Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-05-14
STATE SIFTINGS

granted $125 per hour.
w. A. Pillans has been appointed
city school manager at Lorain.
Marion streetcar strike was settled
within "a hours after being launched.
Grover Funk, %, was crushed to
death under a farm tractor near
Tiff1n.
William N Dawson was reelected |
president of Antioch college at Yel-
low Springs.
A. B. Sexon, 70, committed suicide
In his room in Vermillion hotel by
taking poison.
Wage increases of from 80 to 35 |
per cent will be given Martins Ferry |
teachers next year.
Alvin Olin, s, Newark, was struck
oy an auto and injured so badly that
his recovery is doubtful.
Gallon council ordered expenditure
OF $4,000 for enlargement of the mu-
nlclpal electric light plant.
Myrtle Williams, Is, was murdered
IN the basement of a Youngstown
motel, where she was employed.
Champaign county hospital at Ur-
bana has been forced to close its
doors because of a dearth of nurses.
Rev. c. F. Irwin of Belle Center &C
cepted call from the Presbyterian
church at Eaton.
Five hundred laborers on building
improvements at Springfield struck
| for IS cents an hour.
Burned body Of Ray Miller, %,
Massillon, was found on cinder bank
along the railroad tracks near Akron.
Adolph Ritetr was killed and Fred
Lauffeur was seriously hurt when
struck by an automobile in Cincin-
natl.
Thirty-two Cleveland banks have
installed private alarm systems as
safeguards against holdups and bur-
glaries.
Leroy Willie of Columbus was
chosen president of the Ohio Council
Of Postal Employees at their meeting
held in Dayton.
Fire at Bethesda, which destroyed
the Bethesda Milling company and
the Capital Scrap Tobacco company,
caused $4,000 damage.
Building in Cleveland will cost from
Is to rs per cent more during the
next IL months due to the spring
wage scales agreed upon.
Business mems clothes in the Ma
rion Y. M. G. A. were touched for
jewelry and about $500 in cash while
the owners attended gym classes.
c. M. Fflson, tobacco dealer Of AL
lance, and H. L. Stark, Alliance chief
Of police, were severely injured near
Ravenna in an automobile collision.
At Lima the News and Times-Dem-
ocrat have effected a merger. Excess
sive newsprint prices and constantly
rising costs led to the consolidation
Charles Cross, q, Cleveland, crazed
by domestic troubles, went on a ram
page, shooting six persons, including
his wife, before being shot and
wounded by policeman.
Brakemen on the Marietta division
Of the Pennsylvania railroad went or
strike after two of their men were
discharged for refusing to shift cars
handled by strikebreakers.
During a family quarrel Ralph
Chase, so, shot and seriously wounded
his grandson-in-law, Rudolph Keener
80, farmer of Leroy, near Paines
vile, and then shot and killed him
self.
Charles Peeno, an employe of Jos
lin Schmidt Chemical company, Gin
cinnati, was asphyxiated when he de
scended into pit containing molas
ses liquor, the drain of which becam
obstructed.
With 43 families quarantined fo
smallpox, Shelby is suffering from al
epidemic that has resulted in schools
churches, picture shows and all othe
places being closed and public gath
erings placed under the ban
Scores of ore carriers and lax.
steamers have been laid up at LAX
Erie ports because Of the coal shor-
age, due to the strike of railroa
switchmen, the Lake Carriers assc
citation announced.
John Dewar, former police lieute1
ant, was found guilty of mans1aughte
by jury at Cleveland for the deaf
: of Robert Crawford on the night {
Oct. II. He was Immediately ser
fenced 10 from one to 20 years in tn
penitentiary.
Complete official figures for th
presidential primaries of April 27, al
nounced by Secretary of State Smitl
show William H. Boyd of Clevelan,
3 Wood candidate, defeated Harry \
> Daugherty, Senator Harding's car
paign manager, by $50 votes for del
. gate-at-large to the Republican n
tional convention. Harding's ofici;
3 plurality over General Wood on tt
}. preferential ballot was 1852. tt
0 Republican preferential vote was q
vided thus: Harding, 123,257; Woo
108, ,565; Johnson, 1878; Hoover, II
. 46T; scattering, 151. The vote on R
Q publican delegates-at-large (four cleo
ed) stood: Herrick CID, 131, 100; W
L lis (H), 121 ,942; Calvin (H), Ill
r 1877; Boyd (W), 107,449; Daugher-
q CHI, 106.490; Turner (W), 1O5.s45
Cincinnati police are seeking a ms
who represented himself as Britt:
- army officer and presented wort
= less check to an automobile agen'
" in payment on an $500 car.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber compa1
plants to inaugurate airship passe
ger service between Akron and D
y troit, using 15-passenger dirigib
y y recently purchased from France.
y Henry J. Windle, II, a civil W
y veteran, was assaulted at his hon
= near Beloit. He was in his garat
:, and was about to start to Beloit VIII
some one entered and hit him TO
times over the head with a hammer
Petitions signed by $500 citize
and 500 teachers ask the Youngstov
le board Of education to reinstate DR..
H. CLANCY, recently ousted as supt
intendent of Youngstown schools.
Super-egg honors are claimed for
le Rhode Island Red hen belonging
N Gus Williams, New Philadelphia m;