Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-04-23


Stephen Brown, 40, farmer near
Xenia, died of sleeping sickness
Findlay elementary school teachers
demand an advance of s25 month.
L. ]. Stahler was elected president |
of the chamber of commerce at New |
comerstown.
George ]. Doerzbach, Sandusky, is
the new treasurer of the Ohio Elks'
association.
Ravenna town hall, IS years old,
was sold to Councilman Amody Coates
for s1O,575
Ashtabula city schools are to ask
for a bond issue of $350,00O at pri-
| mary election.
Commercial Oil and Gas company,
Ashtabula, completed a gas well on
the Rand farm, near Geneva.
Erie county opened drive for
| $780, 900 for a memorial building to be
erected in honor of veterans of all
wars.
| Ex-senator Burton of Ohio was
nominated as a member of the United
States tariff commission by President
Wilson.
Coal advanced 60 cents a ton at
New Philadelphia as result of the
new wage scale for Tuscarawas
county.
Leo Parks, convicted at Cincinnati
Of the murder of Mrs. Florence
Schridt, was sentenced to life impris-
onment.
Employees of the American Express
company at Marion were granted
wage increase and a strike was
averted.
George Jablanovich, 81, who was
indicted recently on charge of wife
murder, hanged himself in the Jail at
Chardon.
Their demands for more pay having
been refused, 80 coal passers at the
Cincinnati waterworks pumping sta
tion quit work.
Defiance Improvement company and
banks plan to expend 100000 during
the summer toward relieving the
house shortage.
Henry Hunt, former mayor of Gin
cinnati, was named by President Will
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railroad labor board.
Mrs. Nina S. Streb is acting as tenn
: porary postmistress at Dover until a
, successor is appointed to her hus-
band, who died recently.
Demanding higher pay and shorter
| hours, $50 machinists employed by the
{ American Clay Machinery company at
t Bucyrus went on strike.
Ohio Typographical association, in
l session at Toledo, favored recognition
: of the Irish republic and formation ol
: an Ohio Allied Trades council.
: Cooperative buying movement al
Norwalk, started by Crucible Steel
: company's workers, is being joined b!
: men of nearly all Norwalk factories
: At Toledo, fire of unknown origir
f destroyed the three-story building oc
cupied by the Emerson Cap compan.
e and the Dolphin Hosiery company
r causing loss of $65,000.
e Elmore E. Grim of Navarro ha:
: sued the Northern Ohio Traction com
:. pany for $4,000 damages for being
v elected from an interurban car be
|
e Richard Derrick walked into thu
:. county Jail at Athens and will stant
|. trial on the charge of having mur
/. dered Hugh Druggan IA years age
= The case has almost been forgotten.
h Dorothy Lewis, Youngstown, an,
d Lottie Williams, Barberton, who es
It capped from the Ohio reformatory TO
women at Marysvil1e, were captures
n near billiards while hiding in a stray
2 stack.
v. Former MAJOR Hamline Barnes, Y
" Wellsville, died suddenly of acute il
q digestion. He had practiced dentistr
for 30 years and was a leader in tn
a anti-saloon movement in Columbian
e. county.
,e Captain James F. Bowen, rs, for
e years tug and vessel master CT {!
10 Great Lakes, died suddenly at Lorai
$ Records show that Captain Bowe
f. had saved 21 lives in or near Lorai
at harbor.
as Fire destroyed the car barns of IL
le Dayton and Troy traction line at Til
le pecanoe City, with loss estimated &
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two converters and all the machi1
IL shop equipment were burned.
4 Five masked men held up the oft
I'd of the Wheeling Traction compan
re located at the car barn, two mil,
er from Steubenville, bound five Ell
ic- p1oyes, beat one man unconscious al
then blew two safes with nitT
as glycerin, making their getaway wi
ar $4,000 or more in money.
I'd Census bureau announced the f,
ok lowing 1920 population figures: c.
at cleville, 7,O49, an increase of As p
ed cent; Chillicothe, 1881, increase 9.
ay- Massillon, 17,42S, increase SIG; B.
laire, 15,O61, increase 1853; Marti
nd Ferry, 1,694, increase 27.4; East p
I'll estine, $3.50. increase 62.3.
OIL Youngstown police arrested ia
it Blaze and Mike Lahtis, charged wi
ill the murder at Warren of Charl
to Zebo, who was shot when he came
iy- the door to see who had thrown
ke stone through his window. Zebo W
lie, married recently and jealousy is
ast lieved to have been the motive for t
crime.
1io Licking county commissioners {
ad cided to macadamize a road fro
ng Newark to the Knox county line.
Inc Medina council passed an ordinan
fixing the natural gas rate at As Ger
a a thousand for the first 5000 feet,
fer cents for the next 5000 feet and
oils cents for the third 5000.
of Lancaster police are searching
five older boys who attacked Char
,ed Kneller, 10, newsboy, while he W
eet carrying his route, bound him to
He stake, piled kindling and papers abe
md him and, after starting fire, left h
ion to his fate. The boy was rescu
s. badly burned.
ice Leroy Alexander, Marysville, W
l. purchased the North Lewisburg We,
a ly Reporter, has decided to publ
ou the npWSnaner twice weekly