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23, 1922. THREE CENTS FALLING TREE INSTANTLY KILLS NEW CASTLE MAN IN FRY'S WOODS AT END OF WORKDAY WEDNESDAY FRENCH FARMERETTE FACES LOSS OF FARM SHE PUT ON EFFICIENT BASIS PLACE OF SHACKLETON WITH POLAR EXPEDITION Head Of Sherman Evans Is Crushed By Weight Of Heavy; Tree, Which Fell Unexpectedly--Wife And Babyj Son Bereaved--Parents, Two Sisters And Brother In Coshocton I Sherman Evans, aged 26. was in-' i stantly killed near his home on the Fry farm, three miles northeast New Castle, Wednesday evening at 5 o'clock, when a large tree, in the wood where he was cutting timber, fell on his head, crushing It. Men who were on the scene picked up Evans' lifeless body and took it to his home. It was said that the tree fell without warning and Evans was unable to get out of the way, or in fact did not see the tree falling.

Mr. Evans had made his home on i the Fry farm for some time. He was I born near Big Run, one mile from Spring Mountain. He had lived in the Spring Mountain vicinity all his life with the exception of the four years he had lived in the vicinity of. New Castle.

Mr. Evans is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Evans on Tenth-st, Coshocton; a wife and baby son at the home near Xew Castle and the following brother and sisters; Mrs. Charles Miller, John-st, Cosboc- ton; Mrs.

David Holder, of Coshocton; Mrs. Marcus Miller, Mlllersburg; Mrs. French Allen, New Castle; Mrs. John Mencer, Haysvllle, and Roy Evans, who lives with his parents on Tenth-st. No funeral arrangements had been made late Thursday afternoon.

1 Cnpt. Frank Wild. Capt. Frank Wild, veteran of four expeditions into the antarctic regions, has taken over the leadership of the expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton, who died recently a few months after the voyage was begun. Captain Wild had promised Sir Ernest before the trip began to assume the direction of HI'JC expedition in case of a mishap to the dead explorer.

MAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE RECEIVED $900 FOR DRIVING FORD FOR MURDERERS OF TAYLOR IS HRD IN DETROIT JAIL WHILE HIS STORY'S PROBED ROMA SKIRTED TM NEAR THE BlluBauti Ik EARTH, BELIEF I SEEKING" $70,000 BACK ALIMONY OF CHICAGO MAGNATE Italian Air Attache Of Embassy At Washington Gives Opinion DEFENDS THE SHIP Italy Is Building Sister Ship, Napoli, To Hold Still More Gas (Copyright 1922 by I. N. WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.

Break- io ot TM nt fablc on thc dirigible Roma. was responsible nf pr the- TM JT 8 iT Wns loo low. Lieut. Col. Aloscandro Guidonl.

air attache of thc Mile. Gouze with part of the HTC stock she has raised. i i Ml e. Gouze, well educated French woman, elected to do her bit for France when the war broke out by becoming a farm hard. After the war she joined the reconstruction movement and leased a barren farm near Chautilly from a government organization.

She converted it into valuable piece of property, well stocked and cultivated. Now she i Italian cmbarny here Informed the In- loss of the farm and the results of her labor. The renewed rental oni tornalional News Service today. The the farm, under the conditions of the lease, was to be 20,000 francs, i 7,000 more than the initial rental. She was ready to pay this amount, but under the regulations the land must go to the highest bidder when the rental is to be renewed.

And a wealthy farmer has bid 40,000 francs. Public opinion, though, may aid Mile. Gouze in keeping the farm.j CHILD IS AUTO JI-ST Ralph Veedy. aged 11, south Second Decrease Of. 30 Per Cent As Compared With the 1920 Output COLUMBUS, Feb.

23--Ohio produc-! ed 13,400,000 tons of coal less in 192l' than in 1920, a decreased production of 30 per cent, according to the figures made public today by W. D. McKinney, secretary of the Southern Ohio coal exchange. The figures were compiled, Mr. McKinney said, from reports the exchange receives from week to week and compared with statistics of the department the interior.

