Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1914 — White County Farmer Committed Suicide Tuesday. [ARTICLE]

White County Farmer Committed Suicide Tuesday.

- ' Monticello Herald. Charles Cowger, aged 49 years, hung himself in his barn on his ■farm, known as the Jud Paul place, two mifos north of Guernsey, Tuesday morning. He had been in his usual health except that he seemed easily worried. He was distrustful of his own judgment and having made a trade or a sale would regret Jt and brood over it Yet he had shown no suicidal tendency, and his act of seif-destruction was a great surprise and shock to all who knew him. -

He had eaten an early breakfast, as usual, after which he|left the house, and having been gone longer than expected, his wife and the boy who lived with them, started to search for him. They found him ■hanging to a beam in the barn by a half-inch rope. Help was called, and he was cut down, but life was extinct.

Roland Smoker and Carl Russell, of the Monticello Undertaking Co., went to the place in the afternoon, taking Coroner Gable with them, and an inquest was held, eliciting the facts above stated. 1 Deceased was a son of former County Commissioner Eli Cowger. His wife, who survives, is a daughter of Judson Paul, deceased. He leaves no children. The funeral will take place Thursday at 2 p. m., and burial made in the-Bedford cemetery.

The Chamberlain resolution authorizing the president to recruit the army to war* strength, exceeding statutory limitation, was favorably reported Monday (by the senate military committee.