The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
Make Life Miserable for
Faculty
OF FMT,U!N|ON COLLEGE
President Riker 10 Hung In Ef-
flgy and College Campus
Has Been Converted In
to q Cemetery.
ostar Special,

Alliance, June 10.-The students OF
in some college pranks recently which
Mt. Union college have been engaging
have aroused the faculty of the insti-
tuition to the highest pitch OF indigna-
tion.' One nian has been suspended and
several more will be requested to leave.
Some few days ago the students started
the fun by getting into the college
building and stacking" one of the
class rooms. Tables were carried of,
doors cemented shut and the legs of
the square piano were taken off and
carried away. A day or so after the
college arsenal was entered by crowd
of masked students and about rs army
rifles are missing. The arsenal is To-
Gated in the girls dormotory and the
inmates were SO badly frightened at
the invasion of ghostly figures that
several of them became hysterical.
An effigy of the president was hung
a few days ago from the electric light
wires about the building and shortly
afterward the museum was entered and
looted, several valuable relics being
missing. Late Thursday the limit was
reached when the cemetery near the
town was visited and a tombstone was
taken and erected on the campus.
According to report an old minister
by the name of Pelley died about two
years ago in Alliance. The president
of the college was caring for the old
man and when he died he took charge
of a small amount Of property which
the man left. President Riker paid
the funeral expenses, and for attend
ance upon the old man during his last
illness. The Rev. Pelley had only one
heir, a blind son who lives I'm East
Palestine. This son came to Alliance
last week and wanted the remainder Of
the money which he claimed was left
over from his fathers estate. He ex-
cited considerable sympathy among the
students and on their investigation
they found that there had been no stone
erected over the grave in the cemetery
SO as a gentle reminder the college boys
went to the cemetery, procured
stone, dug a grave in a conspicuous
part of the campus and put the stone
at the head of the grave and small
pine tree at the foot. An inscription
was painted in large letters on the
slab. 1t read: Erected to the men,
ory Of Rev. Pelley by his dear friend
(?) DR.. A. b. Riker."
Tho faculty has ben, in session every
day since last Friday, some of the
sessions having continued throughout
the day and far into the night. A num-
er Of the students have been on the
carpet and others are expected to be
called. One young man by the name
Of Septer Douglass was told to leave
town Monday morning. Douglass.
when before the faculty, acknowledged
that he had tried to borrow from one
of the women of tho city part of her
apparel TO stun into the piano in the
chapel. Douglass said his idea was to
have an investigation of the instrument
occur during morning worship, ~hen
the lingerie would be brought very
startlingly to the attention Of the CO.
eds assembled.
The faculty determined to squelch
the pranks OF the students and are
taking measures to deal severely with
every person who is discovered to be
in any way Implicated in the late mis-
demeanors. 1t is reported that two
city police in citizens clothes are guard
ing the building every night.