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

Police Chief Frank Smith of Cleve-
land, was killed when a locomotive
exploded.
Twelve of the 80 saloon owners
taken in raids at Lorain pleaded
guilty in court. Each was fined $3.50
and costs.
Yeggs cracked the safe in Down
ing's drug store at Waverly and es-
capped with government bonds, stamps
and cash.
Women may now become ruling
elders in Presbyterian churches, the
Steubenville presbytery voting them
that right.
Mrs. Katherine Miller, wife of For
mer Sheriff Milton c. Miller, has been
appointed as Wayne county's hrst
woman assessor.
The house passed the Brand senate
bill repeating the state school levy of
1.8 mills and substituting is of mill
for weak districts only.
Bing bill for compulsory attendance
at school until 16 passed both houses
of the assembly. If unemployed, pu-
pills must attend until 1s.
Stockholders iof the Citizens Bank
ing company, Woostery voted to go
into voluntary liquidation. All depos-
itors are being paid in full.
Edward F. Reiger, owner and man
ager of Hotel Reiger, Sandusky, fell
from a third-story window of the
Reiger and was seriously injured
At Cincinnati DR.. Mark E. Bowles
was fined $3.50 on his plea of guilty of
evasion of the Volstead act in the
writing of prescriptions for whisky.
Albert Laskovich; 52, was killed and
Stanley zalewski, 40, probably fatally
wounded at Steubenville as result of
an argument as to which was the bet
ter fighter.
Jess Hydecker, 80, of Brookfeld
township, Trumbull county, shot and
instantly killed himself after shooting
his wife Emma through the jaw. She
will recover.
Prosecuting Attorney Bowers has
asked A. H. Maxwell, chief of police
at Dennison, to resign, threatening to
file charges against him if the request
is not complied with.
Canton and Massillon streetcar en-
ployes rejected the proposal of the
Northern Ohio Traction officials that
the platform men return to the 1919
scale of wages on May 1.
Arthur Ihlenfeld, 20, self-eonfessed
murderer of Mabel Foote and Louise
Wolfe, high school teachers at Parma,
was received at the state insane hos
pital at Lima for treatment
One bandit was shot and five were
captured in gun fight between po-
lice and band of seven men who at
tempted to hold up the plant of the
Interstate Chemical company at Cleve-
land.
P. J. Wood of Columbus has Zen
appointed state director of war saw
ings division, succeeding H. P. Wolfe,
resigned. Don L. Tobin will continue
as director of the publicity depart
ment.
E. G. Hartle of Gallon was arrested
by Sheriff Backus of Elyria on a
grand jury indictment charging that
Hartle obtained $4,000 from the Ober-
lin Banking company by false pre-
tense.
Don McCurry, 26, and Helen Wink
elhauser, 18, bookkeeper, were killed
when their automobile crashed into a
viaduct wall at Columbus. Two others
were injured seriously.
Direct election by the people of
members of Sounty boards of educa-
ton and abolition of district superin-
tendents' job is assured by the pas
sage of the Kumler and Faris identic
bills by the house and senate.
Mayor F. A. Burkhardt of Lima an
nounced the suspension of Chief of
Police o. ]. Roush for 80 days, fol-
by state prohibition operatives and
the arrest of IL persons, charged with
liquor law violations.
Cold storage parsnips are blamed
for the illness of 700 prisoners in the
Ohio penitentiary. All were taken i'll
short time after dinner. Fifty,
whose cases we're serious, were taken
to the prison hospital for treatment
All are expected to recover.
A bill passed by the senate will
give $1,250,00O a.year to Ohio State,
Ohio and Miami universities for two
years. and "a similar sum to institu-
tions under the control of the state
board of administration, making a to-
tai of s., 1000, 900 in two years for all
purposes.
Louis Delcaspara, "A, Cleveland,
was killed in fight with another for
eigner.
Charles M. Little was awarded a
verdict of 10 cents in a damage suit
for $3,500 against the Cleveland Rail-
way company, following dispute
with conductor over fare. He al
legged he was thrown off the car
Strength of the Ohio national guard
stands at 1874 officers and enlisted
men, according to Colonel C. R. Will
son, who has charge of the recruiting.
New units are being inspected, given
federal recognition and mustered in
every week.
Mrs. Rosa Carbone, Italian, was
found guilty by jury at Lima on a
charge of sending black-hand letters
to Kliment Naum Belgian grocer, de-
manding money.
Verne ]. Wicket, 35, Mansfield, en-
ployed at Springfield as paper hang
er, shot and killed himself after
shooting Miss Vida Keller, 3S, infiict-
ing two serious wounds.
Becoming frightened when the skiff
in which he was playing with some
| comrades was showed from the shore,
Wilbert Miller, Z, East Liverpool,
jumped overheard and was drowned
in the Ohio.
Ten barges carrying $4,000 bushels
of coal sank in the Ohio river when
the tow rammed the shore near Ports
mouth. The cargo will be salvaged-
Bandits knocked unconscious a
woman bookkeeper, carrying the
Clark Restaurant company's weekly
pay roll from bank to their offices,
in Cleveland, and escaped with $500.