Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-03-26

Mrs. Mary Grubbs, 80, fell dead in
her yard at Bellefontaine after re-
turning from son-in-law's funeral
After having been missing since
March s, Miss Minnie Deem of New
Paris was found dead near Dayton.
Sixty leading citizens of Sandusky
pledged support to a company organ
lied for relief of the house shortage.
Lorain camp, Sons of Veterans, will
ask the state organization to hold its |
annual encampment il Lorain in 1921. |
Steve Loucher, %, Middletown, was
shot and killed by his 16-year-old wife,
who claims the shooting was acci-
dental.
Analysis of liquor seized in raid |
at Youngstown shows it was only col
ored water. Five persons were ar
rested.
Captain A. R. Freshwater celebra.-
ed his IiEety-ninth birthday anniver-
sary at Delaware by taking a walk
up town.
Forest R. Black of Tiffin won the
first prize of $1,000 in the essay con-
test conducted by the national indus
trial conference board.
Jury disagreed in the trial of An
tonic Montagnio, 25, indicted at Ma
rion for murder in connection with
| the death of Thomas Triscari.
| Templar Motor company filed suit
at Cleveland against Standard Parts
company, asking s1,400,000 damages
for alleged failure to deliver 1000
axles.
Clad in night dress, the body Of
Mrs. Lucy Dean, SO, Toledo, was found
at the bottom of cistern by her son.
The coroner gave verdict of suicide
The woman had been Ill.
Akron officials are holding two men
pending investigation of the murder
of George Fiume, who was found dead
near Pleasant Valley, south of Akron,
with IS knife wounds in his body.
In the Toledo street railway case
the Ohio supreme court held that a
city may incur debt through the issu-
ance of bonds or otherwise for the
purpose Of acquiring a street railway
system within the city.
After forcing her 4-year-old daueb.
ter and 1-year-old son to drink poison,
Mrs. Winnie Prosser, Mt Vernon,
drank quantity of the poison. All
three are expected to die. Mrs. Pros.
ser was recovering from an attack
of influenza
; Charles Day and John E. thinner
man, Philadelphia public utility en-
gineers, will become managers o.
the Ohio Electric Railway compan,
April 1, according to announcement
made by F. A. Healy, secretary ant
treasurer of the company.
. Claiming that their wife" has 2:
husbands and is divorced from none
of them Tific Sallie of Cincinnati ant
James Nick of Dayton jointly asket
Dayton police to arrest Margaret Fos
: ter 81, on charge of bigamy. She il
now said to be in Springfield
Henry L. Doherty, head of the Te
= ledo Railways and Light company, ot
n fers to sell the streetcar system t
the municipality for s11 100000, wit
20 per cent cash down and the re
:. mainder to be paid in bonds secure
= by first mortgage on the lines.
Confiscation of coal by the railroa
: administration and the fixing of price
. at which coal may be sold by the go7
!. ernment are held to be illegal by Fol
mer President Taft in an opinion rel
= dered at Cincinnati to the Smokeles
= Coal Operators association.
a. Major R. w. Schroeder of Daytol
Il holder of the worlds record for al
# plane altitude, plans 10-hour figf
% from San Francisco to New Yor
% late this summer, flying at heigl
N of 10000 feet, which he says will pc
NIT him to attain a speed of frol
a. $50 to 400 miles an hour.
At Salary increases granted state-su
n ported universities by the legislatul
n recently are sufficient to boost fu
Is professors at Ohio State from $3,2S
~ to s4,23O and instructors from $1,s1
10 to s1,SS3, according to figures cor
V. piled by Carl E. Steeb, secretary
the trustees.
a. Akron will retain eastern standal
of time.
nt Joseph Umser, 81, trusty at Il
id Lima state hospital, trying to escal
from a second-story window, holdil
al to a strap, fell and was killed. Ums
if was sent up from Tiffin.
m A committee to investigate charg
he of profiteering in necessities of Ii
has been authorized by Akron ci
lis council. Rent gougers will be fir
I'M investigated, then clothing, food al
at- other dealers. Restaurant men mu
at post food prices under the ordinane
i'm which provides stiff fines for deale
found guilty.
re State public utilities commissi
ed refused permission to the Ohio Sta
ar Telephone company in Akron to
crease rates until the company i
lie proves it's service.
I'm Eight prisoners escaped from t
to Jefferson county jail at Steubenvi
an by saving bars and making a ro
7c- from blankets. One of the fugitiv
y is an insane negro.
IN By vote of to 2, the Dayton G.
he commission adopted daylight saw
of ordinance. Clocks will be turned f
ch ward the last Sunday in April and
nv main until the last Sunday in S,
[. tember.
? a Robbers broke into the bank
Alger, near Lima, and escaped W
at $1,000 in liberty bonds and valual
ars papers from safety deposit boxes.
on DR.. J. Riley Davenny, dentist, A
tabula, is in serious condition as
red result of using gargle of alcohol a
es- carbolic acid for relieving a 81
he throat. The solution was suppose,
too strong.
ere A package containing jewelry q
ers securities worth $14, 900 was found
on, the doorstep Of the home of N
,tv- Elizabeth Metcalf in Columbus. I
vas valuables had been stolen from
Metcaf home. --4--