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STATE SIFTINGS
Cleveland reports a labor shortage.
May Huffman, 20, Dayton, died of burns.
Leonard Green, 21, was killed by a train near Galion.
Robert Sellers, 5, Cincinnati, was run down and killed by an automobile.
Dr. B. F. Harding of Mansfield, a cousin of President Harding, died at Sebring, Fla.
Farmers from every section of Hocking county report the outlook for fruit was never better.
Lieutenant R. L. Maughan set a new speed mark of 233.8 miles an hour at Wilbur Wright flying field, Dayton.
Edgar E. Parsons, former city manager of Springfield, has accepted the city managership of Excelsior Springs, Missouri.
A gas well producing 5,000,000 cubic feet of gas has just been drilled near Union Furnace by the Ohio Fuel and Gas Supply company.
George Holscher, secretary of the Charles Meis Shoe company, was found dead with a bullet in his head at his home in Cincinnati.
Miss Adelaide Park, 32, of Bellaire, who had been missing from a sanitarium at Cuyahoga Falls, was found drowned in the Cuyahoga river.
Rev. K. M. Gow, who was called to Marion from Radnor, Delaware county, as pastor of the Memorial Baptist church about a year ago, has resigned.
Union county commissioners have appointed Mrs. William F. Morey as a member of the board of trustees of the children's home for a term of four years.
James Sedlack, 15, Cleveland, is in a hospital with a bullet wound in his thigh. He told his parents that he was shot while playing with three companions.
Miss Helen Staffey, 20, Cincinnati, is ill with stab wounds received when she stepped in front of her escort, Edward Hust, 21, as an assailant attacked him.
Clem Seymour, Columbus truck owner, was given a fine and costs amounting to $43.90 at London for driving an overloaded truck on Madison county roads.
Perry county sand mines will ship more than 800 cars of moulding sand to the Ford Motor company at Detroit. The order will give employment to 100 men.
Charles Williams, 63, member of the Athens county board of education, was seriously injured by a fall of slate in a mine near Glouster, where he was working.
Attorney George S. Hawke of Cincinnati was refused an injunction by the supreme court to restrain the courts of Hamilton county from disbarring him in that county.
Three children of Charles White of Williamsfield Center, 27 miles north of Youngstown, were burned to death when the home was destroyed by fire during the absence of the parents.
When a freight train crashed into their automobile at a crossing at Marion, Theodore Bauerneind, head of the legion post at Marion, and Mrs. Edna Sarrar, 25, were killed outright.
Mrs. Margaret Faulhaber, mother of three small children, jumped from the Rocky river bridge, Cleveland, to her death, 100 feet below. She had been ill and was recently released from a hospital.
Rev. Msgr. Francis W. Howard, 55, pastor of Holy Rosary Catholic church, Columbus, for the past 17 years, has been appointed bishop of the diocese of Covington, Ky., by Pope Pius XI.
Four Trumbull county chiropractors have been released from Canton workhouse. Their wives went before a justice of the peace at Warren and paid fines of $500 and costs each for their husbands.
Fifteen years in the state reformatory was the sentence meted out to Clay Mershon, 20, who pleaded guilty in criminal court to the payroll robbery at the H. H. Meyer Packing company at Cincinnati.
Six members of the family of Mike Collella, storekeeper at Martins Ferry, were blown from their beds when a bomb was exploded under their home. Valonda, 6-year-old daughter, was cut by glass. The house was wrecked.
Senator J. J. Rowe of Cleveland and others were cleared of any connection with the scandal rumors concerning Senate Bill 162. Reports of the senate investigating committee will be delayed for a week or more.
Body of a man identified by police as that of E. C. Rappold, 45, of Pittsburgh, was found hanging to a brace strip on a billboard at Toledo. A note addressed to "The Coroner" read: "Sick, out of work and without a home is the cause."
Noble Holt, slayer of Frank Hueftlein, Cincinnati detective, must die in the electric chair April 27. The date of execution was set by Chief Justice C. T. Marshall of the supreme court after Holt's appeal from the death decision of the lower courts had been refused and the lower courts affirmed.
Gallipolis tobacco warehouse, under lease to Grayson Thornton, has broken all records in handling over 2,000,000 pounds of burley tobacco during the past season.
Mrs. Carmella Vasarelli, charged with murder in connection with the killing of Antonio Sciascia, 29, two months ago, has been released from jail at Cleveland on $10,000 bond. She is ill.
Athens chamber of commerce will fight the attempt of the Federal Valley Railroad company to secure higher freight rates through the interstate commerce commission.
Gallia county fruit growers predict a good fruit crop.
Flu epidemic in Hocking county has been stamped out.
