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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-29
The BODY OF A MURDERED MAN
FOUND AFTER THREE YEARS.
From the portsmoutb tOhiol Times.

From the Portsmouth tohio) Times
Great excitement exists in Brush Creek
township over the discovery of the dead
body of man last Monday evening who
suddenly disappeared from the vicinity
of Galena in the winter of 1873. The
circumstances are as follows;
Evarts Tucker, man of about IS
years of age, was trader from Benton
vile, Adams county, Ohio, who was in
the habit of trading in the Galena
neighborhood, principally conhning his
business to cattle and horse trading. He
was widely known in that part of the
country which embraces portions of Ad-
ans, Pike and Scioto counties, and was
considered honorable in his transactions.
Only short time before his final disap-
pearance he purchased vest and pair of
pants from Galena merchant, telling
him that he would return in aweek or
two and pay for them. From there he
went to Jacktown, where he was inter
ested in a suit in Justices court. 1t was
but day or two after this until he was
seen fo the last time. Days grew into
weeks, weeks to months, months to years,
and Tucker never returned. His sister
wrote repeatedly to Galena for informa-
ton as to her brothers whereabouts, and
finally the suspicious of foul play deep
ened until committee of ten or twelve
citizens began to scour the woods to find,
if possible, some evidence to justify
their suspicious.
Last Monday evening they found in
the woods, at the tributary of Rarden's S
fork, six miles from Galena, some clay,
which had evidently been dug out of a
grave 1t was a silent, but plain mark Of
mysterious burying place. They ex-
cavated the earth for two feet and came
upon the remains of Evarts Tucker. His
full, flowing sandy beard and his cloth
ing had not yielded to decay, although
there was nothing but the skeleton of the
man who had been shot down and there
concealed from the eye of man. The
remains lay on the right side, and there
was the plain trace of the deadly shot,
The skeleton conformed to the stature of
the man.
Suspicion rests upon man who had
given note to Tucker, and it is said he
had refused money payment, darkly
threatening Tucker to pay the debt soon
in another way. The body, very sus-
piciously, too, was found in the woods
only about a mile from the debtors
house. 1t is supposed that Tucker was
riding on the ridge road to or from the
house when the murderer, who was ly-
ing in wait for his victim, shot him down.
An arrest was contemplated, and ere
this time it is probable steps have been
taken to bring the guilty person to JUS
tice.
There should be no relaxation in the
work Of sitting the dark deed to the bot
tom, and bringing the guilty to the ropes
end. Three years of guilty conscience
must have been a fearful punishment,
but the hangman's halter should yet close
around the murderer who sent Tucker
into eternity unshrieved, for it is written
that "whosoever sheddeth mans blood,
by man shall his blood be she'd"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-29

EDMUNDs, Frelinghuysen and Morton,
the three Senators who voted steadily
with Joe Bradley to make Hayes the
fraudulent President, have not yet had
their full reward for their partisanship
and bad faith. Frelinghuysen dropped
out of public life few days after the job
was completed. Edmunds has hardly
been heard from since the Commission
adjourned; when he reappears in the
Senate he will find that the Ohio crowd
have gathered in the most substantial
fruits of his double dealing. Morton
has been shrewd enough to get the post
office patronage north of the Ohio river,
but after much vexation of spirit he has
fallen back into a position of far less i'm
portanCe in his party than he would have
occupied under Democratic admins
tration. Hoar and Garfield, the two
Hayes Congressman on the Commission,
have really gained nothing yet but dis
grace by their work. Garfield could not
even get Hayes to help him out in his
fight for Sherman's seat in the Senate,
though his bribe,taking is so we'll known
that Hayes could hardly do him much
good, Most of the politicians who are
manifesting an eagerness to Join in with
the Fraudulent President on the basis of
what he vaguely calls his "policy," will
find it about as Improbable as Edmunds,
Garfield, and the rest of the Republicans
on the Electoral Commission have found
their work to BEET.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-29
A Two MILLION DOLLAR STEAL.
High Officials Implicated.
Washington Special to phlla. Press. 18th

