Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-04-16
STATE SIFTINGS

20, 20, 0V ana OcI. L.
Firemen and policemen at Findlay
were given $40 monthly increase.
Conneaut Telephone company plans
to erect a 100000 freproof building.
Twenty-Five per cent salary increase
has been granted Elyria school teach
ers.
One million dollars damage was
done to fruit around Cincinnati by the
freeze.
DR.. c. ]. Brane. Il, associate editor
of the Religious Telescope, died at
Dayton.
Wittenberg college is to launch a
campaign for $1,50O,OOO for expansion
purposes.
An addition to the Tiffin knights of
Columbus clubhouse will be erected
at a cost of $4,000.
James Arianna, 32, Italian, was shot
to death at Canton. Black Hand is
blamed by the police.
Paul Axup, s, ward of the Ohio Ma
sonic home, Springfield, was killed by
a train while at play.
Mrs. Charles Letter was elected
president of the newly organized
civic league at Leipsic.
Charles Houchens died while dig
ging a grave for his lifelong friend at
Lakeview, near Bellefontaine.
Rev. Thomas Grenfelt of Crestline
was elected president of the Crawford
County Ministerial association.
Five hundred ministerial lay dele
gates attended the Portage county in
terchurch conference at Ravenna.
Former Governor Frank B. Willis
will deliver the commencement ad-
dress at Newton Falls high school.
An escaped carnival show snake
killed sheep and frightened Chestnut
Ridge school children, near Lancas-
ter.
Mrs. Sarah Ullmer was awarded
500 in her $4,000 breach of promise
suit against Henry J. Lower at Ma.
rion.
Henry Rankin, so, Springfield, la
borer, was shot three times and in
.stantly killed, presumably by, high
waymen.
!. B. West. 60. en- route to Woos-
ter hospital, died after the auto con-
veying him was struck by a train at
Orrville.
A loss estimated at $4,000 was
caused by fire which destroyed the
j. A. Goldbach furniture store at
Cleveland.
Civic league approved the recon-
mendation of committee for voting
down of Cleveland's $15,000,000 sub
way bond issue.
Body of Ruth E. Abramson of
Painesville, who jumped into Lake
Erie at Cleveland, was washed ashore
at Willoughby beach.
Membership record of the Newark
chamber of commerce was broken by
the campaign workers when they
passed the 800 mark.
Richard Meehan, 25, Springfield,
was killed when an automobile in
which he was returning from Colum.
bus overturned at Lafayette.
George Whysell of Delaware, re.
ceiver of the Springfield, Troy and
Piqua Traction company, announced
at Springfield that the line would be
sold.
Refused permission to go to the
movies alone, Robert Beach, Jr., IL
Elyria, attempted to hang himself in
the cellar of his home and died of q
broken neck.
The Ohio supreme court upheld the
conviction of DR.. Luther M. Nesmith
chiropractic physician of Wood coun
4 ty, who was fined s10O and costs fol
practicing without a license.
Farmers near canning factories II
Ohio have organized and in many
cases have asked much more for rails
ing vegetables which would be han
died in the plants. They fear tht
increased cost of farm labor.
Afetr celebrating Is hours the jur,
in the case of Charles Rehfeld, Huron
county farmland, charged with slay
ing DR.. H. B. Benson, Norwalk den
tist. returned a verdict of guilty O
first degree murder, without recon
mendation for mercy.
Governor Cox appointed Vernon M
Riegel, Marion, state superintendent
Of public instruction, to succeed F. B
Pearson. whose term expired Feb. is
The salary is $4,000 and the term fou
years. Riegel for three years has beer
assistant superintendent.
Governor Cox has offered the majo
generalship of the Ohio nationa
guard to Stanford B. Stanberry o
Cincinnati. Colonels George H. Wood
Dayton. and Benson W. Hough, Della
ware, both former adjutants general
and Harold M. Bush, Columbus. wer
appointed and have accepted briga
dier generelships.
Bruce r. Campbell, secretary-treas
urer of the Struthers Savings an
Banking company. recently closed b
State Superintendent of Banks Por
titus. was arrested at Struthers o.
three felony charges. Mr.. Pontiu:
report said that 1925, 900 of the bank
funds are missing and that $500, 90
worth of securities on which loan
we're made may prove worthless.
Union motormen and conductor
presented a new wage demand for 9
cents an hour and a minimum G
eight hours pay per day to Presiden
John ]. Stanley of the Cleveland Raj
way company.
That the Elk Coal company. Colun
bus, fraudulently and secretly mine
and removed $4,000 tons of coal fror
property in Muskingum county b,
longing to the Eastern Hooking Goa
company, is alleged in a suit fled a
Columbus by H. M. Runkle, secretar
and treasurer of the Eastern con
pany. Judgment of $1,369,O0O allege
damages is sought.
J. Four auto bandits, after Iooting tn
!. Lauber clothing store at Archbolt
It west Of Toledo, kidnapped the villag
|. watchman. E. E. Nofgizer, and ca
k ried him to Toledo, where they thre-
: him into an alley. The loot is value
7 at $4,000.