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

AbNlA, VI, JAM 10,
The Council of Administration OF the
Woman's Relief Corps of Ohio have been
called together to try. the case Of Koons VS.
Clarke, on Friday, January Is, on charges
preferred by Emma Rooms, past treasurer
of the W. II. c. M. A. G.
All, THEREBY HANGS A TALE.
This dispatch was to verify report cur.
rent on West Tuscarawas and Newton
street yesterday, and which our reporter
ran down last night. Our reporter put on
his gum boots and started out early in the
evening, while the beautiful snow was de-
scending from the bended steel sky like a
benediction, on the streets and sidewalks
and winter wheat. He called at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Koons, but she was not TO
be found. On Newton street he learned
that Mrs. Clarke was in Xenia, and that
the war of the W. r, c. had literally been
carried into Africa. Xenie has q Colored
Womans' Relief Corps, so that the colored
troops will most likely be called into
active service before the war is
brought to a successful close, the
same as 1t was during the war
of the Rebellion. At point not half a
mile from the west end OF the great Due
| Der watch factory, our reporter found a
| lady who was just full of the facts. She
unloaded with remarkable facility, and
here are the facts.
"Mrs. Koons received letter from
Xenia this niJrning," she said, "and she
has been on the jump all day to get evil
dence to put in against Mrs. Clarke on
soap, railroad tickets and money"
"Wby." said our reporter, ~ thought
Mrs. McQuisten had pigeon holed these
charges against Mrs. Clarke"
"Yes she did, but they have been unpig'
con holed," (Paid our chatty, snappy eyed
little brunette,) "and now the State Coun
ell of Administration are going to try
Mrs. Clarke at Xenia, and Mrs. Koons ID
on the jump today to get in
her evidence. She has got Biech
ele's affidavit that he gave Mrs. Clarke
$40 dollars worth OF soap and that she sale
the soap was for the Woman's... Relief
Corps. She also got an affidavit from
Major Vignos, who swore he paid Mrs
Clarke s. and she said 1t was for the
| Womans' Relief Corps.n
|
this new sensation, and the nervous strair
was so great that his pencil failed to move
as rapidly as the glib tongue of his charm
ing w. r. c. confessor. He had now 9
straight tip, and made bee line for the
office. When crossing South Market stree
| at Seventh, he saw a woman moving very
rapidly in the direction of the post office
Her pace was so rapid that he had to jump
into the double quick to overtake her
She was dressed in a long seal skin sacque
| with Gaimesboro velvet hat, with pro-
fusion of scarlet roses, and wore a sky
blue scarf around her we'll rounded neck
just in front of Goldberg Bros. store he
cast a side glance and saw the lady wat
Mrs. Emma Rooms. She had a package
of long envelopes and as our re-
porter followed into the post Office he saw
her deposit three big fat envelopes into the
aperture. A single gas jet was burning
casting dim religious light over the DARK
begrimed floor, making the white spots
of random snow that had stuck to her No
| 3% shoes look like little white pigs in the
pen.
Our reporter, with a supreme effort, cas-
aside for the nonce all his inherent mod
esty and abnormal reticence and said:
MRS. Koons, are those afildavlts tha
you have just mailed to Xenia up to you
expectations
This question was evidently sumner
but Mrs. Koons took in the situation at
glance. She saw that our reporter knew
all about it. He always does. Then sh,
began.
"Yes, have secured all the affidavits
wanted. The trial of Mrs. Clarke will
take place at Xenia before the State Coun
Gil Of Administration, and shall take tn
case also before the National Conven
tion."
Our reporter learned that the Stat
Council Of Administration is composed O
the following women, besides Mrs. Ad
f. Clarke. The following women CON
pose the court which is to pass upon Mri
Clarke's case at Xenia:
Mary A. McQuisten, Xenia Alice N
Whitaker, McConnellsville; Callie /
Sorgen, Kenton; Fannie j. Ebrigh
Xenia; Hettie j. Clark, Youngstown
Louise M. Roland, Cleveland; Belle All
mon, Bellefontaine; Jennie S. Wrigh
Troy; Mary Il. Long, Steubenville; Vest
Shoemaker, Dayton; Emma Cressinge
Ashland, and Anna B. Carroll, Defianc,
This is a strictly military court of in
quiry. They have no right to pass ser
tence upon Mrs. Clarke, even il foun
guilty, as Mrs. Clark is a member of ii
National Convention and will have to
} tried by court of her peers
; rank. AS we have before remarke
, the w. r. C. is military organization
and all trials for misdemeanors an
crimes are modelled after the system
vogue in the British army.
: Mrs. Clarke is now in Xenia and wi
look after her case in person. She Is co
ceded to be the best read lawyer in the '
r. c. OF Ohio.
This case now assumes a new interef
1t is no longer the case of Clarke
| Rooms, but it is the case of Rooms
y Clarke. The matter is promising to b
! come, like the stories in the New Yol
Ledger, more and more interesting as
goes on.