Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-04-14

Soft drink dealer has rented the
abandoned city jail at Norwalk.
Women sign painters made their
appearance for the first time in Gin
cinnati.
Shoe store owned by Elmer L.
Volkman at Tif1n was burned. Loss
$4,000.
Following a cut in wages, Newark
plumbers, timers and electricians
went 81 strike.
Oberlin will hold a special election
on $250,O0O bond issue for a high
school building.
Mill operations resumed on a so per
cent basis at the Canton Sheet Steel
company, Canton.
George Pusper was relieved Of ST.
800 at Akron in a confidence game
worked by two strangers.
! Portsmouth retail merchants favor
modification of the Sunday closing Or
ders of the city government.
Leaving note saying no one cared
for him any more, Alton Phinney, So,
hanged himself at Willoughby.
Girard voters rejected the home
rule charter proposition at special
election by margin of II votes.
John Thorn, %, Fostoria, is held to
the grand jury on charge Of aiding
four prisoners to escape from Jail at
Tiff1n.
April 19 has been fixed as the date
for trials of five men held in connec-
tion with $1,000, 900 postoffice robbery
at Toledo.
Corbett Dean and H. B. Hood es-
capped from the county jail at Spring
field by drilling a hole through a
brick wall.
Fire, supposedly started by tramps,
destroyed the plant of the Portsmouth
Chemical company, Portsmouth, caus-
ing a $4,000 loss.
Newton M. Miller was appointed
collector of internal revenue for the
Eleventh district of Ohio, succeeding
Beriah E. Williamson.
Four prisoners, including a boot
logger, two alleged car robbers and
/ wife beater, sawed their way out Of
the county jail at Tiffin.
The s95, 900 bond issue to build
three consolidated schools in Mill
township Tuscarawas county, was de-
/ feated at special election.
A saw mill at Beech Fork, Adams
county, belonging to the B. Klinker
company, Cincinnati, chair manufac-
turers, was destroyed by fire.
With an outbreak of smallpox in
the London public schools all chill
dren, teachers and school employees
have been ordered vaccinated.
Under an ordinance passed by Ak
ron city council a special election
will be held on June 1 to consider
amendments to the city charter.
Fire Chief T. J. Geough of Conneaut
was suspended for 30 days on charges
preferred by Mayor NJ R. Smith for
violating the fire department code.
Interurban service on the Canton
Akron-Cleveland lines was curtaiIeA
by the Northern Ohio Traction COM
pany because passenger business fell
off.
Governor Davis named w. R.
Sprague, former state representative
of Scioto county, municipal judge of
Portsmouth, succeeding Horace Small,
resigned.
C. P. Smith, who had confessed to
Akron police that he killed Pete Shur
Oct. last, accuses his father, Charles
w. Smith, of having killed Shur with
a hatchet.
Miss Nettie J. Lent, 40, and Harry
Lavine, 80, both of Cincinnati, were
killed when a train struck their auto
mobile at crossing one mile north
of Glenwood.
Blame for the racial riots in Spring
field three weeks ago, in which Pa.
trolman Joseph Ryan was shot and
wounded, was placed on the police de-
partment in the report of the grand
jury.
Judge Charles J. Lynch of Bellaire
resigned as judge of the Belmont
county common pleas court to resume
the practice of law. Governor Davis
will name Warren w. Cowen, Repub
lican.
Herman Hoerstmann, farmer near
Van Vert, was fined $1,000 and costs
: for manufacturing whisky, and Daniel
Miller, proprietor of a hotel at Clio
verdale, $500 and costs for selling the
/ liquor.
!, Six persons we're injured in an ex
plosion of gas which destroyed dou.
, BILE house, occupied by negroes, at
, Youngstown. The injured are Rev
C. j. Langford, his wife and three
children, and Mrs Rosie O'NeiIl.
Mccoy bill prohibiting the prescrip
tion of alcohol except in it's pure
form, thus barring any liquors con
tanning an alcoholic content greater
+ than one-half Of 1 per cent, was passed
by the senate. 1t now goes to the
J house.
! More food was in storage in Ohio
cold storage warehouses in March
t than was stored in February, but
there is less than there was this time
last year, the monthly report of the
) state bureau of markets shows Com
modities showing the greatest in
r crease are dry salt pork, picked porl
and lard.
Loss of $4,000 was suffered by
< four firms when fire swept a five
story factory building at Cincinnati.
Z Coal company having a s525 con
t tract to supply Martins Ferry with
coal reduced the price to $3.50 a ton
f While lighting a pipe in bed Mrs
' Catherine Collins, 20, Youngstown
: set fire to the bed clothing and was
i burned to death before help coult
reach her.
8 Mrs. Elizabeth Tracey, 81, Zanes
: vile, is expected to die from burns
4 received when her clothing igniteC
e while she was trying to kindle fire
with coal oil.
= George Martin Mathews, senior
bishop of the United Brethren church
with headquarters at Dayton, is dead
/ At Cincinnati Judge Stanley Roet
finger contended that the man who
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