Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-07-23
OHIO GLEANINGS

POur IdllFO FOdu voted TO strike because
posting OF vacancies under seniority
rule was abandoned in the auditors
department, according to E. H. Fftz-
gerald, Cincinnati, grand president OF
the brotherhood.
Claude Mason, 27, Crestline, was
killed instantly by passenger train.
Dayton ice dealers increased the
price from 70 to SO cents a 100 pounds
because Of increased cost of coal.
Elmer Baldwin, 55, Marion, was
killed by an interurban car.
Highland county treasurer has sued
Freiberg & Workum company, Cincin-
natl, for taxes amounting to $780,
393.9o, due on $4,000 barrels of whisky
held at Lynchburg.
Over 1000 foreign-born persons en-
rolled in Americanization work at
Akron
Loot estimated at more than $780,
600 has been stolen from freight cars
in and around Cleveland during the
past six months, railroad detectives
and police estimated. An extensive
roundup of suspects it's being planned.
Jacob E. Weitzel, %, bank clerk,
was drowned while swimming in
Olentangy river, near Columbus.
Coshocton striking miners returned
to work at the old scale when assured
by union officials that they would be
exempted from fines for striking.
Farmers of the Medina district
have formed clubs of Is each All
join in harvesting the crops of one
member and then proceed to the farm
of a neighbor.
Announcement was made at Spring
field by the International Harvester
company that the Springfield plant
will be turned into a motor truck
works.
Cincinnati workhouse has been
abandoned as a penal institution. The
so prisoners, four of them women
were removed to the county jail
Abandonment of the workhouse is at
tributed to prohibition.
Shots fired by J. A. Allen, watch
man of the McManus department
store, Youngstown, frightened bur
glars, who escaped, leaving $25,00(
worth of furs and neckpieces in sacks
outside of the store.
Charles A. Herman, so, Toledo, ant
his wife were killed instantly when 6
train crashed into their automobile
| at Milbury
All previous records were broker
in Cuyahoga county with 1864 divorce
suits filed between Jan. and June 80
David Griffith of Prospect, held b.
Marion police in connection with tht
murder of his daughter, attempted
suicide by slashing himself with
penknife.
Cleveland police searched withou
success for thieves who robbed Philil
Wohl, diamond merchant, of $1,000
worth of jewels
Guy Huller fell into an abandone,
stone quarry at Gallon and wa
drowned
During last year 1879 aliens wer
admitted to citizenship at Akron
Seneca countys road improvement
program is held up until next year.
William Snavely, so, was kille
when struck by passenger train i
the railroad yards at Fostoria.
Because its coal supply is exhaus
ed, electric light plant at Belle Ger
ter, Logan county, is closed and th
village has no lights.
Marion police confiscated $50 pint
of whisky brought from Pittsburg
and believed by police to be intende
for crowds expected there during th
presidential campaign.
Burglars entered the home of M.
Freeman, Hamilton, and stole
money belt containing $3.50.
Carl Brenner, collector, was ele
trocuted at Lancaster when he place
his hand on telephone wire whic
had become crossed with an electr
light wire.
w. F. Callander, head of the stat
federal crop reporting service, sa
the increase in sugar beet acreage
Ohio this year over last is about +:
per cent. The total is 44,30Q acre!
that of last year was 81 100.
Elwood Robinson, 81, and his wifi
!, Elizabeth Robinson, 5S, were instar
e ly killed south of Atwater, near AL
: ance, when the automobile in whit
they were riding was struck by
train. Mr.. Robinson was a retire
: farmer. :ie L saf.ss>--
Federal agents. who arrested FRI
Valentine on a charge of sellil
hnr ~, !, 80
swamp district near Toledo mes
sugar and potatoes which the pr
oner declares addicts gave him in e
change for morphine.
Bill Mill, negro, was shot in tt
leg, and Paul jeff, also colored, w
shot in the arm by Tuscarawas cou
ty authorities in raid on an illit
still located in a thicket two mil
southwest of Magnolia.
The sum of $152,735, the largest !
dividual tax ever imposed in Oh
4 upon an individual estate, will
paid by the executors of the estate
\ the late James E. Mooney, preside
of the American Oak Leather CO.
\ pany, Cincinnati.
4 Youngstown sheet metal worke
q have been awarded an increase of
d per cent in wages.
n Conneaut city council increased
salaries of city f1remen from $120
B $3.50 a month.
n Asphalt deposits said to rival tho
q of Kentucky in quality have be
u found six miles west of tIillsboro.
n Mrs. Julia F. Smith, SO, died
q Newark from injuries received in
fall down stairs.
, Mrs Russell Harrington of Mechs
:, icsburg had fone of her ears sever
~ and her two small children were b;
u ly hurt in a runaway near Marysvil
American governments largest di
gible, 200 feet long, completed rece
~ ly at Akron, made it's initial flight
Wingfoot, near Akron.
IL William Thompson, 8, and Stanl
~ Thompson, 7, were drowned VIII
70 swimming in a reservoir near v
mington. They were sons Of Uri