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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
900 PERISH ON LINER
STEAMER Ia PROVENCE LOST IN
MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
Steamer Used by French Government
as Auxiliary Cruiser-Cause of
Disaster Unknown.

Paris, March 2.-More than 900 lives
are believed to have been lost in the
sinking of the French auxiliary cruiser
Provence, formerly in service as a
transatlantic liner, in the middle
Mediterranean on Saturday.
Eighteen hundred persons were
aboard the cruiser, an official state
ment for the ministy of marine on
Tuesday stated.
Four hundred survivors were land
ed at Milo, while 296 of the crew have
arrived at Malta
A later official statement from the
admiralty put the total number prob
ably saved at $40, making the number
missing about 900
Ten boats are nov at the scene of
the disaster, continuing the search
for other survivors. the ministry of
marine announced
Dispatches from Paris, transmitted
through Paris direct, and also other
dispatches, transmitted through Lon
don did not state whether the Pro-
vence was sunk by a submarine. by
| a mine or was the victim of an acci-
dent
Submarines are known to have been
operating in the mid Mediterranean
for some time, the British steamer
Fastnet and Swedish steamer hav-
ing been torpedoed in those waters
within the last few days
La Provence was one of the largest
and finest Of the French line vessels.
| Her gross tonnage was 1873 She
was built at It. Nazaire Al 1906, was
602 feet long. SIS feet beam and So feet
deep. She was requisitioned by the
French government for naval service
| at the outbreak of the war.
La Provence entered the transatlan-
tic service when the speed rivalry
| among the British, French and German
lines was at its height, and engaged
in number of exciting races, in one
of which she defeated the Cunarder
Mauretania
In all probability the Provence was
carrying troops either from or to Salo.
| niki y
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

Henry Heft. a farmer, living near
Marietta, Pa, for many years, has kept
tally on the number Of tramps he has
fed and lodged. During the last year
he entertained sos of them. He has
a separate room in his barn in which
he lodges them.
Good paper, it is said, can be pro-
duced from refuse hops that have hith-
erto been thrown away in breweries.
It is surprising to learn that chari-
OTIS worked on the principle of the
taximeter we're used in China in the
| fourth century.
Corrections made recently in maps
Of Greenland have shown it to be
about 10000 square miles larger than
formerly believed.
Burgomaster Langenhaus of Koe-
| penick, Germany, that man at whom
| the whuleO world laughed in 1906, has
been promoted by the emperor to the
position of mayor at Lomza, Poland.
| lie was the butt of a criminal Joke
perpetrated by a shoemaker, William
| Voight. who donned a captains uni
form, placed himself at the head of a
squad of soldiers, arrested" Burgo-
master Langeenhaus, sent him to jail
! and made away with the town funds.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
MAIL ROBBED OF s2oo,ooo
Ferry From Jersey City to
New York.

New York. March 1.-The robbery
of four valuable registered mail pack
ages, in what appears to have been an
attempt to steal at least $1.000,000 in
currency consigned to New York
banks, became known here on Monday
The robbery occurred Saturday morn
ing, when Unite States mail auto
mobile truck was entered while it was
on ferry bound from the New Jersey
Central railroad station at Communi-
paw, N. j., to Liberty street. New York.
The packages were stolen from small
pouches, three Of which were from
Washington and one from Baltimore.
According to unofficial reports one of
the stolen Washington packages con-
tanned 100000
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
WILSON ASKS EARLY ACTION
Chief Executive Writes to House Com
mittee Urging Vote on Warning
Revolution.

Washington, March with Ger
many inau- urating her new program
CT sinking all ~rmed merchant
ships without warning, Ignoring the
desire of the United States for a
postponement of tho o1mpaign. Eresi-
dent Wilson on Tuesday pu' the mat
t. CT American rights at sea up to
congress.
In letter to Representative Pou,
ranking member of the house commit
tee in the absence o. Chairman Henry,
the president urged a. early vote on
the resolution proposing to warn
Americans not to sail on armed mer-
chantmen, po'ntii-g out that reports of
difference of opinion in congress is
being made use of in foreign capitals
in a distasteful manner.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
OHIO GETS BIG TwINE ORDER.
Twine Makers of State Underbd Wis
consin Convict Prices.

