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

done TO several stores in the busi-
ness district OF Berea by fire.
Bulldogs on the Jacob Kuntz farm,
near Republic. Seneca county, were
destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000.
Elmer McElroy, 2, Manchester, ate
a quantity Of headache pills he found
on a dresser in his home and died.
Despondent because he was in i'll
health, Arthur Beardslee, so, grocer,
Canton, committed suicide by shoot
ing.
Lancaster city council vote to is
sue $4,000 in bonds to build mu-
nicipal swimming pool and recreation
park.
Virginia Deselems, is, Dover, was
found dead in her room with bullet
through her head and a revolver be-
side the body.
Twenty tons Of clam shells gath
cred in Sandusly river during the last
two months were sold by William
.Schwab Of Attica for $1,000.
Findlay and Hancock county dry
forces reorganized to fight the liquor
this fall by the wet element.
A woman said to be Mrs. Henry
Gatzeniler, So, Of Dayton, patient at
an East Cleveland sanitarium, was in
stantly killed by a switch engine.
Towns Of Corning and Rendville
WITH close business and declare hol-
iday Aug. in welcoming their 141
soldiers who have returned from the
world war.
Andrew Paulin hid $500 under cell
lar steps after closing his soft drink
place in Cleveland. The next morn
ing he discovered thieves had taken
the money.
Angered because her mother had
reprimanded her, Louise Cramer, IA,
swallowed poison at her home in Out
Vile, near Newark, and died within
two minutes.
Body Of Mrs. Amelia Kohlermann,
.5a, patient at Cincinnati sanitorium,
was found in a pool on the sanitorium
grounds She escaped through a sec
ond fioor window.
Harry G. Baker of Circleville was
appointed by the state industrial COM
mission as director of claims for the
Commission, succeeding H. H. Hamm.
who resigned recently.
Companions rescued c. M. King
barber, from two giant blacksnakes
which attacked him while he was
picking blackberries near Crooksville
The snakes were killed.
w. H. Mullins of Salem announces
he will erect at that place 100000
building as a permanent home OF G.
A. r. and Red Cross, with gymnasium
and Fairgrounds for children.
Voters of Marion township, Han
cock county. will decide at the August
primaries on the proposal to cen
tralize its schools and whether to is
sue $4,000 in bonds for erection o.
a new school building.
Albert Schroeder, 20. the fourth
man charged with second degree muir
der in connection with the killing o
william THE, a wealthy baker, a
Cincinnati, was sentenced to life i'm
pIisonment in the Ohio penitentiary
John H. Riley, former state repre-
sentative and member of the stat'
constitutional convention in 1912 from
Washington county, died at Marietta
He was 73 years of age. He ha,
been active in Republican politics TO
many years.
Milk distribution may be put unde
municipal control at Cleveland as
necessary public utility. Presiden
Gavin OF the common council request
ed the city attorney to rule on tn
right of the city to take over mil
distribution and regulate prices.
A family of four was wiped ou
when an automobile was struck by a
interurban car and ground to piece
in North Olmstead. near Clevelant
The dead are: George w. Potter, 81
a florist; Blgie Potter, "a, his wife
George W., 2, and Donald, months
sons.
Advance registration at Ohio Stat
university points to an enrollmer
that will exceed by far the previou
record. which was 5,S25 students du
ing 1916-1917, the last year befor
America got into the war A min
mum Of 1000 is expected for the cor
ing year.
After a fire in the home of Tor
Stravisar at Kimberly. a small mimi
town near Jacksonville, was exit
guished by neighbors, the bodies
Mrs. Stravisar, 80, and seven CHI
dren, from s weeks to 10 years
age, were found burned or asphyS
ated. They we're all tied to the
beds and coal oil had been sprinkle
over the room. The family was
destitute circumstances, the husbar
having left them in May to look (,
work. II is supposed that worry ovl
the separation caused the mother
destroy herself and children.
A. f. Sloane. former president
the Ohio Retail Dealers associate
aand field secretary of the Nation
Shoe Retailers association, died
Oxford.
An auto Cornelius Collins, 2
Youngstown, was driving in a race
East Liverpool, crashed into a tr,
and Collins received several fractur,
ribs and internal injuries.
John Nichols, Sc, Akron, plead,
guilty to manslaughter and was Sc
fenced to six months in Jail. He sh
and killed his son David by mistal
while hunting for a suitor of b
daughter.
With an ice famine threatened
Lima, each consumer is allowed on
25 pounds every other day.
Mrs. Mary Il. Good, AZ, wife of I
cashier Of the Janera bank, Hanco
county, was found dead at the foot
stairs in her home by her husbar
There we're no marks or other indie
tions to show how she met death.
At conference held at Columb
1t was decided that the Ohio Taxps
ers' league, which last fall succei
fully championed classification I
amendment-later declared uncons
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