EGGS HIT TOBOGGAN WITH SPRING DAYS The bottom fell out of the egg market in Coshocton Thursday and many dealers were forced to sell them at 28 cents per dozen. Eggs may be retailing at 25 cents by Friday and at a lower price than that by the end of this week. The hens have overstocked the local market with eggs. A local dealer gave out this information Thursday. OWL Id NINETIETH YEftR AT Doath due to infirmities of age nnd ship was purchased from the Italian government and Col.

Guldoul was one of the negotiating officers. Had thc cable snapped while the premier grey hound of the air was sailing at greater altitude, the vessel could have boon glided to earth with engines throttled, the toll of dead would have been zero and the glaut flier would have been Intact, Col. Guidon! declared. 'The Roma courted catastrophe in skirting the earth." thc Italian air pert declared. Col.

Guidonl Is thoroly familiar with the technique employed In the construction of the Roma, having studied it in thc making in Italy. "The danger in flying too low' was never more forcefully demonstrated' heart trouble, claimed Heslip Gas-, than In the sad fate of the Roma, the kill, aged 89 Civil war veteran, while I loss of whose precious human freight eating his supper at the homd of his is felt most keenly by my government son, Porteua Gaskill. four miles south and Plalnfield, by my people," Col. Guidoni 3 o'clock. Mr.

Gaskill had been In com.pa.rl- 8t, was severely cut about the head at i decreased 10,600,000 tons, or only 22 1921 consumption of coal in Ohio arm a NEWPORT NEWS, Feb. Great commendation was given tho i comraund and crew of the Roma tnely good health recently and his by Col. Guidoni who asserted he death Wednesday night was unexpect- most of them personally. "I am firm ed. jn my belief that thc accident was not He had made his homo with his son.

caused by the failure on thc part of near Plainfiold for the past three the command to execute their difficult years. During this time he in task In thc most expert good health and able to got around Guidonl said, "They could have done well for a. man of that age. nothing more 'than they did. It consIO- Mr.

Gaskill was bom in Guernsey-' ring thc height at which (hoy were co, near Cambridge. For several flying. There was no time and no Drug Addict Who Fled To Seattle And Detroit Says Wealthy Chinaman, Dope Smuggler Fired Shot That Killed Director In wood Home--Officials At Los Angeles Work On "Confession" DETROIT, Fob. 23. Harry M.

Fields, county jail prisoner, today told authorities that he sat In an automobile outsldo thc Hollywood home of William D. Taylor and heard the shot fired which resulted In the death of tho film director. Two men and a woman, passengers In the car, had just entered tho bungalow when the shot was fired he said. One of thc men was a Chinaman, wealthy leader in Tong war, fare and dope smuggling. It was this Chinaman who fired the shot that killed Taylor.

Fields said. Fields said he could show Los Angeles officials the exact spot where tho trio burled Hie revolver used in tin- shooting. In an alley a few blocks troin the S.CPUO of the murder. told mo nothing about a mur- dor when they asked me to drive thorn to thr- Tnylor house," Fields told au, thorlties here. I "They did.

however, say they wore going to kidnap Taylor's daughter to get revenge for his having come be- twcon the dope smuggling ring and prominent actress who had once before boon a dope addict. "I drove them away from the Taylor bungalow after the shot was fired, waited for them while they burled the gun and then took them into downtown Los Angeles, where thu Chinese handed me $900 without a word. When I realized that a murder had been committed. I took the first train for Seattle. From there I telegraphed to Joseph Dedrich, federal narcotic expert in Detroit, and told him I was coming here.

Tito- Chinaman, a white man and whitejyomea murder Tnylor In a dope den on. the night of January 31, Fields declared. While in the den Fields says he overheard the Chinaman inquire for a man who could drive a Ford and de- olares ho volunteered his services. The entire gang slept the sleep of i addicts until 3 p. on the day of slaying.

That night with Fields driving, the quartet proceeded to the Tnylor homo. There the- CHICAGO. Feb. 23. Rejection of i a a selected his weapon, choos- Miss Elida Piza.

