The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-03-03
Columbus Gossip


to investigate the alleged prize fight
which took place recently in the ar
mory Of the Columbus National Guard
battery. Captain II. M. Bush, com
mander of the battery claims the af-
fair was not prize fight and that In
permitting 1t he was not violating any
military rule or regulation. He ask
ed for an investigation, wishing TO
clear himself of any stigma which
might be placed upon him as result
of the incident. The court will ascer-
tain whether there was a violation OF
the law, and If SO, fix the RESPONSE
bility. The personnel Of the court Is
as follows: Colonel W.. q. Bundy,
First regiment; Lieutenant Charles
C. Weybrecht, Eighth regiment; John
R. Quigg, battalion Of engineers; Cap
tain Henry s. Camagee, adjutant Of
the Sixth regiment. Colonel Bundy
will act as Judge and advocate and
Captain Camagee as recorder of the
court. The sessions will be held in
this city at an early date.
The dissolution of the combination
effected by the coal companies, as a
sequence of the custer suits institut-
ed by the state, will be followed by
q material reduction in the price OF
coal. Warm weather and other local
conditions will also aid in the bring
ing about Of this condition, and with
in two or three weeks at farthest hold
up prices for coal will be a thing Of
the past. Now that the operators are
not bound by any compact, 1t is not
unlikely that rate war will ensue
among them which will rebound TO
the benefit Of the public. A local coal
operator is responsible for the state
ment that coal will drop to 50 or
less ton soon and that there will be
trouble in marketing 1t because there
will be an abundance of cars when
the winter breaks.
The commission appointed to pre-
pare a uniform system of public ac-
counting for Columbus has fled it's
report with Auditor Of State Guilbert.
1t is the first complete report Of the
kind yet submitted from any Ohio
city and contains much of COM
mandatory character. Under the sys"
TEN being devised it willss be pos
sible to ascertain almost instantly the
condition of the accounts Of any
municipality. A year will be requir-
ed in which to place the system in
perfect operation.
The Ohio Hardware Dealers associ-
alton have adjourned and will meet
in Cleveland next year. Officers were
elected as follows President, w. p.
Bogardus, Mt. Vernon; vice president,
]. f. Baker, Waferly; corresponding
secretary, d. R. Burr, Piqua; financial |
secretary, w. C. Jones, Columbus;
treasurer, c. M. Waller, Ravenna.
Word has been received here that |
Hon. James Boyle, United States con-
sui to Liverpool, England, who was
first private secretary to Governor
will leave for this country |
soon and will visit Columbus. Before
the assumption of his official duties
Mr. Boyle was a newspaper cores |
pondent.
Columbus, March 2.-lt Is reported |
that the corporate interests of the
state are working secretly to secure |
the repeal of the Willis and Cole tax
laws. According to report, agents OF
several large Ohio corporations are
the manufacturers Of this
city to secure signatures to a PROPOSE
ton to fight these laws at the next
session of the legislature. Those
pushing the opposition to the meas
ures use the argument that the taxes
they impose are excessive and man
lfcstly unjust. There is said to be u
effort being made
the state for the repeal OF
the laws, and il this cannot be SO.
cured an effort will be made to have
them modified SO as to render them
less burdensome on the corporations.
Attached to the proposition is a rider
for the adjustment Of the
double stock liability clause.
The window glass manufacturers,
against whom custer suits are threat
ened by the state for the revocation
yf their charter rights for alleged vio-
ation OF the Ohio antitrust laws, have
Invited Attorney General Sheets to at
tend meetings they will hold in this
city on March 3 and 4, and listen to a
discussion of the affairs Of the associa-
tion which 1t is claimed they have
formed for unlawful purposes. They
ieny the association is trust and de-
sire the attorney general to attend and
satisfy. himself as to whether or not
his is the case. They say they have
nothing to conceal and are perfectly
willing to take both the state and the
public into their confidence. Oficials
IF the organization informed Attorney
General Sheets that the newly organ
zed combine includes five Ohio COM
panies and intimated that If there was
% be trouble these would be dropped