Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-26


kin, July 5, with loss of 90 lives, is
placed upon Capt. II. F. Mehl and
Pilot George T. Williams in a report
received by Secretary of Commerce
Redfield from steamboat inspectors
who investigated the disaster. The in /
spectors charged inattention to duty |
and incapacity against Captain Mehl
and negligence against Pilot Williams. |
Forty-six thousand men from all |
states and the District of Columbia
were called by General Crowder.
Movement to camp will be between
August and g.. The program pro-
vides for entrainment of 100000 men
during August.
Suspected of having been associated
with DR.. Friedrich R. A. Strensch in
German propaganda, Countess AleXan
dra Viarda Scheele was arrested in
New York as a dangerous enemy alien
by U. S. agents.
Henry Ford heads a List of ten prom
inent citizens named by President
Wilson as possible umpires in the set
tlement of labor controversies which
the war labor board fails to adjust.
With pomp and ceremony as though
1t were a battleship of the line, the
Concrete, the first motor-propelled con-
crete boat ever constructed, was
launched in the Monongahela river at
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Germans in the United States at one
time contemplated the purchase of so
American newspapers in as many
cities, to publish matter favorable to
the central powers, it was said at New
York.
An order committing Thomas J.
Mooney to San Quentin penitentiary
to await execution there ON Friday,
August %, was given the sheriff of San
Francisco by Judge Franklin A. Griffin
of the superior court.
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cause, designed to keep Thomas J.
Mooney out of the penitentiary until
his case could be acted on by Governor
Stephens, was denied by the supreme
court at San Francisco,
Fire caused by the explosion of nj
| trate destroyed the fertilizer plant of
| the American Agricultural Chemical
company near Jacksonville, Fla, en-
failing a loss of a million and quar-
| ter dollars.
The widow and mother of Maj John
/ Purroy Mitchell, former mayor of New
York, who was killed in an airplane
accident, are the sole beneficiaries
named in his will, which was filed for
/ probate in New York. Aside from sew
eral large insurance policies, Major
Mitchell owned property of an estimat-
/ ed valuation of $4,000.
Fifteen states were called upon by
/ Crowder for 1000 draft registrants fit
for military service to be sent to
| schools for special training. The move
ment will be between August and Is.
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A new shipbu;lding concern capital
ized at $5,O00,O00 has been formed and
will operate one of the largest ship
yards in America on the shores of the
st. Lawrence river. opposite Quebec.
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Every bushel of the great Kansas
wheat crop has been harvested, the de-
partment of labor was informed by
the Wichita board of commerce.
At the request of Gov. Hugh M. Dor
sey of Georgia, the national war labor
board ordered the striking street car
men of Atlanta back to work.
J. Fl. Kirby of Houston, KY, has
been appointed lumber administrator
of the Emergency Fleet corporation, to
administer all activities of the ship
building program relating to lumber.
Capt. Andrew G. Wright, command
ant at Iowa university, is dead at Iowa
City, according to a dispatch received
by the Cedar Rapids Qa.) Gazette. He
was retired army officer.
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W. A. Hale of Quincy, ILL.,, an avi-
stor, was killed by the fall of an air
plane at Curtiss field at Buffalo, N. Y,