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

Rev. t. J. Horan, former Shawnee
pastor, died at PHILADELPHIA.
ollie Morris. Martins Ferry, is dead
as the result of an auto accident.
Lancaster is discussing plans for
the erection of a soldiers memorial.
Donald McLennan, So, Ashtabula,
was found dead in a Cleveland hotel
Mrs. Caroline Kuck, AZ. Dayton, was
killed in a fall down a flight of stairs.
William w. Cross, Sc, Bridgeport,
was killed when he fell from a tree he
was pruning.
Perry county commissioners will
isue $4,000 bonds for road building
this summer.
At Athens Margaret .Cowan. 2-year-
old daughter of Ivan Cowan, was
killed when struck by an automobile.
Body of James Cassidy, 80, miner,
was found in the Hooking river near
Jacksonville. He had been robbed.
Falling 100 feet through a slSylight,
Tony Letorre, 2S was instantly killed
at the Panhandle shops. Columbus.
Mrs. Florence Shull resigned as
head of the Hancock county chill
dren's home because of i'll health.
The Harry Burr jewelry store, in
the heart of Elyria, was robbed of
between $4,5OO and $1,000 worth of
jewelry.
Miss Beulah Allen resigned as post
mistress at Raymond, Union county.
A. e. Knox was appointed to succeed
her.
Alex Haglas received fractured
skull when assaulted near his home
at Dayton by highwaymen. He may
die.
From scalds received when she
fell into a bucket Of scrub water, 3
year-old daughter of Oscar Heuby at
Waldo. is dead
Three robbers we're shot at Toledo,
one perhaps fatally, as a result of a
pistol duel with police who discovered
them stealing whiskey.
Proposal to issue $395,00O in bonds
7or high and ward school buildings at
Bucyrus was indorsed at a special
election.
Five men and four women we're in
jured when a jitney bus, in which
they were riding eollided with an
auto at Alliance. -.
Miss Ollie Coleman. aged 16, died
at the .GHneral hospital. Cincinnati, a
victim of sleeping sickness, the Sec
ond one to succumb to this disease.
A change Of venue in the trial of
Walter o. Bigham Of Attics, for al
legged wife murder. is asked in a mo
tion filed at Tiffin.
Homer Barnes, charged with hav.
ing murdered his wife, was adjudged
insane at Hillsboro and was ordered
committed to the state hospital at
Lima.
John Tague, As, was killed when
struck by a freight train near Nc
Luney. Perry county. Three brothers
met a similar death in the same vi
cinity in the last IS years.
Three Mansfield department stores
suffered loss of about $4,000 from
fire, smoke and water as a result o.
a fire in the heart of the business
district.
Many Ohio soldiers. members o
3S2d regiment, which operated on the
Italian front, are now on their wa!
home, having sailed on the Italian
ship D'Aosta March 10.
Contract has been let by the Fire
lands Elevator company, a co-opera
tive concern, for the erection at Nor
walk of a 2OO,OOO-bushel concrete ele
vator.
An attempt was made to dynamite
the home of Sol. Ostrow, liquor deale
at East Liverpool. following his re
fusal to comply with demands 70
$4,000 made in three threatening lei
ters.
A loss of $4,000 was sustained a
Moral, Marion county. when tn
Washburn elevator was destroyed b
fire. Between 10000 and 10000 busf
els OF oats and several hundred bush
els of corn were consumed
Harry Cook, inmate OF the Obi
penitentiary, taken to Ironton to ties
tify in. a court case, sawed his wa
out Of a cell IN the county Jail, but
search revealed him hidden behind
rubbish pile in the Jail attic
An Ohio branch of the League {
Enforce Peace was organized in tn
governors Office at Columbus. w. A
Julian. Cincinnati manufacturer, wa
chosen chairman OF the executiv
committee.
Judge G. II. Kyle overruled a m,
tion for a new trial made in beha
OF Sam t. Haas, Cleveland lawye
convicted on an arson charge at Cha
don. The judge imposed an indete
inmate sentence Of from one to .
years in the penitentiary.
Ohio house passed the big Busbe
Fouts highway bill without a vo
against it. Immediately afterward
passed the Graham banking law T
codihcation bill also by unanimol
vote. Both now go to the senate. tt
resolution to submit tax classific
tion amendment at a special electiC
was adopted by the senate with on
three votes against IT, An attem
TO amend the proposal by insertir
the Smith limitation law failed.
Kenton high school building W,
entered at night, the school pial
hoisted into the attic, clock pend
lums removed, electric wires cut al
desks broken.
Mrs. Elizabeth Showalter, Mi
Mary Bryant and Luther Bryant, /
lieved to be the oldest living triple
in Ohio and possibly in the Unit
States, celebrated their sixty-nin
birthday anniversary at Dayton.
Jewelry valued at more than sc
stolen from the home of Mrs. Frt
erick ]. Derrick at Cincinnati was
covered by detectives at the home
William Harris. 20. a negro.
Brier Hill Steel company start
operating its plant near Youngstov
full time, giving employment to 8
additional men.
Opposition develops at TifHn to {
participation OF Seneca county
the construction of a district tub
culosis hospital by Seneca, Crawfo