Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-01-03
STATE SIFTINCS

! Marysville public schools, closed
for two months, have been reopened.
John Shatto, 79, Sidney, veteran Of
the civil war, is dead.
George w. Bigelow, 40, Sidney, was
killed by a train.
Patrolman Patrick Gaffney, who
was shot IN running battle with
two gun men at Cleveland, is dead.
At Coshocton Wilhelmina Deshen,
II, hanged herself to a bedpost with
a scarf.
Ohio branch, council of national
defense, will be discontinued after
Dec. 81.
With one hours notice Alliance
Red Cross chapter prepared lunch and
fed 1900 soldiers passing through the
city.
Hector Moore, Barnesville school
boy, has a hen that, since October,
has laid an egg every day with ex-
,ception of Thanksgiving.
Youngstown has available approx
.mately s1,500,000 for public improve
ments, which will be started early
next year.
Lancaster Presbyterian church ex-
tended unanimous call to Rev. w. ].
Holmes Of Wellsburg, W. Va, to the
Ipastorate.
Governor Cox and Chairman Full
lington of the Republican state COM
mittee favor the drafting of the taxa
hr hirorffco17 inirf
committee.
Senator H. W. Davis of Youngs-
town announced he would introduce
again the state constabulary bill he
fathered in the last legislative ses-
sion.
Judge John c. Cowan, 72, former
Cleveland lawyer and intimate friend
of former Presidents Mckinley, Gar
field and Hayes, died at his home in
Omaha, Neb.
David Nichols, 25, Akron, died from
a bullet wound inflicted by Joseph
Nichols, his father, who later turned
the weapon on himself. Nichols is in
a hospital in serious condition.
| Practically all Of the schools In
Henry county are closed because OF
the influenza. Twelve new cases are
| reported in Napoleon The situation
| in adjacent rural districts is serious
Mrs. Forrest Baker was almost in
stantly killed and her husband suf
fered a fractured skull when thei1
automobile was struck by train a
Dayton.
| David M Stevenson, S5, Bellefon
taine, died of pneumonia. A daugh
ter, two sons and a brother died O.
the same disease within the pas
month.
Athens county commissioners have
increased the reward for the capture
of Warren Roush RuIleford, %
charged with the murder of his uncle
Charles Roush, week ago.
Legislation to enable Ohio to ge
her proportionate share of the fedora
appropriation for highway buildin,
will be discussed, among other things
at the second annual Ohio road con
gress at Columbus, Jan. 13 to 16.
| Garvis Hosler, young son of Ear
Hosler of Washington G. H., fell on
toy horn he had received for Christ
mas. The horn was driven into tn
roof of his mouth, infiicting seriou
wound.
School officials over the state ar
using various, methods in checkin
up their reports of attendance for tn
past few months that the state al
funds to their districts will not b
decreased because of the influenz
epidemic.
In an effort to check the epidemi
of crime that has resulted in IA mul
ders and scores of ho1dups and rol
berries at Cleveland in the last thre
months, American Protective leagu
operatives are patrolling the street
armed with clubs.
Work of drafting a bill providin
for pensions for retired teachers
Ohio occupied the attention of tn
| committee on retirement fund of tn
Ohio State Teachers association g
tee hopes to present the bill at th
coming session of the legislature.
, Two persons we're killed Instant
and two seriously injured at Milfor
Center, near Marysville, when a pa
senger train struck an automobil
party. The dead: Samuel Culbertsol
so; Mrs. Rose Davis, Sc. The injure
are: Miss Edith Culbertson, %, an
, Charles Davis, As.
Proposal for a canal connecting th
. waters of Lake Erie and the Obi
river on the line of the Miami an
{ Erie canal from Toledo to Cincinnati
and from a point near Defiance to
point in the southerly end of Lal
f Michigan, has been approved by tt
house committee on railways an
o canals.
Board of administration has not
i fed Mrs. Louise Mittendorf, matrc
of the women's reformatory at Mary
t. Vile, that the population Of that i
stitution must be reduced to 100
once, and that in the future commi
e ments can not be made by the cour
= to a point where the population w
exceed the capacity of the institutio
= or 100 women.
Is Professor H. e. Schwab,' instruct
in public speaking. English and
u bate in the Bucyrus high school, hi
p resigned to accept position in Il
!. export department of the Akron ru
ber manufactures.
H. More than million responded
o the Red Cross roll call in Ohio.
Arguments were heard in the fe
ID eral district court at Cincinnati f
: the defense in the suit seeking
have the federal prohibition amen
In ment declared invalid The ST
IN seeks to enjoin Governor Cox fro
submitting the amendment to t
a general assembly for ratification.
Because influenza conditions
Marion have greatly improved, t
\ health board has removed the closil
ban from saloons, theaters, church
and schools.