Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-05-31
STATE SIFT|NGS

blind tigers at Toledo.
Frank Flee, 76, widely known lum-;
herman, died at Washington G. H. He
was q civil war veteran.
To help relieve freight car short
age an auto truck left Mt. Vernon for
Chicago with several castings.
Harry Eagle was killed at Spring
field when a motor fire truck struck
the motorcycle he was riding.
A business building has been do
mated to the Red Cross by Mrs.
Frank Leidigh at Rushsylvania.
Great council Of Red Men OF Ohio,
in convention at Canton. decided to
hold the 1919 convention in Colum-
| bus.
Seven men were burned, one seri-
ously, in a fire which destroyed a
block of barns and frame buildings at
Lorain.
Heart trouble caused the sudden
death Of Charles J. Mckee, an attor-
ney and building association official
at Dayton.
William Jacobs, %, and Fred Small
ley, 30, were severely injured near
! BUcyrus when their auto was struck
| by train
State administration board an
nounced it will not permit inmates
/ of state penal institutions to aid in
municipal work
Graves of heroes Of six wars will
be decorated at Bucyrus Memorial
7 day Five Revolutionary war veter-
ans are buried there
One hundred and fifteen sheep
were drowned in high water from
Mill creek on the pasture land of ].
R. Vile, near Marysville.
DR.. Leslie Pratt of Bellefontaine,
who is now engaged in front line
work in France has been promoted
to lieutenant commander;
Rev. Archdeacon H. j. Cody of To-
ronto, Can, will deliver the com
mencement address at Ohio Wes-
leyan this year on June 19.
Miss Margaret Davis, SO, an inmate
OF the Columbus state hospital, com
mitted suicide by hanging herself to
a shutter Of window in her room
Belmont county officials have tax
en- up with government agents at Co
lumbus the cases of Al Turks arrest
ed at Holloway for pro-German activ-
tiles
Ray Showers, 26, married, a former
resident of Marion, is dead of gun
shot wounds at Butte, Mont. He was
a gllnsmith and was killed when eX
amining rife.
American Ship Building company
employees at Lorain will receive wage
Increases of 20 per cent and upward
dating from April 1, under an agree
ment just reached
Newark school boards elected O.
Barnes superintendent of the New
ark schools at salary of $4,000 {
year. to succeed Wilson Hawkins
who goes to Canton.
While crossing the street leadins
to church, where she expected to at
tend services, Miss Flora Downs, AZ
Mansfield, was knocked down by al
automobile and killed.
Charles A. Otis, president of tht
Cleveland chamber of commerce, ha!
been appointed by the war industries
board to make a survey of industria
resources of the country
Merger of the three organization
of the Evangelical Lutheran churcl
was approved by the northern confer
ence at Toledo. Final action will
be taken at the conference at Find
lay in June.
; Copies of 'The Heel of War"
; book written by George B. Mcclellan
former mayor of New York, were cor
. fiscated at Cleveland. Sale of tn
, volume was ordered stopped on tn
charge that the book is pro-Germar
Ohio Homeopathic Medical societ!
, meeting in Cleveland, elected the 70
} lowing officers: DR. James c. Woot
Cleveland, president; DR.. H. C. Waite
) Columbus, secretary: DR.. P. ]
t Church, Salem, treasurer, and Dr. F
l E. Beebe, Sidney, negrologist.
? Representative Welty's bill, lookin
l toward the construction of a barg
! canal connecting Lake Erie and th
7 Ohio river, via Cincinnati and Toled,
e with branch extending from Del
! ance through northern Indiana t
r Lake Michigan at Chicago, has bee
e reported tc the house.
d Percy c. Melrose, 54, former circu
: performer, and Mrs Eva Tootle, 2
wife of Owen A. Tootle, both of G.
lumbus, are dead as the result of
tangled love affair that terminated
d what seems to have been a suicid
;. pact. Their bodies were found in a
:. automobile with a revolver lying b
II tween them. Each had been sht
a through the head.
r Rosie PiroZzi 8, Youngstown, ha
5. her right hand cut off in an electr
(. meat chopper in her fathers store.
.r At Warren Thomas Fellows,
d Greek, shot and killed his wife of s
# months and then turned his revolv,
% on himself He will recover, ply.
# clans say. jealousy is attributed
10 the motive.
n From the fuel administration f
Ohio comes the warning that deli
\. cry of both bituminous (softl al
N anthracite (hard) coal may be prohi
M tied in many counties of the sta
4 during the coming fall where wos
supply is available.
is Chats over telegraph wires led
ID the marriage at Carey Of Miss Fra
els ]. Howe, operator at manufs
tory, and James W. Eccles. Weste
Union operator
Attorney Allen c. Mcdonald
a Dayton, former member of the leg
Is lature, filed the declaration of l
n candidacy for the Republican no
Is ination for lieutenant governor.
s. Admission that he stole five chit
Us ems Jan. IL cost Charles Thomas
s. Lancaster a penitentiary term
OF from one to Is years. The fowls we
ur the property of Otto Tisdale and We
IS valued at $50
e' Two pounds of wool from sheep
LII the White House lawn, donated
" President and Mrs. Wilson, will
auctioned off in Ohio to the hight
bidder and the proceeds will be
voted to the Red Cross war ful