Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-04-07

Patrons Oh the Eaton l6lepnOne
company will fight the announced
rate increase.
Frank Howe, 55, Chinaman, hanged
himself with bed sheet at the city
hospital, Cleveland
AS a result of a price-cutting war
at Cleveland, bread prices were re-
duced cents a loaf.
John Flanagan, 50, said to have
been the oldest Elk in the United
States, died at Defiance.
George A. Fisher, Republican, serv-
ing his second term as mayor OF
Wooster, will seek third term.
Charles Callentine, ~, yard brake
man, fell under a train in the Newark
yards and was instantly killed
Income tax collections in the First
Ohio district were $1,000,000 short Of
last year, Collector McGrath reports.
Mrs. Joseph S. Dickerson was ap-
pointed justice of the peace at Paines-
vile to succeed B. E. Galloway, re-
signed.
Flour dropped so cents a barrel on
the Toledo market The present re-
tail quotation is S10.50 to $11.25 a
barrel.
Twenty autos we're damaged when
the upper floor of Elwood EImendin-
gers garage at Marion caved in. Loss
$4,000.
Samuel Dorm, "a, Bridgeport, walked
into the Ohio river and fired bullet
into his brain while respondent over
the loss of an arm.
A lone bandit assaulted and robbed
the proprietor of the Coleman grocery
store at Struthers, near Youngstown,
of $4,000 and escaped.
Bust of another noted Ohioan, Gen.
eral George A. Garretson of Cleve-
land, has been placed in the McKin-
ley memorial at Niles.
Proprietors of three Mahoning coun-
ty road houses are held for action by
the federal grand jury on charges of
violating the Volstead act.
Houses were unroofed and trees
and poles leveled by an electrical
storm, accompanied by high winds,
which swept over Cincinnati.
Charles Radina, 5S, former lumber
dealer, was killed at Cincinnati when
he was hit by train and hurled into
the swollen waters CT Mill creek.
Body Of Harry Horn, At, Stow Cor
ner, Summit county, missing for nine
days, was found in the Cuyahoga
river. Suicide, the coroner says.
Police are searching for six auto
mobile bandits who robbed the Co.
lumbia Specially company, Cleveland,
of drums of alcohol valued at $4,000.
Norwalk-Shelby traction line has
ceased operations. Nearly 100 power
patrons at North Fairfield and other
| towns are deprived of electric power.
Cobwebs on his hat led to the ar
| rest of John Raynor, 80, at Cincinnati,
on the charge of annoying a 5year-old
girl, who said man enticed her into
cellar.
Frank w. Burgett, %, Norwalk, was
found guilty of attempting to abduct
| Miss Mabel Heiner, 20, and sentenced
to serve six months in the Toledo
workhouse.
Lowest mortality rate in Cincinnati
was reached in January and Febru-
ary, when 1,008 deaths were recorded
This is 432 less than first two months
of last year.
| Twelve prisoners who escaped from
the county jail at Sidney after the
wife of Sheriff F. E. Clark had been
beaten into inconsistencies were
captured by the sheriff and a posse.
Miss Mary Roudebush, 20, Harri-
| son school teacher, was awarded a
verdict for 81 500 by jury at Cincin-
natl against Orville Bidinger, farmer,
as damages for alleged slander. She
sued for $25,O00.
At Toledo Common Pleas Judge
Brough ruled that cafe keepers who
sell liquor which has fermented after
being purchased from wholesale dis
! tributors are not liable to prosecution
under the prohibition laws.
Mrs. Kathryn c. Gallagher, 81, Sc
cret service worker, shot and serious
ly wounded her husband, Thomas Gal
lagher, 40, city patrolman, at their
home in Columbus, following her dis
Englewood, Brookville, Ginghams-
vile, Tippecanoe City and several
other small settlements and the coun-
try between them were hit by heavy
wind and rainstorm, and property
damage estimated at 100000 was
done.
Federal, state and county officials
swooped down on the village of Viii
lard, Huron county, arrested IA per-
sons on various charges and recov-
cred merchandise stolen from cars.
Among the prisoners was one man
charged with the theft of a mail
pouch containing $4,000 in liberty
bonds.
Secretary of Agriculture Shaw an
nounced that fruit crops in the south
ern half of Ohio were damaged by the
recent freezing temperatures which
prevailed over the entire state Slight
damge was predicted for northern
Ohio, where buds were less advanced.
Peaches, pears, plums and cherries
wer the worst damaged in the south
ern and central sections.
Martins Ferry sheet mills of the
| Wheeling Steel corporation will re,
sumo operations next week.
Judge Johnson overruled a motion
for new trial made by Royce Rich
ardson, negro, who was sentenced to
be electrocuted June 10 for the muir
der of Louis E. Schroeder, a railroad
detective, at Toledo.
Mrs. Loney Ellen Miller, 81, was
found hanging from a rafter in the
attic of her home near New Mata-
moras, Washington county. Despond,
ency over the recent death of her
brother is said to have prompted the
act.
Governor Davis issued a statement
charging that sinister influence of
political and other special interests,
with ulterior motives" are back of
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