The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-01-23

Dougam, As, stood in front Of q mir
ror in the dining room Of his home
and cut his throat with a razor. To
keep the blood off the carpet, Dougam
held his hand over the cash and stag
gered into the bath room, where he
leaned over the washstand and slowly
bled to death.
Columbus.-Thompso B. Helea Of
New Philadelphia has sent Gov. Cox
his resignation as common pleas
Judge.
Wooster. - Pecked on the hand
by a hen when he tried to take
eggs from her nest, blood poison
developed and resulted in the death
of John Martin, Orrville farmer.
Steubenville. Daniel McDevitt,
fifty, a huckster, was held up on
a lonely country road by masked
man and was struck over the
head with a blackjack. The robber
got nine cents, all McDevitt had. NC
Devitt's skull is fractured.
Zanesville.-Rachel Bell, 101, the
oldest resident of Muskingum county,
is dead at. her home in Adamsville.
Ada. = A few minutes after an
examining physician had assured
him he was free from heart weak
ness, Anthony Allerding, seventy-two,
farmer, walked from the doctors Of
fee to a nearby store and fell dead.
Chardon. Mrs. Mary Louise
Sherille, who was a friend of Pres
ident Johnson and a frequent guest
at the executive mansion during
his administration, died at the home
of Mrs. Mary Miller, aged Sc. She
was a native of Northampton, Mass.
Chardon. - George A. Brecken-
ridge, civil war veteran and Get
tysburg hero, has just been buried
in the North Chardon cemetery in the
shirt he wore at his wedding, As years
ago, which he had carefully preserved
for that purpose.
Columbus. - William J. Hiler OF
GAINESVILLE, who has been book
keeper in the state treasury, has
been promoted to the berth Of cashier
which increases his salary from 81,
800 to $3,400 year.
Midd1etown. - William Long, ageC
3S, is alleged to have shot his wife
Anna, aged 35, and then made vair
attempt to commit suicide following {
family quarrel. Mrs. Long lived onl!
a few hours. Long is being sough
by the police.
Columbus. - T. c. Jenkins o
Columbus has been appointed as
sistant superintendent of the Mans
field reformatory to succeed Capt. r
U. Hastings, who resigned to becom
superintendent of the Boys Industria
school at Lancaster.
Bellefontaine.-Wh driving in
buggy across the Big Four railroa
tracks at Rushsylvania, Shepher
Paynter a farmer, was struck by
passenger train and received fatal ir
juries. His horse was killed and bug
gy demolished.
Columbus. - The supreme cour
gave James B. Robertson, YoungE
} town, a verdict of $4,000 agains
the Youngstown Sheet C Tubs Cc
| for the loss of leg in an acc
dent eight years ago.
Columbus. - In his monthly r.
, port, Secretary A. P. Sandles {
the state board of agriculture al
nounced the condition of CROWN
wheat to be 80 per cent and the col
dition OF corn in crib 100 per cen
According to the report, II per Gel
: of last years corn crop remains III
) husked, and the condition Of such cor
: is SO per cent. The report also state
J that II per cent Of la5s yOar's col
3 crop will be fed upon the farm.
, Youngstown. AT the 6i.month
! wage conference between the re
4 resentatives of the Amalgamatt
i Association of Iron, Steel and T
g Workers and the Republic Iron
+ Steel Co. held here the rate for pu
l. ding for January and February WI
s advanced from $6.15 to $6,45 on
+ lao card rate. This is the highe
k wages paid puddlers for five year
l. Fifteen thousand mill workers are {
fected by the increase.
Columbus. The supreme cou
refused Mrs. Lemuel A. Frederic
Salem, damages for the death
her husband in a Buck Coal {
j. mine three years ago, because t
" trial judge erred in his charge to t
% fury. Frederick was killed by t
drop of cage.
= Bellefontaine. - When small DO
:, at play discovered the body
- Frank Fisher, 20, lying face dow
. . ward in a field near West Liberty,
dog guarding the body Of its dead m;
ter would not permit the boys to COZ
y near. Coroner Makemson found th
:" death had resulted from epilepsy.
st. ClairsviIle Natural Gas
of West Virginia drilled in S60-barl
IN oil well in the New Armstrong
is field. 1t is the largest producer
e. the field.
d, Cleveland. The cheeky you
n gunman who robbed the Erie til
IL ct Office in the Williamson bui
I'd ing in broad daylight less than we
70. ago, duplicating a similar robbery
g. New York, and held up the Buffs
1e Rochester & Pittsburg Office at PIT
b. burg, added fourth to his string
~ adventures, when he held up two m
q in the Lehigh Valley office at Phi
delphia, and stripped the safe of 81