Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-17
STATE SIFTINGS

Receiver was appointed for the
Baker Shoe company, Findlay.
ID. B. Odaffer was elected president
II the Crawford county farm bureau.
Movement is under way at Findlay
% recruit O national guard company.
Fred Durxin OF Syracuse, N. Y,
ranged himself in the county jail at
Toledo.
Mrs. Albert Corrie committed sui
:ide at Toledo by leaping into the
Aaumee river.
Springfield bankers report that 81
FEDERAL reserve bills are being raised
here to $40.
Five section men were injured
when motor car jumped the tracks
aear Macarthur.
Central Rubber company, Defiance,
announced its plant will be closed in
definitely within few days.
John c. Roriek, former state SEN
ator. died at his home in Wauseon
after an illness Of FIVE months.
Mrs. Lincoln Gossett. 35. hanged
herself at her home in Lithopolis,
Fairfield county. she had been i'll.
Fire destroyed the four.story build
ng occupied by the Cleveland Neck
wear company, Cleveland. Loss $780,
400.
Hancock county farm bureaus ex-
scutive committee took action oppos-
ing reappraisement of real estate in
Hancock county next spring.
President Wilson appointed d. G.
Wills of Cleveland to be a member of
he federal reserve board for a term
of 10 years from Sept. 20, 1920.
Erie railroad camp cars near Ken
con we're looted in the absence of
workmen and 40 blankets, clothing
and a sum of money were stolen.
When an automobile overturned in
ditch near Sandusky, ]. A. Hand OF
5anduslxy was killed and Harkey
Hough OF FiRdlay1 fatally injured.
A big gas well with over 500 pounds
sOck pressure drilled in south Of Ath,
ems has been turned into the mains
of the Ohio Fuel Supply company.
Rev. DR.. Charles G.. Heckert, 81
president emeritus OF Wittenberg col
;ege, died at his home in Springfield
Heart disease was the cause of death
Leo Fobert, alias Foley. was found
guilty OF first degree murder al
Youngstown in connection with the
killing last winter OF Ansel Venucci
a merchant.
Claiming that she was knocked
down and injured by dog owned by
Asahel Dillon, Mrs. Minnie Fleming
has started action at Youngstown fol
$4,000 damages.
Fire of unknown origin broke ou
In Giddinger's general store at Lib
erty, destroyed the structure with it
contents and for a time threatened
to involve the entire village.
AS a protection against Jack tn,
Hugger," whose activities have dis
turbed Bellaire for several weeks
many women who venture out a
night are carrying revolvers.
A burglar entered the home Of ia
cob Stern at Steubenville, knocks
Miss Rosa Young, servant, down
night of stairs, and escaped wit
$1,000 worth Of diamonds and silver
ware.
T. J. Smull. secretary OF Obi
Northern university, Ada, was il
dorsed by the Hardin county Reput
lican executive and central commi
tees for appointment as state higl
way commissioner.
A gas explosion at the home {
Roda Yoclzley at Steubenville ble-
Michael Totilia and Samuel Mok,
wach through the side Of the house
They landed In the street, sufferfn
only slight bruises.
Otto Miller, IA, Is being held q
Canton pending further investigate
into the death Of Frank Cipris, Il
whose body was found in swan
near Brewster with the left side {
the head shot away.
-Four prisoners, all under indie
ment, escaped from the county Jail &
Steubenville. The men are: Charlie
Spurrier and Charles Spears, allege
cracksmen; Joseph Pistol, an allege
highwayman, and Orville Kelle
charged with criminal assault.
More than 200 members Of the mil
dealers association. Cincinnati, Il
doresd the movement toward orgal
izing an association for the marke
ing OF milk produced by members ,
the association. rather than throus
the agency of the middleman.
Mystery surrounds the shooting
Mrs. Thomas Koehler and the bur
ing TO death Of her two sons, w
liam. 6. and Warren, 8, at her hon
near Hubbard. Trumbull county, whe
an unidentified man entered II
house. shot Mrs. Koehler three tim,
and then set fire to the dwelling.
Blame for the collision of two ca
of the Northern Ohio Traction COZ
pany at Ravenna, which resulted
the death Of four persons and the 1
jury Of a dozen others, has bee
placed by traction officials on Jam,
Maxwell, dead motorman OF the ba
gage car. Others killed we're Per
Waters, Charles Pearce and 3-yes
old son, all of Cuyahoga Falls.
Hamilton board of education adol
ed a rule requiring medical examin
'tion Of children attending the publ
schools.
Or. Henry II. Carter Of Carlet,
1llege, Northheld, Mimi, was a
dnted instructor in English at \
mi university.
Members OF 81. Johns CathoI
hurch, Lima, began a drive for
10000 fund for the erection of
ew church ediice.
Henry Malone of near Hamden W
instantly killed by a fall OF slate
a mine near Hawks, vinton counr
He had been married three weeks.
Burt Lewellyn. 35, a constructs
worker, Is alleged to have shot a
seriously wounded L. s. Salmon,
chief Of police Of Jewett, near d.
nison.
Mrs. Henrietta Crist, 40, wife of
fred f. Crist, was instantly killed
a passenger train at a crossing
Springfield. She was the mother
FIVE children.
A. p Sandles former secretarv