Cincinnati, O.-The American Co.
operative Association, the buying
agency of the American Society of
Equity, announced the purchase of
100000 pounds of binding twine for
1916, for use in the Northwest, the
entire purchase being placed with an
Ohio group of twine ia as This
purchase is made in Ohio, despite the
plan of the state to get into the field
by making twine at the state prison.
The state made its price S1a cents.
per pound for this year, but it is un-
derstood that the Ohio companies
shaded this figure by cent.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
OWNING POWERS TESTED

The British Society of Psychical
Research has just concluded a series
of tests Of the supposed power Of GER
tain persons to discover water under
ground by means of the divining rod.
The results seem to disprove the
theory of the dowsers.
One Of these experiments was con-
Quoted as follows: An underground
pipe was connected with a hydrant,
from which the water could he turned
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
REFUSE TO ADMIT MISSIONARIES
Ohioans Await Orders From Wash
ingtcn Regarding Entrance.

Columbus, O.-Word has just been
received here from the American con-
sui at Colombo that Rev William F.
Schmidt and Rev. Jesse P. Pfueger,
missionaries Of the Lutheran joint
synod of Ohio, who left Columbus last
December, for Puttur, India, have ar
rived at Ceylon, and have been re-
fused admittance to their mission
field by British authorities. They are
now at Colombo awaiting further in
structions. The grounds for refusal
are not known here. The Lutheran
mission board in Columbus is per
picked over the situation and expects
to take immediate action by sending
an envoy to Washington to consult
the state department.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

off or on. The diviners were stationed
over the underground pipe, out Ci
sight of the hydrant and the persons
who worked it.
The OWNERS, numbering fall score.
including some quite famage n their
localities, were told to indicsts when
the pipe under their feet was cmrty
and when it was full. The results were
wild; the divinlers proved to be poor
guessers
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
ITALY MAY FIGHT GERMANY
Decision to Open HostiIities Upon
Kaiser Reported Reached at Rome
-Teuton Ships Seized.

London, March 2.-Italy's act of
reQuisitioning thirty-four of the thirty
seven German ships interned in Italian
ports, as announced in the house of
commons, is interpreted as corroborat-
Ing a report that the Italian cabinet
has decided 10 declare war on Ger
many. Dispatches on Tuesday said the
decision had been reached in Rome
and the declaration Of war Tould fol-
low Immediately upon the reopening of
the I-alian parliament.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
TO ASCERTAIN PROPERTY VALUE

Hamilton, O.-The first step to as
certain the value of the property
which will be taken over for the
widening of the Miami river in Ham
ilton in the general plan for flood pre-
vention was taken. Gordon Rentsch-
Ter. conservancy director, and S. M.
Goodman, conservancy appraiser, held
a conference with. a number of per-
sons as to the probable value of the
property that will be needed for this
purpose
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
FLA 8 III Z. s
OFF THE WIRE

Louisville, KY, March 3.-The Ken
lucky Republican state convention in
structed its delegates at large to vote
for Charles w Fairbanks of Indiana
for the presidential nomination at Chi
cago in June.
Kempton, W. Va. March 2.-Thir-
teen men are dead and tifty-two have
been brought safely from mine No AZ
of the Davis Coal and Coke company,
near here, where an explosion occurred
soon after the miners had gone to
work. The mine. which is shaft 427
feet deep, was not badly wrecked.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
GERMANY TO FIGHT PORTUGAL
Decree Is Believed Near Following
UItimatum on Ship Seizure
48 Hours for Action.

