Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-29
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while swimming and drowned at a
Cleveland bathing beach.
Mrs. William Bressler, Sc, living
near Royalton, Fairfield county, died
from the effects of fall down stairs.
By issuing bonds, Lancaster board
of education will be enabled to have
10 months of school, beginning Sept. 8.
Effective Sept. 1, Bell telephone
rates at Lancaster will be advanced
Is per cent, the third increase in a
year.
Annual reunion of the SD, Both,
51st, SOth, 9Sth and 126th Ohio civil
war regiments will be held at Coshoc-
ton Sept. 10.
George NJ. Smart, 70, secretary of
the Dayton Gas company for over 40
years, is dead.
A warrant was issued at Lisbon for
the arrest of Deputy Sheriff j. w. Da-
wilson, accused of embezzling $2,4O0
of the sheriff's Office funds.
George F. Bible, 40, Lima, was elec-
trocuted while washing an auto in a
garage. The insulation of a light cord
he worked with was worn off.
At Newark about 100 postal en-
ployes organized and adopted a reso-
luton demanding that congress in
crease their wages rs per cent.
During the last two years porcu-
pine was shot in Shortcreek township,
Harrison county, two deer were sight
ed and diamond back rattlesnake
was found dead
Railway and Light company has asked
the state utilities commission for per-
mission to abandon it's line between
Mineral Ridge and Niles.
Louis Krice, 21, grocer at Akron,
committed suicide by hanging him
self from a rafter in the store base
ment. Financial difficulties are be-
lieved to have caused the act
Joe Buttero, A, who, the police say,
has been bounded by the Black Hand
for 10 years, was murdered by two
men while on his way to work at Alli-
ance. The assassins escaped.
Coal prices are due to advance
Sept. unless the railroad admins
tration furnishes the mines with an
adequate supply of cars, according to
operators of leading mines in Ohio.
An explosion at the power plant of
the Ohio State Power company, Ere
mont, threw several thousand persons
out of work and stopped traffic on the
Lake Shore Electric and Fostoria and
Fremont interurban lines.
Truman E. Thompson, 43, postmas-
ter at Youngs Station, Scioto county
was shot and dangerously wounded
during an argument. Thomas Maddy,
3S, farmer, has been arrested, charged
with shooting With intent to kill
In a second attempt within month
to kill herself, Mrs. Isadore Friedman
"a, wife of a Xenia merchant, took a
quarter of pound of paris green
mixed with water and is dead. She
brought suit for divorce recently.
Rev. Joseph Waddell Clokey, 80, re
tired Presbyterian minister, died sud
denly of apoplexy at Oxford. He was
active in church work for over 81
years, having held pastorates in 6
number of Ohio and Indiana cities.
Seven prisoners escaped from the
Dayton workhouse by saving bars
from second-story window, jumpins
to the ground, then scaling a 12-foo
wall Five CT the men who ESCAPED
are declared to have had bad records
Two Columbus food dealers were
fined $500 and costs each for sellinl
poultry and meat alleged to have beef
held in storage longer than the Law
permits. The court found both guilt.
and assessed the limit fine provided
by law.
Government seized at Canton 1903
600 pounds of sugar found at the Can
ton Storage and Transfer compan
and served notice on J. R. Heltse
president of the company, to appea
bbefore Federal Judge WestenhAve
at Cleveland Sept. 13.
Attorneys for food packers, dealer
and agents cited in affidavits filed b
Ohio inspectors hold that the Smit
cold storage law not only violate
rights guaranteed under the state an
federal constitutions, but it's not el
fective because of federal food regl
lations.
The Pratt dog registration Law
passed in 1917, is declared a failur
: in report made public by State Al
ditor Donahey. His report shows tha
: nearly half the dogs in Ohio are nc
registered as required by law an
r that $1,000 fewer dogs were regi
} tered this year than in 1918.
Seven members of the John Trainc
family of Cleveland. father, mothe
$ four sons and daughter, and Mis-
Mamie Cunningham, relative of th
Trainors, were instantly killed whe
a passenger train struck their aut
mobile at a grade crossing while tn
party was returning home frol
? Erie, Pa.
Licking county again leads the rae
e for the memorial offered by the OH
T war savings committee to the count
: selling the most war savings stamI
; during June, July and August. Fl
e ures just issued give Licking count
: a per capita sale of $4. Warren cou
e ty is second with 1892, Morrow thil
with SO and Ross fourth with $2.Se.
l. Mayor Of Lancaster ordered all sl
= machines and punch boards seizt
: and selling of baseball pools and q
9 other forms Of gambling stopped.
Skidding on wet pike, an autom
d bile turned turtle near London, sci
y ously injuring three persons. The
t are: Virginia Willard, 10; Hom'
9 Smith, rs, farmer, and Henry Boye
}. mechanic.
!, One hundred and eighteen Ru
t slams, said to be Bolshevists, are
u the Mahoning county Jail as the resu
l. OF a raid on an alleged Bolshev
It meeting in East Youngstown by fe
eral officials.
n Rev. Richard Taylor Stevenson,
'r professor of history at Ohio Wesleyi
~ university, Delaware, for 25 years,
dead from apoplexy.