Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-05
STATE SIFTINGS

business during the last year.
Samuel Locker, 20. Marysville, died
suddenly on an Ohio Central railroad
train.
New Pennsylvania railroad ter
minal. to cost ss.OO0.OOO. will be built
nt Dennison.
Fayette county farmers report seri-
Gus damage TO the wheat crop by the
wheat midge'
William Shupe. So, of Rising Sun.
was fatally injured when he drove
his auto into train.
EvadIng nurses, Martha Slgfeld,
"a. jumped from the fourth story Of
a Columbus hospital to her death.
Dayton street railway employees
went ON strike when the officials re-
fused union recognition and wage In
creases.
President Alston Ellis Of Ohio uni
versity, Athens. will resign to enter
the government service as a war
worker.
Three children of John Badertscher
were seriously burned by the explo-
sion Of an acetylene light plant at
Pandora. Putnam county
Ted Ivory, 10, toolmaker, was
drowned in the Miami river at Day
ton when the canoe which he and
companions occupied upset.
Rev. Linius L. Strock, pastor of the
First PRESBYTERIAN church at Marion,
expects to sail soon for England to
engage n Y NJ. @. A. work.
Former Governor willis issued n
statement denying the report that
he is a candidate for the presidency
Of Ohio university at Athens.
Professor M. B. Hammond, Ohio
State university. has been called to
Washington &c represent the food adj
ministration on the war labor policies
board.
About $500 in currency was stolen
at Upper Sandusky from the Adams
Express company. The money, in
transit, was taken off for transfer OF
trains.
Until the end of the war all the
church bells of Canton, Catholic and
Protestant. will ring at o'clock each
evening. calling people to Victory
prayer.
An unidentified man died in East
Liverpool. the victim OF footpads. HI
was found with q bullet wound in the
head and with his skull crushed by q
blackjack.
Mount Union college conferred hon.
orary degree OF doctor of laws on Ma
jor Generals Edwin f. Glenn and
Evan M. Johnson and Justice vii
liam r. Day.
O. c. Chappeiear, editor OF the Cir
cieville Union-Herald. will be a can
didate for tho Republican nomination
for state senator in the Franklin
Pickaway district.
John n. Frantz Of the American
rolling mills, Columbus. has been sc
fccted Tor appointment as Ohio fue
administrator. to succeed Homer II
Johnson Of Cleveland.
Cities with home rule charters
we're given a Jolt when the supreme
court held they are without authority
10 regulate telephone rates and tina
the state public utilities commission
Is supreme in determining them.
Rejected by the girl as suitor foi
her hand, Andrew Nyarchia. 2l. sho
and fatally wounded Miss Julia Nor
nitz. Is. at her home at Bradley. Ief
ferson county. then shot himself
through the heart. dying instantly.
Dayton's streetcar strike endet
when the companies recognized the
union and the union men and thu
COMPANIES agreed to adjustment b,
the federal war labor board OF wag'
increases and other questions in dis
pute.
]. II. Leonard for the past II year
superintendent OF the Mansfield re
formatory. submitted his resignation
20 the state board OF administration
20 become effective Aug 1. The rea
son for resigning is mis- continued IL
health.
Executive committee Of the Obi
Fair Boys association has passed res
nIutions providing for the promotiol
OF the distribution of war saving
stamps among the 80 fairs to be hel
during the summer and fall.
Lieutenant Frank Stewart Pattel
son OF Dayton and Lieutenant Swa
OF Norwich. Conn, we're killed at III
Wilbur Wright aviation field betwee
Springfield and Dayton, when thei
plane fell from an altitude of abou
10000 feet.
When their auto crashed into tc
ephone pole at Circleville, Mr.
Charles NJ Rife was bruised serious
ly in the chest; her sister, Mrs. Id
Helvering, received injuries at tn
base Of the brain. and Mrs. George I
RItt and three children we're cut an
bruised
The champion war savings STAN
salesman of Harrison county is '
l.. Laughlin. agent for the Pennsy
vania Railroad company at Jewet
Laughlin to date has sold more tina
$4,000 in stamps TO residents of h
community, which has . populatio
OF about 1900
T. Mahoney, 25, East Lima seleC
was seriously hurt when he stepp,
from a noving train at WashingtC
G. r.. en- route TO Camp Sherman.
Steve Carlo. %. was instantly killt
at Canton when ESQ volts of ele
tricity passed through his body as /
accidentally came in contact vii
electric wires.
Lorenzo ID. Devore, So. chief de
uty IN the division of mines, state /
dustrial commission. died at his hon
IN Columbus He was operated upC
last March. Mr. Devore had bee
connected with the state industri
commission since 1908.
At Hamilton Mrs. Edna Cook. wi
of Gates Cook. charged with havil
set fire TO eed In their home. resu
ing In the death OF her two childre
was committed to the state hospit
for criminal insane at Lima.
Mrs. Joe Simon. a Hungarian wol
an OF Leetonia. near East Llverpo
killed her four children by slashi
their throats with a razor and tn
attempted suicide by the same mear
She Is in a hospital at Salem a
will live. Police said they understo