washington DpSSlul W ullh. lSooi litus
Considerable excitement has been cre-
ated in Treasury circles by the announce
ment that Assistant Secretary Conant
has been found to be involved in the
fraudulent collection of interest due the
holders Unregistered United States bonds.
Treasury officials to whom application
was made to- day for definite information
on the subject declined to either confirm
or deny the rumors. An investigation is
now in progress 1t appears that this
systematic scheme Of fraud against the
Government and people will involve the
officials, as CoIlusion must have existed
among subordinates in the offices of the
Secretary of the Treasury and Register
of the Treasury, and also in the office of
the United States Treasurer. Under the
law, at the end of ninety days all unpaid
interest at the Sub-Treasuries is covered
into the Treasury. Parties in the depart
ment would make notification of this un-
paid interest to outside persons, who
would work up the case by securing
blank powers of attorney from the right
full owners, who, however, were kept in
ignorance of the sources whence the
money was to come. When these claims
were presented the Colluding subordi-
mates would see that they were put
through the necessary forms of the De-
partment and paid. 1t is estimated that
the aggregate amount involved is about
$2,000,000. There is no doubt that the
conspiracy was one of extended ramif-
cation, and when thoroughly worked up
will inevitably result in the official de.
capitation of other officers than Assist
ant Secretary Conant.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-29
A CHEEKY ROBBER
How The BOOk-keeper Of a Brooklyn
Bank Made or with $3.50, 1000 and Of
fered to Compromise for Half Of the
Amount and Immunity from Arrest.

A New York dispatch Saws that George
L. Whiting, head book-keeper in the
Brooklyn Bank, was arrested yesterday,
charged with having robbed the bank of
100000. In a valise which he carried
at the time was $4,000, leaving $4,000
unaccounted for. The circumstances Of
the robbery are as follows: Wednesday
afternoon, after bank hours, Whiting was
correcting some clerical errors, in compa-
ny with another clerk, and remarked
that he had heard that the officers in
tended reducing his salary but that he
didn't propose to let them do it easily,
adding that he would get a leverage on
the bank and compel compromise.
Whiting remained after the other clerk,
and, having the combination, opened the
safe and abstracted $100000in negotiable
bonds, and 100000 in greenbacks. The
next morning the President found note
from Whiting, saying the bank must
give him half of the 100000 and satisfy
him that he would not be prosecuted, and
that if they did not do that he would
start off with the cash and burn up the
bills that were in his possession and
further, that if it was necessary he
would burnlup all the money rather than
return it.
The case was placed in the hands of
detectives. anda personal. put in the Her.
aid stating that the proposal was agreed
to. Notwithstanding this no trace of
Whiting could be got at till yesterday
morning, when he was seen entering his
residence, and on making his exit again
was arrested and taken to police head
quarters, He refused to state the where
abouts of the remainder of the stolen
money, when first questioned, but late
last evening confessed that the missing
$4,000 was concealed in closet in his
room at the Van Dyke House, corner of
Bayard street and the Bowery, New
York where the detectives found it. The
money was counted at the Brooklyn po-
lice headquarters, and found to be cor
rect. Hall the Teller, was supposed to be
the only one who knew the combination
of the lock of the safe. He had the fig
ures entered down in book which Viii
ting one day asked leave to look at,when
he quickly copied the combination and
handed the book back. The prisoner
was locked up last night
The Brooklyn bank officials have
counted the recovered money and found
it $4,000 short. Whiting refused to say
what was done with the deficiency. He
finally stated that he spent it, but being
asked what for replied that was his bust
ness. The officials doubt his story.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-29
ASAVAGEB BULLDOG ATTACKS
ALITTLE GIRL.
Gallant Conduct of a Policeman.
No Hope for the Child's Recovery.

