Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-12-26


Jacob G. Schmidlapp, banker and
philanthropist of Cincinnati, died IN
New York
Rev. Herman "Opens, former pastor
Of st. Johns Evangelical church at
Dover, is dead
c. H. Simonds is the new president
| of the Citizens Savings and Trust
company, Ashtabula
Paul R. Tappan was elected chair
man of the Richland county chapter
of American Red Cross.
Belmont county physicians raised
the price of day visits from 81 to $2
and night calls from 81 to S..
F. J. Farrinkopf, motorcycle police
man, was killed at Dayton when his
machine collided with streetcar.
Parsonage of Four Miles Christian
church, Austintown, Mahoning coun-
ty, was destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000.
Mrs. Banner Morgan, 80, Bellefon-
tame, died of burns resulting from
an attempt to hasten fire with coal
| oil.
Burglars raided the basement at
| Tic ISSluSuCC VI 1dNI0uC0 nlSul III
Columbus and stole liquor valued al
$5,535.
Richard Linhart, 18, Fostoria high
school football star, was accidentally
shot through both legs by a returned
soldier.
Clyde Howdyshell, 25, was electro
cuted when he fell against live wire
at the Kehota mine, near Maxville,
Perry county.
Raymond S. Nixon, 3S, Columbus,
was killed when the automobile he
was driving was hit by train at a
grade crossing.
Dayton police raided a 2O-gallon
whisky still. They arrested Nick
Parish, 45, at whose home they said
they found the still.
Over $4,000 has been subscribed at
Middletown for memorial trees to be
planted On Dixie highway between
Excello and Middletown.
Ashtabula county issued a tempo
rary injunction against the enforce
ment of city ordinance restricting
and bonding jitney buses.
, Three boys, headed by a lad in
f knickerbockers, who carried re
volver, held up a Chinese laundry al
Youngstown and secured $40.
Harry E. Baker, merchants police
, man, was shot and killed by uniden
titled assailants at Hamilton. Bakers
f body was found by a pedestrian.
a John Platzky was arrested at To
r ledo, charged with the murder of Pa
troman Robert Shelton at Cleveland
, He is alleged to have confessed.
Streetcar fare in Cleveland ha.
+ dropped to six tickets for a quarter
a Cash fares will remain at cents, ans
the 1 cent charge for transfer con
| tinues.
: Governor Cox welcomed Genera
8 John J. Pershing to Ohio on the oc
> casion of the latter's visit to Cincin
natl. The general later visited CAM
= Sherman and Columbus.
q Gallon council declined to authoriz,
|. a contract with a central power sta
3 tion for the city's electric power an,
decided to increase the capacity o
. the municipal lighting plant.
f Officials of both mine workers an,
6 operators state that practically all O
;. the $4,000 union miners in Ohio ar
back at work. Pre-strike production
+ of coal should be attained soon.
6 While ]. Brinly was passing
O japanning oven in the New Metho
! plant at Mansfield it exploded. H
9 was so badly burned that he can no
recover. Four other employees wer
/. burned in the explosion.
; United States Senator Warren G
o Harding made formal announcement
. of his candidacy for the Republican
4 nomination for president and ind
Gated that an extensive campaign
&C to be made for him outside Ohio.
r A man believed to be Arthur Can
If eron, taxicab driver, was shot an
, killed at Cleveland by Patrolman Wi
liam Takacs, following an attempte
robbery and the shooting of job
A. Vanikls, a restaurant proprietor.
II At Mansfield the old power statio
J. of the Richland Public Service con
pany was destroyed by fire with
d loss of about 100000. Users of two
e phase power throughout the city wer
without power because of the fire.
r. Communist Labor party in Cincir
If natl filed suit against the Robert A
e Bentley Post, American Legion, to n
a cover $50,455 in damages said to hav
e been suffered when former servic
" men raided Socialist headquarter
there Nov 1S.
h Selling 100000 worth of treasur
b. savings certificates in an eleventh
;. hour campaign, the Cincinnati Rotar
y. club has pushed that city far in tn
ID lead of all other large cities in tn
Of country in the amount of per capit
lr sales of war savings stamps.
Yeggs looted the Citizens bank a
s. Johnstown, near Newark, and carrie
r. off $4,000 in cash, $4,000 in libert
ID bonds and $4,000 in rare gold coin.
n the property of Congressman Willia1
i'd A. Ashbrook, owner of the bank. 1
W addition, $4,000 in currency was d,
s. stroyed by the robbers acetylen
torch and was left lying on the foo,
Of Homer Conoway, II, Chillicoth,
IS was struck by an automobile and ser
d. ously injured.
OF Emilius Oviatt Randall, Ohio's bes
i. known historian, died at Columbus g
Id the age of 50. He was supreme coul
a reporter of Ohio and secretary of tn
m Ohio State Archaeological and Hi
s. torical society.
Sister Vincentia Erskine, vicar ge1
s. eral and former mother general c
lie the Dominican community at S
OF Mary of the Springs, died at Colun
p bus. She had been i'll for severe
le years. She entered the community a
a novice in 1873.
ed John E. Morrison, 10, Mt. Verno
ar soldier died in Siberia.
le Nellie Holmes, At, died at Cinci1
Id 1ati from the effects of a bullet woun
in her abdomen, received while tr,
r. ing to protect Mrs. Mary Wernsins