The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-07-03
THE SUPREME
COURT ADJOURNS.
The Vacation Lasts Until Sep
tember 25th.


THE CASES DISPOSED OF
And the:Number of Cases Filed-Number
OF Cases Pendins-News Letter
From Columbus Stan
Correspondent.
From Staff Correspondent.
Columbus, July 2-The Ohio supreme
court adjourned Friday for the summer
recess. The vacation lasts until Sep
tember 25. During the year 379 cases
and 17O motions were disposed of and
263 cases were filed. There are still 591
cases pending and many more will be
filed during the summer. The office of
the clerk Of the supreme court will re-
main open during that period. .
The court failed to give decisions in
the Standard Oil contempt case and the
Continental tobacco trust case, so that
both 20 over till the next term. The
standard Oil case has been pending for
several years. Before adjournment the
court rendered a number Of decisions,
among which was one in the case of
Anna McCann, plaintiff in error VS.
the city OF Youngstown, defendant in
error The judgment of the circuit
court Of Mahoning county, from which
the suit was taken up on error, was af-
firmed. Anna McCann sued the city
for $4,000 damages for injuries she sus-
| tanned by reason Of being thrown from
buggy which was upset by coming
in contact with pile Of stone on one of
the streets Of the corporation. The ac-
cident occurred at night and the plain
| tin claimed danger signals were not
displayed. The common pleas court al
lowed her $500 damages, but this judg-
ment was reversed by the circuit court
w. T. Gibson and NJ. A. Norris were
| attorneys for the city and A. j. Wolf
| and w. s. Anderson for the plaintiff in
| error.
The Youngstown Heating company,
or youngstown, was authorized to en-
gage in business by the secretary of
| state. The concern will own and ope-
| rate steam stations to produce steam
heat and power. The charter bears the
| name of Henry +. Kaercher, Daniel F.
Anderson, William S. Anderson, Louis
E. Geuss and Paul c. Kaercher The
100000 capital stock will be in shares CT
81 900 each.
Hon. John G. Wooley, Prohibition can
| didate for president, will deliver an
| address here Monday evening and will
| practically open the campaign of his
party in this tate as we'll as in the en-
| tire country
Ihe degree Of doctor Of law has been
conferred upon J. living Brooks, Of
Salem, Of the Pennsylvania company,
by Kenyon college.
At the meeting of the Christian En-
| deavorers of Ohio Rev. w. F. McCau-
ley, of Salem. was elected state presi-
| dent of the worlds union: Rev. G. Z.
| McManiman, of Steubenville, was made
| a trustee Of the united societies.
local paper prints the following,
| which will interest residents of Stark
| county: 1.-The greatest speculation
among the men Of the state prison is,
who Will be the lucky man to receive
| the Fourth Of July pardon?'
There are many worthy candidates de-
serving of the honor of executive Glenn
ency. Among the number is Thomas
j. Rice, life man from Stark county,
| received March IA, 1882, for murder.
He was 29 years of age at the time the
| crime was committed; a native of Scot
| land, having resided over 16 years in
America prior to the difficulty.
Many mitigating circumstances have
developed since his imprisonment
showing that Rice did not commit the
crime premeditatedly. He always
| bore good name and had the reputa-
| ton of being an honorable man and in
| dustrial mechanic. Rice has already
served is years and 4 months behind
| the bars, seeing many prison officials
come and go, and was never reported
for the slightest violation of the prison
rules"
The meeting of the representatives of
the state hospitals at Massilon this
week was almost failure in point of
attendance, for the reason that the leg
islature in making the appropriations
for the hospitals last winter cut down
the allowance for such contingent ex-
penses, so that there are no funds now
TO pay the expense of the officials who
attend the meetings, as they are un-
willing to pay them out of their own
pockets. There We're only three super
intendents and two trustees at the
Massillon meeting.
Mr.. Charles c. Green, cashier of the
state treasury, left today for Canton,
where he will remain until after the
Fourth the guest Of friends.
Mr.. Charles Boyce, of East Liverpool,
who was student at the Canton Com
mercial college for one year, will be
united in marriage next Tuesday with
Miss Sue E. Esterly, a school teacher,
at her home near Lisbon.
GEORGE II. BLAKE.
COLUMBUS ITEMS.
Columbus, July 2.-The news received
at the state capital Saturday night that
George b. Cox, Of Cincinnati, had ten
dered to Senator Hanna his resigna ton