Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-04-30

Thomas J. Evans, IA, president OF
the Evans Clay Manufacturing COM
pany at Uhrichsville, is dead.
Leo Parks, convicted at Cincinnati
of the murder of Mrs. Florence
Schridt, was sentenced to life impris-
Henry Hover, 70, retired printer
and news dealer in Dennison for 2S
years, shot and instantly killed him
self.
Four members of the crew of Penn
sylvania train No. 205 we're injured
seriously in a wreck one mile east of
Morrow, o.
Their demands for more pay having
been refused, 80 coal passers at the
Cincinnati waterworks pumping sta
tion quit work.
Demanding higher pay and shorter
hours, $50 machinists employed by the
American Clay Machinery company at
Bucyrus went on strike.
Cooperative buying movement at
Norwalk, started by Crucible Steel
company's workers, is being Joined by
men of nearly all Norwalk factories.
Robinson Locke, "a, editor and
owner of the Toledo Blade. died in a
hospital at Toledo following an opera
tion performed three days ago for ap-
.pendicitis.
Edward Kurth, 80, teacher in the
st. Clairsville high school, injured
when the school was wrecked during
a windstorm several weeks ago, died
of his injuries.
After forcing Walter Vretman, con-
tractor, to drive his auto into a ditch
in Cleveland, three armed bandits
robbed him of a $500 diamond ring
and $3.50 in cash.
Mrs. Rolin Leonard, 25, was killed
az Dorset, Ashtabula county, when
her dress caught in a belt and she
was dragged into the pulleys of her
husbands sawmill.
Using profane language over a tele-
phone is justification for discontinue
ing service to the offending sub
s:riber, the state public utilities COM
mission announced.
A campaign in support of an ordi-
nance providing for the purchase of
the holdings of the Ashtabula Rapid
Transit company for $296,O00 is being
waged at Ashtabula.
Elmore E. Grim of Navarro has
sued the Northern Ohio Traction COM
pany for $4,000 damages for being
elected from an interurban car be-
tween Canton and Massillon.
Body of a newly born baby girl,
with her throat cut, was found hang
ing in the lower bushes on the Hook
ing river bank near Lancaster. J. H.
Fultz, prosecutor, is investigating.
Paul Joseph Stumpf, Z, and Charles
Volker, 6, were drowned in Alum
creek at Columbus, The boys were
catapulted into the water when a
tree floating down stream struck a
swinging bridge.
At Dayton, while two children OF
William S. Hensel, Virginia, 5, and
Lawrence, Z, were playing with a
loaded revolver. the girl was shot and
hlllSu. AC BON SdlQ AC QlQu h1OW
how it happened"
Fire destroyed the car barns of the
Dayton and Troy traction line at Tip
pecanoe City, with loss estimated at
$150,000. Eleven passenger coaches
two converters and all the machine
shop equipment were burned.
Elsie Ligas is in precarious con
dition at her home in Cleveland as the
result of an attack by a bandit who
assaulted here. The bandit used 6
club, with which he inflicted prob
able fracture of the skull, and stole
her purse, containing $6.
Saving through two barriers of stee
bars, Jack Delmar, alias Jack Smith
New York, escaped from Jail at Lo
rain. When arrested a week ago al
he was alleged to be attempting tt
enter a store, Delmar threw pepper il
the eyes of Patrolman Faragher.
Nelson ]. Barger, %, was sentenced
at Hamilton to die in the electric
chair on July 30, and his cousin, Mel
son H. Barger, to serve an indeteI
inmate sentence in the reformatory
for the murder of Harry Baker, ;
merchants policeman, last December
When Ethel Shields Costa, 26, brid,
Of two weeks, placed coffee insteat
OF soft drink before her husband
Mike Costa, in a coffee house a
Yorkville, Jefferson county, he sho
and killed her and then committet
suicide, according to the verdict o
Coroner Kirk.
| Youngstown police arrested JacI
Blaze and Mike Lahtis, charged wit
the murder at Warren of Charlie
Zebo, who was shot when he came t
the door to see who had thrown
stone through his window. Zebo wa
married recently and jealousy is be
lieved to have been the motive for tn
crime.
Car shortage of last year and tn
strike of last November served t
hold Ohio's coal production in 191
nearly 100000 tons below that c
1918. The statistical division of tn
state Industrial commission reporte
last years production as 3S,934,73
tons, compared with 47,S49,236 tn
year before.
Licking county commissioners d,
clded to macadamize a road frol
Newark to the Knox county line.
Medina council passed an ordinanc
fixing the natural gas rate at As cent
thousand for the first 5000 feet,
cents for the next 5000 feet and 5
cents for the third 5000.
Lancaster police are searching fl
FIVE older boys who attacked Charlie
Kneller, 10, a newsboy, while he We
carrying his route, bound. him to
stake, piled kindling and papers abo,
him and, after starting a fire, left hi
to his fate. The boy was rescue
badly burned.
Leroy Alexander, Marysville, wi
, purchased the North Lewisburg Wee
i ly Reporter, has decided to publ:
! the newspaper twice weekly.
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