Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-21

Oldest practicing physician in the
United States, is dead.
Luigi Salvatore was convicted OF
second degree murder for killing Of
Clark Check at Bellaire.
At New Lexington, Robert Koonts,
19, had his right arm torn out of its
socket when his sleeve caught in
conveyor belt.
Fire destroyed the plant of Horton
Simond company, Ashtabula, manu-
facturers of buckwheat -four. Loss
$3O,OGe.
Summit county commissioners or
dered the paving of two miles of the
Smith road, between Medina and
Akron.
William Lusin was found under a
bridge at Youngstown bleeding from
six knife wounds inflicted by high
wayman, who got $3.50.
Eighteen automobiles were ruined
In fire that swept the Auto Inn gar
age, owned by Emerson Smith, at
Bellefontaine.
Thieves backed an auto to the win
dow Of Roy McCracken's grocery at
Fostoria, broke the glass and stole a
load of groceries.
Gandolpn and Santon Battaglia,
brothers, were shot from ambush while
walking through vacant lot at
Cleveland Their condition is serious
During the last two months about
200 new prisoners were received at
the Ohio state refoTmatory and the
population now is more than / 200.
Beatrice Sommerfeldt, 10, Akron,
died of burns received when her
| skirts ignited from gas stove in a
| schoolroom.
Merlin R. Whitney resigned as Sec
retary of the Bellefontaine chamber
| Of commerce to become assistant Sec
retary of the Newark board of trade.
Charles Brown and James Hubble
were badly burned when a 100-barrel
oil well near New Lexington caught
fire from a nitro shot.
John Grogan, charged at Cleveland
with numbering a policeman, wound
ing another and participating in pay
roll holdups, was arrested at Martins
Ferry by Cleveland officers.
Rev. J. A. Sutton of Larue, Union
county, has just received $40 Con
science money from a man he mar
ried 40 years ago and who forgot to
hand over the fee.
Lorain County Electric company's
application to the government for a
100000 loan to complete it's big
power house at Lorain has been
granted.
Fifteen hundred dollars was stolen
from or lost by an employe Of the
American Railway Express company
while he was walking from the com
pany's Office at Dayton to the bank.
| Glen Caldwell, 20, driver for an ex
press company, arrested at Canton II
: 1896 in his shoes. Police say he con
fessed to taking the money.
At Findlay, Common Pleas Judge
} William F. Duncan set aside an ordi
nance of the city council increasing
gas rates of the Logan Natural Gal
: and Fuel company
!, Securities valued at $4,000 founC
I in a trunk belonging to John Wild
: man, an eccentric recluse near Til
: fin, will be divided among his rela
tives
t If the Ohio senate approves tn
= Comings bill, which passed the house
p the teaching of German will be barre
= from the elementary grades of tn
o public schools
Annual convention of the Obi
S Woman Suffrage association Will b
e held at Columbus FEB. 26-27, Mr.
r Harriet Taylor Upton, president, al
y nounced.
1t Ohio Hotel association closed it
session at Cincinnati with the ele'
" tion of A. c. Stephens, Toledo, pres
n dent; Don A. Goodwin, Akron, vic
II president, and C. H. McClung, Gree
e vile, secretary.
S, A jury at Cleveland gave Willial
H. Cope of Willoughby verdict fl
q $4,000 for the loss Of leg. Cor
& sued A. A. Nudge, Cleveland broke
y after Mudge's automobile struck hi
a. while waiting for car.
le Ohio Baptist laymen met at ColuI
e bus and launched plans for raisir
their sections share of the $4,000, Oh
fund American Baptists are seekiI
S, for reconstruction work. Ohio's sha
N in the fund is 100000.
e, Name Carr and Ruth Gardner a.
4. held at Alliance as material witness
er in the murder of Matte Hayes, whi
Martin Byrnes, Alfred Blatner al
20 Mrs. May Hoperline are held {
TX charges of first degree murder.
&c Curtis Dean, Sc, carpenter,
H. Hope, near Cincinnati, was kille
We and his wife, Mrs. Mary Dean, 54,
te jured probably fatally when the
auto skidded and rolled down an g
tn bankment
ne Mrs. John A. Dorgman, "a, of B1
1g Ter, Pa, was found dead, and her hi
N, band, private attached to the
ar- mount station at Camp Sherman, I
a conscious in their room in a Chi
OF cothe hotel. They had been overco1
by gas fumes.
IN John NJ. Brodricik, judge of comm
70, pleas court at Marysville for 12 yea
es has been succeeded by former Sta
ler Senator Richard L. Cameron.
ID Van Vert county commissions
;k will construct 10 miles of road
tween Van Vert and Delphos,
cd the route Of the Lincoln highw
ice Work will cost 100000.
10. Robbed of the six-cylinder auto
q. which they were riding, $3.50 and
S100 liberty bond, was the report
les police of H. c. Wagner and R.
led Robinson, Chillicothe men, who VIZ
ars held up by two white men in Colu
bus.
Wo Family of jackson w. Carter of
Ja- dianapolis, consisting of himself, W
ird and their two children, were xii
in when the automobile in which IL
at were riding was struck by an int
urban car, five miles north of L
ool anon.
John Grogan, charged by pol
md with being Cleveland's master
les dit, was bound over to the grand il