Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-17

Leroy Dove died at Warren from
gunshot wounds received while hunt
ing.
Frank L. Brown, II, former mayor
of Youngstown, died after a long i'll
ness.
Tiiffin Eagles home was destroyed
by fire, originating in an overheated
furnace.
Toledo school board sold $4,O0O,O0O
worth of bonds to syndicate headed
by Stacy & Braun, Toledo.
Youngstown and Suburban railway
reduced wages Of common laborers
from As to 40 cents an hour.
Ffndlay council increased salaries
of street commissioner, service di-
rector and other city officials.
Ashtabula Moose plans to erect
$50, 900 home with combined roof gar
dent and theater seating 1000.
Mrs. Ellen Gullum, 25, Marietta,
was fatally burned when her dress
caught fire from an open CRATE.
Ohio house adopted the Hopley SEN
ate resolution providing for an inves-
tigation of the state highway depart
ment
Billy Sunday revival meetings to be
held at Cincinnati have been insured
against failure with an insurance
company.
Youngstown steel car plant at Niles
is operating at about SO per cent of
capacity, according to L. o. .Wlkoff,
president.
Reduction of 10 per cent in the
value of real property in Clark coun-
ty has been ordered by the county
commissioners.
Robert Smith filed suit at CIeve-
land for $4,000 against John D. To-
ker, whose dog, he claims, attacked
and injured him.
]. H. Crawford, Findlay police chief,
returned to duty after having been
suspended several days on a charge
of neglect of duty.
After providing food enough to last
his horse several days, John Wank,
81, Canton, shot and killed himself
while respondent.
Lawrence A. Pugh, Kenton police
chief, was suspended for 10 days by
Fred Baertsche, safety director, who
| charges malfeasance in Office.
Youngstown chamber of commerce
asked council to investigate high
rents after complaints were made
that landlords are hiking rents.
Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran
church, Cuyahoga Falls, was dedicat-
ed by Rev. William ]. Single. The
| total cost of the structure was SAC, 600.
| Charred body of Arthur Cornell, %,
grocer, was found by fremen in the
ruins of his store at Akron. CornelPs
wife identified his body by a signet
ring.
| Carl MiHigan, Is, negro, admitted
to police that he shot and killed John
Koperski at Toledo several weeks
ago over the possession of skunk
pelt.
| Cambridge board of trade plans to
ask the state highway department to
straighten the IS" bridge on the Ma
tional pike at BridgeVille for protec-
tion of motorists.
Canton officials are planning an in
vestigation of conditions in the po-
| lice department as result of the ar
rest of former police officer on a
charge of receiving whisky.
Michael Mullen, who represented
his ward il city council for 32 years,
died at Cincinnati of pneumonia. He
was 64 years old. He was a well
known Republican politician.
Resources of the 767 Ohio banks
subject to state supervision were ST..
51S,679, ,461 at the close of 1920. This
is an increase of 1921 900, 900 over
the resources at the close of 1919.
| Alleged ridden assets Of approx
.mately SIS 900 were turned over to
their creditors at Findlay by Ernest
Baker and Arthur Kohler, Kenton
members of a bankrupt shoe firm.
Eugene Turner, 80, of Cleveland
admitted at Akron that he sold two
jarrels of rainwater instead oi
whisky to Pete Sandrane for $2,999
Turner was sentenced to from one to
three years in the penitentiary.
Edwin Jones, So, former chairman
of the Republican state executive
committee and candidate for the Re
publican nomination for governor oi
Ohio in 1918, died at Columbus after
lingering illness, due to cancer
His home was at Jackson
Unemployed in Ohio cities seem de
termined not to go to work on farms
N. E. Shaw, secretary of the depart
ment of agriculture, said Farmers
Offering to hire men at wages below
those paid last year are receivins
little or no response, according tt
Shaw.
Darius J. Burnham of Mechanics
burg was named receiver for thu
Wing Seed company of Mechanics
burg, upon application of Charles B
Wing, president and general manager
of the concern. The liabilities of the
company are placed at 100000 b.
Mr.. Wing.
Federal agents swooped down OF
Middletown saloons and gathered il
six saloonists and four bartenders OF
the charge of Illicit sale and posses
sion of intoxicating liquor.
L. V. Williams, secretary of tn,
Peoples Building and Loan compan!
at Ripley, was sentenced to the peni
tentiary after pleading guilty to film.
false REPORT with state officials.
An increase in the number of casel
of sleeping sickness in Cleveland
within two weeks from 10 to IS, will
nine deaths from the disease in Jan
uary, was reported by DR.. H. L. Rock
wood, city health commissioner.
Refusing to accept a wage increas,
Of $5 a week after demanding SO, 3Ot
members of the Van Drivers union
Cleveland, went on strike.
John McSwain was acquitted a