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


at Marion was destroyed by fire.
Oscar r. Smith, 80, trainman, was
found dead in his home at Norwalk.
Automobile ferry to be operated
between Put-In-Bay and the mainland
is proposed.
George Sweitzer was killed at
Cleveland while trying to stop a run.
away team of horses.
Gasoline car railway is being
planned at Norwalk to run between
Sandusky and Mansfield.
Three hundred former service men
signed petitions asking for repeal OF
Defance's Sunday blue laws.
At Toledo the stationary engineers
union adopted a resolution declaring
all wage cuts will be resented.
Isaac Losey, 81, farmer near Wash
ington c. H., died of blood poison
due to being gored by a steer.
A. A. Moul resigned as adjutant OF
the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors
home. He had served there two
years.
Frank, Dewey and Sam Mercer
brothers, were seriously injured wher
their auto struck bridge near Wash,
ington G. H.
Members of the First English Lu
theran church, Tifin, contributed SO,
342 toward fund being raised tc
endow Wittenberg college.
Sandusky officials raided 10 places
and assessed fines aggregating $1,5N
against persons arrested, charged
with violating liquor laws.
Six small boys ran away from the
Lorain county children's home al
Elyria and were found at Norwalk
They had walked 21 miles.
Farmers throughout the state re
port to the Ohio bureau Of crop sta
tistics that corn husking Is held ur
because OF labor conditions.
Grand decoration Of chivalry was
conferred on e. G. Peet, Cleveland
artist and portrait painter, at mass
meeting Of Ohio Odd Fellows at
| Cleveland.
Five persons, two of whom are
women, are being held at Akron OF
charges of suspicion in connection
with series of house robberies in
West Akron.
A campaign against reduction O
wages and lengthening Of working
hours was inaugurated by CentraI
Labor union, the labor governing
board of Toledo.
John o. Hartford, salesman o,
Cleveland, was killed and 20 passen
gers were injured near Lisbon whes
an interurban car crashed into Hart
ford's automobile.
John Harris and his wife, of Cleve
land Heights, were injured seriousi,
when their automobile overturned il
Cuyahoga Falls, while they were OF
their way to Akron.
Lorain county commissioners hav,
decided to annex four parcels Of Ian.
to Elyria, increasing the city's are,
by about 200 acres and the population
by approximately 800. .
Governor-elect Davis announced tn,
selection of Floyd e. Waite, directo
of parks and public property in tn
Cleveland municipal administration
as his private secretary.
One hundred coal miners in tn
East Palestine district have begun
vacation as a protest against the &C
. ton of the operators eliminating
bonus from the pay of the diggers.
} Two pay roll bandits held up tn
paymaster of the Newman Cigar CON
pany at Cleveland, robbed him G
$1,000 which he was bringing from
: downtown bank, and escaped in a
automobile.
Louis B. Sisson, 40, assistant mar
7 ager Of brokers' once; Nettie SnJ
: der, 35, daughter Of former polio,
man, and Mrs. Helen Teale, 80, wer
; killed near Toledo when their aut.
mobile struck a bridge abutment.
While Mrs. Kirby Hufford, residin
a few miles west of Lancaster, wa
> working in the kitchen, three maske
men entered her home through
front window and made away wit
$145 in church funds in her posses
sion.
Following the judging Of corn 9
the farm bureau headquarters it wa
announced that Edwin Lohnes, IT, Z
Clark county. is the champion cor
; grower of the state. Lohnes gre
1853 bushels of corn on one acre {
( land this season.
Kaber murder mystery is to be r.
opened by the Cuyahoga county gran
!, Jury at the request of Coronel Zou
! Dan Kaber was found stabbed I
death in his home in Lakewood b
his wife, when she returned from q
I automobile trip, about year and
+ half ago.
+ Mrs. John Altman, 40, Uhrichsvill
after throwing her two smaller chi
dren to safety from the second fiot
e OF their home, which was on fire, r
ceived probably fatal injuries whe
she jumped from window. Bernie
s II. a daughter, caught the childre
/ in her arms.
n Number of farms in Ohio, accor
l. ing to the recent census, is 256,6 ,65
n These farms contain 23,515,SSS acre
S of which 1s.542,353 acres are il
= proved land. The value of land al
y buildings is $22, ,661 ,495 949; of impl
r ments and machinery, $146,575, ,26
and of live stock, $2s7, $685. ,11S.
t. Property owners ask county col
r. missioners to continue present ira
C ton franchise fixing a 10-cent fare b
tween New Philadelphia and Uhrich
n vile.
p Ray Williams, 35, jumped into
+ sewer opening on the river front
Cleveland to escape a powder bla
lc and was swept out into the lake al
a drowned.
a Charles Nicholas and Karl
Welsh, tellers in the Dollar Savin
Is bank at Niles, have been sentenc
IN to the Mansfield reformatory, folio
y. ing their plea of guilty to the char
of misappropriating the banks fund
N w. w. Stokes, former member
ID the legislature and a Democrat
0, leader, died at his home in Daytc
n He served in the fourth constit
tiOnal convention