Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-04-16
Fire damaged the steamer Arrow In

Car scarcity is cutting the Hooking
valley coal output.
Akron firemen responded to 141
alarms during March.
D. D. Park, police sergeant, died at
Martins Ferry Of hiccoughs.
Sol Markin, 26, cattle dealer, was
killed at Canton by an automobile.
John Scanlon,' 16, was crushed to
death between railroad cars at Shaw
nee.
Dayton, Covington and Piqua car
men were given 8 cents an hour in
crease.
Richard Hinard, 2, fell into a stone
quarry pool at Findlay and was
drowned.
Western Reserve university will
give faculty members a 40 per cent
salary increase.
Albert Lehner, 43, a farmer living
west Of Canton. ended his life by
drinking poison.
Tiffin school teachers voted to aban-
don the pension system in favor Of
state retirement system.
Congregation of the First Reformed
church at Warren extended a call to
Rev. Harlan ]. Miller, Dayton.
Clement L. v. Holtz, cashier and
treasurer of the Licking County Bank
and Trust company, Newark, is dead.
Thieves stole clothing valued at
several hundred dollars from the
cloakrooms of two Norwalk churches.
A 2,000,000-foot gas we'll has been
brought in by the Shawnee Oil and
Gas Producing company, near Mari
eta.
William Edward Nix, 3S, brakeman,
was instantly killed when he fell be-
tween cut of cars in the Columbus
yards.
Fruit growers in central Ohio re-
port that fruit buds have not been
damaged seriously by the recent cold
weather.
Motion picture theater managers
we're called before the Findlay mayor
to answer charge of operating the
aters on Sunday.
J. E. and E. ]. Phillips, grocers,
we're bound over to the federal grand
jury on a charge of profteering in
eggs at Cleveland.
Roy E. Fisher, postmaster at Ritt-
man, Wayne county, was sentenced to
Is months in the penitentiary. Mail
theft was the charge.
In a drug raid at Toledo, in which
morphine and opium worth 100000
were seized, city detectives arrested
woman and four men.
Disposition of Warren's war chest
fund will be decided by the Trumbull
county common pleas court. There
still remains $11S,O00 in the fund.
The Cincinnati automobile speed
way will be sold at public auction in
the sheriff's office on May l. The
sale was ordered by the common pleas
court.
Moses Miller, As, of Dalton, and his
brother Jacob, so, of Rittman, farm
ers, were killed when their automo
bile was struck by train at Ander
son, Ross county.
Toledo is face to face with seri
Gus shortage of, foodstuffs because oi
the strike of switchmen, resulting in
the tying up of all but one of the q
railroads entering the city.
Will of Mary Heilman, Norwalk
provides for $4,000 gift to the Lu
theran cA lrch at Willard and make!
large endowment to maintain the
Lutheran cemetery at Richmond.
Ohio State university trustees adopt
ed a budget for the next school yea
which calls for $1,500,O0O, said to b.
the largest amount ever estimated
necessary to maintain the school
Lancaster has a population of IA.
706, an increase of 1913 over 1910
the census bureau announced. Woos
ter has 8,204, an increase of 2,068, ant
Wellsville $3.50, an increase of ,13O
At Toledo, Federal Judge John M
Killits ordered resumption of street
car service, suspended by strike o
car men for a wage increase. H,
fixed the rate of fare at cents and
cents for transfers and the wage seal
at 54, Sc and so cents.
Governor Cox took up with the fed
eral government the question of Sc
curing from federal warehouses build
ing material formerly intended TO
tantonment construction purposes, t
meet the need in the tornado-strickel
sections of northwestern Ohio.
Seven builders and realty men wer
summoned to appear before the gran
jury investigating building costs a
Cleveland. A total Of 100 persons er
gagged in construction of homes an
buildings, handling building supple
and the real estate business, wer
questioned.
Five new water filtration plant
will be constructed in Ohio soor
Contracts soon will be awarded fo
plants at Defiance and Wauseon. De
aware, Greenfield, Eaton and Fremon
have decided to build. Plants a
Shelby and Wadsworth are finishe
and Ashland's is, nearing completion
Eight Columbus persons were il
jured, one probably fatally, when
ing to dance left the road, abou
one and one-half miles from Newarl
! and jumped four-foot embankmen
J pinning them underneath. Mrs. Ere
; Hardy received internal injuries an
may die.
Tiffin circle of the Child Conserv;
} tion League of America has been O
I ganized with 73 members.
/ Mary A. Sawyer, for % years dea
of women at Western college, Oxfort
has been retired on a pension.
John Henty was shot through til
| leg and Walter Glen slugged over tn
/ head while doing picket duty follow
: ing the van drivers strike at Clev
| land.
t Harry H. Hewett of New Carlisl
= and Miss Mary Irene Atkinson of FIR
mont have been appointed heads
| the children's department of the stat
board of charities.
: Harry Black and Ward Logan, 70
!, mer Akron patrolmen, were sentence