Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-01-16
STATE SIFTINGS

fined for infraction of traffic rules.
Perry county churches will observe
"father and son week" Feb. 16 to %.
Fremont teachers received increases
of salaries ranging from to 25 per
cent.
Campaign launched at Ashtabula |
Cor the reorganization of the chamber |
cf commerce.
During the last year nearly Is miles |
of new roads were constructed in |
Huron county.
Dus, was hit by a taxicab and almost
instantly killed.
Edward Hall, IA, is held at Dayton
on charge of stealing six motor cars
valued at $1,000.
John w. Stephens, 70, who built
and operated the Columbian hotel,
GAINESVILLE, is dead.
Rend's mine, Crooksville, has been
closed indefinitely by the Standard
Hooking Coal company.
Philip H. Bruck, former mayor of
Columbus, died on the seventy-fifth
anniversary of his birth.
Three miners were burned in an ex-
| plosion which set fire to the Laughlin
mine, near Martins Ferry.
Churches, movies and poolrooms at
| Woodsfield were closed to conserve
fuel as result of gas shortage.
Rev. c. c. Lunan resigned as pastor
of First United Presbyterian church,
Findlay,. to accept call to Piqua.
A balance of $4,000 in Dover's war
chest may be applied to building
clubroom for Dover post, American.
Legion.
Eliza Enoch, 83, county infirmary
inmate at Eaton,w was burned to death.
She smoked her pipe in bed, said the
coroner.
Retail bread prices at Mansfield ad-
vanced to IL and IL cents loaf when
| wholesalers added cents a loaf to
their price.
Because of an epidemic of scarlet
fever the consolidated village and
rural schools at Pemberton, Shelby
county, are closed.
At Kenton, Mrs Margaret Dickson
fell two stories to the ground while
shaking rugs on the roof of porch.
Her injuries are serious.
Ice in the Maumee river at Toledo
was broken to permit the launching
of the United States shipping boards
latest ship, the Lake Fillmore.
John R. Holmes, 63, director OF
public safety of Cincinnati is dead
following an operation for appendix
abscess. He was an active Republi
can.
For the first time since 1856 the
Union county board of agriculture
which manages the annual county
fairs, does not owe a penny of indebt
edness.
Toledo city council provided for the
appointment of 80 additional firemer
and guaranteed that the eight-houl
day for fremen will become effective
at once.
A quarrel started seven years agt
resulted in the shooting at Clevelan,
of Antonio Opekar, 80, whose condi
tion is serious. Louis Uliccic wa
arrested.
Mrs. Mary Gold, A, was burned t,
death in the kitchen of her home a
. Sandusky. Her dress was ignitet
from a gas stove fame while alon
, in the house.
. John Flaherty, clerk Of the juveni!
!, court of Hamilton county, who wa
shot during an affray at an inn Of
New Years morning, died without re
vealing the name of the person VIII
> had shot him.
Frank Satisburger, assistant super
intendent, and Walter Davidson wer
: killed and William Gorst seriousl
burned in an explosion in the pressin
mill of the Hercules powder plan
near Youngstown.
Using a bed sheet as a rope, Mr.
Grace Rogers, 43, an inmate of tn
| Columbus state hospital, killed he
| self by hanging. NShe was committe
| to the institution last July from Oh
| vet, Belmont county.
l Trafford Blizzard, 25; Wilbur Bli
| zard %, and Max Walters, 35, wei
4 arrested at Lancaster, charged wit
/ burglarizing H. R. Boving's jewel1
/ store. Loot worth $4,000 was reco
! cred by police in Columbus.
Guarded by his two large dogs tt
i frozen body of Corbin Johnson, Z
i was found on his farm near Stewar
i Athens county. The aged man, WI
i served four years in the Union arm
4 in the civil war, had been livir
4 alone.
4 Charles B. Kistler, former city trea
4 urer of Warren, pleaded guilty to Il
Il charge of embezzlement of $4,000
4 the city funds when arraigned
Il Warren. Kistler, in admitting the d
Il falcation, declared, according to E
j torneys, he had given money to MI
\ Lillian J. Wilson of Cleveland. MI
Wilson has been enjoined by Il
=. Cleveland courts from disposing
~ any property received from Kistle
who was bound over to the grand jur
At the Brier Hill steel plant, Nile
ty Daniel Newey, Sr., Sc, operating S
a perintendent, and Daniel Suich,
ne borer, were killed when caught und
DO a lotion casting which toppled over.
as Rev. M. S. Freeman, pastor of t
N, First Congregational church, Mt. VI
non, received a call from the Pilgri
90 Congreg gational church, Chattanoog
nd Tenn.
or Cincinnati council voted against
or proposal to appoint commission
3 citizens to investigate the advisab
ity of selling the Cincinnati Southe
to railway, the country's only muni
ar 2ally-owned trunk line railway.
% Arthur Fisher, %, Kenton, comm
ted suicide by shooting himself in t
of head. Relatives were unable to
1t, sign a cause for his act.
er- Fire destroyed several buildings
he the heart of Ironton Businesses
of stroyed included the Central Hal
ware and Harness company's sto
st the Empire theater, Howell's CARA
in and confectionery.
he Body Of Mrs. Hanna Severson.
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