The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-01-14

NaNo NudIBtlN al' 9Nhi NaIItlo wave
And charge with an yOurd wary!
There was meeting of the W. r. G..
yesterday afternoon. IL a,y one doubts
IL they ought TO have been tutrc aud seen
for themselves.
After some routine BUSH ess had been
transacted, a report of ths uudiug of the
court martial ih the Uasr against Mrs.
Koons came IL having b. eu uceivtd d
from President NJ QuIstpn, vt Y MIA. 1t
appears that MIS-. IeLuey mouined tue
sentence to one years susl ensiOn. Mrs.
TenDey Is very ConseI vatve, quiet and
very intelligent woman, AID knowing the
circumstances in the case and having
read the evidence, saw the suspension was
entirely TOO long, hence mydihed the yer.
dict as stated.
This aroused the ire of Mrs. Clark, who
was present with her friends anu the
members of the Court Martial. Mrs
Tenney was in the chair, il being her last
day as President Of the Canton corps.
Mrs. Clarke's friends, together with the
members of the court, got their heads to.
flether and concluded that Mrs. renney
had been guilty of the objectionable sin
OF daring to interfere in any way with the
mandates of the court martial. They
therefore adopted resolution to the eff
feet that IL Mrs. Tenney did not take back
her action OF reducing tue time of Mrs.
Rooms suspension they would fire her
bodily from the order. Mrs. Tenn, was
Clarke's demands.
Now came tie thrilling episode of the
afternoon. Mrs. Clarke arose from her
chair in the rear of the hall near the door
and drew herself up for mighty effort.
Rienzi in his address to the Romans
started OIL very nicely and quite forclbly
with: "Ge call me chief ana ye do well to
call me chief,n but at no time was R.enzi
in il with Mrs. Clarke. There was
no tooling about II. She opened up
at once aud ere she had
proceeded far il was evident that che was
out for blood. The women quailed be-
fore her exhibition of temper Mes. Clarke
dld not spend much time with
making an exhibition of any loren.
sic ablllty she possesses, but
began by heaping upon Mrs. renney the
most violent personal abuse. With her
face white with anger she pointed her
finger at Mrs. Teuny and said you are "a
traitor. You have acted scandalously in
this matter and you ought 10 he Stunned
by all women
A few seconds later Mrs. Clarke applied
TO Mrs: Ienney such abusive titles as
thing" sneak etc. When she finally
sat down the utmost excitement pre-
vailed. Mrs, Tenney whose quiet de-
meanor, strict attendance to duties and
Conscientious actlous has made
her a general favorite, was completely
overcome, and her face was an ashen hue.
So unexpected and violent was Mrs,
Clarke's attack that she was unable to de-
fend herself,
Mrs. Clarke had one more card to play,
and the identity of the Reposttory's can
opener is now settled. Knowing by expe-
rierce that the NEwS.DEMoCRAT would
get hold of the matter she offered reso-
luton to the effect that the afternoons
proceedings be published in one of the
daily papers. There was some objection
to this, but as the meeting was packed the
frtnnfa of MrE. X IONS and Mra TannaNy
were powerless and the resolution was
adopted
The Repository, therefore, with the aid
of it's can opener, will have an exclusive
article tonight, purportlng TO be the exact
proceedings of the meeting.
A lady who was resent yesterday, told
our reporter this morning that Mrs. Clarke
was preparing the report this morning.
THE STATUS OF THE CASE.
The Court Martial returned a verdict
against Mrs. Koons on two or three mino
points, the principal of which was writing
an anonymous letter. For this the Court
Martial sentenced her to five years sus-
pension, from the corps. As soon as Mrs.
Tenney received the verdict she was ad-
vised by woman supposed to be the
State Counselor, Mrs. Clark, that her
Mrs. McQuisten at Xenia, which was
done. When the sentence was returned
to her approved at Aenia, Mrs. Tenney
discovered that she had right, under the
rules of the Red Book, to modify the SEN
tence. She then modified the sentence
to one year. This she had no right to do
then, as it should have been modified
before IL was sent to Mrs. McQuisten.
Mrs. Tenney is firm and rather than re-
main in a corps where women are sus-
pended for practically no offense against
The laws of the corps she has withdrawn.
Mrs. Clarke desired to have Mrs, Koons
dishonorably DISCHARGED by order of the
local corps, but the Red Book says that
this cannot be done. The suspension
will have to stand unless changed by the
National Convention to which Mrs. Koons
has appealed the case. Neither can the
National Convention increase the sen.
once. They only have right to modi-
~ il.
CAMPHoR IN DEMAND.
The reporter called upon a number of
corps ladies this morning and everywhere
the odor OF camphor and smelling salts
greeted his olfactory nerves. Mrs. Ten
ney is utterly prostrated and could not be
seen. At four other residences of mem
bers of w. r. q. the lady of the house
came to the door with a bandange around
her head, indicative OF a severe headache.
Each one when pressed for a statement
would say only that the attack upon Mrs.
Tenney by Mrs. Clarke was disgraceful.
nv dbONO lCpOEb 10 by OuE to
porter after consulting with Ave women
of the Canton W. r. C.. who were present
at yesterdays session.
OBSERVE THE SMILE.
Before the scrapping commenced yes
terday In the w. X. c., of Canton, the
sweet sisters OF charity and fraternity
sang with great feeling an opening ode,
OF which the following Is the first verse.
The air was the familiar tune, "Sister,
now love you truly"
Bright Ger our country the sunshine OF Peace
smiles where the war-clOud long darkened the air.
Long pay It smile O'er prosperous land
While we assemble our brothers TO aid,
And In their labOrs Of Charity sharel
Repeat Long may II SMILE etc.
But she did not smile very long.
Surprise to All.
After using "Mother's Friend" two
,1ntha l WAS an anaqHiIy and aaaiIKy 70