Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-04-23
STATE S|FTINGS

burgh.
Fire destroyed the country home of
Wesley Abdreas, near Uhrichsville.
Loss $4,000.
Petltlons for a referendum on an
ordinance increasing gas rates were
filed at Tiffin.
Fire broke out three times in one
day in the McMillvaine building at
New Philadelphia.
AS result of the transportation
t1eup cincinnati is face to face with
a famine in sugar and potatoes.
Colonel George B. Christian, Ma
r1on, was appointed chief-of-staff of
the G. A. R., department of Ohio.
llder Ford, %, was killed when a
passenger train hit a motor truck he
was driving at Washington c. H.
Springfield school teachers present
ed school board members with a petit
tion asking a fiat increase of $500 per
year.
When James J. Lawrence enlisted
in the army at Tiffin he was the last
of family of seven boys to join the
colors.
Elmer Depus sued the city of Ma
rion for $4,000 for alleged injuries
received when bleachers collapsed at
a ball game.
Mrs. Rebecca Singer, IS, was struck
and instantly killed by a passenger
train at Cambridge while on her way
home from church.
Toledo's fleet of eight sandsuckers
is tied up by refusal of captains and
engineers to continue work without
an increase in pay.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wynn Blake, noted
spirltualist medium, died of pneu
monia at Corryville, Belmont county
She was 72 years old.
Because of the switchmen's strike
at Ivorydale, the Proctor G Gamble
company closed it's plant, putting
$500 men out of work.
Petitions with $4,000 names askin'
a referendum on the second Reynold
suffrage bill were filed with the anti
suffrage heads at Cincinnati.
Drinking concoction calle'
mules kick" caused the death o
Philip Shoremut, 40, coal miner, a
Short Creek, Jefferson county.
Charges of graft in connection wit
erection Of the miners temple wer
considered at secret session at Be
laire by the eastern Ohio miners con
vention
| Van Vert has been asked to rails
$1,000 of the $4,000 to be used in to1
nado relief in Van Vert county, az
cording to plans of the finance relic
committee
Several hundred city laborers ar
on strike at Columbus to enforce thei
demand for wage increase. TIL
division of garbage and refuse colle'
tion has been forced to suspend worl
Eight persons were overcome b
escaping gas in a Dayton roomin
house. The sleeping victims wer
aroused by G. L. Kinds, As, enginee
Three of the victims are in a hospita
Effecting a temporary organization
with Colonel G. c. Chambers, Clev
land, as president, the Thirty-sevent
Division association adjourned to hol
its first annual convention Sept. 26
Cleveland.
Miami river claimed two lives whe
a boat containing Harrison Miller, 2
and Paul Stadden, %, brothers-in-la7
capsized. The men were employed /
the conservancy engineers widenir
the river at Dayton.
Outlook in northern Ohio is for
100 per cent fruit crop this year, a
cording to E. c. Cotton, chief of Il
state bureau of horticulture. tt
buds there were not damaged in IL
least by recent cold weather, he say
Coshocton Telephone company
fered it's 80 striking operators fl
| increase of So a week. The offer W
| rejected, the strikers demanding t
| right of collective bargaining. T.
| phones have been silent since Mar
| 10.
| RECONSTRUCTED" movies of the W
] lard-Dempsey fight at Toledo, July
4 last, were approved by the Ohio boa
\ of censors. On the ground they we
too grewsome, the board, shortly aft
the fight, declined to permit the p
lures to be shown.
Earl Hefeford, 16, Columbus, W
: probably fatally hurt when a hand {
y On which he was riding with Edwa
n Layland, II, Mt. Vernon, was stru
:. by a Scioto Valley traction car
Jefferson. The boys had escap
, from the boys industrial school. Ii
land was slightly hurt.
Steubenville, East Liverpool a
Beaver Valley Traction company NJ
fed the mayors of East Liverpo
Wellsville and Steubenville that
would apply to the state public ut
ties commission for permission
abandon three car lines in East
erpool, two in Steubenville and ma
changes in it's service in Wellsvi
because of a loss of $167, 7,513.53
year.
Sixty-five per cent of eastern o.
mines are idle, due to the rai1re
olTlh0. 1uO ~ H11ll0S SILL WOTh
will be able to get only half time, {
to reduction in the car supply.
Tenth district Rotarians closed
sM two-day conference at Toledo af
M approving a plan to establish scho
q and hospitals for crippled children
d the state.
Mayor Andrews of Marion vett
~ four ordinances calling for str
- paving amounting to $500,000.
holds the high cost of material {
" labor and city's financial condit
. would prohibit street Improvement
Lorain BARRIERS increased the pT
of haircuts to IS cents on April
as but began charging so cents afte
s- slump in business under the 4
NJ scale.
Ir Margaret Killen won verdict
M $4,000 in her damage suit against
&c Markowich in an Akron court for
" juries received when she was
%. over by a horse and buggy.
wv More than 10000 miners are idle
90 the Hooking valley district as the
nd suit of the closing of $50 mines
is- cause of the railroad mems walk'