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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Game Warden Dismissed.

Columbus, O.-For insubordination,
Louis Kuertz, Hazelwood, Hamilton
county, was dismissed from the state
service by the State Board of Agricul-
ture He was employed as game
warden, having held the position sew
eral years. Kuertz's discharge was
due to his attitude toward DR.. J. W.
Kirgan, Cincinnati member of the
board.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Cold Hard on Ohio Wheat.

Columbus, O.-According to the
March report of the State Board of
Agriculture, the severe cold and made
Quate snow protection in February
hurt the wheat crop. The crop is esti-
mated at 72 per cent of an average.
This is 1 per cent higher than for the
same mon:h last year. Upon the re-
turns from 555 official correspondents
this estimate is based.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Returns From Auto Business.

Toledo, O.-At a meeting of the
board of directors of the Willys-Over-
land Company, of this city, H. T.
Dunn, vice president of the company.
resigned, effective May 1, 1917. Mr..
Dunn, who is the president Of two
large rubber tire companies, states
that he finds it necessary to devote
practically all of his time to the rub
ber interests.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16

knitting has done much to make her
so, for before knitting came in there
had been many years Of comparatively
little doing of needlework among US.
Not that knitting is needlework. But
knitting has brought renewed interest
in handiwork of al lsorts and now
workbags are so lovely that nobody
can resist them.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Trav for a Child.

A little tray, that will be particu-
larly handy when a child is sick in
he'd, Is lust the cover of a wooden
rheesebox. 1t can usually be had from
a grocer. It's deep rim saves many a
spill on the bedclothes, and the child
slzes It to hold his little toys, as well
as at meal times.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Make Prisoners in Raids

Paris, March 10.-Spirited artillery
actions continued during the night be-
tween the Disc and the Aisne, says the
official report. The French took pris-
oners in raids in Lorraine and in an
unsuccessful German attack.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Mrs. j. M. Dickinson Dies.

Chicago, March 9.-News was re-
ceived at the offices Of the Rock Island
lines of the death of Mrs. Jacob NJ.
Dickinson, wife of Jacob M. Dickinson,
receiver of the road and former secre-
tary of war, at Nashville, Tenn.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
BUCKEYE NEWS NOTES

Toledo, o. Announcement was
made by Health Commissioner Selby
that the city will treat cancer suffer
ers free if the patients present them
selves during the early stages of the
disease. Vital statistics show that one
of every twenty persons who died here
last year was a cancer sufferer
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Edison Theratens to Quit.

Annapolis, Nd, March S.-Thomas
A. Edison, chairman of the naval ad-
visory board, may resign if the naval
experimenting laboratory is not built
at Sandy Hook, it was reported here,
when the inventor filed minority re-
port with Secretary of the Navy Dan
tells favOring the New York site.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Four Die in Poorhouse Fire.

Boone, Ia, March 10.-Four persons
are known to be dead and several 9TH
ers are reported missing following a
ire which early destroyed the Boone
county farm, six miles from here, on
Thursday.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Considers New Loan to China.

Chicago, March 9.-The Continental
and Commercial Trust and Savings
bank, which loaned China $5OOO,OOO,
is considering the advisability of max
ing a new loan of $25,OOO,OOO to that
government.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Heads St. Louis National Club.

st. Louis, March 8.-Ben. G. Brink
man, vice president of a bank, was
elected president of the st. Louis Ma
tionals. His election is part of the
reorganization plan fostered by ]. c.
Jones.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Slayer of Wife to Prison.

Terre Haute, Ind, March 7.-On the
plea of guilty, William Hart, aged
twenty-one, was sent to prison for life
for killing his young wife, at which
time he also shot himself and for DAYS
was thought to be dying.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Denies U. S. Break Near.

Washington, March S.-Minister Pan
areteff of Bulgaria said he had no in
formation of any kind which would
even partially support reports that
his government had decided breaking
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Liner Rochambeau Arrives

New York, March 10.-Having made
her way safely through the German
barred zone the French liner Rocham-
beau docked here. Mounted on the
bow was a rapid-fire gun in addition
to the usual gun on the stern.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Oklahoma Bank Rohhed

Muskogee, Okla, March Two
masked men entered the First State
bank at Park Hill, 30 miles east of
here, forced the cashier into the yault
at the point of revolvers and escaned
with $1,000 in currency.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Germans to Halt BREWING.

