Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-10-04
STATE SIFTINGS

FRANK S1ebenthal, "a. OF CadiZ juno
tion was killed by a train at Steu-
benyille.
Katherine Jensen, ., Canton, was
killed. in a fall over a balustrade at
school,
Sandusky's lawyers will boost fees
because the war has reduced busi-
ness.
Cleveland board of education plans
to speed up school work of boys of
1S eligible to military service so as
to permit their graduation in Jan
uary.
James Sharp. 80, engineer at the
Athens waterworks plant. was caught
iu the machinery and crushed to
death.
Springfield streetcar men called off
their strike when a federal investi-
gator directed the reinstatement of
discharged employees.
Ohio state university will have a
naval training section as well as a
branch of the student army training
corps.
Plants in the Canton section are
crying for women workers. One thou
sand will be put to work by the Nor
gan Engineering company at Alliance,
and 200 in the plant of the Holmes
Automobile company at Canton.
Rev. Francis j. Haley. for seven
years pastor of the church of the
church of the Holy Rosary at Cleve-
land, died In Atlantic City, ~ j.,
where he had gone to recuperate from
recent operation for appendicitis.
Elimination of vice conditions In
Youngstown, as q means of making
the community more efficient as a
producer of iron, steel and other war
products. has been ordered by the
United States public health service.
Spanish influenza claimed it's first
victim In southern Ohio with the
death Of Caldwell E. Stroth, 33, coal
operator of Wellston, who died after
a weeks illness from the disease,
complicated by pneumonia.
Colonel George Fl. Wood, former
Ohio adjutant general, has been trans
ferred from the command of a regi-
ment in the Thirty-seventh division
to the Rainbow division and is in
charge of all the military trains of
the latter, according to information
received at the Office of Governor Cox
Governor Cox appointed w. d. Wall
of Columbus a member of the state
aecountancy board. to succeed John
J. Knight, resigned. He also appoint
ed Frank Crane, Cincinnati, a mem
her Of the same board, to take the
place of Earl III. Nau of Cleveland.
Official notification of the death oi
Lieutenant Fred w. Norton. Ohio
State athlete. which occurred July q
in a hospital In France, three days
after he had been wounded in an all
battle, was sent out from Washington
to his parents at Columbus.
Authorities are investigating the
death of Mrs. Martha Summey, 60, 6
Logan county patient at the Daytor
state hospital, who died following &
blow delivered by Miss Missouri Gill
a patient from Hamilton. officers an
nounced the assault took place
Sept. II.
AT Nelsonville, Richard Brown
foreman of train crew, was burneC
TO death when a car of gasoline wal
ignited from the lantern he carried
The flames spread to the wholesal,
grocery of G. ID. Shafer & Company
resulting in loss estimated at $15
900 to buildings and stocks.
Federal investigators ruled tha
women must not be employed a
streetcar conductors by the Clevelan,
Railway company. They found tha
the labor situation in Cleveland doe
not demand the employment O
women because of the shortage Q
man power.
An increase in tuberculosis deaf
total in Ohio from 6,S2S in 1916 {
7450 in 1917, according to figure
compiled by the bureau of vital sts
uistics, was pointed to by the stat
department of health as giving ful
ther evidence of need for establish
rnent of more tuberculosis hospital
in the state,
Fireman II. K. Long, 35, and Brak,
man II. f. Elliott, 80, both of Ber;
holz. were killed, and Engineer VIII
cenreid was terribly injured when a
engine on which they we're riding O
the Alliance division of the New Yor
Central railroad was derailed an
rolled down a steer embankment nes
Amsterdam.
Department of agriculture make
the following estimate of crop cond
tions in Ohio on Sept 1, as compare
with last years crop: Corn, 129,67E
600 bushels. as compared with Isl
100000 last year; oats, 79.S43.0
bushels. as compared with T4,TS3 .OOC
potatoes. 10,397 900 buenels, as cor
pared with 16,000,0GJ; tobacco. 10
115,00O pounds, as compared wit
99,072,000; apples, S,340,0OO bushel
as compared with 6,33S, 900; barle
l.4s2, 900 bushels, as against 1,22
coo last year
Mrs. Harriet Bishop, 70 who w,
visiting friends at Greenville. WI
struck by an automobile driven
Mrs. May Noggle and instantly kille
Mrs. Bishop lived in West Virgini
Bernard Porter, n, of Richwoo
died at the Great Lakes naval trai
ing station hospital, Chicago, fro
pneumonia, superinduced by inf
enza. He enlisted May 90.
Wounded and sick Ohio soldie
who are furloughed home from Fran
probably will be sent to Fort Ben.
min Harrison, Indianapolis, for tire;
ment. A large general hospital W
be CO lstructed there.
J. A. Melvin. 6S, president of {
Washington G.. II. city council. di
after a prolonged illness from uren
poisoning.
Body OF Mrs. Elsie Kreinbring,
clerk, was found in the outskirts
Cleveland. The woman had been
lacked and robbed ON her way hor
from work. Part of her garner
we're tied about her throat
Manda Finn-Hall, 32, Cleveland.
Neld to answer a charge of bigan
while both husbands, whose app,
IN fho npIipa hrOught oho,,. -.