CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4488 - 4492 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) 4488. L Jan. 28; ed: 4/1 The compulsory education act recently passed by New York is already bearing fruits. Over eight thousand children have been rescued from the gutter during the past year in the metropolis alone. (1) 4489 - L Jan. 28:8/3 The maternity hospital just completed in the rear of Charity hospital was thrown open to the public last evening, and was visited by numerous persons interested in this charitable undertaking. Dr. Lowman said that the object of the institution was to provide a place for lying-in women and for the care of children. The hospital will be open to all requiring its peculiar advantages from this time on without regard to creed, and will accommodate 40 women and the same number of children. 4490 L Jan. 28:8/3 A number of tramps living in "poverty barn" have written a letter to Samuel Job, superintendent of the Bethel, asking permission to attend Bether services and take the temperance pledge. Job replied that he had conferred with Rev. Samuel Gregg, Bethel chaplain, and took pleasure in extending an invitation to them to attend services on Jan. 30, and take the pledge. 4491 L Jan. 29:7/2 Last New Year's day, John Cunningham of Canfield st. was arrested and given 60 days in the workhouse on a charge of abusing his family. That same night J. O. Duffy, owner of the house in which the Cunningham family lived, reported to Patrolman J. P. Healy and subsequently to Sergeant Madigan and Detective Reeves that Cunningham's wife bad told him that her husband had murdered a woman eight or nine years ago in Phillipsburgh, N. J. She later verified this story and swore. out a statement to that effeet before E. J. Foster, notary public. At first no credence was placed in her story, but Patrolman Healy began a correspondence with the Phillipsburgh police and finally two officers were sent here to question Cunningham. The story Cunningham's wife tells parallels the account of the murder of Mary Keys in New Jersey in 1867. The New Jersey officers have returned home to obtain a requisition from the governor and will visit Cleveland again to take Cunningham east. 4492 L Jan. 29:7/3 In reply to the request of the county commissioners, Prosecuting Attorney Samuel M. Eddy gives his opinion of the proposed extradition of the six men who participated in the murder of Officer Kick here last year. Four of these men are in jail in San Francisco on charges of burglary and larceny; one is also there on a charge of murderous assault upon an officer. The sixth is serving a five year term in Trenton, N. J., on a charge of burglary and larceny. (6) (7) (20) Eddy believes that if these men were extradited, they could easily be convicted on charges of burglary and larceny and probably of shooting with intent to wound. Whether they could be convicted of first degree murder would lie in convincing the jury that all these men has an under CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4493 - 4494 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) standing that they would shoot to kill if in danger of arrest. He believes that the county commissioners are as competent as he to judge whether they would be justified in incurring the necessary expense and showing that they wish to protect citizens and officers discharging their duties. (13) 4493 L Jan. 29:8/2 - The contractors of the viaduct have just commenced the erection of the frame work over which the arches of the bridge are to to built. Only one more pier remains to be completed before work can be commenced on these arches. In the early part of the winter work was commenced on the pier to be located on the river, but the city authorities ordered the work stopped and for several weeks nothing has been done there. (5) 4494 - L Jan. 31:7/4 The newsboys' and bootblacks' home is now an established institution of the city and deserves the support of the public at large. An eating department, a workshop, a gymnasium, a library, and a wash room should be added. To make these additions, help will be needed from those who are able to give. It is hoped that the response will be generous. (4) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4495 - 4499 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) 4495 L Feb. 1; ed: 4/2 Senator Haines recently submitted a bill to the Ohio senate forbidding entrance upon the lands of another for the purpose of shooting game without permission of the owner. "This is worse than the most churlish law on the English statute books for the preservation of game for the aristocracy.... We believe that the present law is fully adequate for the protection of all classes concerned. There ought to be liberality and fairness enough in either branch of the Legislature to defeat it." 4496 L Feb. 2; ed: 4/1 An article recently published by an irresponsible Sunday paper stated that the boilers in the Tremont st. schoolhouse on the Heights were in a leaky condition. Some parents in that district are said to have taken alarm and hesitate to send their children to school. The statement that the boilers are defective has no possible foundation. They were inspected on Jan. 31 by a most competent machinist and pronounced as sound as when new. 4497 L Feb. 2; ed: 4/1 Three newspapers applied to the superior court of Chicago for an injunction to restrain collection of taxes levied on their property by the city assessors. The application was not granted. "It is possible that the court refused the injunction on some technical ground. It is hardly probable that the TRIBUNE, TIMES, and JOURNAL would have united in the application unless there were good grounds for it.' 4498 L Feb. 3; ed: 4/1 - The West Side Street railway is revoking all (8) (3) (2) (5) 4499 L Feb. 3; ed: 4/3 - Dr. Charles Worms has been arrested in Montreal by U. S. government agents for swindling William Newman, of Chicago, out of $5,000. Worms procured for Newman a contract, supposedly