Berlin, March 10.-The Berliner
Tageblatt says that the suspension of
all beer brewing in northern Germany
is imminent. This action is due to
the desire to save maize for bread and
malt to take the place Of coffee.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Organized the Tally Waas.

Marion, O.-Arthur N Williams, As
years old, formerly a state building
and loan examiner and at one time
prominent in Republican politics, died
at his home here of heart disease. He
was the founder and first president of
the Tally Ways.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Ordered to Fire on Airmen.

San Francisco, March 7.-Sentries
were under orders to shoot to kill any
aviator flying over the Notifications
of this port. The order was issued
after an airplane was observed flying
over Forts Miles and Scott.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Sink 100000 of TONNAGE.

Berlin, March 9.-German subma-
rines returning between March 1 and
8 from their operations made reports
indicating the sinking of vessels with
an aggregate tonnage of 204, 1000, &C
cording to the Overseas News agency.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Germans Baq Eighteen AirpIanes

Berlin, March S.-Eighteen hostile
air planes were brought down by Ger
man guns Sunday, says the Overseas
News agency. Twelve of these ma
chimes were accounted for north of the
SOmme. ....,.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Suffrage Bill Passed.

Little Rock, Ark, March 8.-The Ar
kansas house of representatives by a
vote Of "a to 27 finally passed the
Riggs suffrage bill, which gives women
the right to vote in primary elections.
Governor Brought will sign the bill.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Army Takes Railroads,

Amsterdam, March 7.-According to
the Kreuz Zeitung of Berlin, the entire
railway system of Germany has been
turned over to the military authorities
with the chief of the field railway sys-
TEN in charge.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
HIGH COST OF LIVING

This is serious matter with house
keepers as food prices are constantly
going up. To overcome this, cut out
the high priced meat dishes and serve
your family more skinner's Maearoni
and Spaghetti, the cheapest, most de-
lcious and most nutritious of all foods.
Write the Skinner Mfg. Co., Omaha,
Nebr., for beautiful cook book, telling
how to prepare it in hundred different
ways. It's free to every woman.-Adv.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Sink Manv Shina

Berlin, March 1.-Two submarines
which returned to their home bases
on Sunday night, reported that they
sunk fifteen steamers and seven sail
ing ships with total gross tonnage of
64,50O.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Decline of Divorce in Japan.

Half of the population of Japan is
from twenty to sixty-five years of age,
and one-third of the entire population
is married. The ratio of divorces for
every 1000 population has decreased
8 to ia; but even at present it is a
source of deep anxiety on the part of
unmarried statisticians. = Maynard
Owen Williams, in the Christian Her.
aid
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Renort u. S. Liner Safe

New York, March 9.-The Fabre line
steamer Roma (French), which sailed
from this port February IS with II
passengers, arrived safely at Lisbon
on March ., the line announced on
Wednesday.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16

Portsmouth, O.-Suit for 100000
damages for an alleged attack has
been entered at Logan, w. Va, against
DR.. H c. Jones, wealthy coal operator
of that city by Lorena Ball, of this
city, through her next friend, Attorney
George W. Sheppard. It is claimed
the girl is only IA years old.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Mo Potatoes in Britain

London, March 7.-Captain Bath
urst, the food controllers spokes-
man in the house of commons, pre-
dicted that everyone would have to go
without potatoes in the late spring and
early summer.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16

Coal mine explosions are to be pre-
vented By an application Of rock dust
in the mines and a machine has been
invented for the purpose.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Fire Marshal Buckley to Resian.

Fire Marshal Buckley to Resign.
State Fire Marshal Bert Buckley, Of
Dayton, is to resign. he announced in
an address delivered at Lima before
the Ohio Fire Prevention Association
and Northwestern Ohio fire chiefs at
a convention there.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
University Gains Control.