Struck by a taxicab, Amos J. Minnear, 77, died at Sidney.
Frank Oblak, 46, Cleveland, died after he was hit by an automobile.
Brown bill, providing for a 2-cent tax on gasoline, was lost in the house.
Ten Warren merchants were fined $10 and costs each on charges of selling tobacco to minors.
Uhrichsville board of trade has undertaken to settle the strike of Pennsylvania shopmen in Dennison.
Fire destroyed the Eagles' clubroom and the Simons block at Wellston, with a loss estimated at $60,000.
C. O. Dillinger resigned as disciplinarian at the Boys' Industrial school. He gave no reason for his act.
Ed Hartung, 29, was perhaps fatally injured when he was caught under a fall of slate at the Charter Oak mine near Pomeroy.
Bandits at Toledo held up Daniel Evanoff, blinded him by throwing perfume in his face and escaped after robbing him of $50.
Attorney Philip E. Barnes, 45, and his wife and two children of Akron, were injured in a railroad accident near Ellwood City, Pa.
At least $286,000 more must be pledged if Hiram college is to win the $200,000 endowment fund offered by the general education board.
Thomas W. Preston, Civil war veteran, was appointed a member of the soldiers' relief commission of Madison county for a term of three years.
Fred Seibert, Jr., manual training teacher of Scott high school, at Toledo, since 1915, has resigned, effective at the close of the school year in June.
Two 16-year-old boys arrested at Cleveland have admitted to police between 25 and 30 burglaries of homes and stores within the past few months.
Walter K. Richards, manager of two motion picture theaters at Findlay, was arrested, charged with violating the Sunday law in opening his playhouses.
Engineers at McCook field, Dayton, are at work on plans for an aerial hospital, permitting operations while soaring through space at 100 miles an hour.
Carl Stessner of Lorain, who shot and killed his wife after she had filed suit for divorce, was found guilty of first degree murder, with recommendations for mercy.
Wilbur Henry, 20, university student, exploded a dynamite cap at his home in Amesville, Athens county. Surgeons are trying to save one of his hands and a leg.
Fire at Buckland, Auglaize county, destroyed the Lake Erie and Western railroad depot, the William Brorein store building and severely damaged adjoining structures. Loss $10,000.
Treasure hunters are invading the Rothgeb farm, near Pomeroy, following a report that $150,000 in gold had been buried somewhere on the farm by General John Morgan and his raiders during the Civil war.
Bellefontaine council voted unanimously to keep the city streetcar service, thus disposing of the proposal of the Indiana, Columbus and Eastern Railway company to substitute bus service within the corporate limits.
Mrs. M. H. Morrow was committed to an insane hospital by Judge J. M. Bechtol at Norwalk. Her son Carl, a boy of 7, is said to have rescued two younger brothers from a plot against their lives alleged to have been planned by their own mother.
Bonded indebtedness of the taxing districts in Madison county has grown from $186,180 in 1910 to $1,289,745. This indebtedness represents bonds issued by the county, cities, villages, townships and schools, but does not include state bond issues.
Trevor R. Roberts, vice president and general manager of the Industrial Service company of Pittsburgh, was found guilty of manslaughter at Steubenville in connection with the death of Elmer Cost, shot during labor trouble at Yorkville in February, 1922.
James Steel, factory worker, was released on $1,000 bond, charged with making false statements that caused a run on the Marion Savings bank at Marion. The run on the bank ceased after officials of the bank denied the rumors and caused Steel's arrest. Steel denied the charge.
Attorney General Crabbe will not take any action in the case of the Eastern Ohio Gas company of Cleveland, against which complaints have been filed, alleging violation of the anti-trust laws. He said he did not see sufficient evidence or circumstances to warrant any action in the case.
Seven persons were killed when the Big Four Southwestern limited struck an automobile at Columbus and was derailed. The dead: Mrs. Frank Hemminger and two children, Columbus, occupants of the automobile; Earl Wilson, traveling fireman, Columbus; John Klee, fireman, Cleveland; Horace Holbrook, 45, Warren, editor of the Western Reserve Democrat, and Robert Henderson, colored porter, Chattanooga, Tenn. Fourteen persons were injured.
A disease which resembles a combination of scarlet fever, measles and mumps is spreading in Marion.
Taft taxation bill and its companion measures, the Albaugh and Robison bills, passed the senate and are now before the governor. They had been previously approved by the house. The Taft bill raises limitation to 17 mills in cities and villages and reduces it to 14 mills outside municipalities; the Albaugh bill provides for a county tax board and appointive tax assessors, and the Robison bill increases the penalty for failure to list property for taxation."