signed by the secretary of the interior, authorizing Newman to supply the Indians with $1,916,800 worth of supplies. For this contract, Newman was to mail President Grant $5,000 and he did so, but Worms had switched envelopes and Grant received several sheets of blank paper. Worms had told Newman to go to Boston, and to the "Hub" he went. After he was there a few days he received a telegram from Worms saying "things are mixed, Newman, you had better go home." Newman went home and it was not until he had related the whole matter to a friend that he could properly be called a sadder and a wiser man. The friend saw through it all. The matter was placed before the President and Secretary Chandler, who declared it a base fraud and commissioned two special officers to capture Worms at any cost. CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4500 - 4505 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) "The arrest of Dr. Charles Worms, the Indian contract forger, will most probably put a decisive quietus upon the noisy babblers who were declaring that his apprehension and trial would result in developments detrimential to the character of President Grant." 4500 L Feb. 3; ed: 4/4 Business has been deranged and greatly retarded by the mild unseasonable weather we have had recently. "There are some reasons therefore which make the present cold spell welcome, but for the poor whose clothing and food are unusually limited this year, it is to be hoped that the cold will be neither protracted. nor severe. (19) 4501 L Feb. 3:5/2 A large number of influential citizens met at the Third Baptist church yesterday to hear reports on the Pearl st. Friendly Inn. Mrs. S. H. Lee conducted the religious services. Mrs. W. A. Ingham presided and Mrs. Rev. J. H. Scott acted as secretary. The Inn which will open soon, will have a restaurant and a free reading room. 4502 L Feb. 3:8/1 River men complain of the pirates who are thick along the docks and are stealing everything they can lay their hands on. 4503 L Feb. 4; ed: 4/1 A bill to appropriate $6,000 with which to send the Toledo and Columbus cadets to the centennial exposition was introduced in the legislature recently. "It is not known what especial claim these two military organizations have against the State that they should be rewarded in this manner. 4504 L Feb. 4; ed: 4/2,3 The New York WORLD, with the simplicity of a green country boy, asserts that this last game of the wily Worms. proves that there are persons near the President who compromise his good name and systematically traffic in his official conduct. It proves nothing of the kind. When Worms undertakes to swindle any one he throws all of his accomplishments into the work. He found in Newman, the proprietor of a hotel, just the man he wanted; a man who had read and who believed all that the lying Democratic papers published against the administration, and who was idiot enough to believe that the President could be purchased for a few thousand dollars. The affair simply proves that a Chicago hotel keeper is excellent material for a shrewd swindler to work upon. The only wonder is that a man who can be swindled so easily could ever manage to make a living in the hotel business in a city like Chicago. 4505 L Feb. 4; ed: 4/3 The lessees of the West Side railway notified (8) (4) (1) (2) (12) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4506 - 4509 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) him to see that all rights of the people are carefully protected on the West Side line. "The fact that the managers of the road have cut off free passes and police dead-heading is not such a serious fact that it need have aroused the Mayor to such a kingly proclamation. If the Company cannot afford to haul its cars up and down hill with its fare at five cents each and carry the usual proportion of non-paying passengers, it has certainly a right to say so. The whole difficulty is unfortunate in the extreme and it is to be hoped that it will go no further." 4506 L Feb. 4:7/1 All of the cars upon the Superior st. railway are now furnished with stoves. The temperature can be raised to a high degree if necessary to overcome the cold and render the passengers as comfortable as if seated by their own fireside. Another commendable feature is the substitution of mats for straw. This road, among the youngest in the city, manifests a spirit of enterprise and liberality well worthy of emulation. 4507 L Feb. 4:7/2 Two years ago, a man had his hand amputated. Since one of the nerves continued to pain him, the doctors decided to remove another six inches of the arm. Accordingly, the patient went to the Prospect st. Medical college yesterday, where Dr. C. H. Von Tagen performed the operation. The senior class was present and the "stub" of the arm was circulated for inspection. Suddenly it disappeared. Dr. Von Tagen, believing C. S. Morely, one of the students had pocketed it, swore out a warrant for his arrest, but since no value could be put upon the "stub," the warrant was changed to disorderly conduct. Another medical student, J. B. Judson, attempted to give Morely some legal advice but was pushed away by Dr. Von Tagen. Judson thereupon swore out a warrant against the doctor on a charge of assault and battery. Both men gave bail and the cases will be heard this afternoon in police court. 4508 L Feb. 4:7/2,3 A LEADER reporter recently interviewed Dr. Wolcott said that 360 members representing 170 Congregational churches had been asked to attend, but he could not state whether all would respond. He has formed no view as yet about the scandal and goes into the conference with an open mind. The West 4509 L Feb. 4:7/4 An anonymous letter to the editor says: Side street railway should be forced to change the gauge of their tracks from five feet two inches to four feet three and one-half inches. This narrower gauge is now being used by the East Side railways and is showing many advantages. It is more economical to the company and does (6) (4) (11) (11) |