University Gains Control.
Bit by bit Ohio State University is
gaining control oyer the agricultural
activities of the state. The so-called
corn boy contest" department has just
been surrendered to the university con-
troll
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
Resoundind.

"They say China is going to break
with Germany, too
'Well, if there is such big break
as that in China, it will be some
smash
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16

Marion, O.-Interests represented
by former Senator Joseph B. Foraker,
of Cincinnati, are known to be nego-
tiating for the control of the Colum-
bus Delaware and Marion Railway
Co. and it's subsidiary properties and
for the lifting of. the receivership so
that Eastern capitalists may effect a
reorganization. That information was
received here by local newspaper
from a reliable source.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16
The New WorkbaGs.

The woman who goes about with
workbag on her arm is more usual
thap she used to be. The craze for
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16

Lima, O.-Allen county ditch i'm
provement bonds amounting to ,$20,SSO
were awarded by the county commits
sioners to the Feibel Elischak Co., Gin
cinnati, on its bid of $576.5O. The
bonds bear 6 per cent interest.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16

Toledo, O.-Emil J. Ulrich, 54 years
old, saIoonkeeper, died from gunshot
wounds inflicted by four bandits, who
held up the patrons in his saloon
about midnight. Ralph Ulrich, aged
22, son of the proprietor, engaged one
of the robbers who held revolver.
The weapon was discharged, one bull
let striking the elder Ulrich in the
abdomen and another in the right leg.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16

Columbus, O.-Troop B, of the First
Ohio Cavalry, Ohio National Guard,
arrived here following the muster out
at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Columbus
celebrated the return of the Fourth
Regiment, Ohio National Guard, with
parade and exercises in the state
house grounds.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16

A lion and a tiger each clear from
19 to 20 feet at bound while spring
ing upon their PR
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16

Toledo, O.-Troop D, Ohio Cavalry,
arrived here from Ft. Benjamin Harri-
son and was welcomed by cheering
hundreds. An hour or so after the
troops arrival parade was held and
the cavaIrymen were cheered by thou
sands on downtown streets.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17
Bows IS 0 S" Sent
Cutters in Search
Of Sinking Liner
Didn't Know He Was Doing
Wrong, He Tells Commits
sioner-FaceS Jail

William Eckhoff, a grocer's boy, of
1875 Court Street, Brooklyn, was ar
raigned before United States Commits
sioner Louis Bick yesterday, charged
with having sent out false wireless
as o s" signals on January 81.
William earns SO a week. Seven OF
this goes TO his mother, the other two
are spent on the wireless plant which
he has rugged up on his roof
The boys experiments have laid him
open TO Imprisonment for two years,
a $500 fine. or both. His 5 o 5 call
alarmed Washington and sent revenue
cutters chasing up and down the entire
Atlantic coast looking for the sinking
ship.
The dreadnought Arizona picked up
the weak signal az the Brooklyn Navy
Yard and relsyed to the capital. II
was so faint that 10 was believed that
the ship was going down even as It
was sent. After the search of the sea
lanes from Maine 20 Florida had failed
TO discover the sender, another search
was made on dry land.
The lad, who is small for his sixteen
years. looked badly scared in court
lie admitted sending the message, but
said that he did not know that he was
doing wrong. He was held in $500 bail,
which was furnished by Gustave Kuhn,
his employer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17
Makes II a Crime to Ship
Liquor Into Prohibi-
ton States
PERIODICAL ADS"
ALSO ARE BARRED
Upper House Commands
Renewal of Pneumatic
Tube Service

