Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-04-30
STATE SIFTINGS
THIN lodge of Moose will purchase

Rural schools of Seneca county will
hold field day May %.
Fire destroyed the country home Of
Wesley Abdreas, near Uhrichsville.
Loss $4,000.
Henry T. Fuller, 13, died Of suffo-
cation after falling into a coal bin at
a Canton plant.
A. G. Welsheimer, superintendent,
and o. B. Kirk, principal of Crestline
schools, have resigned.
As a result of the transportation
tieup Cincinnati is face to face with
famine in sugar and potatoes.
nder Ford, 22, was killed when a
passenger train hit a motor truck he
was driving at Washington G. H.
When James ]. Lawrence enlisted
in the army at Tiffin he was the last
Of family of seven boys to join the
colors.
Jumping into the swollen waters
of Delaware run, Frank Mohn, 13,
saved the life of Paul Mayer, 8, at
DelawaRe.
DR.. w. o. Thompson, president of
Ohio State university, dedicated the
new Goodyear Industrial university
at Akron.
Toledo's feet of eight sandsuckers
is tied up by refusal of captains and
engineers to continue work without
an increase in pay.
Because of the switchmGn's strike
at Ivorydale, the Proctor C Gamble
company closed its plant, putting
$500 men out of work.
Drinking concoction called
mules kick" caused the death of
Philip Shoremut, 40, coal miner, at
Short Creek. Jefferson county.
Youngstown has closed a four-day
campaign for the community peace
chest, raising S401,919 for 36 char
table organizations and institutions.
John Beckelhaleer and Albert Beck
elhamer, twin brothers, we're granted
divorces at Ironton from their wives,
Lucy and Efhe Beckelhamer, respec-
lively.
Charges Of graft in connection with
erection Of the miners temple were
considered at a secret s sson at Bel.
laire by the eastern Ohio miners con-
vention.
Michael Brenan Of Struthers and an
unidentified man were killed at Leav-
ittsburg when a passenger train
struck a motorcycle on which they
we're riding.
Lightning struck the residence OF
Rev. Gwartney at Lancaster, render
ing members Of the family uncon-
scious. The building was partly de-
stroyed by fire.
Secretary of State Smith mailed
letters to all election boards in Ohio
ordering them to make early returns
to him on the results of the presiden.
tial primary election in Ohio on
April "a.
Miami river claimed two lives when
a boat containing Harrison Miller. %
and Paul Stadden, 22, brothers-in-law
capsized. The men were employed by
the conservancy engineers, widening
the river at Dayton.
Mrs. Augusta Burkhart, "a, g
widow, and her daughter. Lillian
Burkhart, 40, were slain in their home
at Martins Ferry. Their bodies were
discovered with the faces hacked and
beaten and throats cut.
outlook in northern Ohio is for a
100 per cent fruit crop this year, ac
cording to e. c. Cotton, chief of the
state bureau of horticulture. The
buds there were not damaged in the
least by recent cold weather. he says
Theree men we're burned to deati
and two others seriously burned wher
fire broke out in the Matthews Boa
company's plant at Port Clinton. Tn,
dead men were e. Cove, M. J. Roy
and l.. Pearce, all of New York city
visiting yachtsmen.
RECONSTRUCTED" movies of the viii
lard-Dempsey fight at Toledo, July I
last, we're approved by the Ohio board
OF censors. On the ground they were
too grewsome, the board. shortly afte,
the fight, declined to permit the pic
lures to be shown.
Ruth Fury, 8, Cleveland, received
fracture of the skull when a fiatirol
hurled at her father struck her on tn,
back Of the head Harry Young il
under guard in a hospital, charge,
with assault, having been beaten b,
the father.
Thousands of dollars worth OF dam
age was done in a cloudburst at Ath
ems. which wrecked streets and al
leys and flooded homes. Heavy dam
age was caused on Greene count
farms by rain. Lowlands were foode
and bridges washed out.
New population announcements b
census bureau: New Philadelphia 10
us. increase 25.5 per cent; Mt. Vel
non 9,237, increase IL; Barberto
1851, increase 80; Ravenna 7,21!
increase 36; Struthers 5,s47, il
crease "a; Girard 6.556, increase Is.
Grandmother Of grandmother" hor
ors are claimed for Mrs. Margare
Ringer. 81. She is the grandmothe
of Mrs. A. ]. Bump Of Cambridge, VIII
has two grandchildren, Frederic
and Florence, children of Mr.. an
Mrs. Alfred Brown. Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Bumps daughter.
Sixty-fve per cent of eastern OH
mines are idle. due to the railroa
strike. The 40 mines still workin
win be able to get only half time, dr
to a reduction in the car supply.
Tenth district Rotarians closed
two-day conference at Toledo aft,
approving a plan to establish schoo
and hospitals for crippled children
the state.
Mayor Andrews of Marion vetot
four ordinances calling for sire
paving amounting to $5OO,O00. +
holds the high cost OF material al
labor and city's financial conditit
would prohibit street improvements
Lorain BARRIERS increased the pri
of haireuts to IS cents on April
but began charging so cents after
slump in business under the ne
scale.
Margaret Killen won a verdict
$4,000 in her damage suit against j
Markowich in an Akron court for