The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-02-01
PUNCHED PARAGRAPHS



Teaching of the German language
will be abolished from all grade
schools Of indianapolis when the next
semester starts, following action Of
the school board.
William Platt OF Baltimore and
Richard Fairfield of Philadelphia, con-
nected with the British Red Cross.
were killed during an enemy air raid
in the Italian war zone.
Eight husbands since she was IA
years old Is the record Of Mrs. Cora
Ellen woods" or Barnes" at 80.
the mother of an 1S.year-old boy, un-
der arrest at Washington OIL charge
OF bigamy.
Body OF Paul Head, of the Ameri-
can Mercantile bank of Peru, was
found at Lima, Peru In a ditch. The
circumstances Of his death have not
been cleared up, Mr.. Head was
from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Two soldiers from Camp Devens
we're killed outright, third was ia
tally hurt and two others were in.
jured when their auto was struck by
locomotive near Fitchburg, Mass.
John SlurasA, an Austrian, arrest.
cd at Detroit by postoffice inspectors.
confessed that ne had written a
threatening letter to Henry Ford, dc,
manding $4,000 under threat that
he would kill both Ford and his sou
For selling an excessive quantity
Of sugar to an individual, d. Nochim.
son, a wholesale grocer Of Paterson.
N. j., mas been ordered by the food
administration TO suspend business
entirely during the month Of Febru-
ary.
Dumaresque Spencer, American
aviator Of Highland Park. ILL.,, was
killed in France while returning from
patrol duty across the German lines
near Belfort
Seven persons are dead, two others
are expected to die and nearly a
score are Ill as a result of an egg.
nog party at Francis, Okla, at which
denatured alcohol was used by mis-
take.
Mathey Stenman, So, Chagrin Falls,
O., died while fighting his way
through a snowstorm to reach his
home, five miles from the station.
Thirty-five bodies have been recov-
cred from the Allan shaft Of the Aca.
dia Coal company's collieries at Stel
larton, N. s., in which 81 miners were
killed by an explosion.
Roy Brown, %, is held at Indianap-
oils on a charge Of murder, following
the shooting of Peter Christensen, 40.
a neignbor, when the young man in.
terfered in family quarrel.
Barney Dolan, an agent for the In
diana Harbor Belt railroad, and an as
sistant named Maloney, were shot
and killed in fight with freight car
thieves in Franklin Park, a suburb of
Chicago.
An American patrol vessel, operat-
ing in European waters, ran on a
rock while driving through a heavy
fog, the navy department announced.
The vessel probably will have to De
abandoned
Gas masks Of the latest model have
bCOA 4Il SuO L dI 10 POl1SO cAa
a protection against gas bombs, in
the expectation of air raids on Paris.
, Lord Rhondda, British food con-
troller, said that in one week in De.
cember submarines destroyed 3,000,.
600 pounds Of bacon and 100000
pounds of cheese.
I Frank H. Gould, surveyor general
Of the department of the interior OF
the United States, dropped dead a!
San Francisco from apoplexy.
A sentence of five years was re-
turned at Dallas, Tex, by the jury in
the case Of Mrs. Katie Ahlers, alias
Katherine Trevors, charged with the
killing Of Phil e. Tucker last October.
Carl Glesser and Jacob Frohwerk,
editors of the Missouri Stats lei.
tung, were arrested at Kansas City
for printing an editorial in which ii
was alleged refusal to perform mill
tary duty for the United States was
urged.
Two-thirds of the churches at
Washington we're ordered closed for
the next three weeks to conserve
coal.
Fire destroyed the warehouse at
Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Tex, with
a loss Of $10,0oU.
Theodore E. Ferris, chief ship de-
signer for the emergency feet cor.
poration, has resigned.
Senator Charles B. Henderson,
Democrat, took the oath Of office, sue.
ceeding the late Senator Newlands Of
Nevada.
c. T. Thompson, press committee
chairman Of the American Defense
society, in an address at New York
said Ia spies had been shot in the
United States since beginning of the
war with Germany.
Three firemen were killed and Is
injured under falling wall when fire
swept a large public school in the
outskirts of Philadelphia.
Hehime Goldscnmidt, said to have
been the first bicycle rider in the
country to loop the loop" died at
New Haven, Conn, Of accidental gas
poisoning.
Federal government urges that
road work in 1918 be confined to
and completion of high
ways important to the war for mo7-
ing commodities
Robert A. Grove and Alice Zugget
we're killed, four others were seri-
ously injured and IL slightly hurt
when a streetcar struck big sleisL
near Harrisburg, Pa
Despondent because her husband
left her for another woman, Mrs. Jo-