Today is Monday, April 7, the 97th day of 2014. There are 268 days left in the year.

April 7, 2014 at 12:00a.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1788: An expedition led by Gen. Rufus Putnam establishes a settlement at present-day Marietta, Ohio.

1798: The Mississippi Territory is created by an act of Congress, with Natchez as the capital.

1862: Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.

1922: The Teapot Dome scandal has its beginnings as Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall signs a secret deal to lease U.S. Navy petroleum reserves in Wyoming and California to his friends, oilmen Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny, in exchange for cash gifts.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: Stephen A. Vrabel, 32, surrenders to police in Parma in the company of a Catholic priest and is returned to Struthers to face two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of his girlfriend, Susan Clemente, and her daughter, Lisa, 2.

A power surge in Niles affects about 2,500 homes, damaging hundreds of appliances.

After more than 40 years in the Mahoning County treasurer’s office, John T. Vukovich is retiring and will receive a payment of $58,417 for unused vacation and sick time.

The occupancy rate at the former Holiday Inn in Liberty Township was 31 percent in March, one of the owners, Martin H. Perper, tells a Bankruptcy Court trustee, while the break-even point for the 153-room hotel would be 74 percent at $45 per night.

1974: Stephen Scavnicky, 43, of Vienna is killed while working at the Republic Steel plant in Warren, where he was struck by a locomotive on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks.

James Dellick, Mahoning County elections director, and Louis J. Poulakos, assistant director, predict a primary election turnout of 75,000, split 55,000 to 20,000 between Democrats and Republicans.

Dale Reusch, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Ohio, says he is neither a liberal nor a conservative but an American who intends to run as a write-in candidate for governor in the Ohio Democratic primary.

1964: Trumbull County is being called upon to provide sewage disposal facilities in Lordstown not only for the announced Chevrolet-Fisher Body plant, but also for a truck assembly plant.

Struthers rackets kingpin Charles Carabbia is convicted of assault with a deadly weapon on his 21-year-old girlfriend and faces a possible one-year prison term, but is acquitted on the more serious charges of shooting with intent to kill and assault with intent to kill.

Jasper Joseph “Fats” Aiello, 51-year-old Youngs-town racketeer, is arrested by FBI agents at the swanky new Sahara Motel in Cleveland, where he was hiding out after being charged with aiding and abetting two abortions.

1939: Al H. Kindler, president of the sponsoring symphony society, reports 400 season tickets have been sold for the 1939-40 season of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.

Mayor Lionel Evans is elected president of the Youngstown Browns Baseball Boosters Club, which is conducting a campaign to sell season tickets for the 65 home games played by the Youngstown Browns baseball team, which is owned by the St. Louis Browns of the American League.