Washington, Feb. 16.-With its
added drastic prohibition legislative
provisions, the annual Postofice ap-
preparation bill, carrying S332,000,O0O
was passed by the Senate to-day after
a week Of vigorous debate II was sent
back 70 the House, which will ask FOR
conference on the amendments,
The Senate wrote into the bill pro-
vision making it a criminal offence 70
ship liquor into states which prohibit
its manufacture and sale. thus nullify-
ing the statutes Of certain prohibition
states permitting the Importation OF
limited quantities of liquor for per
sonal consumption.
Another provision would bar from
the mails letters, postal cards. cir
culars. newspapers and other publica-
tions containing liquor advertising in
states having laws against such adver-
Using; violation 70 be punishable by
a fine not TO exceed $1,000, or impris-
onment not 10 exceed six months fol-
the first offence, or more than one
wear for the second offence.
An amendment was added making Il
mandatory on the Postmaster General
to renew for another year pneumatic
mail tube contracts in large cities and
providing for a commission TO lnves-
tigate the tube systems with view
10 their purchase by the government
Determined efforts by the Post
Office Committee TO increase second
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17

was created. it says, to provide an ex-
pert body for scientific and economic
adjustment, rather than prosecution, in
order that the public mi ht not be com
PEELED to wait and suffer for relief dur
ing the slower processes of the crimi-
nal law. The offer of the news print
manufacturers is the first practical
recognition of the new idea by Ameri-
can business men.
A statement given out tonight con-
cludes:
"If the commission accepts the offer
IL is in a position, by reason of facts
gathered IN the last eight months, to
make its decision before March l. This
done, a first step has been taken for
the establishment of mutual relations
between publishers and manufacturers,
even while competition is freed from
restraint and the public interest safe
guarded at every pcint.'
The Federal Grand Jury which is in
curing into the high cost Of print
paper began its work yesterday by
starting an investigation of the BUSH
ness methods Of the News Print Manu-
facturers' Association, which controls
about 90 per cent OF the news paper
output Of the country.
Robert NJ. Houk, assistant secretary
Of the organization; George +. Steele,
secretary, and L. B. Lockwood, treas
urer. were called yesterday. Before
Mr.. Lockwood began his testimony The
proceedings were halted, to continue
on Monday. In the meantime Judge
Clarence S. Sessions will instruct the
Jurors in regard to a point of law
which has been raised in the interests
of the witnesses
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17

john Il. Tyson, who can get almost
as many weddings out of one love sf-
fair as he can fines out Of gallon OF
gasolenc, is married at last to the girl
Of his choice.
The son Of the Tyson ticket agency's
founder was not able to make the for
mer Miss Olive Hawley his fourth wife
until her marriage 70 Alexander II. Bass
had been annulled and he and his spite
bride" Miss Rose Budd Exiner, had
been divorced. Mrs. John II. Tyson
the fourth is nineteen years old. She
admitted last night that they had been
welded on February 8.
I'VE were married in Connecticut,
she said briefly. "but shan't tell you
where or by whom"
1t vas learned, however, that the
wedding party drove 20 Greenwich
Conn. in Mr.. Tyson's newest car,
known 10 the countryside as "the olive
green" and that he and Mrs. Bass
were married by William P. Mulville,
justice Of the peace. Besides Mrs.
BASES mother, the only witness TO the
ceremony was ex-Judge James F.
Walsh. who performed the same func-
tion last September at the spite we'd
ding
Lived Over Delicatessen
The present Mrs. Tyson lived with
her mother, Mrs. Josephine Hawley,
over a delicatessen store on Main
Street, Stamford, last summer, when
she married Alexander H. Bass, a stu
dent in Stevens Institute Of Technol-
ogy. II was just a prank, she said
later, and the ceremony was annulled.
But before he knew it was just q
prank and was going to be annulled Mr..
Tyson vowed he'd get even with Olive.
So he went and married Rose Budd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17

class mail rates and TO establish one
cent postage on drop letters were made
and bitterly contested. and the pro-
possls finally were thrown out on
point Of order.
Another minority report from the
House Judiciary Committee on the
proposed constitutional amendment for
nationwide prohibition was filed to-
day by Representative Walsh, Of Mas
sachusetts, who protested against what
ne termed an effort TO convert the con-
stitution into a mere criminal statute.
Mr.. Walsh said the Supreme Court
decision unfolding the Webb-kenyon
law makes it possible TO secure nation
wide prohibition through legislative
enactment and federal and state en-
forcement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17

