Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-05-17

DAYTON plans a war chest campaign
similar to the one conducted by Co
lumbus.
New Catholic church at Bremen
was dedicated by Bishop J. J. Hartley
of Columbus.
Mark Turner, %, was killed when
his auto was struck by an electric
car near Toledo
United Hungarian societies at
Youngstown indorsed war aims OF
the United States.
Bucyrus was granted funds for
vocational night school for workers
by the state board of education
Cleveland board Of education voted
to continue the teaching of the Ger
man language in the high schools
Ruth, 2-year-old daughter OF Walter
Coulter, Washington c. H, fell into
a few inches of water and drowned
Port Clinton saloonkeepers agreed
to discontinue the sale of all package
goods over bars. This includes bot
tied beer
While crawling over some cars, Ed
ward Wester, 20, Dayton, was thrown
underneath and both legs cut off. He
died later.
Iron workers employed on jobs in
various sections of Cincinnati went
on strike, demanding 10 cents an
hour wage increase.
Mrs. Cora Watkins, 40, Marion,
shot herself through the left breast
in an attempt to commit suicide. She
probably will recover.
Ohio is expected to furnish 2,50c
lnen to man boats between the Unit
| ed States and Europe. They will be
| called in the course of year OF more.
Worry over his son, who is with
the Rainbow division in France, is
| supposed to have caused the suicide
| of Thomas NJ Marshall at Coshocton.
Waiting until her daughter left the
house to go to work, Mrs. Dan1ine
Kalse, "A. Cambridge, locked all the
doors and killed herself. She had
been i'll. q
l DR.. w. H. McMaster, president Of
Mt. Union college, Alliance, will adj
dress the Ohio State Teachers asso-
citation convention at Cedar Point,
June 25. e.
| Ohio Wesleyan university officials
announced that the diamond jubilee
campaign had gone over the top and
the needed 100000 had been over
subscribed
DR.. Ralph Crawler of Marion, grad
uate of Ohio State university, has
been commissioned lieutenant in the
medical corps and ordered to Fort
Ogletherpe. Ga.
The east side of Main street al
Sterling, near Wooster, was swept by
fire, starting in the grocery wareroom
of f. S. Weiss & Son and causing
$4,000 damage.
Lloyd Allen, "a, of New York city,
a cadet flyer at the Wilbur Wright
field near Dayton, met instant death
when his machine crashed into a
school building on the field.
An army observation balloon on a
test fight from Akron caught in some
trees near Alliance. George Church,
pilot, suffered broken back and
John Tarry, his helper. was badly cut
and bruised
Grand jury at Dayton returned two
indictments against Safety Director
Harry P. James, one charging him
, with grand larceny in the theft of an
automobile tire and the other accus-
ing him of accepting bribe.
Logan county Republican commit
!, tee indorsed N H. Fairbanks, Spring
!. field, for state central committee
man; Simeon D. Fess, Yellow
Springs, for congressman, and A. Jay
Miller, Bellefontaine, for attorney
general.
Chester Allread, AZ, a stock buyer,
committed suicide at Greenville by
shooting himself with a revolver All
:, read, with another Greenville man
and two women, was arrested at
h Union City after an automobile acci-
dent in which one of the women was
fatally injured.
Two bandits held up L. NJ. &c ZelIe,
paymaster of the Hunkin-C Conkey
Construction company, at Cleveland,
;. and robbed him of the company's pay
. money, amounting to 81, 100. The rob
: bers leaped from an automobile,
= struck &c Zelle over the head and
threw pepper in his eyes.
According to orders received at
r Camp Sherman, the government VIII
It pay the premiums on old insurance
L policies and in fraternal organizations
e during the period of the war for any
r soldier who may sc desire. The sol
= dier is to pay back Uncle Sam one
e year after the war. 1t is estimated
It that the Ohio soldiers thus will be
$ able to keep alive at least 81 900, ,00G
o worth of insurance which they took
out before the war
L Every precinct and township In
II Ohio will have a committee of Is rep
" resentatives of the Ohio branch. coun
e Gil Of national defense, to carry OF
l. war activities and spread war mes
J. sages. Over them will be a count,
r committee. No existing organization
;. is to be supplanted. Copies of tbs
d plan were submitted to state heads
4 of war organizations. They are tC
4 be called by Governor Cox again il
" about two weeks to submit their sug
gestions on the plan.
st Seventeen hundred employees of the
d, Toledo Shipbuilding company, work
Ie ing on transport ships for the gov
IF ernment, went on strike for an in
crease of wages
a. Frank Mazzano, Italian gangster, a
N Akron, was sentenced to die in tht
lie electric chair Sept. 16. Mazzano i:
N charged with being the actual mur
Il. derer of Patrolman Gethin Richards
N Before Governor Cox, Major Gen
E. eral Edwin F. Glenn and thousand,
I'd of visiting relatives and friends, 80,
IS 900 selectives gave mute evidence o
n their fitness as they passed IN review
at Camp Sherman.
Mt William King, 80, Dayton, die,
N from a fracture of the skull, receives
in when he was struck by an automobile
rs Mrs. Jennie Croft, AT, hanged hei
tn self with a clothesline at her hom
ut in Dover. Two Of her sons are i
the army.
n Wheat prospects for May 1 wer