Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-12-26
STATE SIFTINGS
Epidemic of smallpox is reported

PebA Italy dOoI1 1OyCo ~ III ~ N-AhSNAAN-c
a loss estimated at 100000.
Werner Vogenitz of Ada, student
at the United States naval academy
at Annapolis, died Of influenza.
Dover voters at special election
upheld a bond issue Of 100000 for
municipal light and waterworks.
]. c. Paterson, 78, passenger agent
for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
at Mt. Vernon for Al years, is dead.
State income tax bill was defeated
a second time in the house of repre-
sentatives. 1t got only So affirmative
votes.
Charles F. Mccormick was indicted
at Tiffin on a charge of embezzling
$4,000 of Baltimore and Ohio railroad
funds.
At Fostoria the John Sitter garage
was destroyed by fire. Forty cars
were burned. The loss is about
100000
Isadore Gross, IL, Youngstown,
coasted down a hill into an automo-
bile and received injuries from which
he died
Statistics show Fayette county
farmers in the past 10 years have
lost nearly $1,O00,O0O worth of swine
due to cholera.
Marysville and New California road
will be improved for a distance ot
about eight miles. Concrete or mac
adam will be used.
LSra tho Ca,,fb ri IN
school building, Urbana, entailing {
loss of $4,000. An overheated fur
mace caused the fire.
Ignoring the advice given by Presi
dent Thomas J. Price of subdistric
No. 8, miners in the Massillon distric
refused to return to work.
Sixty-fve thousand army blanket
will be shipped from Camp Sherman
for sale at the army sales depots o
Columbus and Cincinnati.
Joshua Orders and J. B. Stambaugh
onion dealers at Kenton, were burie,
under pile of Grated onions whicl
upset. Both were badly injured.
Mrs. Catherine O'Mara, resident O
the home of the Little Sisters of tn
Poor, Cleveland, will celebrate he
1929 birthday anniversary next weel
A jewelry store burglar, fleeing wit
loot worth several thousand dollar:
ran into the arms of a policeman a
Toledo. The prisoner gave his nam
as William Brown.
Twenty per cent increase in sa
aries has been granted to all Clev<
land school teachers and principal
except those who have been in SER
ice less than one year.
Provision in the army camp apprt
priation bill for the purchrase of tn
Dayton-Wright airplane plant and az
joining field at Dayton for $2,740,22
was eliminated by the house.
Walter Davies, former cashier {
the City bank of Lorain, convicted {
embezzling $4,000 of the bank
funds, was sentenced to an indete
inmate term in the penitentiary.
Gem thieves obtained loot valued e
more than $4,000 and burglar
robbed a tailoring company of $500
worth of woolen goods at CLEVELAND
The gem victims were women guest
of hotels.
w. ]. Creighton filed suit at Fint
lay for 1854 against Walker D. Hine
director general of railroads, chargin
that acid leaked from Lake Fri
and Western railroad car and kille
a 10-acre corn crop.
Mrs. Martha Van Arsdale, 102 veal
old, was found dead in bed at he
home in Hebron, 10 miles west
Newark. She was born in Novembe
1917. Practically her entire life Wa
spent in Licking county.
The third death from drinking d
natured alcohol as a substitute fl
whisky occurred at Akron when Wi
liam Dunham, So, of Sharpsville, Pa
died. Thomas Dewhurst and Richa1
Richison died from drinking the san
concoction.
Suit was filed at Cincinnati by D
L. d. Bryan to set aside the will
his brother, the late John Bryan, ''tH
sage of Yellow Springs" who left
fortune of 100000, of which IL
brothers and sisters received on
$1,000 under the will
Plans for beating down the his
cost Of living in Ohio have been su
mitted to Governor Cox by Fred
!: Croxton and Professor J. F. Hagert
They provide for the expansion al
development Of the state bureau
markets and marketing along fol
!: distinct lines.
. Trapped in their home at Man
field when the stairway burned, M
and Mrs Daniel Pierson were force
: to jump from the second-story wi
!. dow. The husband jumped first al
caught the children as his wife thre
them out of the window. Both hu
: band and wife were injured.
Ohio lost $27,O00,OO0 as result
the coal strike, the miners themselv
suffering loss of $11 100000, accor
ing to W.. D. Mckinney, secretary
the Southern Ohio Coal association
Charles Singer, 40, his wife al
daughter Margaret, 16, were for
time in a serious condition fro
ptomaine poisoning, following an oy
ter supper at Akron.
Police are investigating the ST
pected theft of a $4,000 la valliere, Il
property Of Mrs. Fred Laban, wife
a Steubenville jeweler, which disa
peared from the woman's neck whi
she was aboard an interurban car.
General convention of the Unit
Mine Workers of America, to he
the report of officers relating to Il
settlement of the strike, will be he
in Columbus Jan. 5 to s.
Because state chemists found NJ
walks city water unsatisfactory, Il
state health department ordered Il
city to construct filtration plant n
later than Jan. 1, 1922.
An unknown man stole a recei
for $500 in liberty bonds from Elid;
W Krienevich and collected on it at
Steubenville bank several days befo
|" Krienevich appeared and reported b
:. loss.
=. Ernest r Ga11ioap 10 p;o,,o