Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-05-05


Findlay's population is 1889, ac-
cording to the new city directory.
Martins Ferry high school may
have an outdoor commencement.
Charles T. Arnold, 43, farmer, near
Circleville, was killed by lightning.
D. E. McKown, %, Crestline garage
owner, died as result of injuries re-
ceived in an auto accident.
Operation on a 100 per cent basis of
! all it's 13 sheet mills was announced
by the Canton Sheet Steel company of
Canton.
George Frederick Wright, SO, noted
h geologist, author and educator, died
| at his home in Oberlin after months
illness.
Colonel A. B. Colt, for many years
commander of the Fourteenth regi-
ment, Ohio national guard, died at
San Diego, Cal.
UhrichsvilIe will vote May IA on a
bond issue of $295,000 for purchasing
the site and erecting a new high
school building.
Two Akron men have been identi-
fed as members of a bandit gang
which staged daylight bank robbery
in Lorain last month.
L. B. Demorest will retire as super
intendent of the Marysville schools at
the end of the present term after Al
years of continuous service.
Three witnesses for the defense at
the recent trial of John AzZarello for
first degree murder are under arrest
at Cleveland, charged with perjury.
George A. Conoway was indicted,
pleaded guilty and sentenced at Cadiz
to the penitentiary, all in one day.
He was indicted on felony charge.
Bessie Howard, "a, was taken to a
hospital in Cleveland, probably fatal
ly cut about the chest and neck as
the result of an argument with an
other woman.
Ashtabula merchants were swindled
out of approximately $1,000 by a
strange woman, who cashed about
Bank of Geneva.
Frank Seward, wanted at Toledo in
connection with holding up of a New
York Central railroad paymaster and
the killing of two detectives, is under
arrest in Omaha, Neb.
Body of woman found in the Ohio
river at Cincinnati by workmen en-
ployed on coal digger was identified
as that of Mrs. Amelia Weber, 49, who
disappeared Feb. IS.
Rev. George Thomson, assistant
pastor of the Ninth Street Baptist
church, Cincinnati, became suddenly
i'll at the Billy Sunday meeting and
died within few hours.
Wenner house bill to place occupa-
tional diseases within the scope of
the state workmen's compensation
| law was passed by the senate. 1t
/ now goes to the governor.
Plans for pooling wool shipments
this year are expected to be formu-
lated at the annual meeting of the
Crawford County Wool Growers as.
sociation at Bucyrus April 30.
Governor Davis in a statement
urged legislation for minimum wage
commission. He said he believed es.
tablishment of minimum wages for
women and minors IAN urgent neces.
sity.'
Information furnished by two Uh.
| richsville girls led to the arrest al
| Portsmouth of Thomas Powell, Is
who admitted that he stole Former
Sheriff James L. Doney's car twice in
| a week.
James Quigley justice of the peace
indicted on 20 counts charging graft
and extortion from liquor law viola
tors in East Youngstown, pleaded
guilty to one count and was sentenced
to prison.
A special grand jury has been
| called to investigate charges of extor.
| ton growing out of the investigation
of liquor selling in Lorain by State
Prohibition Commissioner Don v
| Parker.
Ohio's crop of Irish potatoes is
worth almost twice as much as all
.other vegetables combined, figures by
the census bureau show, The states
1919 potato crop amounted to 1854,
$50 bushels and was valued at SIT,
657,S11.
Mrs. Eta Roberts, 81; her grand
daughter, Royaletta, 2, and Mrs
Charles Woodruff, all of Detroit, were
drowned when the auto in which they
were riding upset in a ditch. The
accident occurred on the Dixie high
way, in Wood county.
Roy L. Knight, sought by Youngs
town police, who say he had been liv
ing in the woods with a young girl
was shot and killed by a policeman
in Beaver Falls. Knight, riding with
another man in motorcycle, is sait
to have run down the policeman, who
then killed the fugitive.
Governor Davis issued a statement
charging that "the hands of some Of
the public service corporations Of
Ohio, seeking control of the state gov
ernment, is plainly to be seen" in the
proposed suit to test the validity o.
the emergency clause of the reorgan
ization act
Will Carr Dawson was convicted BY
jury of second degree murder fol
the killing of his wife at their home
in Cincinnati Feb. II last. The yer
dict carries life sentence.
Peter F. Swing, former judge Of the
circuit court, died at Cincinnati. He
was stricken with paralysis two
weeks ago. Judge Swing was born il
Clermont county March Is, 1S45.
Rev. Louis H. Axe, pastor of st
Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church
of Alliance, has filed petition fol
divorce from Margaret Axe. He al
leges friendly relations between hi.
wife and Warren man.
Climbing fire escape of the Hippo
drome theater, Youngstown, burglars
descended through the building to al
arcade of stores and secured loot val