Miss Elida Piza, Costa Kican beauty and former wife of Herbert P. Crane, Chicago millionaire manufacturer and iron magnate, is in Chicago to press her legal battle to obtain $70,000 she claims is due her in back alimony nnd to retain custody of her son. She says she has left her son in New York watched by Costn Ricnn guards, is fighting her action. COAL OPERATORS PREFERTO DEAL SINGLY WITH THE DISTRICT Ml! eight o'clock Wednesday evening when an automobilt driven by Pcott Fortune inquiry now the cause of the Roma disaster, will completely absolve the dirig- crew from all yeara ho lnadc hls llomc in Oxford use In abutting off thc engines, there the call for a joint conference of op-' He wa5 married three times, out- on aK Nino handled revolver after dls- To the first mar laire wore born three children: Mrs. Tilhe Mc-Fee, of stone in front of the Fountain Dry Goods store on Maln-st, thru a group of marble players and into the dis-' play window of 'the store.

Veedy was taken to the office of Dr. Samuel Cohen where his injuries were dressed. Two stitches were necessary to close the wound In his scalp. The car fortune was driving nelong was 7'icasnnt Valley; Mrs. Millor.

The of ninghnmton, and Miss Anna To his second of Ohio mined coal fell off ame for the catastropho lt 38 per cent while Ohio i oarned authoritatively today. 1 other tatcs board will report to Lieut. Col. Arthur Gaskill, of Plalnfipld. uu tons or 1( I'er'c.

Fisher, commanding officer at jnarriasxs there were cent Mr McKmney declared Lang 0 Thc roport wh ch 8 rfren The loss in Eastern Ohio fields was expected to be rendered late today, or of Mlchigtn; Porteus Gask.ll, of Plain- Jn southern Ohio, 51, tomorrow wl hold that a broken field, nnd Mrs. Lucy Hosfelt, Coshoc per per cent, McKinney said. The rudder caused the Roma to nose dive ton. One son Russell Gaskill was 0 was Issued following untll it crashcd in a bur3t flame born to the union in the last marriage. ed to Tim McFarland.

It Avas said i oeclaratlons by operators that mining' at lhe armj Sl pp iy base at am pton Mr. GaskSll was a member of Thursday that Fortune had borrowed a oth condltlons of coal roduct Roads. The board now is seeking to Methodist I ion in Ohio had curtailed the market, dete rmlne what defect resulted in the of operators. This condition, Mr. McKinley declared, is reflected In the consumption of coal In Ohio cities.

Toledo consum- breaking of thc rudder. Officers and men of the Roma's crew, it was learned, will be upheld don ia their powor to the ear for a short time. As he backed it from its position in front of tho Coshocton National bank he apparently lost control of the car. The car continued in reverse, making a half circle out into the street and back over the curb In front of the dry goods store. per cent from these two fields, and I "oV thTnoso R6V IonV! A heavy plate glass in the store Springfield 80 per cent.

Lima's con-j occurrcd so quickly that the made In the Plainflo display window was smashed. sumption from West Virginia and crew were a ballast Young Vocdr was playing marbles Kentucky was ,5 per cent, and In ovorboard Such ac lt is belicv- with several other boys, on the side- Cincinnati it was 99.9 per cent. a ed 67 per cent West Virginia and ho disaster The board it Kentucky coal, he said; Dayton indicatcd wlll i out lhat thc Plalnfield M. E. church in charge of Ian city for 10 years.

in front of the display window. boys rot out of the path ok the backing car but Veedy was causjht and pinned between the oar i ud the building. McFa'-land, owner of the car. agreed to pay for tho damages done by his car. it was said Thursday.

Xo charges had been placed against Fortune Thursday noon. CITY DUPLICATE IS OP ed could hardly have prevented the crash. I It was pointed out that had tho Roma not struck the high tension voltage wires which cinscd thp explosion, there probably would have beon but a few casualties. The cn- i velope of the dirigible would have acted as a cushion, in the fall, saving orators and miners to settle (be wage Carding another which he said he question and avert a coal strike April feared would jam. 1 inevitable today.

rl) gang then entered the house At ill's Mine time were indica- aiul there was a shot. Fields says lions that the operators In the central aml four, headed by the Chinaman competitive field would a at once walked from the Taylor residence, to negotiate i i i i a stato or- tho leader with the revolver in his ganl7.nlIons of i i i In. lead of with a the national "Knocked somebody off?" Fields a move would be an attempt clares he asked tho Chinaman. "You to i i the miners and would be fu- have seen nothing and know nothing, tile," said John L. president of Don't foiget," the Chinaman retorted, the United Mine Workers of according to Fields.

and ii NFW YORK Feb. referring to the Intention of the oper-j The party dispersed and Fields fled member of the G. A. R. He Served studded teeth are the rage In atom to attempt separate negotla- to Seattle he says, thruout thc Chll war.

