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Buckeye Notes Lancaster. - Yeggs cracked the postoffice safe and robbed the general store at North Berne, near here, obtaining $69 in stamps, some money and groceries. Cincinnati. - Mrs. Elizabeth Cox, mother of George B. Cox, former political leader and financier of this city, died suddenly here. Mrs. Cox was 85. Steubenville. - Thirteen thousand volts of electricity passed through the body of Thomas Noah, 45, of Toronto, O., and he is alive. Sandusky.-August Schmidt, jr., 59, 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 Exchange bank, the A. Schmidt, Jr., & Bros. and the DuRoy & Haines Wine Cos., the Sandusky & Islands Steamboat Co., operating the steamer Arrow, and the B. P. Sexton Co., a wholesale 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 exclusively, but all other differences will be settled by arbitration. Chardon. - Andrew Carnegie has offered a donation of $7,500 to Burton for a public library. The amount is conditioned on the appropriation by the town of a sum for maintenance. Columbus. - State treasury funds, ostentatiously displayed, were used in 1905 to stop a 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 messerger of the state treasury, told of carrying $40,000 from the state house to the bank, where it was shoved through the cashier's cage while a long line of people stood waiting to withdraw their deposits. Findlay. - To recover $12,955.89 alleged to be due him as a balance of payment for $350,000 worth of oil lands sold by him to Fred Edwards of Cleveland, W. V. Coons, also of Cleveland, filed suit common 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 suddenly. He was 74 years of age. Zanesville.-The government could not give Zanesville a pontoon bridge to string across the muskingum river to Putnam, so the county commissioners 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 $50,000 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 5,000 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 higher wages and better working conditions. Youngstown. - Mrs. Luke Rigney, thirty-eight, was fatally shot by John McBride, thirty-five, a roomer at the Rigney home. McBride took refuge in the second story and fired several shots at policemen on the stair landing. Detective Kane seriously wounded McBride in the right side by firing at him from the yard through a window. McBride was taken to the hospital. Mrs. Rigney, a divorcee, declared McBride was jealous of her. Portsmouth. - John Dimler, a yark policeman, and A. L. Robbins of Chillicothe, employed in the circulation department of a Portsmouth newspaper, dropped dead here from heart disease ascribed to excitement over the flood. Roy Alberts, an 18-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 county grand jury, in its final report to the court, passed for consideration by the next jury perjury testimony against George B. Cox, former Republican boss. The testimony against Cox was presented after the supreme court held Common Pleas Judge Dickson was in error in quashing the original 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 inserest. Cleveland-The attention of the coroner was called to the body of Nick Labara, which lies at Hieber's morgue. An investigation of the circumstances following his death may follow. Labara was drowned in a tank at the Central blast furnace. With another workman he was cleanmg the tank. His partner turned from the work a minute, it is said, and when he
