Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-15

caster oil operator, disposes OF Slso,-
600 worth of property
Because they can get higher sal
aries in the cities, many Union county
school teachers have resigned.
Rev. David Cow, pastor of Baptist
church at Radnor, Delaware county,
has been missing for a week.
Three concerns with a total capital
ization of $25.0O0,O0O are seeking To-
cations for steel plants at sandusky.
R. H. Norweb of Elyria has been
appointed secretary to Ambassador
Hugh Wallace, who is now serving in
France.
William Jordan, 80, of Springfield,
became exhausted while swimming at
Russelrs Point, Indian lake, and
drowned
Rev. H. A. Kelsey of First United
Presbyterian church, Cambridge, was
elected instructor of Bible at Muskin-
gum college.
An increase of SIS a month was
granted members of the Springfield
police and fire departments by the
city commission.
Rock creek, flooded by cloudburst,
swept a path through the heart of
T1f1n, causing property damage esti-
mated at $4,000
First National and Merchants Ma.
tional banks at Middletown will be
merged and known as the First and
Merchants National bank.
| A large barn belonging to John D.
Miller and Son, near Thurston, Fair
field county, was struck by lightning
and burned, with a loss of $4,000.
There were 265 suits for divorce in
stituted in Scioto county during the
year ended July 1, as compared with
201 filed during the previous year.
Because ne was blind and would
not ask the young woman he loved to
share his lot, Guy Carpenter, 26, Gin.
cinnati news vendor, killed himself
Harold Tennett, 4, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Tennett Of Mt. Gilead, died
as the result of eating peanut three
weeks ago. The kernel lodged in his
throat
Three men are being held by the
police at Bucyrus charged with run
ming down and killing John C. Krau
ter, farmer, near Bucyrus, with an au
tomobile.
At Springfield Edward Cooper, So
was stabbed and fatally wounded in
street fight with George Pagan and
Howard Richardson, who are being
held by the police.
Mohican river and its tributaries
swollen by heavy rains, did extensive
, damage to crops, bridges and road.
in Knox county. Residents of Brink
haven moved from their homes.
John Rice, 4S, Beavertown, Mont
gomery county, farmer, was struck il
the abdomen when a singletree brokt
while being used with team in tight
ening cable. He died of his injuries
Coast guards returned to Clevelant
J without having found trace of Franl
Williams, 20, and Jack Soil, 20, Shel
! by, who started to cross the lake il
canoe bound for Port Stanley JUS
| before storm.
! County Engineer D. C. Kennon ha
| asked the Belmont county commits
! sioners to issue $4,000 in bonds t
, | repair damage done to county road
and bridges by the flood of July 1.
that cost nine lives
/. At Youngstown Mrs. Vivian Dale
y Moran, 26, former circus rider, i
o under arrest charged with havin
!. shot to death her husband, WilliaI
Moran, 80, former lion trainer, whe
3 she met him on the street with al
n other woman.
+ | Mrs. Walter Heaston, SO, of Barbe
Y ton, mother of nine children, wa
!. burned to death when a train struc
an auto driven by her husband. Th
n gasoline tank exploded, setting FIJI
+ to the machine, under which Mr.
9 Heaston was pinned.
a Petitions for a referendum on tt
J. big Crabbe prohibition enforcemel
bill, filed with Secretary of Sta
:. Smith, contain signatures from evel
- county except the driest in tt
= state-Harrison. Signatures total 13.
: BOG, or 76,706 more than the D,
: cent of voters required by the CO
stitution.
Absolute solvency of the Ohio wor
q mems compensation fund is assertt
IL and the economy and efficiency
ls its management praised by two expe
is accountants, E. H. Downey of Il
+ Pennsylvania insurance departme
T. and Miles M. Dawson, consulting az
D uary of New York, who recently col
IS pleted an official actuarial audit
y the fund
lg Damage estimated at nearly $500
y, 900 to crops and property result
p. from rain and electrical storms whi
lie swept northeastern Ohio and whi
lie almost reached cloudburst propt
it tions. Many bridges were swept aw
I'd by flooded streams. Alliance, Way
IS. and Knox counties were hard h
al Two men were killed by lightning
Youngstown.
n Harley Mussellmann, "a, of TT,
Id wood, was killed and Helen Rausc
IN 10, Dayton, was injured, probably
II tally, when Mussellmann' auto W
ce John Hess, 2, son of Frank Hess
IN Danville, was drowned in smi
tn stream near his home when he
d. tempted to cross the creek to reach
field where his father was working.
ci- While bathing with a number
e. other boys in a flooded stream in t
as outskirts of Bellevue, Elijah Your
b. ser was drawn into sink hole les
of ing to an underground stream a.
drowned.
tie Martins Ferry teachers salari
at have been increased 10 per cent.
Seven members of the Ohio {
be Operative Milk association were
ny dicted at Cleveland for alleged VIC
m tion of the Valentine antitrust IL
fl by the grand jury investigating t
sr- high cost of living, Judge Levine g
nounced.
ig Boring a two-foot hole through
rs solid brick wall in the hospital wa
of and tying a blanket to a piece
re, structural iron in the wall, five pr