Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-01-24
STATE SIFTINCS

rubber manufacturing plant.
Mrs. Julia Worsham Sneed, SO.
Piqua's Oldest woman, is dead.
At Greenville Mrs. Margaret A.
fell down stairs and was
killed.
Toledo council asks federal invcs-
tigation OF high cost of meat products
and other articles of food.
Wilson Morris was reelected mem
ber of the Fayette county board of
education for a term of five years.
At Lorain, William Cluley cut his
wife's throat with pocketknife and
then shot himself. Both are dead.
Annual banquet of the Mckinley
club OF the Mahoning Valley will be
held at Niles Jan. 29.
John w. Holman, so, justice of the
peace at East Liverpool, committed
suicide in a courtroom.
Board of county visitors figures it
costs Clark county from $4,000 to
$4,000 a year to feed its prisoners.
Youngstown sheet and tin-plate
workers were awarded a IN per cent
wage increase.
Frederick Lewis Wright, 81, pottery
manufacturer Columbus, hanged him
self. Dependency over i'll health is
given as the cause.
Ralph R. Rickly, 68, Columbus
banker, died from a complication of
diseases after an illness of several
years.
Private Frank Herbert, who volun-
teered to release a drafted man whose
mother was dying, has died of wounds
in France. Lived at Tiffin
Rev. J. B, Reemst1na, just dis
charged as army chaplain, will be the
new pastor of Presbyterian church at
North Baltimore, Hancock county.
Mariettas new $4,000 reservoir is
defective, officials declare, and will
not be accepted until extensive re-
pairs and changes are made.
Charles E. Thorne, who for % years
has been director of the Wooster ex-
pertinent station, was reelected for
another year by the board of control
Donne1ley Manufacturing company
making medicine cabinets, mirrors
and enameled chairs, will move to Ra
VIENNA from Herkimer, n. Y.
Soldiers and sailors league, organ
lied at Cincinnati, will seek a new
election on the wet and dry question
in Ohio at the next election.
Thomas Dixon of Tiffin has com
pleted his seventeenth year of attend
ance at Sunday school without being
absent once.
Vincent Casall, saloonist, Steuben
vile, was saved from death by at
undershirt button, which DETECTED {
bullet fired by another man during al
argument.
Trumbull county commissioner.
will submit to the voters a propose
to issue bonds for the erection of ;
memorial building for soldiers, sailors
and marines.
Edward Peyska. cashier of the Ma
| tional Biscuit company at Cleveland
was held up by three bandits ant
robbed of $1,000. The robbers es
capped.
Testifying in his divorce action a
Cincinnati, Louis G. Sturm said hi
wife kept five cats, some of whicl
ate eggs at cents each and dram
double cream at 81 a quart
John c. Covert, 81, veteran news
| paper editor, public official an
writer. died at Cleveland. In 1S9
Mr. Covert was appointed Unite
States consul to Marseilles, Francs
by President Mckinley.
| Two men were found beneath a
overturned auto east of Warren. On
| Of the. men, Thomas Slavana. wa
dead; the other, Harry G. Gleck, wa
badly frozen. Both men came frol
Youngstown.
Ohio fair boys reelected officers a
follows: M. Y. Cooper, Cincinnati
president: R. S. Sweet, Bowlin
Green, vice president; L. P Wilson
London, treasurer, and Thomas
| O'Mara, Columbus. secretary.
Ohio public utilities commission r,
jected the schedules of rates, toll
and charges authorized by Postma
ter Burleson and filed by the tel
phone companies. Tolls were hel
excessive.
Cleveland fTemen agreed to accel
the city's compromise offer to woI
under the two-platoon system, @
duty "a hours and off the same lengt
Of time The firemen recently put a
eight-hour day into effect on the
own initiative
Castalia erie county, vigilant
committee. organized 29 years ago
combat Eorse thieves, who were
that time terrorizi2g Castalia and IL
surrounding country, has been REQ
ganized to wage war on autonobi
bandits.
Seven thousand persons attendt
the horse sale at Camp Sherma
Wheel mules brought from $3.50
$3.50 a span and single pack null
brought about $130 as an averag
Horses brought from S140 to 81
apiece.
Union county commissioners graz
ed the Columbus, Delaware and M
rion 25-year franchise to opera
the Columbus, Delaware, Magnet
Springs and Northern traction line
Fred Miller of Cleveland was elet
ed president of journeymen painte
and George Biegel, Columbus, vi
president.
Taunting the fireman and watc
man, whom they had bound in res
. less than 20 feet away, six or sew,
robbers blew the safe in the Gene1
Baking company at Cleveland al
+ escaped with $4,000 and some hber
+ | bonds.
Mrs M. j. Owens was robbed
diamonds and ether gems valued
$4,000 at the Toledo club. The gel
: were in small bag which NJ
r Owens had placed on y door knob
+ one of the dining rooms.
Z Five persons were killed and
q others injured when an Ohio Elect
car, gut of control, rushed down
long grade and jumped the track
;. London The dead: Mrs. Glenn K
s kead Columbus; l. N Aeschlim;
# 40, farmer, Wauseon, O.; Franc