Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-01
STATE SIFTINGS

aL CdulOu Is increasing.
Thieves removed liquor valued at
$4,000 from the home of Sam Davis
at Toledo.
New Lexington Masons plan the
erection of a $4,000 temple within
the coming year.
John Hoover of Covington, Miami
county, died of injuries received when
his automobile overturned.
Demand for pay increase has been
made by plant employees of the tele-
phone companies at Alliance
Harvey Loose, 40, travelling sales
man, was drowned when his motor
launch went over dam near Tiffin.
Dissatisfied over their pay, eight
Warren policemen resigned. Recently
their wages were increased 20 per
cent
Harry e. Wiedell, 80, Cleveland,
fell dead of heart trouble at Cedar
Point after hitting a striking machine
four times.
Mrs. William B. Guiteau, wife of
the superintendent of the Toledo pub
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SIT, 900 alimony.
William Parrish, 40, East Liver
was, was seriously burned while at
tempting to extinguish a fire which
destroyed his garage.
June bugs are so thick in Toledo
that in many sections of the city the
streets are carpeted with them and
street lights obscured.
1t is announced at Washington that
Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio will
be a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for the presidency.
Newark city prison will be aban-
doned as q prison and converted into
municipal clinic. City prisoners will
be confined in the county jail
Steel mill schedules for the Ma.
honing valley show a big increase in
the industrys activity, with opera.
tions between 80 and 100 per cent.
Edward Bandy, 23, Ashtabula, brake
man, was killed when he was thrown
from a. freight train as it passed un-
der an overhead crossing at Warren.
Allen E. Wark, AZ, an elevator oper-
ator, was instantly killed when he
was electrocuted while making re-
pairs on an elevator at a Columbus
ice plant.
John Smiley, II, and Albert Dugan,
Is, we're arrested after they had fired
on the city of Dennison with repeat
ing rifles for three hours. No one
was injured.
Allen Prose, 30, farmer, and his
4-year-old son were killed instantly at
West Jefferson, Madison county, when
an automobile they occupied was
struck by train.
Cyrus A. Lupher, 81, wealthy gas
and oil operator, died at Lancaster
from apoplexy. He had been ill two
weeks. He leaves a large estate. Two
daughters survive.
Organization of Mahoning county
branch of the Ohio Good Roads feder-
alton was planned at a meeting of
representatives of various organiza-
tions held at Youngstown.
A man thought to be Charles MAJ
Stern, 21, of Cleveland; according tc
registration card which he. carried
was shot and killed by Patrolmar
John Miller at Springfield while try
ing to escape arrest.
A monument to the first Rome
Beauty apple tree was dedicated at
Proctorville, Lawrence county, by
the Ohio State Horticultural so.
ciety. The first Rome Beauty apple
tree was planted near Proctorville
1O2 years ago.
Mrs. Caroline Cox, widow of the
former political leader, George B
Cox, was sued at Cincinnati for $500,
900 by Elizabeth Newman of Atlantic
City, sister of Cox. Mrs. Newman
alleges Cox bequeathed her property
valued at 100000.
Daniel Kaber, 45, wealthy pubIishe
living in Lakewood, near Cleveland
died following a mysterious attack il
his home. Kaber, who has been bed
ridden for several months, was Sc
upon while asleep and stabbed L
times. The assailant ESCAPED.
| Measles is Ohio's most prevalen
communicable disease at present, az
cording to the reports to the state de
partment of health. With a total Q
2,512 cases recorded to date, it wa
considered that delayed reports woul
bring the June figure close to the tt
tai of 1926 reached in May.
Heavy rains drove the streams il
eastern Knox county out of thei
banks, washed out a dozen small
bridges, damaged several highways
washed out a section of the Pennsyl
vania railroad and ruined hundred
of acres of wheat. The damage t.
county property alone is estimated a
$150,000.
Governor Cox in a communication
to Attorney General Price recon
mended a meeting of the prosecutor
of the So counties of the state t.
consider the prevailing high prices o
foodstuffs. Price has called a meet
ing of prosecutors for July 80 at CO
. lumbus. The governor also urges al
investigation of the fuel situation.
Defective wire started a fire whicl
caused $4,000 damage to stock of tn
Dodge company, furniture dealers
Akron.
Mrs. Margaret Ault, who celebrates
her 101st birthday last April, is dea
at her home in GAINESVILLE, Loga,
county.
Following report that a still wa
being operated near LeesvilIe, Crav
ford county, authorities arreste
Harry Lockhart at his home nea
Leesville. Search of the house di.
closed "a cases of bottled whisk
and between 500 and 600 pint flask
of whisky.
BY the breaking of a hook whic
supported him on a stack he wa
painting, Arthur Alexander was hurle
12O feet to his death at Canton.
, Joseph Pash, ex-saloonist, an