Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-05-24

and civil war veteran, died suddenly |
at Yellow Springs.
V. c. Harr, 20, Fostoria, was seri-
ously injured when he was knocked |
down by bicyclist.
Police quelled a race clash at Mas |
sillon between 400 Roumanians and
an equal number of Greeks.
Twenty prisoners escaped from the
Toledo house of correction by max
ing a chain from old bed springs.
Arnold & Scheiderer, Marysville,
received $455 for two steers, the high
est price ever paid in Union county.
The state council Of Ohio Red Men,
at the opening session at Canton, un-
furled a service flag containing 495
stars
Clement Schetles, 73, Tiffin, died of
pneumonia while the body of his wife
was being borne to the cemetery for
burial.
G. A. OFT, father of William OFT,
mayor of Bucyrus, fell from STEP
ladder and destroyed the sight of his
left eye.
A number of buildings at Coney Is
land, summer resort near Cincin-
natl, were burned, entailing a loss of
$4,000.
Boy members of LaRue high school
graduating class wore military-cut
suits and the girls Red Cross nurse
| uniforms
Richard c. McCalla Of Toledo, stu
| dent aviator, was burned to death
when his airplane fell ON Santa Rosa
island, Florida.
Lowe Cloud. so, operating a flour
ing mill at Vintcn, Gallia county, was
instantly killed by being caught in
the machinery.
Two hundred-barrel oil well was
struck on the Hayden farm, near
Junction Ci,y, Perry county, by the
Southern Oil company.
Michael DeAgrumo, SO, and an uni
Identified man were shot and killed
on the street at Cleveland by an un-
known person, who escaped.
Lima vigilance corps" composed
of business men, visited the homes
of three alleged pro-Germans and
warned them to keep SILENT
Josiah Catrow, SO, former supreme
representative of the Knight of Py-
thias and grand chancellor of state
in 1901 and 1902 died at Springfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Schosker of
Delphos were notified that their son,
Paul Schosker, Rainbow division, has
been dangerously wounded in action.
Arthur A. Leedy, Newark boy, who
enlisted in the navy as a mechanic.
lost brother, Arch Leedy. when the
Warship Jacob Jones was torpedoed.
Two hundred striking carpenters
returned to work at Alliance when
they were granted demands for wage
increase from 55 to 20 cents an hour.
Lightning caused a fire at the Buck
eye pump station at Gore, near Shaw
nee, in which three 1,200-barrel tanks
and 1000 barrels of oil were de-
stroyed
Toledo stretcar men voted not to
strike. They will accept the com
pany's offer to increase wages cents
an hour instead of 10 cents, as the
men demanded
J. w. Zerger, cashier of the First
National bank at Lewisville, Monroe
county, was seriously hurt in a gas
explosion when he lighted a gas je.
in the bank vault
Seventeen hundred employees of the
Toledo Shipbuilding company, who
struck, returned to work upon the
company's promise to readjust wages
and working conditions.
Harry Martin, "a, son of David Mar
tin, Columbus grocer, was found deat
in his room at Mt. Gilead. An over
dose of drug used for colds 1;
thought to have caused death.
Four Lancaster soldiers wert
, wounded in action on the Frencl
, front: Captain Otto J. Kinder, Lieu
tenant William Belhorn, Private Her
bert Shipley and Private DAME
. Stout.
Six thousand copies of the Fin
;shed Mystery" by Pastor Russell, +;
book banned by the government, ans
: 10000 copies of the third edition o
Kingdom News, also under the ban
were confiscated by federal officers a
Columbus.
Lieutenant George Sherman, 27
killed at Fort Sill in an airplane &C
cident, was a graduate of Ohio uni
e versity, 1914, and a crack football ant
:! basketball player. He was an Athen
!, man and a coal operator.
! When new automobile, owned c
r E. Gwi2n of Columbus, skidded an!
| 4
and three companions, two womel
. and a man, were pinned underneath
f Gwinn sustained two broken ribs an'
$ was nurt internally.
g Governor Cox, called on by repre-
= sentatives of Ohio boards of educa
. ton said that there will be no specia
. session of the legislature, except 70
|, purely war emergency questions,
J, such should arise. The educationa
: men asked for a special session t.
i provide more adequate finances TO
Ohio schools.
/ Body of we'll dressed young won
f an, with eight knife wounds in tn
n head and face and dog chain aroun'
f the neck, was found in the Maume
river at Toledo.
r Theft Of $4,000 worth of clothini
n and more than $400 in cash an,
g stamps from the REORGANIZATION
J. companys store. Cleveland, was re
ported to the police.
:, A wholesale delivery of prisoner
+ from the Cleveland workhouse wa
e frustrated and at the same time 2
e slackers are in solitary confnemen
d because of mutiny, in which the
refused to work.
= Harry Whetzel, "a, Lancaster, con
d mitted suicide by drinking poisor
y He is said to have been worried pe
e cause the draft board placed him i
Class l.
3 Eighteen Wood county farmer
I. were fined for mobbing John Hennin
t, of Lake township and Herman Me
1 cher of Webster township, two &c,
mans suspected of disloyalty.
l. Jacob Thesis, superintendent of tn
:, Butler county infrmary, was indicte
d at Hamilton On five counts. chargin
n him 1,yi+I, tbo oTnho771,,pon,,t of ,,ooro