The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-03-12
Stole Towels at lnaugu-
ration
SAYS THE DISPATCH
CircumsatntiaI Evidence Points
This Way--The Goody-
Goody PennsyI-
vanja ms.

Dispatch specially who feel
that they have suffered damage through
the pranks of militiamen, particularly
guardsmen from Pennsylvania, are
writing about their troubles to the
chief of police. The damages reported
are so trivial, however, that the chief
has not thought 1t worth while to
specify even some Of them to the re-
porters for local newspapers who have
asked him about the matter.
The chiefs invitation to the citizens
of Washington to tell their troubles
has caused the absolutely veracious
Greeks, Italians, Turks and Syrians
who run push carts to aver solemnly
that the Pennsylvanians stole their
stocks Of fruit, candy and peanuts.
Ordinarily when these enterprising
merchants tell a story to the police, the
latter take II for granted that IL there
is any truth in the tales the quantity of
1t does not exceed ten per cent. Now,
however, that case is to be made out
against the Keystone guardsmen, they
affect to believe all that these former
inhabitants of the Levant tell them
Even on the statement of these motor
ious exaggerators, the showing is
| ridiculous. There are only a few in
stances in which there is even reason
able ground for suspecting that the
deviltry was committed by Pennsyl-
vania guardsmen.
A story started today was to the
effect that the wicked Pennsylvanians
had stolen all but four or five of thir.
teen dozen towels kindly loaned them
by the department of agriculture. II
any towels were stolen by guardsmer
circumstantial evidence points to the
| Eighth Ohio, the Presidents Own.
The Buckeyes occupied the building
which houses the department of agri
| culture.
The Pennsylvanians resident in the
city are becoming weary of the as
sertions of the local press and mer
chants that never again will the Key
stone guard be invited to an inaugura
tion. They know that to be all CUFF, be
cause, If there is one thing more thar
another that Washington wants at al
inauguration, Ut Is a crowd that will
spend money. In order to draw
crowd there must be big parade. In
asmuch' as Washington does not spen,
one cent for the pageant, not even buy
ing sandwich for the visiting guards
men, it is not likely that future inau
/ gural committees will fail to invit
such money-spending crowd as th
Keystone guardsmen.
j Representative Dalzell today locke,
into a report that General Ainsworth
chief of the record and pension bureau
Of the war department, has preferre'
charges of neglect Of duty against Com
mander Baird, u. S. NJ, the superinten
dent of the state, war and navy depart
ment building, in that he did not pre-
vent members of the Eighteenth Penn
sylvania regiment from damaging tn
plaster in that building. Mr.. Dalzel
went to the white house and foun
that, II General Ainsworth has don
anything of the kind. the matter ha
not reached the president, and If it had
nothing will be done about the matter
There are few jabs in the plaster
which may or may not have been pu
there by the Pennsylvanians. Twenty
five cents worth Of plaster Of paris, tw
gallons of water and Is or 20 cents
worth of paint will repair the damag
! attributed to the Pennsylvanians.
, might be advisable to take up colleC
, tion in Pittsburg to defray the expense
of repairing these damaged walls.