were given
,ndeterminate sentence.
DR.. Clayton R. Truesdall, 60, Ere
mont physician, died suddenly fol-
lowing a paralytic stroke.
Directors of the Marion chamber
of commerce indorsed proposed leg
islation for a national soldiers bonus.
Ten children were made orphans
when their father, James Berzina,
shot his wife. the mother Of the chill
1ren, to death, following a quarrel at
their home in Cleveland.
Tributes were paid at specia
chapel service at Ohio Wesleyan uni
versity to Professor w. w. Davies,
who has resigned as professor of
German after A years of service.
Authorities are investigating the
origin of fire which destroyed part
of a business block at Middletown.
with loss of $4,000.
Charles H. Draper, receiver for the