London, March 3.-Germany g. has
sent an ultimatum to Portugal de-
manding the restoration within forty
eight hours OF the German ships re-
ing to dispatch from Madrid to Reu-
ter's Telegram company on Wednes-
day. Later Madrid dispatches report
ed Portugal probably would reject the
German demand Advices from Am
sterdam say that German declara-
nent.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
AsPHYxikTED BY GAS FUMES

Piqua, O.-Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Cater
Of Port Huron, Mich, were found dead
here in a boarding house, caused by
carbon monoxide gas poisoning. They
had spent the night in room in which
natural gas fire was burning. Car.
ter was a son of Captain George H
Carter, Of the Pere Marquette Car Fer
ry Service, operating between Port
Huron and Sarnia Mr. Carter was
conducting a newspaper circulation
contest here. The couple were mar
ried only a few mcnths ago.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
NO INCREASE IN GAS DIVIDEND
Ohio Cities Company President Says
No Sale Is Planned.

Columbus, O-Following a meet
ing of The directors Of the Ohio
Cities Gas Company, President
Beeman G. Dawes announced that the
company was not, considering selling
out it's oil wells in West Virginia to the
Standard Oil Co. Dawes said no over
ture toward purchase had been made
by the Standard. The directors did
not increase the dividend on the COM
mon stock, which sold in Columbus at
1904, but voted a dividend of IL per
cent on preferred stock of record
March Is, payable April 1. President
Dawes announced that there were now
13 oil wells in West Virginia and
that nine new ones are being drilled,
although the cold weather has delayed
the work somewhat.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Cedric Back at New Val

New York, March 1.-OEccrs of the
White Star liner Cedric, here for the
first time since it was requisitioned by
Britain as transport, declined to re-
veal anything concerning the service
in which it has been engaged.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Oshnrne Trial Data SET

White Plains, N. Y, March 1.-The
trial of Thomas Mott Osborne, former
warden CT Sing Sing prison, under two
indictments charging him with immo-
rality. neglect Of duty and perjury, will
begin here on March 49,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Sieoei Freed; Rearrested

Rochester, N. Y, March 3.-Henry
Siegel, New York banker, whose ten
months sentence in Monroe county
penitentiary expired, was rearrested
on a warrant issued by District Attor-
ney Wheeler
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Eoot. Shortaue in Russia.

Petrograd, March 4.-The food
shortage in Russia, due to the war,
is beginning to be keenly felt. The
ministry OF agriculture announced
that meat may only be eaten on five
days during the week
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
mora Monev for Germany

Amsterdam, March 3.-The fourth
German war loan will be open for sub
scription from March 4 to March %
in dual form A per cent imperial
loan will be offered for subscription
at $3.50
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
1ur,a Apnroves silI;o, =,

London, March 1.-The finance com
mittee of the Russian duma, presided
over by Premier Sturmer. has ap-
proved the new war loan of 1000. .OOO..
600 rubles (about $1,0OO0OO. .OOO). says
Reuters Petrograd correspondent
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
ExDIosiveS Icnjta

Woburn, Mass. March 2.-Three
huge watts of explosives in process OF
manufacture exploded here, wrecking
the two-story brick and concrete build
ing Of the New England Chemical COM
pany. One man is reported missing.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

Merrimac, Mass. March 2.-The car
barns. II cars and two snowplows
of the Massachusetts & Northwest.
ern Street Railway company, were de-
stroyed by fire hero with a loss OF
100000.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
rn Let Poles Receive Food

Washington, March Berlin will
inform the United States through
Count Won Bernstorff that the German
forces in Poland will not contiscate
anv articles of food or clothing sent
from this country for relief purposes.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Quaker of War Fame Dead.

