Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-12


glass plant burned, with $4,000 in
surance.
New Pennsylvania railroad ter
minal. to cost $4,000, 900, will be built
at Dennison.
St. Clairsville council ordered all
gasoline filing stations closed on
Sundays to conserve gasoline.
United States district court enjoin-
ed the city of Cincinnati from putting
into effect the SO-cent gas rate ordi-
nance.
While crossing the tracks at New
ark in her touring car, Mrs. May Mil
Ter was instantly killed by a passen.
ger train.
John Baxter, II. and Norman Ste
vens, 1s, were rescued after spend
ing a night on an overturned boat in
Sandusky bay.
John Tucker. 40. OF Rayland, Bel
mont county. was crushed to death
when he attempted to turn his auto
on a narrow road.
Harry King Cochran, 21, son OF
Mrs. w. c. Bragg, is the first of Mar
tins Ferry marines to die in France.
He enlisted a year ago.
Word reached Camp Sherman that
a portion of the Eighty-third division,
composed of Ohio and western Penn
sylvania selects. had arrived ir Italy
Mace Roberts. 35. steel worker, was
killed at Portsmouth when he jumped
from TIE running board of fast
moving automobile, fraeturing his
skull.
Springfield city commission granted
the street railway company permis-
sion to increase city fares from six
tickets for a quarter to straight scent
fares.
Three hundred delegates attended
the annual convention at oxford OF
the Industrial and Mercantile Club
Girls OF the Ohio and West Virginia
Y. w. C. A.
Steve Carlo, %. was instantly killed
at Canton when ESQ volts of cleo
tricity passed through his body as ne
accidentally came in contact with
| electric wires.
Secretary of State Fulton announc-
ed the book containing auto license
numbers. required by law to be pub
| lished July 1, will contain 100000
numbers, compared with 100000 for
| all of 1918.
Dave Stort. 35, Italian, was shot
and instantly killed, police say, by
| his wife, after Stort had slashed her
throat and the throat of Pete Gas
| parino at the wife's home il Ali
ance The woman and Gasparino
will recover.
Secretary of Stale Fulton announc-
ed that he had decided to place the
full text of the Shinn proposed con-
stitutional amendment to exempt real
estate mortgages from taxation, to be
submitted at the November election,
on the ballot without title.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gottlieb Schneider
of Findlay have received a communi-
cation from the governor, which
states that their son Otto has been
declared legally dead" The young
man was an electrician on the collier
Cyclops when it went down.
A further stay of execution of
Aaron Gibson Washington, under sen
tence to die in the electric chair June
2S, was granted by the court of ap.
peals. Washington was convicted at
Dayton for the killing of Clarence
Conner, paymaster for a paper COM
rsny.
Lawrence Meyers. en- employe OF
the Wehrle company, stove manufac-
turers, Newark, was arrested, charged
with writing blackmail letters to A
T. Wehrle Of the company. Meyers is
accused of having demanded $500
and Of having threatened to burn the
plant.
State investigators who have been
working in Camp Sherman during tho
past week in search of bootleggers,
are convinced that the situation there
is now well in hand. The officers are
having considerable trouble at Circle
Vile, where several arrests have been
made.
Private G. w. Digelman of Coshoc.
ton, Corporal ]. Jindra of Cleveland,
Privates f. E. Dubbs of West Liberty.
W. Fishetti of Cincinnati and T. A.
Lewis of Warren were killed in ac-
tion in France. Privates X. Cretors
of st. Paris and C. Ledford of Cincin.
natl died Of wounds.
over 1000 delegates attended the
state Christian Endeavor convention
at Newark. The convention endorsed
resolution asking for nationwide
prohibition during the war, and il
cluding the period of rehabilitation
Cleveland was selected as the city tc
entertain the 1919 convention. c. R
Sine, Hamilton, was elected president
of the society.
When arraigned at Lima on a
charge of murder in the second de
: gree, Mrs. Blanche Clevenger obtain
ed permission of the court to plead
guilty to a charge of manslaughter
She was given an indeterminate sen
tence to the penitentiary Following
the granting of divorce to her nus
band few weeks ago, she shot and
killed her 9-year-old daughter and at
tempted suicide by firing a bullet into
the roof of her mouth.
Valentine Young, wedl-to-do Beavel
: (Pike county, farmer and politician
was found guilty in federal court a
Columbus of making disloyal re
marks.
Lieutenant Carl II, Eyman, 26, sol
of l.. e. Eyman of Lancaster, wa!
killed in action in France. He be
longed to the aviation corps and wal
a gunner on battle planes.
Six people were injured, Motormal
: w. F. Arnet perhaps fatally, whel
two interurban cars on the Starl
/ electric line collided head-on on /;
curve near Garfield, six miles east o
Alliance.
. Philip s. Fisher, 72, farmer nea
1 Fostoria, is dead, after being attack
!. ed by an angry bull.
Timothy Mahoney of Lima died a
:, the base hospital at Camp Sherman
= from a fractured skull, sustaine,
when he fell from troop train bring
ing draftees to Camp Sherman. AZ