Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-12
STATE SIFTINCS

Years marshal Oh MllloTSDurS anu
sheriff Of Holmes county. is dead.
Judge II. G. Smith of GAINESVILLE has
announced his candidacy for the Re.
| publican nomination Tor secretary of
state.
Automobile bandits stole 100000
cigarets, valued at $4,000, from the
]. E. Moos tobacco storerooms at
Lorain.
Private Edward SwartA of Rncy-
rus, While swimming in the Tallai
poosa river at Montgomery. Ala, was
drowned
At Toledo Patrolraan Louis Jez-
wiecki, 26, was shot and killed when
he attempted to arrest a prowler.
who escaped.
Harry Beatty, 90, railroader, whose
home was in Gilbert, was instantly
killed at GAINESVILLE when he fell from
a railway bridge.
Cracksmen blew open the safe If
the Hanover Shoe company store, on
the public square, Cleveland, and sc
cured $1,000 in cash.
At a special election at Be1lefo1-
tame the proposition to issue $780,
dG0 for school purposes carried by a
six to one majority.
Dr.. Ewing Brandon, vice president
of Miami university and professor OF
French, has been called to France for
duty with the Z NJ. c. A.
Refusal of the Lorain Employers
association to sign a new wage scale
caused 1,200 members of the building
trades union to go on strike.
Fire losses in Ohio last year
amounted to $S,490, O31, al increase
of s1,500,O00 over 1916, according to
State Fire Marshal Fleming.
Federal government wants Ohio to
help enlist 1900 men for military rail
way transport service. Men between
20 and 20 are needed for such service
Accused of talking against the lib
prty loan and spreading German
propaganda, William S. Bosley, -
was arrested at ~Steubenville by fed
eral agents.
Captain Abe Newl3ve. formerly O
line RainDow division arrived at hi:
home in Ma:ysvIlle from France. HI
recently a discharged because o
defective hearing.
A powerful wireless outfit. capabi,
Of sending $50 miles, was found b.
secret service agents on an apart
ment building IN Lima. 1t was screen
ed from, the street.
Upon the discovery of ground giasl
and suspected poison in a can Of to
matoes at Lorain, officials confiscat
ed the rest Of the stock and sent it t
federal authorities in Cleveland.
Two Socialist councilmen, NeaI
Mandelkorn and John Wille,t. wer
expelled from Cleveland council o
charges If dis.oyalty, disorderly cor
duct AMI violation of council rules.
Sixty prisoners from the penite1
. county 10 work on the National higf
way. The Mansfield refcrmatory wi
!. send SO men to aid the prisoner
from Columbus.
At Cleveland the court of appeal
< reversed the decision OF Commo
, Pleas Judge Pearson granting tn
, city an injunction restraining tt
: Cleveland Railway company from il
creasing its fare.
State Senator Adam Oberlin. f.
whom a nationwide search had bee
conducted since his mysterious di
> appearance from Canton seve
months ago, has been found in Mo
folk, Va. He will return to Ohio.
A dry plank in the state platform
a dry state and ratification of the fet
eral prohibition amendment are tire
sims of the Republican Dry Federi
ton, as announced at the meeting
u the executive committee at Columhu
Gas exploded in the home Oh
. Lownan in Cincinnati. Mrs. KAT
= Powers. As, was killed, and Lille ST
mering, %, and Mrs. Louisa Schu
gner, AZ, wee injured. The victim
We're employ ed at the Lowman HON
Maple syrup BUYERS at Chardo
9 Geauga county, Increased the price
bulk syrup from $l.30 to S1.40 p'
gallon, the highest price on record
Geauga county. Only SO per cent
a normal yield is reported this Sc
q son.
Il H. G.. Willing, 50, moto1man, w;
shot in the abdomen by a negro pa
a senger. VINO made his escape by di
ing head first through a window of
II street car. Willing probably will di
10 The negro had refused to pay h
n fare and attacked the conductor. 4
d William F. Mehlo and w. f. Davi
councilmen arrested at Youngstow
charged with accepting mark,
d money from a detective representa-
d himself to Re an official of a iitnr
concern seeking city legislation in i
Ie behalf. wer? released on bond folio
al ing a~rraign.nent iu court. They we
held over to the grand jury.
Seven city councilmen were indie
ed at Youngstown on charges of S
h liciting brides S.
* Mrs. Mary E. Ashburn, 81, wide
of T. =. Ashburn, former Ohio s
Irene court Judge, and cousin of &c
r. eral Grant, died at Cincinnati.
e. Fire at the village of Savanna
as north of Ashland, destroyed the TOW
Of hall. electric light plant, Villa
al Fast's hardware store and thr
I'd dwellings. with a tota' loss estimat
al at $4,000. The fire pump broke doy
I'd and the Villagers had to fight 1
err flames with buckets. A hard "a
saved the rest, of the town.
Captain James Ritty, 81, Daytc
I'd civil war veteran and known as t
O. inventor of the cash register, is dea
a With the arrest of a merchal
ne Cleveland police believe they na
taken the first step to break up
&c, great ring OF alleged silk thieves.
ii. Body of Frederick Pemberton.
L. prominent Roseville merchant, W
N, disappeared March 10, was fou
CHI floating in the canal near Zanesvil
er, Manchester Building and Lo
RS company has been placed in t
hands of a receiver. One officer
O.. alleged to be $500 short in his
na counts.
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