Worcester, Mass. March 3-Henry
D. Swift. eighty-four years old, died of
heart weakness. During the Civil war
he was court-martialed and sentenced
to be shot He was paroled by Presi-
dent Lincoln.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
German Raiders in Atlantic

New York. March 2.-Wireless warn
ings that a German commerce raider.
possibly accompanied by consorts, was
attacking shipping in the Atlantic
were received by the Standard Oil
tanker Communipaw.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
o, 8. Hartman to Berlin

Washington, March 40. B. Harri-
man of New York has been appointed
secretary Of embassy at Berlin to sue
ceed Alexander Comstock Kirk of Chi
cago, who has been transferred to
Constantinople.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
eri+ieh soIdtAre Mufinv

Honolulu, March 3.-Fifteen thou
sand British soldiers in a training
camp in Sydney, Australia. mutinied
according to word brought here by the
liner Sonoma One soldier was killed
md six in inred.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Forty Persons Are Poisoned

San Francisco, March 2.-More than
forty guests. all Methodist ministers.
and their wives, were made seriously
i'll after they had partaken of food
which is alleged to have been poi
soned, served at a banquet here.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Rri+on Wins Air Eicb+

London. March 3.-The admiralty
announces that Flight Sublieutenant
Simms attacked and brought down a
hostile aeroplane, which fell in flames
a short distance in front of the Bel
oiau lines
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Fire Near New Dreadnaudht,

Quincy, Mass, March "A guam
tity of waste oil in the dock in which
the uperdreadnaught Nevada was ly,
ing here caught fire and flames shot
UP 100 feet above the warship, The
Nevada, however, was undamaged.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Buffalo Machinists Strike

Buffalo, N. Y, March "A strike of
about $4,000 uniCE machinists was au-
thorized at a meeting Wednesday night
attended by $50 men, who claimed to
represent 10000 workmen in Buffalo
and other cities.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Italian Ships Remain Armed,

Rome, March 4.-Count march,, Ital-
ian ambassador at Washington, has
been instructed to notify the Ameri-
can government that Italian merchant.
men will continue to carry arma-
ment
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Onnosed to Prince William

London. March "A dispatch from
Rome states that Bulgaria has notified
Austria that the restoration of Prince
William of Wied to the Albania
throne will be considered an act OF
hostility.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Shea Nav Get Chile Post

Washington, March 1.-Justice ]. H.
Shea of the Indiana supreme court
probably will be the next ambassador
to Chile it is reported about the White
House. Senator Kern urged his can
didacy to President Wilson.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

Cleveland, O.-Using bed clothes
twisted into rope, four prisoners
held as drug fends at the City Hos
pital escaped by lowering themselves
from the second-story window of the
institution. The men were in night
attire and fed into a raging blizzard.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
madrid earaivzed hx Riots

London, March 3.-A Reuter- dis
patch from Madrid says that strike
among the bakers in that city has
developed into a general strike and
brought trade to a standstili, Riots
have occurred.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Aeauu Snow in Mfssissinp

Memphis, Tenn, March 1.-Snow-
storms were general throughout north
ern Mississippi. with fiurries here and
at other points in Western Tennessee.
In some sections it was the first snow
fall OF the winter.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Eiuds Perisco0e on Mine

Baltimore, March 4.-Floating mines
equipped with periscopes is said to be
the latest device now. being used by
the Germans in bringing about the de-
struction of enemy ships, according to
Cant. B. j. Keelty of England
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
Attempt on Rulers Life,

Rome, March Am unsuccessful at
tempt was made to assassinate Gar
Ferdinand. Ferdinand's alleged indis-
position, it is said, is in reality due to
wounds inflicted upon him by a would
he aSSa SSin
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

Massillon, O.-After having been un-
der water 10 minutes when he fell into
the Ohio Canal, Joseph Mills, years
old, apparently dead, was brought
back to life by means Of air pumped
into his lungs.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

Bowling Green, 0.-Falling one
story in the elevator shaft of the
Wood county court house, Joseph Ban-
ner, aged 6S, was SO badly injured
here that he died.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

Painesville, O.-Three trainmen
were seriously injured when in a rear
end freight collision on the New York
Central Railroad two miles west of
this city They are Forrest Hath
away, fireman, Cleveland; c. J. SWEET
land, conductor, Buffalo; W. H. New
combs, engineer, Buffalo. Several cars
of live stock were burned with their
contents.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

