Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-05-07
STATE SIFTINGS

01ilhe Tor wage increase.
Universal Steel company is to erect
million dollar plant at Huron.
A bond issue of $4,000 to complete
Wooster's water plant carried at the
polls
Cincinnati voters approved the day
light saving ordinance passed by
council.
Skeleton of an infant was unearthed
by workmen excavating a cellar at
Kenton.
Federal agents seized $4,000 worth
OF booze in a Toledo undertaking es-
tablishment.
Immaculate Conception church at
Toledo was destroyed by fire, incur
ring 100000 loss.
Through service by electric railway
mas been established between Piqua
and Richmond, Ind.
Bonded Indebtedness of Gallon was
reduced from $319,368 to $269.643
during the past year.
Joseph v. Seibert, Piqua business
man, was found dead in his room with
bullet hole In his head.
Representative Clyde H. Hooley of
the Ohio assembly filed suit for di-
Vorce from his wife at Urbana.
Jesse Wright Harris, the oldest ed
1tor and printer in the state, died at
Salem from the inf1rmities of age.
State Representative w. R. Com
lngs of Elyria is to move to Honolulu
and is not candidate for renomina-
tion.
Police are searching for the body
OF Charlotte Harris, s, who was
drowned in the Ohio river near Bel
laire.
Fred Bilskey, II, was killed while
at work as screen boy in the Ameri-
can Sewer Pipe company's plant at
Lisbon.
Arthur McQuade, Denison univer'
sity, Granville, was selected as county
secretary of the Wyandot county Y
M. C. A.
Census bureau announced the 1926
population figures of Bowling Green
as 5,783. The increase is 556 or 10s
per cent
Trainmen employed on the Lake
Shore electric interurban lines are
to receive 10 cents an hour increase
beginning May 1.
Opposition headed by minister!
forced Martins Ferry moving picture
theater owners to abandon plans tt
operate on Sunday.
Fire practically destroyed the plan
of the Universal Clay Products com
pany at Sandusky. The loss is est
mated at over $4,000.
Ten sleeping persons were over
come and several others made i'll b,
escaping gas in four-story apart
ment house in Cleveland.
Probably the first delivery of bond
by airplane was made to the Piqu
National bank by the Deweese Talbo
Bonding company of Dayton.
Mrs. Lillian S. Bowdle grieved owe
the death of her husband, former Cor
gresham Stanley E. Bowdle, an
ended her life in cistern at Cinci1
natl.
Mrs. Anna E. Yeazell, widow c
William Yeazell, Springfield, left b.
quests to local institutions, accordin
to her will. The estate is valued q
100000.
Charles E. Hartman, commerce.
agent for the Erie railroad and fo
mer station agent at Kenton, was il
stantly killed by a train in Port Je
Wis, N. Y.
At Xenia, 800 Wilberforce unive
sity students went on strike in pr,
: test against the faculty rule agains
: men talking with girl students b.
tween classes.
Cleveland city officials are consi'
ering ways and means of breakin
, the deadlock between the street raj
way workers and the company, Whic
> may end in a strike.
Scientists from various parts of tt
e state will be present at the thirtiet
e annual meeting of the Ohio Acaden
+ of Social Science at Ohio State III
versity, May IA and Is.
a Mrs Myrtle Nelson, 55, was sh
and gravely wounded by her stepso
Richard c. Mortice, 20, at New Ric
mond. Mortice is believed to ha,
. ben suffering from mental derang
ment.
Jay King, 80, shot his way out
u the county Jail at Toledo and fl
seven blocks, pursued by police ar
deputy sheriffs, before he was caugf
q King had been charged with neglec
Z ing his children.
- At East Youngstown, John SINCE
former garbage collector, and DAM
y Ferris, former councilman, are
u liberty on $500 bail, the form
u charged with presenting false bills
Is the amount of $3,720 and the latt
II charged with approving them VIII,
u on a council committee.
i Matthew o. Williams and F,ral
Miller, former lessees of the Area
'e theater at Toledo, were awarded
IL $125,000 verdict against Mrs. Nett
Is Poe Ketcham of New York in CO,
s. mon pleas court Williams and M
y ler had charged unlawful ejectme
Ill from the theater property and ask
u S150,0O0 damages.
- When Mrs. Sidney Saltzbaugh. f,
merly of Findlay was. released frc
" the county jail at Marion on a char
y of kidnapping, she was re-arrested on
~ charge of horse stealing.
II Mayor Davis Of Cleveland order
40 salary increases approximating $50
do 600 a year to about 1000 city ci
~ service employees, including practic
n- ly all except firemen and policemen
William McWhorter, so, and Geor
McWhorter, %, father and son, we
killed by fall of slate in mi
E. near Carbondale,. Athens county. 4
le other son of McWhorter, work.
nearby, found the bodies.
For the first time in 22 years t
highest honors of the Tiffin hi
el school we're won by boys. Elmer M,
s. won first honors and Lionel Thon
u son was second
H. Attorney Carroll Spigg of Dayt,
former judge of the common ple