The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-04-17
Buckeye Notes

| ana groceries.
Cincinnati. = Mrs. Elizabeth Cox,
mother of George B. Cox, former
political leader and financier OF this
city. died suddenly here. Mrs. Cox
was IS.
Steubenville. - Thirteen thousand
volts of electricity passed through
the body OF Thomas Noah, 40, Of To-
ronto, o., and he is alive.
Sandusky.-August Schmidt, ir., So,
business man, died at his home here
after an illness of several years.
Mr.. Schmidt, who started out in
life a poor boy at New Baltimore,
Mich, was at the time Of his death
president of the Third National Ex-
change bank, the A. Schmidt, Jr., &
Bros. and the DuRoy G Haines Wine
Cos, the Sandusky & Islands Steam.
boat Co., operating the steamer Ar
row, and the B. p. Sexton Co.. whole.
sale wine and liquor concern.
East Liverpool. - The strike Of
retail clerks came to an end.
Merchants won in that they will not
be asked to employ union help exclu-
sively, but all other differences will
be settled by arbitration.
Chardon. - Andrew Carnegie has
offered donation OF $500 to
Burton for a public library. The
amount is conditioned on the ap-
preparation by the town Of sum for
maintenance.
Columbus. - State treasury funds,
ostentatiously displayed, were used
in 1905 to stop run on the
Columbus Savings & Trust Co.,
according to testimony given in the
state investigation of the defunct
bank. Zachariah R. Jackson, for many
years messenger of the state treasury,
told of carrying $4,000 from the
state house to the bank, where it was
showed through the cashiers cage
while a long line of people stood wait
ing to withdraw their deposits.
Findlay. - To recover $12,955.S9
alleged to be due him as a bal
ance of payment for $350,O00 worth
Of oil lands sold by him to Fred
Edwards of Cleveland, w. V. Coons,
also of Cleveland, filed suit in CON-
mon pleas court here. The King
Crowther corporation of Boston and
the Citizens Savings & Trust Co. Of
Cleveland are named as codefendants.
Gallipolis. Judge Charles W.
White. prosecuting attorney of Gallia
county, Civil war veteran, died sud
denly. He was "A years of age.
Zanesville.-The government could
not give GAINESVILLE pontoon bridge
to string across the muskingum river
to Putnam, so the county commission
ers ordered cables from Cleveland and
will build one themselves.
st. Marys. - Thomas J. Scott,
seventy, one of st. Marys' wealthiest
citizens, died after a brief illness. His
widow survives.
Elyria. - Fire, supposedly caused
by spontaneous combustion, destroyed
the Lake Shore R. r. loading and coal
docks in East Elyria. The docks were
valued at $4,000 and are a total loss,
together with 600 tons of coal.
Columbus.-National guardsmen on
duty in the flooded districts are being
rapidly relieved from duty. BY the
end of next week only a small part of
the 5000 soldiers first called to duty
will remain.
East Liverpool.-ApproXimately 300
clerks employed in the retail stores
of the city struck, leaving none but
proprietors and accountants to wait
on customers. The clerks asked high
er wages and better working condi.
tions.
Youngstown. - Mrs. Luke Rigney,
thirty-eight, was fatally shot by John
Mcbride, thirty-tive, roomer at the
Rigney home. Mcbride took refuge
in the second story and fired several
shots at policemen on the stair land
ing. Detective Kane seriously wound
ed Mcbride in the right side by firing
at him from the yard through win
dow. Mcbride was taken to the hos,
pital. Mrs. Rigney, a divorcee, de.
[Iared Mcbride was jealous of her.
Portsmouth. John Dimler,
Hark policeman, and A. l.. Rob-
bins of Chillicothe, employed in the
circulation department of a Ports
mouth newspaper, dropped dead here
from heart disease ascribed to excite
ment over the flood. Roy Alberts, an
lS-year-old boy, was drowned when
he fell into a water filled basement.
James Baker also was drowned when
his boat capsized. Smallpox has
broken out in East Liverpool.
Cincinnati. - The Hamilton coun.
ty grand jury, in its final report
to the court, passed for consideration
by the next jury perjury testimony
against George B. Cox, former Re-
publican boss. The testimony against
Cox was presented after the supreme
court held Common Pleas Judge Dick.
son was in error in quashing the orig
inal perjury indictment brought in
1911. In this bill Cox was charged
with having falsified when he told the
Yrand jury in 1906 that he had not
received illegally any county treasury
iI44erest.
Cleveland.-The attention of the
coroner was called to the body of
Nick Labara, which lies at Hieber's
morgue. An investigation of the cir
cumstances following his death may
follow. Labara was drowned in
tank at the Central blast furnace.
With another workman he was clean.
4ng the tank. His partner turned
from the work minute, it is said, and
when he resumed Labara was miss