Youngstown, O.-J. H. Kelly, sales
manager of the Republic Rubber Co.,
announced tina. the strike of employees
in the curing departme ent has been set
tied. The strikers walked out and
over 200 employees were affected.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

Granville, O-Scarlet fever compell-
ed the Kappa Sigma and Phi Delta
Theta fraternity chapters of Denison
university to eonfine their college edu-
cation to their respective homes here.
H. D. Chandler, Cadiz, of the Phi Delta
Theta Chapter, and H. l.. Wymans, of
the Kappa Sigma fraternity, are i'll.
The fraternity houses have been quar-
antined.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

Columbus, O.-The Prohibitionists
will hold a state convention to select
delegates to the Prohibition National
Convention at ST. Paul at mass state
convention to be held here July 4-5
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

There is going to be a hard fight in
congress over this building plan of the
secretary of the navy. The prepared
ness folk say it is not ambitious
enough and is spread out over too
much time; the anti-preparedness folk
say it is too ambitious, is going to cost
in twain The pacifists, and there are
lot of them in congress, say the
whole thing should be chucked into
the fire and they intimate that they
would not care much if all the ships
already built or building should follow
the paper plans into the blaze.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

Bryan, O.-Blakeslee, small vii
lage in the western part Of Williams
county, voted wet under the Beal law
b4 a vote of 80 for the sale of intoxi-
cants and % against the sale. The
village has one saloon.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10
BUCKEYE BREVITIES

Dayton, Olive persons were in
jured, two seriously, when street cars
collided.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-10

Springfield, O.-According to State
Highway Commissioner Cowen, Cham
paign county will receive $4,000 this
year from the state fer its inter-coun-
ty roads, and $4,000 for The mainte-
nance of state roads already built. He
says that one-half of the funds will
be available by the middle of March.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-04-28

On receipt Of a car of certified Rur-
al New Yorker seed potatoes from
Amos Radcliffe, Tuesday the con-
signees at Greeley, Colo, wired a re-
peat order for another car OF the
same which will go forward this
week.
1t required some exertion to attend
Easter services at four diffent church
es Sunday but like good many other
hard jobs previously tackled wei wad-
ed through it. Got line on two by
attending personlly and caught the
others by Telepathy.
M. NJ. Connors, of Winchester, and
C. A. Pierce, of Vinegar were in at
tendance at the meeting of town as
SCISSORS Monday whereby they were
instructed in their duties by Chief,
Ira S. Parker of TomahaWk. Both
gentlemen reported their towns to
be in a hourishing condition from the
lumber production point of view, and
incidentally let fall the information
that the township of Pressure Isle
is grooming some sure to win candi-
dates for county Office this fall.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-04-28

Replying to the urgent demand
for desirable houses for rental puruos-s
e., G. Fl. Wiegand is erecting one eE
that type ON his corner lot at theA
east end of Wall st. 1t may eaeour-
age others TO invest likewise, to knows
that the house is already engaged for
occupancy as soon as completed.
By reason of an ordinance passed
by the village board, beginning May
lst, curfew bell will ring at 900 D.
m. All under the age of Is will be-
prohited users of the streets after
that hour. It is a good move and.
one that should be supported by ev-
cry parent.
Joe Stepanski has some apprecia-
tion of the difficulties surroundings
the operation of weekly newspaper
Accordingly, he dropped in TUESDAY,
and exchanged coin of the realm fu
receipt continuing his subscriptions
to May 1st, 1920. He now heads tina
list in that respect although we ana.
always ready to urnish the receiptr
end OF 1t for any who may wish tm
help good cause along.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-04-28

Edward Scheribel of Wauwautosa
arrived Monday to see his mother
Mrs. NJ. Scheribel who is seriously i'll.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-04-28

Don't forget the Better Babies
Contest May 18th. Every mother
should bring blanket for the child.