Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-09-05
STATE SIFTINGS


been increased 10 per cent.
Two thousand machinists are on
strike at Akron for wage increases.
Frank Neft. IS, and Charles Shaw,
26, we're killed in an elevator accident
at Bessie furnace, Shawnee.
Jennie Brodslky, 10, Toledo, was
killed when an auto in which she was
riding struck locomotive.
After more than 75 years spent on
the cobblers bench, James M.
willoughby. SO. Findlay, retired.
Voters OF Marion township, Han
cock county, defeated a proposal to
centralize schools Of the township.
Auditor Rinehart's report shows
126.217 acres under cultivation in
Knox county, an increase over 1918.
A state game preserve was opened
on a tract of land in Delaware county
by o. II. Neimeyer, deputy state game
warden.
Findlay council granted q, SIS
monthly increase in wages of city
policemen and firemen, averting a
threatened strike.
Harry F. Everett was arrested at
Bucyrus on an indictment returned
in ottawa county charging robbery Of
the Pandora bank last January.
Dayton was selected as the mid
winter meeting place of the Ohio
Newspaper Women's association at
ats closing session at Lakeside.
Clifford Van Ness, 81, and Ross
Roberts. As, died as q result Of their
automobile being struck by a passen-
ger train at a grade crossing at Ham
ilton.
Body of the S-year-old daughter Of
b. M. Jewel OF Greendale, near Logan.
was found in Five Mile creek. The
child was sent to a neighbor's home
Tor milk.
Fred Price OF Canton was killed and
Lieutenant Joseph Skoenig. an air
mail pilot, was injured when their
airplane fell 800 feet during an exhi.
bition flight at Cleveland.
Andrew Beganki, 40, and his two
children were killed and FIVE others
we're injured when an interurban car
struck their auto near Youngstown
Beganki lived in Cleveland.
Charged with conspiracy to restrain
trade in controlling the garden pro
duce market in Toledo, the Toledo
Gardeners Exchange company and its
seven directors we're indicted by the
grand Jury.
Charles Howard, %, Of Bowling
Green, was killed near Toledo anC
three Of his companions were injured
when a speeding auto n which the!
we're riding struck a streetcar tract
and overturned.
One hundred and eighteen Rus
slams, said to be Bolshevists, are II
the Mahoning county Jail as the resul
OF a raid on an alleged Bolshevil
meeting in East Youngstown by fed
eral officials.
Cleveland common pleas cour
judges approved plans to establish
conservancy district to prevent flood
by widening and Strengthening tn
Cuyahoga river channel at a cost o
about s10,00O,000
For the third consecutive year tn
Ohio Elks' association will hold it
annual reunion in Columbus, Sept. II
Is. Attorney General Price, chairma
Of the state reunion committee, mad
the announcement.
Frank Schmidabusch, "a, and hi
son Edwin, IA, were electrocuted Q
ottawa when the boy leaned agains
a guy wire across which an uninsI
lated electric light wire hung and tn
father went to his rescue.
Because Of strikes at upper lax
ports the Pittsburgh Steamship cor
pany made arrangements to retire
great freighters at Toledo at ono
Usually these vessels are in servi,
until November or early in Decembe
Ray Phelps, 22, single, arrested
connection with the murder Of Fra
ces Jewell, 8. was transferred fro
Greendale to the county jail at L
gan. Post-mortem examination shove
the girl had been attacked and the
killed by blow on the head.
Five officials of four Columbl
baking concerns we're indicted by Il
Franklin county grand jury on charg
of violating the antitrust act Co
spiracy is claimed in the indictmen
in that the five men formed an unla
full combination to increase prices
bread.
What officers believe to be the Lar
est moonshine still in Ohio was D
out Of commission when federal a
thorities raided a house in a wo
near Fullertown, Geauga county. Fo
Of the alleged moonshine gang we
arrested and $50 gallons of whis
seized.
The first shovelful Of dirt for I
new $4,000, 900 Ohio penitentiary ne
London was removed with a silv,
plated shovel by Governor Cox. p
vious to this ceremony concerts we
given by the band from the Boys
dustrial school. Lancaster, and I
penitentiary band.
John Boss, a railroad policemi
was probably fatally wounded at 7
ledo when a thief shot to save t
companionss who had been discover
in box car.
w. w. Treble, missing assists
cashier Of the City bank of Lora
was named defendant in a suit to
cover $4,000 Of the 500, 900 shorts
discovered in the bank.
While inspecting 4 belt at a plan
mill at Baltimore, Fairfield coun
Amos Keller, president of the cC
pany. was fatally hurt when the /
broke and struck him In the side.
died shortly afterward.
Another big government &
mounted on railway trucks was ST.
cd on its way to an Atlantic co
proving ground by a Marion plant.
Anna M. Hall, 55, former teacher
the GAINESVILLE schools and a patti
at the Athens state hospital, lea
from a wagon and off a bridge /
the Hooking river and was killed.
Believed to have become sudde