Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-03-30


into the river from a submerged road.
Cincinnati was chosen for the next
annual conference of the Ohio Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution,
March 10, 1923.
COnstitGtionality of the Burke law
which limits the weight of trucks and
loads on the improved roads Of the
state, is attacked in Canton courts.
While pedestrians looked on in
horror, J. P. Schild, 40, Cleveland,
leaped 60 feet from a viaduct at Nor
walk, struck in front of a freight train
and was ground to death under the
wheels.
Carl Benchley, railroad detective,
and William Madden, are in a crit
ical condition at Ashtabula, following
shooting in the railroad yards, after
Benchley found two men whom he
thought were preparing to enter
boXcar
w. N. Ferguson of Columbus, who
was charged with issuing fraudulent
certificates for deposit in the defunct
Beaver bank, was found guilty at
Waverly.
Director of Education Riegel named
a committee to study illiteracy in
Ohio and recommend plans for adult
education. The 1920 census showed
131 ,006 adult illiterates in Ohio.
Triplets, all boys, were born to Mr..
and Mrs. Harley Tilton of Leesburg
township, Union county.
Fire damaged Grace English Luth-
erap church at Columbus.
]. T. Travers, superintendent Of
streams in Ohio, reports that pollu-
ton Of Lake Erie from waste matter,
highly charged with acid and flowing
into that lake from the Black river
| near Lorain, forces the greater num-
ber of fish to the Canadian side and
in many cases killing them by the
| thousands.
Forty per cent of last years corn
crop in this state is still in farmers
hands, while year ago they held AZ
per cent, and two years ago 3S per
cent.i Farmers in Ohio hold one
fourth of last years wheat crop, as
compared with 80 per cent a year ago,
and 20 per cent two years ago. The
oat crop shows similar PERCENTAGE
decline to that of corn and wheat.
Fire at Newark destroyed the Crit
icOs confectionery store.
Burglars looted the Recreation
club building at Springfield.
Thomas C. Mahon of Hardin coun-
| ty has announced himself a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
congress.
John McDaniels, 8, whose mother
sacrificed her life two weeks ago in
an attempt to save him and younger
sister when the McDaniels home at
Cuyahoga Falls burned to the ground,
| died of his burns.
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.
A man registering as Frank Falls,
| 27, formerly of Cincinnati, is being
held at Hamilton by the police on a
charge of passing forged checks.
Benjamin H. Wilkinson, 20, coal
miner. died at East Liverpool from
broken back, sustained when he fell
| from coal tipple at Toronto.
Charles Norman, 81, died in an
East Cleveland hospital from injuries
received when he was knocked down
| by a runaway horse.
| Rev. Isaiah Miller, rs, retired Luth-
eran minister, died at Lima.
Walter Hart, in Jail at Marion on
a forgery charge, has made four un-
| successful attempts at suicide, Sheriff
Washburn announced.
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.
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.
John NJ. Eeaton, veteran train an
nouncer at the Central Union depot,
| Cincinnati, shot himself at his home
HE may die.
Nearly 100 miners, employed by the
Black Diamond Coal company at La
throp, Athens county, struck when
the company discharged a check
weighman.
Five-year-old daughter of George
Schuell, living east of Middletown,
died from burns received while play
ing with matches and coal oil.
| 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
night of Feb. 8. Both men pleaded
guilty.
Nonsupport and forgery are the
two most prevalent crimes for which
Ohio has issued requisition on gov
ernors of other states this winter, ac-
cording to w. S. Bundy, executive
clerk in the governors office.
| rreu j. 0eeger, Y, COlumDuS, was
killed in an auto accident.
Frank Harrison, 55, philanthropist
and social worker, was burned to
death while making repairs on an au-
tomobile in a garage in the rear of
his home at Toledo.
A survey of conditions throughout
the state showed the Hooking valley
most seriously affected by the recent
heavy rains. The Hooking river at
! Athens reached stage of 26 feet
Families in mining settlements re-
moved their household effects.
/ Dan Phillips, so, of Youngstown,
shot and fatally wounded Mary Nor
gan, 81, then shot and killed himself
in a rooming house at Warren.
w. c. Williams, so. steelworker,