Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-05-10
STATE SIFTINGS

birthday anniversary.
Mrs. Charlotte Scott, 101, Marys-
Ville's oldest resident, is dead. She
was a native of Virginia
Grain elevator at Watson, near Tif-
fin, was destroyed by fire of I'M
known origin. Loss 5000.
Miami conservancy district was
given property valued at $4,000 by
Colonel E. A. Deeds of Dayton.
Caledonia, Marion county, remain
ed in the dry column by a vote Of 8S
to Is. The village has It's votes
Fire destroyed the handle factory
owned by Amstutz & Son near Bluff
ton, Allen county. Loss $4,000.
Mrs. Susie Gougler, Pleasant Val
ley, Summit county, was killed when
the horse she was driving ran away.
A car on the Cleveland, Southwest
ern and Columbus overturned near
Wooster. One passenger was injured.
Thirty-seven Jersey cattle were lost
in fire which destroyed a barn on
B. w. Havens' farm, near Weste1-
vile.
Mrs. Robert w. Hatch, 46, of Gran
ger township, Medina county, commit
ted suicide by plungiEg head first into
a cistern.
Temperance forces will celebrate
at Oberlin the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of the founding of the Anti-Sa.
loon league
S. W Nicholson, president of the
Nicholson Clay Products company
Cambridge, died suddenly at the din
ner table.
Leonard Oatney, IA, son of Johr
Oatney, near PIeasantville, Fairfield
county, received a fractured skull
when tree fell on him.
A Cleveland shipbuilding company
steamers for salt water. service fol
the emergency fleet corporation.
Liberty bonds, thrift stamps ani
war savings stamps were used by tht
congregation to raise funds to cree
the new st. Paul's Episcopal churcl
! at Canton.
Edward Brooks, principal of tn
Milton Center schools, was killed b
train at Mt Grab while en- route t
Lebanon to answer summons Of
draft board.
Following the seizing and burnin
Green high school by students, tn
school board abolished the teachin
of the language.
A movement has been started g
Toledo for S. O. Richardson, glas
manufacturer, for appointment a
Ohio fuel administrator, to succee
H. H. Johnson, Cleveland, resigned.
Within two hours after eating th
coating off a number of pills sh
found on the kitchen table, Doroth,
is, daughter of William Waters, die
at her home in East Liverpool.
Harry Wagenknecht was sentence
at Cleveland to serve one year in tn
Warrensville workhouse for violatio
of the draft law He has brothe
serving sentence for a similar O
Tense
Major Melbourne, commandant {
Wilbur Wright field, near Daytol
and Major Gilkerson, flying instru
tor at the same field, suffered minC
injuries when their airplane fell di
tance of so feet into a tree
By request of federal authoritie
the probe of A. Hitchcock, suspende
from the Cleveland school board fl
alleged disloyalty, has come to
stop. His case comes before the fe
eral grand jury in Toledo soon.
Suffering from a complication
troubles, General R. P. Kennedy, Z
of Bellefontaine, known as ''Fightir
Bob in his active years in Ohio pc
itics, is in a Columbus hospital. +
served a number of terms in CO
gress.
Toledo streetcar men say they W
soon strike unless their wage
! mands for an increase of 10 cents {
hour are granted. The company sa
fares must be boosted. May
Schneider AYERS they can not
raised.
Edward Karl Fischer, former et
tor of The Waechter and Anzeige
Cleveland German language dali
was arrested on presidential ws
rant, charging him with being "da
gerous to the peace aud safety of t
United States
Crop bulletin of the state board
agriculture states that wheat is i
proving in spite Of the lack of 81
shine. The seeding of oats is doil
nicely, the seed terminating well a.
! the plants coming up to an excelle
= stand in many localities. Flowing f
= corn is progressing satisfactory
Fruit trees have responded slow
> and gardening has been delayed
:. account of the cold, wet weather
Rev. S. K Strauss, for 20 yea
pastor of st. Johns Lutheran churc
has rendered his resignation from t
church, to become effective May 19
e Announcement was made at Tole
by the big milk distributors Of
4 duction of the price from 13 to
cents a quart This is to increa
consumption
= Al Napoleon Mrs. A A Hudson W
4 badly burned when a can of kerose
:. exploded and her flannel gown
, nited, while starting a fire in ram
: Her aged mother and her husba
y also were burned in attempting
eXtinguish TIE flames.
State Auditor Donahey, in a reps
to Governor Cox, criticises the acti
" of the state board of agriculture
:. turning over gratis the use of t
" coliseum and other buildings on I
:. state fair grounds to the natiol
n dairy show, corporation for pecu
: ary profit.
= Profiteering in the manufactl
= and distribution Of ice will not
permitted, State Food Commission
CroXton announced. All advances
price, he said, will be investigated
see that they do not exceed that jul
. fled on account of increased prices
y materials and labor
John Immel, 81, president of /
John Immel & Sons Company, W
= crushed 20 death in the elevator sh
at his carriage factory at Columb