Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-03
STATE SlFTINGS

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Catherine Tooley, 6, was killed by a
train at Marion crossing.
Higher telephone rates will be eff
tective Oct. 1 in Springfield.
George Molner, %, Bellaire, mill
worker, killed himself with revolver.
Fire at Youngstown destroyed a
business block owned by the Wick
estate.
James Clark Mclean, 105, the old
est Odd Fellow in the United States,
died at Franklin.
Lick;ng county grand jury failed to
return indictments in its probe of al
legged profiteering.
Major R. w. Schroeder again broke
the two-nan altitude record at Dayton
by ascending 10000 feet.
At Xenia a bond issue of $325,0O0
for the extension Of the waterworks
carried by a small margin.
Vice President Marshall attended
the silver jubilee of the American In
surance union at Columbus.
John M. Owen, 40, and L. D. Bow
uaU, 20, WCI0 hlllCu near WOO0LO1
when an oil well derrick fell.
Frank Fialka was sentenced at Lo-
rain to five years in the Ohio peniten-
tiary for raising 50 bills to $40.
Strike of the operators of the Home
Telephone system at Hillsboro has
ended and the strikers have returned
to work.
William ]. Alley, 81, dean of Nor
walk merchants and a personal friend
of the late Josh Billings in civil war
days, is dead.
C. G. Agrendeen, Sc, was fatally
hurt, his team killed and wagon de-
molished at Hanover, Licking county,
when struck by a train.
Two men are being held at Paines-
vile following the destruction of a
barn owned by Mrs. Minnie G. Haw-
kins with loss of $4,000.
Two-thirds of the Cincinnati work
house is to be abandoned, the popula-
ton having fallen since prohibition
was instituted, officials say.
Foung guilty Of selling cream con-
tanning formaldehyde, two brothers
conducting Dayton milk concern,
were each fined 800 and costs.
Earl Miller, 9, shot and killed bull
red fox, weighing 20 pounds, at dis
tance of so yards, near his home in
Newton Chapel, Licking county.
Life sentences in the penitentiary
on charges of burglary were meted
out at Cleveland to Matthew Reidy
SO, and Andrew Lewis, 40, respective
ly, after the men pleaded guilty.
The G. & G. Cooper company, build
ers of engines, at Mt. Vernon, an
nounced plans to construct an addi
ton to its plant at a cost of $500, 900
Following its probe into high prices
the Wayne county grand jury recon-
mended city markets supervised by
municipalities in Wooster and Orr
vile.
Boy Scout executive council Of Ian
| caster will establish firstclass coun
Gil and secure q scout executive. A
fund of $500 for a years budget il
being raised.
James Moragn, 81, colored, convict
! ed in Williams county of the murder
of Aleck Grant, conductor on the Wa
bash railroad, was electrocuted at tn,
| Ohio penitentiary.
John Needlehammer, 40, farmer, re
siding three miles east of Clyde, sho
and killed his wife and then ended hi
| own life by sending bullet into hi
brain. Couple had been living apart
Lyman Powell, 80, Chicago, and Er
win H. Ascher, Milwaukee, for whom
| the police of Dayton and other cite
have been hunting for four months
are held in jail at Dayton on forger.
charges.
Nearly half of the oil and gas work
ers in the Wooster field have departed
for Texas, where large strikes in vari
GUS new fields have created an unpre
cedented demand for men experiences
in this line of work.
Governor Cox discussed the stee
strike in an address at Columbus. H,
declared he would not hesitate to EN-
ploy military force the moment evi
dence of attempted industrial revolu
tion presented itself in Ohio.
William H. Hahn, II, Mansfield
prominent Republican politician an,
former holder of a number of stat
positions, died suddenly of heart dis
ease while testifying from the wit
ness stand in common pleas court.
Governor Cox appointed Represent
ative Horace Bonser, former Congress
man Alfred G. Allen and Colonel W
w. Symmes, all of Cincinnati, mem
bers of commission to purchase tn
site Of the grave of William Henr,
Harrison and put the tomb in prope
condition.
The latest crop forecast of the fed
eral department of agriculture place
much higher estimate on Ohio
bumper corn crop than the estimat
Of month ago. The department nov
says this years Ohio corn crop vii
yield 155,O12,00O bushelss, or nearl
$4,000, 900 bushels in excess of tn
estimate of last month.
General Manager Blinn of the North
ern Ohio Traction company refuse,
to accept the terms proposed by tn
property owners on the Canton-Mas
sillon road.
Dewey Allen, 20, Marietta, was fine,
$25 and costs when he pleaded guilt
to purloining and selling bronze meta
markers from the graves of seve
revolutionary heroes.
George Heiser, Republican cand
date for mayor of Hamilton, notife
the state supervisors and inspector
Of elections of his withdrawal as
candidate and gave ill health as hi
reason.
Brand Whitlock, United States mil
lister to Belgium, will visit Urban;
He will be accompanied by his wifi
and mother. The Whitlock famil
formerly resided in Urbana.
Louis Teitelbaum, Harriet Shaft an
Abe Schoen, Marion business mel
were indicted for receiving goods sal
to have been stolen in Columbu,
Lima and Fort Wayne.