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Show Turnips Were r'ree. Toledo, O Kroo turnips were on Ihe menu of many Washington birthday birth-day dinner In Toledo. A carload of the vegetable was distributed by J. C. Uonner, who was dissatisfied wlih the ! price offered for his shipment by I wholesalers. Colonel Hiiuuer advertised adver-tised his Intention also aa a sort of protest against high prlcea for the same vegetable charged by retailers. )robahly 600 persons surrounded the cur. wllh baskets, boxes, tin pane, bags and receptacles of all kinds, and the ten tons of turnips disappeared It) seventy minutes. |