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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1917
Page
2
Washington reports the Liberty loan closed at noon June 15 with three billion dollars pledged by 3,000,000 Americans. Financiers expect the total to rise as official returns finalize. The nationwide effort is hailed as a resounding fight for liberty and democracy.
Toledo mourns George Sun 55 founder of Sun Bros. Great United Shows. He died after a long illness in Hot Springs Arkansas, recalling wagon circuses and a parade with a band wagon mule cart and elephant in days gone by. He was buried in his hometown.
The Moreni tanker engaged a German submarine in a two hour running battle that began June 12. The tanker fired 150 shots to the submarines 200, was set aflame, and sank in the dawn light after 43 crew were rescued. The state department relayed the report in stark terms.
In Springfield Ohio Mrs J Elmer Redelle wife of the Springfield baseball club president lies in the morgue after a shotgun blast. Farmer J M Hinkle was arrested and later confessed claiming he heard hogs squeal and thought an attempt to steal them as a car approached. He fired when the autoists did not stop.
W A Pittinger of Dennison was elected department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in Akron over D M Halli of Columbus and G D Neal of Mt Vernon. Other officers include I C Gibbons Akron senior vice commander C O Palmer Dayton junior vice commander Dr J M Adams Cincinnati department medical director and Rev Edmund Burdsall Winchester chaplain. The officers were installed after the parade with Hamilton chosen as next year’s encampment site.
Washington announces a Japanese mission to the United States with broad powers. The group will depart Japan in early July and aims to deepen understanding through full discussions of the unsettled far eastern questions.
Ruth Cruger, 16, Wadleigh High student, was killed with sharpened skates and found in a New York bicycle shop basement. Laborers discovered the skates covered in hair and blood while probing the floor area after four months of investigation. Mrs Cocchi and two acquaintances are jailed as witnesses. Alfredo Rocchi’s involvement remains unclear as authorities seek his return from Italy.
Billy Sunday preached his last New York sermon to a record crowd at Washington Heights. About 98,284 souls joined the revival and more than 114000 dollars were raised in free will offerings for Sunday to donate to the Red Cross and YMCA Navy and Army work.
Grain and livestock values stretch across Cleveland Minnesota Toledo Buffalo Pittsburgh and Chicago markets. No 2 red wheat around 27 and a half cents. corn near 17 cents. oats about 72 cents. hay timothy around 17.60. Cattle and hogs range with best steers near 12 to 12.60 and hogs from 16.10 to 16.25 in various markets. sheep and lambs show broader spreads.
The German submarine ADAL is destroyed by an American steamship off Ireland after two torpedoes miss the liner. The destroyer, sunk with minor propeller damage, ends the submarine threat as it vanishes below the sea.
Waldemar Von Nostitz 65 formerly editor of Waechter und Anzeiger and representative of Dresden stockholder Kauffman was arrested and ordered interned for the war. He is held as an alien enemy, with charges tied to seditious articles published in his paper. The action, ordered by President Wilson, places him first in Cleveland then in the central district of the War Department.
In Steubenville, Julia Petroskey, 26, Brilliant, Ohio, shouted I’m not guilty and leaped from a second floor window after being found guilty of manslaughter. She fell 40 feet to the courthouse yard, dying on impact.
Toledo report says John W. Miller, a plant foreman, died when an emery wheel burst in the factory. Also in Toledo Charles Copeland received a penitentiary sentence after pleading guilty to stealing a bag of onions. Coskeeton news notes Ralph Carr had a needle embedded for 36 years, removed in an operation June 1.
Seventeen people were bitten by a mad dog at Riverside a suburb until Lieut McNulty killed the animal with a shotgun. In Mt Vernon George Stafford a section worker was stabbed by a fellow employee and may die. the assailant escaped.
The body of Albina Fongument, 58, was found hanging to a tree at Bannock near St. Clairsville. The death is under investigation by local authorities with no immediate suspects named.
Toledo police report John Kucieka aged 38 was shot seven times and killed on Warsaw Street in the East Side. The assailant remains at large.
Miss Edith Hyde twenty nine state legislative reference librarian and sister of Prof. J. E. Hyde of Western Reserve is dead in Collumbus Ohio.
A large fire razed the press and still houses of the Kelleys Island Wine Co. plant on Kelleys Island in Lake Erie. Loss is estimated at seven thousand dollars.
Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the federal food commission, will be invited to attend the Ohio state fair in August to deliver an address on food production and conservation.
The Oberlin ambulance unit awaits mobilization orders to move to Allentown Pennsylvania within weeks. Most volunteers have returned home but can report immediately, with 36 men in the unit available for dispatch.
Helen Schindler aged 18 months, daughter of Mr and Mrs August Schindler, fell into an open grate while playing with a doll. She suffered fatal burns and died six hours later at home.
Two men die instantly when their car toppled from a trolley line bridge near Hubbard. Youngstown residents Blaine Rutter, 24, and Lee Hecker, 22, perish while Fred Hecker, 30, sustains serious injuries as the automobile overturns after the mistaken approach.
Marion mayor Andrew Sautter suspends Chief of Police John F McDonough and two patrolmen on charges of drinking while on duty. The actions reflect a disciplinary move within the city police department.
A rain and wind storm uprooted blocks floated away torn wires from fastenings and felled trees across Toledo streets causing property damage and scattered debris.
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