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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 2154 - 2161
POLICE (Cont'd)
2154 - L May 7: 1/4 - Officer Stedman went to Alliance a few days ago,
following the receipt of a telegram from Pittsburgh which stated that a
man charged with swmdling was on his way to Alliance. When the expected
train arrived, the man was soon found and arrested, thanks to the
telegraph. (3)
2155 - L May 14:3/2 - At the city council meeting last night the commissioner
of police was authorized to make necessary repairs on the eighth
ward station house. (1)
2156 - L June 17: 3/2 - R. C. Stevans has resigned his commission as a
police officer of this city. He will, however, act "on his own hook" 10
arresting any person whom he knows to be a suspicious person. (4)
2157 - L Oct. 22: 3/2 - At the city council meeting last night it was
resolved that uniform cap and dress be provided for each member of the
day police. (3)
2158 - L Nov. 18: 1/4 - Yesterday members of the city police department
made their appearance in the new uniforms provided for them by the city
counci 1. (2)
2159 - L Dec. 29:3/2 - The city police will hold a festival and ball at
the Weddell House on the evening of Jan. 15. The price of tic1iets will
be $3 and all surplus money will be appropriated to charitable purposes.
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS
2160 - L Nov. 4; ed:2/1 - "Let Judges of Election remember that they are
liable for refusing to admit the votes of those legally entitled to give
them. It has been so decided by our Supreme Court on a suit against
Judges of Election for refusing to receive the vote of a colored person
who is more than half white.
"We state this as we are informed that if such a vote is refused in
this city the question will be tested here by a suit against the Judges
thus refusing the vote." (4)
2161 - L Nov. 11; ed: 2/1 - Let it be required by law that every voter
should register his name at the place where he intends to vote ten days
before the day of election. If it be in the city, he shall register his
name in the ward where he intends to vote and shall not be allowed to
vote in any other. The trifl ing inconvenience and expense attendir:g this
method would be no objection when compared with the importarce of the
end accomplished. If a man were absent from home at the proper time for
registering his name, he could have it done by a friend. A list of the
names registered should be held by the judges, and no one not down on the
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