Between twelve and one o'clock yes
terday afternoon the five year old daugh-
ter of Daniel Booth, who lives on Gilbert
avenue north of Sycamore street, Wal
nut Hills, was attacked by savage bull
dog, and torn so terribly that she will
die. 1t appears that the child had been
in the habit of feeding the animal, and
had given it its dinner in the yard of her
fathers residence, and went out to it
again with piece of bread in her hand,
when the brute sprang at her throat and
face. The child's mother was in the
yard with it and screamed in agony for
aid. Policeman John Thomas, who lives
in the adjoining house, hearing her
screams and cries, quickly scaled the
fence and sprang into the yard, to find
the hellish beast tearing the child with
its terrible fangs. 1t was impossible to
loosen its fearful grip on the little ones
face, so at the risk of shooting the child
Mr.. Thomas drew his revolver and fred
at the dog. The ball struck it in the
head, when it loosened its hold and fell
back for a moment Mr.. Thomas at once
grasped the child and handed it to its
mother. Just then the dog, with undi-
minished ferocity, sprang at Mrs. Booth
and bit her hand severely. 1t would
have caught the little girl again but that
Mr.. Thomas fired another ball into it,
and this last shot killed it. Medical as
sistance was at once procured for the lit.
tie sufferer, who was cruelty bitten and
mangled in the face, breast and throat
but late last night it was thought there
was no hope of her recovery. Mr. Thom-
as deserves the greatest praise for his
promptness in rescuing the child and his
pluck in facing the infuriated beast
Gin. Enquirer. 10th.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-29

M. Gambetta's late Sunday speech in
favor Of secular education in France made
decided popular impression. He advo-
Gated education which would make a
practical France, not France carried
away in the whirlwind of religious and
philosophic disputes. Secular education,
though so much cried out against, had
existed more than century in Holland
for seventy years in Sweden; there were
many secular schools in Belgium; and
the progress of unsectarian education in
England has been speedy and gratifyir ;.
The spirit of liberty was on the side Of
those who advocate the respect and in
tegrity of the free thought of childhood.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-29

ALBANY Argns: The Administration
party confesses that the policy of the
Democratic party upon the Southern
question is entirely sound. A few months
since they denounced it; now they adopt
it. The stone that the builders rejected
has become the head of the corner. Rob-
bed alike of their President and their
policy, the Democracy have, at least, the
satisfaction of knowing that their oppo-
nents concede their superior wisdom.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-29
HOW CORBEN GOT HIS PLACE.
From the Clermont Sun.

From the Clermont Sun.
Many of our citizens wonder how Col.
Corbin, of Monroe township, this county,
succeeded in obtaining Babcock's place
at the White House as Military Secretary.
1t was brought about through the infu-
ence of William D. Bickham, of the
Dayton 10HrNaiwho is Corbin' S brother
in-law. Mr.. Bickam was an original
Hayes man-his great hacker at the Gin.
cinnati convention, and who asks for no
office, but wants all his kin and friends
"placed" in the interest of reform (?), and
to atone the wrongs done in the South
by the carpet-baggers. A brother-in-law
was mighty handy in Corbin's case.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-29
GOING NORTH.

ParkeBburg,. "
Close connections made at Dover with the @. b
p. Il. R., and the G. I. " 4 W. Ry.; at New Com
erstown with the ?. Q. u ST. L. Ry,i at Cambridge
with the r. & o. R. R; at Point Pleasant with the
D. o. R. R.; at Marietta with the Marietta and Gin
cinnati r. R. for Belpre, Parkersburg Athens,
Hamden, Portsmouth, Chillieothe and the West
Also with the Muskingum River and the Ohio
River Packets.
Through tickets to principal points. Baggage
handled with care. -
J, A. KINGSBURY,
Master Of TrAnS
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-29
WESTWARD.

Trains Nos l, 2, 8 and 12 on main line run daily
Palace Sleeping Coaches on trains No. /, 2, 8 and
II between Cincinnati and New York daily.
Hotel coach on trains and t2 between Leayitts.
burgh and New York daily.
Connections at Mansfield with Pittsburgh, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad; at RaVenna with
Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad; at Meadyille,
Union and Cory for OIL Regions at Corning for
Rochester and points on the New York Central,
and at Binghampton for Albany, Springfield,
Worcester, Boston and New England s0>s
Close connections at Cincinnati with trains for
the South and West.
No stop-over" allowed upon local tickets. Lo.
cal Passengers must purchase tickets to their first
stopping place, and then repurchase FROM that
point to destination.
W. B. SHATTUC,
Gen. Passenger and Ticket ASt., Cincinnati, o.
P. D. COOPER,
Gen, Superintendent, Cleveland, o. noy16t
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-29

MARIETTA, PITTsBURG AND CLEVELAND
M RAILWAY.
Office of MASTER OF TRANSPORTATION
Connections and Time Table in effect Dec. 75
1876
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-24
FOriY.Fiith Congress.

