Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-04-09
STATE SIFTlNGS


menian mass meeting was broken up
at Cleveland.
Thieves, broke into the courthouse
at Marysville. securing $24 in Judge
Porter's office.
Two-months-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Hagerman, Hamilton, was
suffocated by bed covers.
Census bureau announced that Nor
wood has a population Of 24,966, an
increase of 54.3 per cent.
M. G. Avery was reelected superin-
tendent of Orville public schools with
$500 year salary increase.
Fire destroyed the water power
electric station of the Lorain County
Electric company, near Lorain.
]. H. Mcclure was elected vice
president of the Ohio Electric Rail
way company, with headquarters at
Lima.
William Frankham gave his bronze
works at Canton to G. L. Becker and
George Sieber, employees, for faithful
services.
Defiance city council refused to re-
peal the daylight savings act passed
a month ago and Defiance adopted
| eastern time.
Petitions for referendum on WON
ans suffrage and for 21s per cent beer
were placed in circulation in many
sections of the state.
Investigation OF charges that many
families in Painesville were missed
by the census enumerators will be
made by the government.
Three thousand landlords in Cleve
land are charged with violation of the
city tenement house ordinance by fail
ing to obtain 1920 licenses.
Charles w. Stone, road inspector
for the state highway department, was
killed at Gallipolis when the body oi
a motor truck fell upon him.
Vincent Damico was electrocuted il
the Ohio penitentiary for his part IL
the murder of Policeman George
Verne at Akron'last summer.
Jacob H. Stauffer go, of Canton, SUI
fering from mental depression, though
to have been caused by a recent ill
ness, committed suicide by hanging.
At a fur sale held on the Mage,
farm, near Port Clinton, New Yorl
buyer paid $1.10 each for muskra
pelts. Between 10000 and $4,000 wer
sold
After a tridN lasting over a week
Orville Stewart, farmer, was foun
guilty at Van Vert of assault wit
intent to kill the late Ross Connol
neighboring farmer and former schoo
mate.
Martins Ferry board of education
voted teachers and principals in tn
six local schools an increase of $25
month. In addition each teacher wi
receive a bonus of $50 at the close {
the school year.
Constable Harry Williams, 26, a
ex-soldier, was shot and probably fl
tally wounded in East Youngstown b
Albert Jackson, negro, when the o
ficer attempted to arrest the negro o
larceny charge.
Five armed bandits forced their wa
into the home of Mrs. Herman Gel
man, 10 miles south of Clevelan
locked the woman, her maid an
three children in a closet and escape
with liquor and diamonds valued {
: $4,000.
Following protests from many OH
city officials, Governor Cox said thu
II the cities under home rule pr
| visions of the constitution did n,
have power to regulate rents, and
he found the state did not have, l
would call the legislature into speci
session at once.
To make Ohio's national guard
, vision the first in the country to |
brought to full strength, an intensi,
recruiting campaign will be conductt
April 1 to 30 all over the state. r
: cruits will be sought among ex-ser
ice men and young men not O
enough to enlist during the war.
!. Brigadier General s. D. Stanber
h Of Cincinnati may command the rec
4 ganized Thirty-seventh division,
the Ohio national guard will
known, and it is said Colonel w.
Hough of Delaware and Lieutena
& Colonel George H. Wood of Dayt
1 may be made brigadier generals
the reorganized guard.
Villages and towns in Allen, A
! glaize, Darke and Van Vert COUNT
\ we're razsd or badly damaged by
storm Of cyclonic dimensions. Gene
Rabbs Corners, Swanton and 9th
Of communities we're hard hit. Thir
le persons were killed and almost /
injured. The property loss is plac
is at $4,000 600. Six lives were lost
~ Allen and Van Vert counties a
sr eight in Darke. Hundreds Of perso
m were made homeless.
III City solicitors at a conference w
IN Governor Cox decided to draft
OF model ordinance licensing landlor
in an effort to combat rent profile
at ing.
D. William D. Fullerton, Clevelal
was struck over the head with a e
- club in the hands of a younger bro
- er and received a fractured skull. I
/ blow was accidental.
II Wilbur c. Lawrence, Republican,
L Van Vert, a deputy in the state
Il surance department, was appoin
clerk of the Ohio supreme court, S
ceeding Frank e. Mexican, Democl
7 of Cleveland.
Il George Whysell Of Delaware,
Ill ceiver Of the Springfield, Troy &
Piqua Traction company, announ
at Springfield that the line would
sold.
HI John White, 30, colored, under
1 sentence for the murder of q negro
Dayton about eight years ago, '
pardoned by Governor Cox. He '
a trusty at the penitentlary.
Mrs. Hannah McMackin, Piqua,
killed and George Linsey and wife
West Milton were seriously inju
; when the automobile in which t
were riding was struck by a tract
car, three miles north of Trey.
1t At Canton, Wallace Petticord,
re was killed and Myrtle Lesh, 81,
y verely injured when a motor tr