was locked and he wanted his motor
cycle. ! called up all the hospitals in
the neighborhood and all OF our friends
trying TO find Alfred, but no one had
seen him"
Detective Sergeants Niece and Lag
areune, to whom Mrs. Cocchi told her
story, recalled that they had questioned
Cocchi and searched his shop shortly
before noon on Thursday. The woman
said her husband had made no mention
Of this when he game home for lunch.
Then the detectives and Mrs. Cocchi
went down TO the shop, at 542 West
l27th Street.
Departed in Haste
They found every evidence that Coo
chi mad departed in haste. He proba-
bly, had began his preparations for
flight az soon as the detectives had de-
parted. His shop overalls were in the
middle of the floor. A bench was over
turned. The back door was unlocked
and only one Of the two locks on the
front door made secure. This haste
was strange, Mrs. Cocchi said. as her
husband was by habit most methodical
Mr.. Cocchi did not pay the light bill
with the $40 he got from his wife. He
Aelt no money IN the snOp. NILS. OOC-
chi said their business was good, and
called her husband an expert mechanic
who always made money.
Pressed for their opinion as 10 a
motive which might have induced Coo
chi to abandon his paying business and
desert his family, detectives said that
they were not yet convinced that the
Italian was concerned in Ruth Crug.
er's disappearance. They had evidence
that there had been trouble between
Cocchi and his wife, they asserted, and
that the formers parents had urged
him to return to Italy and fight.
Detectives spent several hours in
vestigating the story Of the chauffeur
who said a man and a girl had entered
his taxicsb at 127th Street and Clare
mont Avenue Tuesday afternoon and
were driven TO 125th Street and LenoS
Avenue. where they disappeared into
the northbound subway entrance. Al
first the chauffeur thought the girl re-
sembled Miss Cruger, but after study
ing her pictures he concluded his fare
was an older girl.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17
Emergency Peace
Convention Call
By Jane Adams
Woman's Party Will Deliberate
on Action Day Before l9
Societies Meet Here

Miss Jane Adams. president OF the
Woman's Peace Party, has issued eau
for national emergency convention to
be held here on February 81, the day
before the federation Of nineteen peace
societies will meet at the Hotel bilt-
more 70 decide on a plan Of concerted
action.
The women will attend the federS-
ton, and Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead. secres
tary Of the party, will be one OF the
speakers. Another speaker wlll be Mrs.
Fannie Fern Andrews. There will be ten
delegates from the New York City
branch Of the Woman's Peace Party
The proposal 20 indorse Presidents
Wilson's war policy will come from the
New York Peace Society, which on
February s sent 10 President Wilson q
resolution declaring their intention "a
stand by him in any action taken at thus
time. Professor John Bates Clark, OF
Columbia University. presided over the
meeting in the absence Of Andrew Car.
negie, president OF the society, and OF
Oscar Straus. vice-p president
Professor George W. Kirchwey viii
preside at the conference. On Thursday
the question. The Present Crisis
What Shall We Do2" will be discussed
at the morning session. In the after
noon a conference will be held on thu
worlds court programme.
On Friday will be continued the de-
bate on the question Of Thursday morn-
ing. This will be followed in the after
noon by a discussion Of plans for the
unification of organizations making foe
peace. In the evening "The Society %
Nations-A Constructive Peace Pro-
gramme" will De considered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17
Detectives Hunt Mechanic,
Last Person Known to
Have Seen Lost Girl
MOTHERS PRAY
FOR HER RETURN
Police Alarm for Cocchi
Covers Almost Half of
the Country

The search for Ruth Cruger, missing
since Tuesday, hunt which now
covers almost half Of the United States
took new turn yesterday, when de-
tectives learned that Alfred Cocchi, the
young Italian mechanic who admitted
that ne was the last person 70 see the
girl before she vanished, had disap-
peared.
The police went over much Of their
ground a second time following this
news. They inspected vacant build
ings. lofts and Easements near Cocchi's
motorcycle shop.
The nsighborhood is aroused. Friends
of Henry D. Cruger, Of $50 Claremont
Avenue, the girls father, members OF
the Washington Heights Baptist
Church, Of which Ruth was member
and a Sunday school worker. and stu
dents and former students of the Wad-
leigh High School, where she was grad
uated on February l. have joined the
search