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OHIO GLEANINGS Judge Mouser of Marion holds that Jamaica ginger is not intoxicating liquor under the Crabbe act. Frederick H. Law, Clyde innkeeper and father of Ruth Law, famous aviatrix, was sued for divorce by his wife, Mattie H. Law. The shooting to death at Cincinnati on Hallowe'en night of Joseph Clark, 30. and wounding of Robert Cahill, 22. and William P. Cahill, brothers, was cleared up, police say, when W R. Shewmaker, 31, confessed to firing the shots. Shewmaker claims he shou in self-defense when he was attackea by a crowd of men. An appeal is being made to the members of the Ohio Automotive Trades association for a contribution for the purpose of creating a fund for fighting the Atwood automobile anti-theft law. The Dempsey-Carpentier fight films were approved by the state movie censors and are ready for exhibition. A fine of $1,000 was paid by Frank Flournoy, New York, associate 01 Tex Rickard, for bringing the films into the state. Deaths from fire in Ohio for October totaled 37, says Fire Marshal Dykeman. The body of Mrs. Guy Morgan, wife of Dr. Morgan, dentist, of West Bridgeport, Pa., was found in the Ohio river at East Liverpool, clothed in men's attire. She had been in il health. Dr. J. J. Cooper, one of Spring field's leading physicians, was founa dead in bed. He was a graduate of the Eclectic Medical college of Cin cinnati and had practiced medicine for 20 years. Vernie Drake was killed at Columbus when the truck he was driving was struck by a passenger train. Mrs. Ella F. Long, 56, was almost instantly killed at Columbus when run over by a runaway team. Robbers entered the department store of George Tabit at Gallipolis, blew the safe and escaped with money and merchandise. Mrs. Theresa Kopf, 41, of East Palestine, was killed near Twinsburg. She was riding in an automobile with A. T. Kopf when a truck shoved their machine into a ditch. Kopf escaped with minor injuries. Miss Myrtle Young, 24, of Youngstown, was killed and Raymond Grubbe, 30, of Niles, probably fatally injured in a motorcycle accident. After being in session almost 26 hours, the jury in the trial at Cleveland of Dominic Benigno, for murder, was dismissed. d To aid the unemployed, contracts were awarded at Marion for $73,000 1 worth of improvements on the city hospital. James McGuire, 40, Toledo, died at d Canton of injuries received when struck by an auto. g 1 Garbed as a Hallowe'en celebrant, a robber got $300 from E. E. Enderie, d merchant, Chillicothe. Fifteen Ohio colleges have acceptn ed the invitation of Miami university e for a miniature disarmament conference. d Coshocton county farmers are pre1 paring to ship a carload of corn to le starving Russians. h. A half-cent reduction in fare on the lines of the Cincinnati Traction le company was announced. The fare s for the next three months will be 7 1/2 cents. d Kindheartedness cost 3-year-old ol Elizabeth Imler of Circleville her g life. She found a cat recently which boys had tied to a tree. In liberating it she was bitten on the hand. n drophobia developed and caused her le death after an illness of three days. William McAdams, 63, farmer near S, North Lewisburg, Champaign county. n hanged himself. He had been in ill e health. The senior class of McKinley high school, Niles, went out on strike, the d result of an order issued by the school faculty for a division of the In class. In Harry L. Gordon, 61, widely known is barrister. Republican politician and m at former lieutenant governor, died t Cincinnati after a long illness. k Chief of Police A. A. King of Lorain has been suspended. A bride of less than a month, Mrs. d Clyde C. Foos. 23, Marion, committed suicide by drinking poison. An operation affected her mind, according to relatives. Joseph F. Monti, 29, treasurer of the Cleveland Italian Savings Bank e company, which closed its doors Sept. 16, was arrested on a charge of p, embezzling $25,000 of the bank's 1. money. State Bank Examiner Frank e A. Hunter swore to the affidavits upon which the warrants were based. al James F. Rankin, president of the k. Bank of South Charleston, is dead. s Sixty-two persons, two of them k. women, were arrested in liquor raids d at Columbus. e Eastern Ohio Teachers' association 1e will meet at Bellaire. More than k 1.000 teachers will attend bWalter Wright of Wellsville, ac n cused of killing Walter Cummins. garage man, for refusing to sign over 1. an auto, was found guilty of murder e in the first degree at Steubenville. A company is being formed at Ashir tabula to establish a silver fox ranch near that city. It will start business with 10 pairs of registered foxes. "Blackleg," a disease which means en e sure death to cattle, has appeared in Adams county. Charles Flack, 13, was killed an Willie Weaver was seriously injured to when an auto in which they were riding upset, near Ashtabula. Catherine Glaser, 16, of Neville died of injuries received when an at auto struck her as she was alighting y from a Cincinnati streetcar. of At Akron Charles A. Norris, 60 was shot and killed by a bandi d whom he had told he had no