Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-21
STATE SIFTINGS

Deaths exceeded births by 81 at
Alliance in January.
Canton voters may be asked to ap-
prove an issue of $3.5OO,OO0 in bonds
to improve the citys water supply.
Rev. William H. McMurray, 3d.
pastor of the United Brethren church
at Alliance, fell dead at his home.
Howard P. Eels, Cleveland finan-
cier, died at Pasadena, Cal, from in
juries received in an auto accident.
Amos L. Dolde, art glass manufac-
turer, Youngstown, was seriously
burned when coal stove exploded.
Liquor worth $4,000 was seized by
liquor license inspectors in raid on
six social clubs and five private
homes at Cleveland.
Miss Mary Moore, scenario writer,
died in France, relatives at Toledo
were notified. She was sister-in-law
of Mary Pickford.
Bert S. Barlow, so, Hamilton, mem
Der of the Ohio general assembly
from 1898 to 1902, died at Greenwood,
Miss, of influenza.
Miners and operators will join
forces in an effort to keep coal prices
in the eastern Ohio field at their
present height.
Burglars looted the home of David
Haber at Cleveland while the family
were absent and escaped with $500
in jewelry and 1912 in cash.
Fire at Kingston, Ross county, de-
stroyed the Kingston Milling COM
pany's plant and damaged several
residences nearby.
Samuel Demuth, 60, farmer re-
siding near Cardington, was killed
| when a passenger train struck an
automobile in which he was riding.
C. H. McCray, oil and coal opera
tor, is made defendant in $4,000
breach of promise suit filed at New
Lexington by Miss Belle Scheer, Gen
! eva, Ind.
| At Canton, Oscar Danford, a city
fireman, was killed when the hook
! and ladder truck upon which ne was
riding to fire collMed with motor
truck
Government ownership of public
utilities and the cigaret and alcoho
habits were denounced in resolution
adopted by the Seneca county farm
ers' institute.
Commissioners of Ottawa count.
have outlined a plan for improving
about Is miles of roads in the count.
during the coming spring and sum
mer, at approximate cost of $480,00C
Mystery surrounds the murder a
Bucyrus of Bruno Pretzel, 80, al
Italian from Crestline. Police are ur
able to account for the act, as hi
money was untouched.
William Phillips, II, one of the las
survivors of the Sultana, wrecked 3
explosion with heavy loss of life a
the close of the civil war, died a
Trinway of injuries received in fal
Mike Kanipik, 4S, Youngstown, wa
found dead with a bullet hole in hi
heart while guests he had invited
his home were enjoying themselve
downstairs.
Eugene Van Cise filed $4,000 dan
age suit against Benjamin Franklil
mayor, and A. B. Davis, marshal,
New London, alleging he was Sc
fenced Illegally to the Toledo wor
house.
4 For the first time in the history
4 Crawford, county there is a Repu
4 lican on the common pleas judgesh
4 bench, Judge J. Walter Wright ha
4 ing succeeded Judge Daniel Babst
u that office
q Elmer Elliott, 26, and Franc
Il Thomey, 10, died in an ambulan
4 while being taken to a hospital aft
4 collision between a motorcycle tht
4 were riding and streetcar
q Youngstown.
Rev. Traverce Harrison, pastor
q the largest church congregation
Bellefontaine, accepted an offer
q $4,000 year to become pastor of t
q Christian church at Grand RAPID
4 Mich.
a When Alliance police captur
4 three fugitives suspected of killil
8 Mrs. Matte Hayes at Alliance tn
s found that one of the trio was wo
y an dressed in mans clothing. S
said she was Mary Hepline of CleV
land.
Lancaster Bar association gave
banquet honoring Judge ]. G. Reev'
Democrat, retiring from the comm
pleas bench after 1S years servi
and his successor, Judge Brooks
Shell, first Republican judge ey
= elected in Fairfield county.
Three hours after he was indict
on a charge of attempting to alta
Mrs. Margaret Christian, Geor
Washington Warner, colored, Mari,
10 was on his way to Mansfield to SCI
81 a 15-year sentence in the Ohio st;
IN reformatory.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 wol
# of morphine and other drugs is in
S$ hands of federal authorities followi
Isl a raid on the Rest Cure sanitoriu
# Cleveland, which resulted in the
S rest of DR.. Moritz Lowenthal on
81 charge of unlawfully disposing
8 narcotics.
When Mrs. Mary Blackford, 65,
s tered her burning home at Marble
: Stark county, to save some valuah
0 she had forgotten, flames cut off
8 escape. She jumped from a seco
81 story window, breaking her ne
E2 She died instantly.
ES Common Pleas Judge J. NJ. W.
s3 ,tired from the bench after serv
3 of % years in southeastern Oh
&3 He is succeeded by Attorney L.
.$3 Worstell of Athens.
sM Postoffice at Maxine, four m
s outhwest of Alliance, was rob
$ of $3.50 in stamps and several doll
A~ in pennies.
ids Patrolman David Jenkins and
negroes, Jerry Marshall and Be,
min Tucker, were killed, and tt
negro, Harley Lewis, was fatally
Or jured in a fight between negroes
as Columbus.
the Tifin is conducting a night sci
phi for foreign born.
'l9I Mass meeting of the business
up civic organizations of Warren, n