Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-07-04
STATE SIFTINGS

William Rogers, 90, BarnesVllle' |
suicide by shooting him
self.
Safeblowers cracked a safe in a
Toledo movie house and got between
$3.50 and $1,000.
Governor Cox signed the Crabbe
measures enacted to enforce prohibi-
tion In this state.
Tuition at Oberlin college next
year will be s135 instead of 500. as
it has been in the past.N
Tiftin business men have organized
to back the central route for the
Great Lakes-Ohio river canal.
Nicholas Friedsen. 67, shot and
killed his wife at Toledo when he
mistook her for a chicken thief.
Six thousand delegates attended the
annual convention of the Ohio State
Christian Endeavor society at Cleve
land
Despondenu over i'll health, Mrs.
Nellie BuntL0n. AZ. widow. shot and
killed herself at Hootstown, near Ra-
VIENNA
B. A. Schnell. county Y. NJ. c. A.
secretary, Painesville, resigned to go
to South Carolina as state work sec
retary.
Donaiu Ross, Jr., who weighed one
and one-fourth pounds when born
died at Dayton at the age of foul
| months.
Marion county wheat crop is the
largest and best in Ohio. according to
John T. Brown. state speaker fol
farmers institutes.
Former President Taft upheld the
league of nations proposal in his ad
dress at the Methodist centenary Gel
ebration at Columbus.
Campaign was launched at Youngs
town to raise S400, 900 for peace chest
proceeds to go to charitable and be
nevolent organizations.
William X. Hoel. 35. Cleveland, ma
chinist, was held to the grand jur.
without bond on charge Of murder
ing his wife. Gertrude Noel, 80.
Tinch Hairston. 8. colored boy, wa
drowned while wading in the Sciot
river at Columbus. He was tn
eighth to drown there since the batl
ing season opened.
Robert Speck, 65. janitor of the p
taskala schools for many years, con
mitted suicide at his home b
cutting his throat with razor, H
had been in i'll health.
Representing themselves as city p
lcemen, six men entered the home {
John Donomay at Youngstown an
escaped with $512 in American none
and S605 in Austrian currency.
While visitors are barred from Il
Fairmount children's home at AL
ance as a result of the outbreak
diphtheria among inmates. physician
believe the epidemic is checked.
f Captain Ivan l.. Biggs. Fostor
e physician. recently discharged fro
1 the army service. announced that
had discovered ''an inexpensive a.
absolute cure for tuberculosis"
: When Harold Tepel. Is. Norwal
heard a revolver report in the re
: of his home he thought his father b
Il shot at a rat. but found that he h
committed suicide by shooting hi
: SELF
= Charge against Nathan o. Johnst
- who shot and killed his wife and 81
IS three negroes at Youngstown, "
l. changed from first to second degl
murder on Recommendation Of ali
q lists.
y On the ground that the editors '
lated terms of an injunction issl
in the WHY'S Overland labor con-
m versy at Toledo, Federal Judge Xii
ad confiscated an entire issne of the
m Voice soon after it came off the pr
Charles Demorest, 38. farmer,
" his son Floyd. 3. were killed. and
ch other son, Charles. s. suffered a
at ken limb when their automobile
of struck by a passenger train at
lin station near Delaware. De
rests machine stalled on the ira
A land tortoise was found recel
upon the farm of the late J. l.. K,
OF er. near Lancaster. bearing tt
"N marks on Its she'll: u. L. K. Jun
Elm 1854" They we're cut by yo
civil war soldier. J. l.. Kocher,
nd died IL years ago in his eight
nd. year.
Thirty-ninth annual reunion OF
L lse mer pupils of the Ohio Soldiers
Sailors Orphans home at Xenia
md the fiftieth anniversary OF the 70
ing of the institution will be
be brated July /, 2 and 3. Fully
former pupils are expected to at
Ne the event.
en- Figures announced by State V
nse marian Burnett show Ohio lost f
of hogs through cholera last year
ary. in 1917 or 1916. but the monetary
om, due to high prices of hogs. exec
8" that of any previous year. The
ber of hogs lost last year was
!. S8I. valued at S3.246.850. CONF
ting with 120,623 animals and $l.47
in 1917 and 25O,62S animals anC
and 255 .652 in 1916.
'AN Rev. W Frank Reber was ell,
ows president of the F1ndlay MirIst
association.
rom Salaries of members of the
caster fire department were incrC
/ Us II per cent.
d Harry Holmes of Toledo. arr
last week, was formally charged
s of completely in robbing the West
kind land bank of $4,000. He denie
did charge
HOMER Goodbar. 30. shot and
Au'n his wife. Mrs Virginia Goodba
so,,r and tnen killed himself, at Colu
itro- Domestic trouble, police say. pr
Cd ed the act
race Maintenance employees OF the
trail Union and Ohio State Tele
companies went on strike at u
town. demanding an increa:
wages.
Lancaster municipal gas plar
wing ~, -, -
pany at 30 cents per l,OUo fC
next year.
Captain Francis M. Doyle W
y In onerated by Major General Ia
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