Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-01-17
STATE SIFTINCS
Ironton is to have a new theater.

City or Dayton Is facing a deficit
Of $1.ooo,ooo,
New Philadelphia business men
started a campaign for a Y. NJ. c. A
building for returning soldiers.
Miss Anna Fackler, 70, New Phila-
delphia, for SO years school teacher
before her retirement in 1908, is dead.
Unemployed soldiers at Sandusky
were offered vacant seats on the Erie
county grand jury.
A big victory arch will be erected
in the public square at Canton IN
honor Of returning soldiers.
Max B. Malina, a Cleveland poultry
and egg dealer, was held under 1000
bond on the charge of using the mails
to defraud.
TrumbulI and Ashtabula county
commissioners plan the widening and
| deepening of Grand river for better
cultivation of farm lands.
o. w. Kennedy of Bucyrus filed suit
against the Toledo and Ohio Central
Railroad company to prohibit it from
collecting over 2 cents a mile fare.
Henry H. Stambaugh, 5S, million
aire and chairman of the Brier Hill
Steel company, Youngstown, died at |
New Orleans.
New Mary Rutan hospital at Belle |
fontaine, built from the gift of the
late Mrs Rebecca Williams, will be
opened in February.
Montgomery county humane So
Getty will erect modern dog pound
in which captured dogs will be cleo
trocuted.
Clarence South, 81, painter, was
crushed to death in the rolls Of a
drying machine at a paper mill at
Dayton.
Miller H. Stoneburner, So, furniture
dealer at Upper Sandusky, died a
week after his marriage to Miss Vir-
ginia Bowers.
Body of a man found along the
Panhandle tracks at Steubenville was
identified as Joseph Solomon, %,
Dayton, who disappeared from home
three years ago.
Curt c.. Schaible, formerly of Ma
rion and later attorney in Cleveland,
now a soldier in France, was mar
ried in Paris to the daughter of a
French count.
> Surrounding a schoolhouse at Hulls,
near Sandusky, posse led by Sheriff
J. c. Perry captured Fred Hensley,
, an escaped trusty from the Mansfield
, reformatory.
: Loot valued at $1,000, silverware
i. and jewellery, was hurled at detec-
tives and scattered in the streets by
Ill
tured at Cleveland after a chase.
Pandora bank at Ottawa was en-
tered and the safety deposit vaults
broken open Liberty bonds and
: stamps stored there by the postmas-
ter were taken.
! Mrs. Jefferson Riggs, 70, was
! burned to death when her clothes
n caught fire from an open CRATE at her
+ home in Cambridge. Her aged hus-
/ band was painfully burned trying to
I extinguished the flames.
, John G.. Price, attorney general
d elect, announced the appointment of
Joseph l. Eagleson of Cambridge as
first assistant attorney general and
D. F. Melhorn of Kenton as second
assistant attorney general.
& Edwin Baxter, cashier and secre-
n tary of the Fourth federal reserve
a bank since its organization, resigned
i to become assistant to the president
e of a Cleveland trust company. The
It change is effective Feb. 1.
e Dr. H. H. Goddard, director of the
r bureau of juvenile research, recon-
Is mends four more institutions for the
le feeble-minded in Ohio, located neal
n population centers, one of them to be
Il. provided by the present legislature
ct When his wife Mary, %, spurned
lie his overtures for reconciliation
lie Ninda Yeager 33, fired two shots into
lg her body, which resulted in her death
I'd in a few minutes, and then killed
re- himself The tragedy was enacted al
d. their home in Gallon.
I'd John T. Elder 65, and Frank Har
desty, 40, residents of Coshocton, die(
n within a few hours after an automo
ed bile truck in which they were riding
90 was struck by a passenger train
re Elder is survived by seven and Har
II desty by eight children.
ry Captain Martin Van Buren Bates
o IA, worId-famous as a giant, died a
th his home at Seville, near Medina
ao Bates, who toured the world with ;
g. circus, was feet 4 inches tall ant
u weighed $50 pounds. He was marriet
n twice, his first wife being over eigh
IL feet tall.
al Secretary of State Fulton is con
H. testing the election of Probate Judg
n ~,
ne office of secretary of state. An ar
IL peal to restrain Smith from takini
nc office was filed in the Ohio suprem
7s' court by Judson Harmon, counsel TO
ne Fulton. Fulton says the law state
a. that the votes cast for Smith are vol
wv because he was member of the jud
al ciary at the time of election for ar
IS other office. In the election Smitl
he received 471,22S votes to- 432. .442 TO
at Fulton.
III A crest stage of SIS feet, or one
90 eighth of a foot above the flood line
70 was reached by the Ohio river a
.u' Cincinnati, and further danger of
III disastrous flood at this time ha
IT, passed, according to the weather oil
>. server
vi Grand jury session at Napoleon wa
~ - postponed till further notice becaus
20 of the influenza situation in Henr
=. county.
- - Percy B. Reid of Delaware, privat
1s' ~. of the medical corps, Rainbow d
~ ~, vision, is to be one of the member
no ,no of the staff of Governor Cox when
Nv enters his third term.
Miss Carrie Hickle, daughter {
Lyman Hickle of Marcy, near Lal
caster committed suicide by takin
poison. Grief over the death of
ID brother, Private Ralph Hickle, kille
i'm in action in France, prompted the &C
his w. G. McAdoo, director general
end railroads, was awarded a verdict
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