Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-03-23
STATE.SIFTINGS

Akron grave diggers demand aboli-
ton of Sunday funerals.
Burglars looted the Recreation club
building at Springfield
Fire at Newark destroyed the Crit
icos confectionery store.
Ohio and Kentucky are now con-
nected at Ironton by bridge.
Fire damaged the Grace English
Lutheran church 'at Columbus.
Rev. Isaiah Miller, 10, retired Luth-
eran minister, died at Lima.
Leonard Lee, farmer near Galiipo-
lis, was robbed of several hundred
dollars, the proceeds of a public sale.
Ohio League of Women Voters is
to invite Lady Astor to attend the
state convention in Columbus May IL.
Thomas C. Mahon of Hardin county
has announced himself a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
congress.
John M. Heaton, veteran train an
nouncer at the Central Union depot,
Cincinnati, shot himself at his home.
He may die.
Tuscarawas county commissioners
approved paving of Park Valley road
to Saltwater for a distance of five
and half miles.
William LAWN, 81, and N. A. Law
renee, 3S, statesmen, are under arrest
at Toledo, charged with violation of
the blue sky law.
Ohio university girls have under
taken to do educational and social
work in each mining community for
women and children.
Rev. Paul F. Ebert, pastor of Eng
lish Lutheran church, Lancaster, was
given a call to the pastorate at Canal
Dover Lutheran church.
Frank Butterworth, Marion jew
eler, sailed for Liverpool in a race
with death His mother in England
suffered a paralytic stroke.
While playing on the steps at the
home Of his parents in Columbus,
Harry Ferguson, aged 2, fell and
broke his neck. He died instantly.
Mrs. Tony Debrelsio's purse, con-
tanning $3.50 in currency and 5000 in
liberty bonds, burned in a fire that
partially destroyed her home at New
ark.
Nearly 100 miners, employed by the
Black Diamond Coal company at La
throp, Athens county, struck when
the company discharged a check
weighman.
Two hundred miners employed at
the Warner Galleries company mine
are on strike because the company
assessed a 81 fine against each of
them because they took days vaca-
ton
John McDaniels, 8, whose mother
sacrificed her life two weeks ago in
an attempt to save him and a younger
sister when the McDaniels home at
Cuyahoga Falls burned to the ground,
died of his burns.
Ohio Bell Telephone company has
asked the public utilities commission
to allow an increase of nearly 10 per
cent in rates for business and two
party business telephones at East
Liverpool and Wellsville.
Business in northwestern Ohio is
showing improvement after period
of extreme quietness. according to
several hundred building and loan
officials from nine northwestern coun-
ties in convention at Fostoria.
At Dennison Mrs Russell Evans
shot her divorced husband. Edward
Vorback, the bullet going through his
neck. Mrs. Evans claims Vorback
came to her house and attempted to
poison his 5-year-old daughter.
Mrs. Deronica Smolaik and her two
children were seriously burned by a
in Cleveland. Physicians say it is
doubtful if Mrs Smolaik will recover
The two children were burned abo1t
the hands, face and head.
Fifty-ive Ohio railroads petitioned
the state public utilities commission
to dismiss the investigation the COM
mission is to conduct to ascertain the
reasonableness of freight rates on
grain and grain products, the carriers
averring that it is without jurisdic-
ton.
]. T. Travefs, supervisor of streams
in Ohio, reports that pollution of
Lake Erie from waste matter, highly
charged with acid and flowing into
that lake from the Black river near
Lorain, forces the greater number of
Eeh n cid in, "
cases killing them by the thousands.
County Coroner NJ. H. Bradley's
verdict in the inquest into the crash
between a New York Central express
train and an automobile bus that re-
suited in the loss of Is lives at
pany's crossing watchman, A. w
Barnes, guilty of negligence of duty
John Gahenback was sentenced at
Marion to be electrocuted June 20,
and Edwin Baker. who claims TO be
Gahenback's half-brother, was given
a life sentence in the penitentiary
for the murder of Joseph Boone, a
dairy salesman at Marion, on the
night of Feb s. Both men pleaded
guilty.
Hamilton board of education adopt
ed resolutions placing ban upon all
dances except the waltz at dances
given by high school students.
Frank Halfpenny, state prohibition
enforcement officer, was arrested at
Tiffin on a warrant charging him with
contributing to the delinquency of a
15-year-old girl.
Another cleanup of Akron restaur.
ants, lunch counters, markets and
meat shops was threatened by health
officials following reports that nu-
merous adults and children in Akron
are i'll as the result of eating tainted
food.
Walter w Gwin, driver of an auto
truck was injured when his truck
was struck at a crossing at Huron by
a train.
Laborers employed by a construc-
tion company at the Elyria' water