Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-09
STATE SIFTInGS

Ernest Butler, recorder of NOBLE
county, has resigned.
Ohio banks are asked by the treas
ury department to curtail all nones
sential loans
Twenty-Five inch rattiesnake wa
ltilled near Bucyrus by A. G, StolE
banker
Owen Roberts, II, was drowned III
a reservoir at Van Vert while i'll
swimming.
Carleton Richey, 13, West Mans
field, was drowned while swimming
in Mill creek
Virgil 2. Ware of near New Madi-
son was drowned while seining in the
White Water river near williamsburg
Hearing of charges against Eugene
V. Debs, under federal indictment
was postponed at Cleveland until
Sept 9.
Unable to swim, Fred Bauermeis
ter, 16, lost his life when q canoe cap
sized in the Olentangy river at Co
lumbus.
Presence of red weevi1 in wheat =
believed to have damaged the crop
five bushels per acre in parts of Fay
cite county.
Dayton police have arrested Alfred
Green, AZ, colored, of Xenia, said to
be an escaped prisoner from the Ohio
| penitentiary.
At Dayton, Police Inspector H. E.
Laulhart was dismissed by Safety
| Director James on a charge of con
| Duct unbecoming an Officer
! Despondent because he was broke
and could not find work, Samuel HUT
man, Cincinnati, took poison at To
ledo. He is in critical condition.
Mennonite preachers have shown
activity at Camp Sherman. They
have urged conscientious objectors tc
stay cut Of uniform and refuse 'tc
fight.
Mrs. NJ. J. Kirschner of Toledo was
killed and four persons were injured
when an automobile in which they
were riding collided with a train a
Monroeville.
A soldier in uniform, whose name
she does not know, is accused by Mrs
Helen Levan, proprietress OF q hote
at Toledo, OF robbing the hotel saf
of 5000 and q gold watch.
Hundreds of people witnessed tn
death of Marion Wetherald, year
old, at Ffndlay The little one wa
struck by an interurban car, whic7
severed the body just above the hips
A survey made by the women
committee of the state defense couT
eli indicates that less than one-fourt
the coal which will be needed in Obi
households next winter has been lai
in or ordered. Governor Cox warn
: all Ohio householders to place thei
orders for coal at once.
Mrs. ]. E. Hathon suffered fra
tured skull and Guy Mason broke
arm when an automobile in whic
they were riding from Continental t
Ottawa ran into a telephone pole an
was wrecked.
. Governor Cox pardoned Frank w
l liams, 16-year-old boy, sentenced /
the penitentiary in Monroe count
4 last May for the theft OF few inc
4 pensive articles from a store. 1t We
1 supposed he was 19.
| A Kanawha and Michigan passe
| ger train, en- route from Columbus |
Charleston, was wrecked near At
] ems when the cars left the track {
a curve. w. H. Jones, mail clerk,
4 Athens, was slightly injured.
Body of Ralph C.. Christman, 2S,
! GAINESVILLE, was found in a room {
the fifth floor of the Virginia hot
q at Columbus Christman apparent
81 had committed suicide by takil
Il cyanide of potassium.
4 The government will be asked
3 take action against rent prof1teers
" Canton unless excessive rents are
70 duced IN the neighborhood of indr
% trial plants engaged in turning 0
10 war munitions
q Mrs. Ora Bareer, 80, was arrest
10 at Urbana, charged with murd,
N after John Blose, her alleged victi
m had died in a Columbus hospit
% Blose who was a farmer residi
q near Urbana, was shot while in b
at his home. Mrs. Barger was
housekeeper.
Operating expenses of the sta
board of administration and the
: institutions under its care advanc
only 10 per cent last year over t
:. previous one, it is shown in a prelir
nary fiscal report for the II mont
- ended June 80. Average daily POI
~ lation of institutions was 23,325, an
~ crease of 617 over 1917.
~ In place Of the % state-city Fl
vi labor exchanges now in operation
Ii Ohio by the Ohio defense court
81 there are to be 50 Of these empI,
"a. ment offices under federal cont1
A. The central office at Columbus will
- IN charge of c. H. Mayhugh as as
= ciate federal director of employme
ls Miss NJ. Edith Campbell of Cine
~ natl is 10 be director of the wome
ne and girls division. H. F. Meyer
n Columbus will be chief of the Gle
rs ance division, in charge Of the ira
eh fer of workers from one section
10 another. Thomas D. Philips will
at the head Of the farm help diYisi
Z. "A HGdu9 uI Lay ION mas Uo9n
pointed chief supervisor.
nt- James O'Brien. 80, was killed {
ne six other persons were injured wi
Sn lightning struck small build
." near Ashtabula.
Us Striking garment workers at Gle
ne land rejected a proposal by CIevelf
iiu manufacturers to name q board CT
o|e | Guiry OF nine members to endeavor
'lo adjust the dispute
81 J. Hermann Dierkes. insurai
~ ~. man and former prominent Del
~ cratic politician of Cincinnati,
~ who was recently arrested on
~ charge Of violating the spiouage
~. waived examination and was bol
over to the federal grand jury.
Paul Legready, 80, Cleveland, s
and killed himself after shooting
,ut wounding his wife and her S
all. Charles Hevegue.
ed E P. Steiner of Orange townsl