He was in This was the word brought back from lions Wowly ncreaslng credence in the thc samo regiment with the late Col-' Sao PfiUlo by Dr. CMorxo Washington With all replies to his rail save one story Holds Is reflected in a wire onel McClaln, of West Lafayette. Holbert, of Knoxvlllc, a dentist. In. Lewis has been told a Pennsyl-.

received by Sheriff Coffin today ask- The funeral services wlll be hold who returned today on the steamer vanla bituminous operators will not ng Fields bo kept away from ques- afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Caxlas after practicing in the Brazil- confer. oners i his story can be inves- Southern Ohio (Hocking re- tlgated by Los Angeles author- Burial will be i "The adult Brazilians have little fasad. itles. His story, the wire admits Id cemetery. regard for their teeth." ho said, "altho Illinois agrees but regaids a confer-' checks with the belief of Los Ana group of thc new rich have adopted cnoe as futile.

geles police that Taylor was killed a fad of having diamonds and other Indiana will accept if nil the others for his effort to shield a woman movie Jewels Imbedded In their front teeth." do. which is tantamount to a refusal. ar from dope peddlers who had I He declared Brazilians were 1 Only the eastern Ohio operators re-, wrecked her life once and were i beginning to recognize the value of main to be heard from. Thoy are threatening to do it again. good teeth and that a movement was' meeting today and are expected to re- under way to teach hygiene in public STATE TO HELP CRIPPLES schools.

The hauls for Lewis' claim that an LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23. -Corroborating thc so-called "confes- Child Cuts Head The tax duplicate of the city of crew from dcalh Coshocton amounts to a little less than one third the duplicate of the entire county, according to figures ob- tainod from the county auditor's office The en-tire county is taxed on a Baseball Catcher Dies ST. Feb. attempt by the operators to negotiate slon" of Harry X.

Fields, alias "Harry I separately in the various states would the Chink" in Detroit, that he was a be "futile" Is that the state miners or- member of a drug peddling gang that ganlr-Rtlons have no authority under killed William Desmond Taylor, slain Robert Tracewell, Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tracewell. south CLEVELAND, Fob.

Repairing the tragedies of human nature and accidents which are registered upon Jp the bodies of little children-helping Gill Dllhoefer of tho Cardinals died the rules laid down at the recent In- director for revenge, it was to sec that the bent arc straightened, today following an operation at St. I dtonapolls convention to settle wage learned today that months ago Taylor the broken repaired, the John's hospital. Dllhoefer had been questions: that only the policy com- appealed strengthened and all educated-will ill several weeks with typhoid fever mlttcc of the national organization of Angeles bo the aim of a conclave of leading complicated by an affection of the which he is thc chairman has such to business and professional men of gall bladder. lie was 26 and a power. Federal officers In Los him thwart the dope ring" and savo from Its clutches thc woman he is said to have 4 dim in 1111711 ui A I I i Seventh-st received a slight gash In Qhlo thfty mccl Frlday F(jb bjon for tWQ monthg to Operators regard Illinoli as a good loved who was an addict.

value of S44.421.970 and the city of his forehead Wednesday evening or Columbus A A A i i A A 1 fftit n. 111 Ck I 4WJ I i I 1 I Miss Mazle Slocum. He had played field for separate negotiations be-, Taylor induced Jjer to go east A partition of tho estate of William E. Randies has been ordered by the common pleas court, In the agHinst i "Wfcd i i i i I'linrt Coshocton on a value of S14.750.400. when he fell from the tricycle which Thc mcot bc thc sccond an the Chicago Cubn, Philadelphia cause of the enmity of Frank Fanning- to a sanitarium for treatment.

She Tn tVtst fttt-rr rr In nA WTO rt! ff A 1 1 1 I A TLf I A WAS i i Tlrtl In the city the real property is on he was riding, the duplicate at $8,319,540 and tho! He was taken to the office of Dr. a therl of the managlng board Nationals and Milwaukee before com- 'ton of the Illinois Mine suit of Georpe Handle-? Myrtle Randies, and others. 84348 anrt With the dower of the Myrtle Randies set aside, tho estate, i located in )afayetlc tp, has been ap- i praised at the partition amounted lo orders, an undivided third of thc estate goes to George E. Randies, one third to Gall Randies and one-third to Erma H.ickcnbracht. personal at Outside the city real estaU? property is listed personal at total tax and assessments received In the county for 4.55.

