The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
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Soes, aged 80 years, farmer, lay at his
home on Harrington-rd, near the Belt
line, in West Park, and suffered from
bullet wound in his back rather
than allow his wife to venture out in
the darkness for aid.
According to Soes' story, he was
awakened about 10:30 p. m. by a noise
in his chicken coop, near the house.
Selling a double-barrel shotgun he
hurried out the kitchen door and
around the house. Soes fired at a man
on watch. The man cried out. Then
the farmer prepared to fire the other
barrel as the second man followed in
| flight from the coop. A few seconds
after the roar of the shotgun there
was a lighter explosion. Soes fell,
shot by rife or a revolver, and lay
still with a hole to the left of the
spinal column under the shoulder
blade.
Mrs. Soes dragged her husband into
the house. She pleaded with him to
allow her to go for aid. But he re.
| fused, saying the thieves might still
be in the neighborhood. When dawn
arrived a neighbor called a doctor,
who pronounced Soes condition
critical.
Cincinnati.-Attorney Charles B.
Thatcher of Toledo, O., convicted
under disbarment proceedings in the
federal court in that city before
| United States District Judge Killts,
was granted an appeal to the supreme
court of the United States by Judge
DennisOn of the circuit court of ap-
peals, in session here Mr.. Thatcher
had been disbarred from state practice
by the courts and his appeal only per-
tains to his disbarment of federal prac-
tice.
of the Sixth district has affirmed
the lower courts in the case of
Mrs. Carrie Brennan vs.. the Lake
Shore Electric Railway Co., and unless
the latter can obtain a reversal in the
Ohio supreme court it will have to pay
$4,000 to Mrs. Brennan, whose hus.
band, Edgar l.. Brennan, conductor
was killed in a wreck near the Sol
diers' home two years ago.
Norwalk.--City officials are elat
ed over the decision of the su-
preme court dismissing the proceed.
ings brought by the c., S. & c. R. r.
Co. seeking to enjoin the delivery of
$120000 municipal lighting bonds. The
bonds will be delivered to Stacy &
Braun of Toledo at once and work will
be begun Immediately on the con.
struction Of the plant.
Conneaut.-Ray G. Meddaugh, age
q, of Albion, Pa, was arrested
Tuesday afternoon charged with being
the man who wrote the blackmailing
letters to Mrs. Minnie Weiser of Cory,
Pa, in which Mrs. Weiser was told to
pay 5000 or information would be sent
by letters to friends in Cory, it was
stated, which would be injurious t.
her reputation.
Cincinnati. Wallace Holman,
secretary of the Straus-PritZ Co.,
distillers, and one of Cincinnati's lead
ing business men, was found dead at
his home here with a bullet through
his head. His revolver was lying
close to the body and the coroner is
of the opinion that he took his own
life. He had been ill several months.
Findlay Charles w. Bodine,
aged 67, was found dead in a field
he had been plowing. From the ap-
pearance of the land it is evident he
fell dead over the handles and the
plow was dragged around the field
dozens of times before the horses
stopped. Apoplexy was the cause of
death, the coroner says.
Ashtabula-Word has reached here
of the suicide of Otto Benson,
Ashtabula Harbor business man,
who shot himself in a hotel in
Hot Springs Ark, where he had gone
for his health. Before the suicide Ben.
son left note for his wife telling her
on which train to ship his body to
Ashtabula for burial.
Millersburg. - Jacob A. Close, aged
AZ years, committed suicide by hang.
ing himself in the bath room of his
home. He for several years had been
in the employ Of the Pennsylvania
company, but, with many others, was
laid off most of the winter.
Toledo. - Rev. j. NJ. Ford Of Sc.
attic, Wash. who had registered at
the Niagara hotel, destroyed by fire
Sunday, and was thought to have been
burned to death, was found living at
another hotel.
Tiffin. - Edward Lepper, aged 76,
coroner of Seneca county, is dead
at his home here. He had held the
position of coroner continuously since
1881. He was veteran of the Civil
war.
Youngstown. - Seated beneath a
tree in a field near this city,
Isaac o. Wycoff, 40, Charledoi, Pa, in.
stantly killed himself when he sent a
revolver bullet into his head.
Bellefontaine.-Mrs Betty Wilson,
aged A, picking coal beside a
railroad track to prepare dinner for
her three small, fatherless boys, was
killed by train.
Alliance. - Col. W. w. King, aged
72 years, former colonel of the Eighth
regiment, o. N. G., and captain Com.
pany X, 25th o. " l., during the CIVIL
war, died at his home here. He was a
former recorder of Stark county, prom
inent member Canton commandery,
Knights Templars, member Grand
Army and Odd Fellows.
Port Clinton. - John Fioro, aged
As, farmer and fruit grower and
member of the Ottawa county Demo.
cratic central committee, dropped
dead at his home in Erie township
after completing his morning work
about the farm.
Youngstown. - The spring meet.
ing of the Northeastern Ohio Teach,
ers association will convene here