Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-05-17
STATE SIFTINGS

Miss Julia Hyer, So, Washington c.
H., was fatally injured when a Tram
hit her automobile
E. B. Hopkins. 70, wholesale grocer
and civil war veteran, died suddenly
at Yellow Springs.
Fire in the Findlay branch OF the
Huebner-Toledo Brewing company
caused a loss of $4,000.
At Fremont Harold Zeirn, 4, got
possession of his fathers revolver
and shot and killed himself.
Burglars broke into Nathan Ber-
mans store at Cleveland and stole
merchandise valued at S1.500.
Cleveland council voted unanimous
ly to take action in the case OF land
lords charging exorbitant rents.
Sixty women students at Western
college for Women, Oxford, have
PLANTED a 20-acre field in potatoes.
Private Clyde McVickers of Mt.
Vernon fell from a horse at Camp
Sherman and sustained probably fatal
injuries.
Ten carloads of hay consigned to
the government at Fort Thomas, KY,
were destroyed by fire on railroad
siding near London.
Ralston Steel Car company, Colum-
bus, will get government order to
build 5000 steel cars at an approx
mate price of $9,000.000.
State Auditor Donahey in a report
to the governor urges the abandon
ment of the state and all county fairs
until the end of the war.
Fire near Cleveland destroyed the
Cloverdale dairy plant of the Telling
Belle Vernon Milk company, causing
damage estimated at 100000.
Superintendent Wilson Hawkins of
the Newark public schools has been
elected superintendent Of the Canton
schools at a salary of $4,000 year.
When their demand for a wage in
hour day was refused, 80 carpenters
at East Liverpool walked out on
strike.
At New Philadelphia two city
blocks were destroyed by fire, with a
loss of more than 100000. The fire
originated in the saloon of Robert
johnson.
Dispute between the Cleveland
Railway company and its employees
which threatened to result in street
car strike will be submitted to federal
arbitration.
William L. Hart, Alliance, was
elected president of the war council
of Canton district of the Methodist
Episcopal church. Funds will be
raised to support army chaplains.
Camp Perry, ON Lake Erie, ha!
been leased to the United States gov
ernment. The deal saves the state al
annual upkeep expense of $4,000 t.
$4,000, Adjutant General Wood said
Governor Cox in letter to count.
prosecutors urges rigid enforcement
of the tramp law, which provides TO
: imprisonment for all able-bodied per
sons who refuse to work or look TO
work.
Major Oscar A. Brindley and Col
onel Damn, two expert aviation mel
met death at the Moraine City avia
tion field at Dayton. The machin
dropped 400 feet while making turl
i'm the air.
At Springfield a traction car struc
a buggy containing H. H. Beery an
, Byron Steinberger of Urbana and tn
, men we're hurled some distance
;Steinberger is thought to have
a fractured skull.
Governor Cox and former Cove
! ,nors Harmon and Campbell definitel
have decided to attend the meeting c
!. the League to Enforce Peace, May II
. lat Philadelphia. Ex-Governor He
. rick probably will go. Former Go,
: ,ernor Willis expresses sympathy wit
: the movement, but can not attend.
: Business section and part of th
v residence section of Cridersville,
= Village six miles south of Lima, wa
burned with loss of about $150 ,00'
q Women helped fight the fire. Th
Stepleton general store and the Or
dersville bank were the heavies
losers. Seven stores and half a do
;, en- residences were consumed.
: Arrival of additional selective Sc
vice men at Camp Sherman bropgl
), the total population of the canto
ment to approximately 41,000, tt
= greatest number Of men ever qua
tered there at one time. The NOV
ment completed the arrival of IL
= first increment of the second dra
y and brought the number of recruit
q received in the past three weeks
l. nearly 1900.
;, DR.. ]. Knox Montgomery, New Co
= cord, president of the Muskingul
= college, was nominated for governt
- by the Prohibition party at the stat
convention in Columbus G. J. CIR
8 ham, Xenia, was nominated for lie
- tenant governor; c. S. Polling, Wa
g rem, for secretary of state; J.
D Briggs, Toledo, for treasurer; Dav
~ Evans, Reynoldsburg, attorney ge
IL eral, and George S. Hawke, Cinci
v nati, and A. L. Talcott, Cleveland, fl
IL judges of the supreme court.
= Amos L. Hitchcock, a Social
10 school board member of Clevelan
was indicted on three counts by Il
!. federal grand jury for violation
Il the espionage act
u. Dead body of Mrs. Josephine Gre
oI ger, wife of Oscar Creager, Madist
O. county farmer, was taken from Il
OF Scioto river at Columbus The WON;
OF was an inmate of the state hospit;
II. The Ohio State Nurses associate
ID held an indignation meeting at C1e1
as land to protest against the alleg
r. tendency to 'break down Ohio nurse
training schools through the il
proper use Of political influence"
Joseph Boliinger, lifelong reside
of Shelby county and well know
= stock buyer, died at his home
Green township. Mr. Bollinger W
ro member of Company H, Forty-six
nl. Ohio cavalry, and served througho
or the civil war.
ho State board of administration a
nounced that one of its Holste
~ heifers in the dairy herd at the Al
~ ems state hospital now holds the re
" ord for Ohio She is Irma Johan
Concordia, Az years old, who has iu
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