Edmund Cone, where the gash was closed by one stitch. Infant Dies of tho Ohio toward Lewis. Society for Crippled Ing to the Cardinals. Children and wlll be addressed by! ----heads of various state organizations. TOO IVlUCn lC6 looking to care and cure of unfortu-l nate kiddies.

Edgar F. Allen, SANDUSKY, Feb. winds. strength of tho miner's organization Elyria, president of the Ohio Society! last night having blown largo fields and tho sixteen standard rail unions. June Eileen, aged 8 months and 15 win prosldo and out ne tentative th'ck Ice Into the Lake Erie island brot about at last evening's Workers, wa cured and returned to Hollywood to the work of the studios.

declared that he was! When the narcotic ring again at- greatly gratified" over what was ac-, tempted to drag her down, Taylor compllshcd In co-ordination of thc stepped in and tried to save her. He killed. confer- days, died at tho home of the mother, plang for soc ety increased actlv- region, Capt. John Gilbert wan forced encc HarrtAHfv In "Wfd tn nnnn In tbe estimation of the appraisers, the land cannot be divided without damage, so it will probably have to bo sold to effect tho partition. The real estate was appraised by J.

P. Ross, Loraln Taylor and J. W. Kirk. Account Filed The second account of the estate of I Esther Hardesty, jnesday night at 9:30 o'clock British Debt Funding Feb.

amount of pneumonia, the British debt to the United States The funeral services will be held Wed Ucs i the com from MILLERSBURG A DIES AT HOSPITAL which Is to be funded thru bonds Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Death claimed Mrs. Anna Wengard, guaranteed by the American govern-'late home and burial will be made in aged 54, of Milleraburg at the City to abandon the effort to open navigation between Sandttsky and Put-in- Bay with tho freight and passenger' steamer Tourist this morning. i Lecture At Clark Miss Rosalcth Knapp Breed, will appear at the town hall at Clark, Monday night, in the fourth number of the lecture course. She will endeavor to ment may be under $1,000,000,000. i South Lawn cemetery.

The total British debt to the United hospital, Wednesday night at 10.30 o'clock. She underwent a serious ma- Has Influenza Mrs. Joseph Keagy, of South Lawn- States la $4,166,318,358. No interest I Licensed To Marry operation at the hospital a week av wan confined to her home Thursday has been paid on It. Announcement was made at Premier Lloyd George's office that no-; Mrs.

"Huldah J. Ixwory, 46. Roscoe. gotlatlons are not yet complete a B. McDermott.

ago Wednesday. She was confined to suffering from Influenza. James D. Bailey, 58, clerk. Roscoe; the local Institution for one week.

Thc body was shipped to Millers- On TTlC Sick List burg Thursday morning. L. Lahm deceased has Bfeen that they arc still In progress. It Is, William L. Wilson, 62, track fore-, Mrs.

Wengard was the mother of 14 Mrs. J. E. Rodgors, 604 South Lawn- Only nine of that number av, was confined to her bed Thursday, suffering from grip. Wed In probate court by J.

E. OURs, I expected that they will be concluded. man, BSlssflcld; Mrs, Sarah A. Dry-, children, tnutee. Uarly In the iummer ant, 60, Roscoe.

Rev. W. B. Wintero.lare living. Appraisement Filed An Inventory and appraisement of the estate of Nancy J.

Dusenberry entertain with impersonations and hu- has been filed in probate court, show- mor. She comes to Clark highly rec- Ing the estate to bo valued at jommcnded as an entertainer and im- 79. The appraisers were Joseph Ha-1 personator. verlck, J. W.

McDonald and C. B. Hunt. Is Unimproved No improvement was noticed in the condition of Mrs. William Bfl-kel, of Clark, Thursday.

Estate Appraised The estate of James H. Nords, deceased, has been appraised at M.047,-' 50. Tho Inventory of tho estate was mado by Frank Corbet, Frank Smith and George Miller..