Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-06
STATE SIFTINGS

Palace department store, Green
vile, was damaged $4,000 by fire.
William r. Stasel, II, Newark, was
drowned while bathing in Licking
river.
Mrs. Alma Weeks, 18, was drowned
in Summit lake, Akron, when canoe
capsized.
Western Reserve university profes-
sors will receive salary increases
next month.
l. s. Winner has been re-employed
for two years as Erie county school
superintendent.
Nine instructors in the New Phila-
delphia high school resigned to enter
more profitable vocations.
Mt Vernon has been placed in the
central time zone by ruling of the
interstate commerce commission.
Secretary Nicholas Duttle says the
Ohio Liquor league, composed of sa-
loonists, will continue in existence.
Toledo street railway conductors
and motormen have been awarded an
increase of wages by the war labor
board.
Women of Ohio sold nearly $780,
100000 worth of liberty bonds during
the four loans in which they partici-
pated.
Elyria will be the Mecca for Ohio
Maccabees on June IL and 13, when
the quadrennial state convention will
be held there.
Appearance of two new cases of
smallpox at Tiffin led the local health
board to issue warning to all citizens
to be vaccinated
Unknown assassins shot and killed
George Yarrick, 36, in his shanty in
East Akron. A money belt he was
known to wear is missing.
Giving as his reason the fact that
Ohio had gone dry, Emery Ferris, 40,
Mt. Vernon, committed suicide by
shooting himself with revolver.
Eva Hufford, s16, Lancaster high
school student, died a few minutes
after being found unconscious at her
home. Paralysis was given as the
cause.
Nearly 1,500 gallons of whisky were
seized by revenue agents in raids on
private homes in Cincinnati because,
it is claimed, government tax was
| not paid.
Mrs. ]. S. Brown 80, was ground to
| death by train when she attempted
to rescue her pet dog at Bettes Cor
ners, near Akron. Her foot caught
| in a switch frog.
Governor Cox vetoed the Busbey
Fouts highway bill, declaring the
measure was prepared outside the
legislature by agencies. almost en-
tirely devoted to highway activities
At Youngstown three persons were
killed when switch engine backed &
| string of freight cars into an auto
The dead are: Mrs. George Winkel
Mrs. Henry Eckert and Ruther Eek
ert, 1 year old.
7 Purchase by the congregation Of
| st. Luke's Lutheran church, Youngs
town, of 20 lots, is accompanied by
the announcement that a new church
to cost approximately 100000 will
be built on the site
Henderson Bandy, accused mur
derer of H. R. Day, Lancaster taxicaI
driver, at Columbus, was found guilt,
of first degree murder, with recon
mendation of mercy. The verdic
means life Imprisonment
Ohio State Association of Postmas
ters, at their convention in Colum
bus, elected Samuel A. Kinnear, Co
lumbus, president; Richard M. ALI
son, Cambridge, secretary, and Jane
E. Sullivan, Lima, treasurer.
Trustees of First English Luther
an church at Lancaster have secure
temporary Injunction restraining
their pastor Rev. J. A. Hanning, fror
entering the church. He was vote
out April 81. but refused to leave.
John Hathaway, an alleged woo
thief, was shot and killed by a poss
of farmers who had organized to il
yestigate his visits to farms in tn
neighborhood of Redwood, Unio
county. Hathaway attempted to e
cape.
Through operation of the prohib
tion amendment in Ohio 80 brewerie
and five distilleries ceased as sucl
but practically all will be engaged
other lines. 1t has been said that
total of $460,0O0,0O0 has been il
volved in liquor or allied industrie
bottling, cooperage, etc.
Louis Jennings, 40, a blacksmith
, l OF he of
Brown, AZ, a teamster, at Steubel
ville A man called him to the doc
and stabbed him to death. Five houl
later Brown left his home and ws
shot within a few feet of his doc
He died in 10 minutes. The assaila1
escaped.
Ohio house staged an old-fashione
wet and dry debate over the Mil,
senate bill providing for appointmel
of a state prohibition commission
by the attorney general It W;
passed, IA to "A. Vets say there wi
be referendum on it. The hous
r also passed over executive veto tt
Huber bill paying members of rur
: boards of education 81 per meeting
DR.. Edward S. Parsons, for yea
: dean of Colorado college, has accer
ed the presidency of Marietta colleg
, Howard Rinehart, premier expel
, mental aviator for the Dayton Wrigl
j Airplane company Dayton, is pla
, ming a transatlantic fight in a D
Haviland battle plane.
While searching the home of Mr.
! Harries Coulter, near Fredericktow
. Knox county, Sheriff Mossholder di
\ covered S5009.S1 hidden in a pile
newspapers under a kitchen tabl
/: Mrs. Coulter has been placed und
: care of physicians by a court orde
Pearl Anderson, "a, Mechanicsbur
-. telephone inspector, was electrocut'
while testing an instrument attacht
to wires said to have been cross,
e with an electric light wire.
William H. Bentley, 6S, w
drowned in small pool of wat
near Lake Park cemetery, Young
town. He is believed to have fall,
a into the pool during a fainting spe