Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-09-12

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G. M. Brown, said to be the wealth.
est man in Ashtabula county, who
was shot by burglar at his home in
Conneaut, died from his wounds. He
was .S5 years old. His assailant is
still at large. bloodhounds sent on the
trail repeatedly losing the scent.
Seven-year-old son of ]. Gay Vert,
Van Vert county farmer, was instant
ly killed when struck by an automo-
bile owned by neighboring farmers.
The unidentified body of a white
woman, we'll dressed, about 40, was
found with the throat cut in patch
of weeds at Youngstown. Police say
the woman had been criminally at
tackled, robbed and murdered.
Ten men were scalded, seven seri-
ously, in an accident in the curing
room of the Kelly-Springfield Tire
company at Akron. Steam and hot
water spurted over the workers when
they took the lid off a curing tank
Three of the injured, Mike Stuber, %;
Pat McCarty, 4S, and Iva M. Gaspare-
witch, "a, may die.
Burglars stole 1000 morphine tab
let's from a physicians Office in
Youngstown.
Flourishing pistols and firing, four
masked men robbed eight Roumani-
ans of $4,000 and made their escape.
The holdup occurred at the Pennsyl-
vania railroad camp, two miles east
Of Alliance.
John Hennessey, %, was accidental
ly electrocuted at the Pike Coal COM
pany, Shawnee.
Rev. John Burke, 81, widely known
as Catholic educator, died in a hos
pital at Cincinnati from heart trouble.
George F. Smith, for the past seven
years editor of the Leipsic Free Press,
has sold out his interests to Harry E.
Martin, who has been connected with
the paper for several years.
Forrest R. Miller, elected county
treasurer of Seneca county on the
Democratic ticket last fall, notified
| the county commissioners he would
not qualify because of his election as
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Shaffer, Democrat, present deputy
treasurer, was appointed for his term.
James Martin, also known as Nor
ton and Big Jim, who is wanted in
Cleveland for alleged connection with
a 100000 bank holdup in West Cleve-
land, was arrested at Toledo. He is
said also to be wanted in Chicago for
murder and in Minneapolis for jump
ing bail.
Judge Frank E. Ruth in the crimi-
nal division of the Columbus munich
pal court held that statute No. 1896,
regulating the trafficking in liquor, is
still good and that prosecutions for
liquor violations under it can still be
brought as they were before the pro-
hibition law became effective.
Arthur Scholtz, 80, soldier, was
murdered in Cascade park, Elyria. A
3S-caliber bullet was fired into his
ear. Police suspect there is a woman
in the case.
Relighting Of the furnace at the
Sttruthers Furnace company put %
of 25 Mahoning valley furnaces in
operation.
Muskingum county school superin.
tendent reports shortage of teachers
An independent city ticket, com
posed Of soldiers who served in the
world war, was filed with the board
of elections at Marysville.
Tossed so feet when train hit his
wagon, Adolph Szandery, Sandusky
was only slightly bruised.
Logan county teachers ask mini
mum salary of $1,000 a year for ele
mentary teachers and $1,000 for high
school teachers.
Lloyd Orth, 5, son of a farmer neal
Dayton, was killed by an automobile
New treasurer of Hamilton count,
has $4,625.0O0 in the banks.
Charles Oxey, superintendent of the
Elmore schools, was elected presiden
of the Ottawa county teachers insti
tute.
Xenia entertained the largest Grove
in its history at the celebration hon
oring Greene county men who servet
in the world war. Thirty-five thou
sand persons thronged the city AM
1,50O ex-service men and civil wa
veterans were served a picnic Dime
on the courthouse lawn.
Henry Wagner, %, was killed in
stantly when his threshing engin
went through bridge at Writer
Rock, IL miles south of Lancaster.
Streetcar service in Columbus wa
suspended by a strike of linemer
conductors and motormen for in
J creases of wages and the "close
, shop"
George w. Staley, aged S5 years
civil war veteran and farmer of Ms
plewood, fell dead at Sidney.
J In comomn pleas court at Londo
| Henry Potts, indicted for manslaugl
: ter for the killing of his wife, vi,
toria Potts, entered a plea of guilt
and was given an indeterminate sci
, tence in the penitentiary.
Bucyrus city council has authorize
: a raise in the salaries of both tn
city policemen and firemen of SIS De
month.
George Bracht, IA, Toledo enginee
: was killed when his engine collide
with another switching locomotive.
Lorain grocers say thousands {
, dollars worth of food has been d,
: stroyed there by rats.
: Thomas Sullivan, SO, Akron, forme
state canal foreman, died of injurie
received when, struck by an autom,
) bile.
Mrs. Grace Downing, 80. Clevelan,
burned to death. Her dress ignite
from an open fire crate.
William c. Nusher, So, Findlay. mi
D nicipal waterworks superintendent
|. was killed when derrick collapsed
), Mrs. Elizabeth Cross, aged 1O2, U
t bana. is in Pittsburgh visiting a SON
Charles Way. 22, fell between tw
cars of freight train at Urbana an
/ was killed.
K Special grand jury at Napoleon r
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