The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-12-21
CLOSED schools
Scarlet Fever Epidemic al UniontoWn
<. : snd Authorities Take
Action.
The PEOPLE ARE MUCH EXCITED.
! iAe-ssse~s
Fear That the Progress of the
Disease Cannot Be Readily
Checked.
HAVE STRICT QUARANTINE
All of the Afflicted Persons Are Tightly
Housed and Are Not Allowed to Have
peculating as to the
Cause of the Epi.
demic.
Uniontown has an epidemic Of scarlet
fever and the village Is in a state Of ex-
element, as the disease seems to be
spreading
There is much speculation as to where
the disease started.
The people who have II are strictly
quarantined and the authorities have
ordered the public schools to be closed
till the epidemic abates.
LAYLIN'S RESIGNATION.
ComptroIler...Was Receiver
OF LisbOn's Defunct Bank.
From a Staff Correspondent.

From Staff Correspondent.
Columbus, Dec. 1S.-Hon. L. c. lay
lin, secretary of state-elect, has tender-
ed his resignation as receiver of the
First National bank, of Lisbon, to Unit
ed States Comptroller Charles j. Dawes,
Washington, d. G.
The resignation takes effect Decem-
ber 81 and is made to allow Mr.. Laylln
to perfect his arrangements to assume
his state position on January IA, 1901.
Some time this month Mr.. Laylin will
go to Washington and report in person
to Comptroller Dawes, giving a COM
plete statement of the condition Of the
affairs of the defunct bank.
When Mr.. Laylin retires, he will have
served exactly one year as receiver,
having succeeded State Treasurer I. e,
Cameron, who gave up the reoeivership
December 81, 1899, to assume his new
duties at the state capitol.
Although 1t is not an absolute cer-
tainty that a successor to Mr.. Laylin
will be appointed, there Is some con-
lecture over who will be chosen in case
1t Is decided to continue the receiver
ship. The name of Judge James g..
Moore, Of Lisbon, Is mentioned for the
place. The judge has acted as the at
torney for the bank under both the ad-
ministration Of Receivers Cameron and
Laylin, which Of course, has brought
him into actual knowledge of the banks
affairs. Judge Moore is eminentIy quali-'
fled to act in the capacity alluded 10
and his appointment would undoubtedly
merit general approval. Oddly enough,
both receivers resigned their positions
on account of being elected to exalted
state offices. Such a singularity might
be taken as an omen Of good luck, and
as one gentleman remarked, who knows
but what the next receiver may land
the governorship.
The work Of untangling the finances
Of the bank has progressed very satis-
factorily and matters are in compara-
lively good shape. There is yet some
litigation pending which will probably
be disposed of before long. There is
also some real estate to be sold. Those
in q position to know believe not many
weeks will elapse before the receiver
ship will be dissolved.
!. Hon. L. C. Laylin will hardly return
to Columbus until a short time before
he takes the oath Of office. ]. w. Gal
lagher, shipping clerk in the secretary
OF states office, who failed to get re-
appointed, has filed his present job for
eight years. At the time of his appoint
ment he resided in WeIlsville, but it is
doubtful IL he will return there.
Gallagher will be succeeded by Henry
Bohl, a son Of Henry Bohl, who for
many years was one of the leading
Democrats of the state, but who four
years ago came out for Mckinley.
GEORGE II. BLAKE.