The House committees are not yet ap
pointed, Speaker Randall ran away home
to Philadelphia, so as 10 be able to MAKE
them up in peace. The Colorado election
case is about the only thing of Importance
that has been discussed. and the discussion
was of rather low order, being conduct
ed mainly by Conger and Butler on the re
publican side, and Springer and Harris OF
The democratic.
The Senate divided on party lines on the
question of the immediate admission o
Spoford of Louisiana, and finally his cast
was sent to the same committee that ha'
Kellogg's in charge, with a general under
standing that a report is soon to be made
The committee is now engaged in hearing
arguments on the question whether Spot
ford Or Kellogg is the senator elect. Eus
tbs and Pinchback are rival claimants fol
The other Louisiana seat. Mr.. Edmund'
has obtained the appointment in the two
Houses of committee to provide for ;
better method of electng president AM
vice president. Ingalls, of Kansas has in
reduced bill restoring the silver dollar
Of the fathers"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-24

The present House of Representatives
ut Washington contains one hundred and
seventy-five lawyers.
Wayne MacVeigh and the English mis-
siOu are Il good deal talked of in connec-
t On with each other at Washington.
The coal miners of Pennsylvania, who
struck for higher wages, after being idle
three months, now 60 to work at the old
prices.
The Episcopal Triennial Convention in
Boston has just closed its three weeks
session. Judge Redfeld returned yester.
dry from his attendance on the convention
is one of the lay delegates from Vermont.
The latest phase of Jersey Justice" is
the attempt of the mayor of Jersey City to
put stop to all business on Sunday. Not
only are the liquor-shops and barber-shop,
closed, but provision and drug stores also,
and the running of horse-caIs is likewise
o be prevented.
In the first nine months of the present
year the losses by fire in this country were
S52,000000 Canada S27.OOO,OO0. The
losses for the same period last year were
$47 10000 for this country and $4,000
900 less for the two countries than thi,
year. Fire insurance companies must
draw on their reserves again.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-24

Senator Morton's sickness continues, and
it is very doubtful whether he will ever
again take his seat in the Senate. His in.
ierest in politics is as lively as ever, and be
authorized an editorial in review of the
situation which WAS printed Monday, in
the Indianapolis Journal. The Senator
pleads for harmony in the party, ard says
that tile president is an "original Repub-
lican, and as such has been tested fol-
twenty years AS Il soldier and a civilian,
and during that period has never wavered
or been found wanting in his devotion to
the fundamental doctrines of the Repnhi.
can party" As to the Southern policy the
Indiana senator says the time for discussion
as to its right or wrong has passed.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-24

The temperance alliance figures it that
Boston has 2 l0S licensed liquor shops, tr
nearly 300 more than last December. They
think the commissioner licensed nearly
everybody who could pay for it. In grant
ed victualers' licenses, they charge that
the law has been grossly violated, and that
in hundreds of cases there is no pretext o.
selling anything but liquors, except it be
crackers and bologna sausage, The en-
forcement of the law has been in the
same spirit and the police see the laa
violated under their eyes without CON-
PLANT while of 1867 liquor cases on the
superior court docket, but 30 have been
tried of whom only a were inel, while
l,l36 cases were laid on file.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-24

Gen. John NJ. Harlan of Louisville, Ky,
whom the president has nominated to ill
the vacancy on the bench of the Supreme
Court, occasioned by the resignation Of
Judge Davis, is about forty-two years Of
age, and is acknowledged by all who know
him to be man Of remarkable powers,
both intellectual and physical. Gen, IIar-
ian received u liberal education, and enter.
ed upon the study and practice of law at
an early age. He first appeared in politics
in the campaign of' 1855, ut the age Of
twenty-one, when he advocated the cleo.
lion of the Fillmore ticket. In 1853, when
only twenty four years of age, Gen. Ilar-
Ian ran for Congress in the Fayette Dis
lrict us the opposition candidate, but was
beaten after an exciting contest by 81 in II
total vote of 1897. When the war broke
out he promptly espoused the Union cause
and served two years as Colonel of the 10th
Kentucky Infantry. The death OF his
father in 1868 compelled him TO resign his
commission. lie was soon after elected
bbtOl al vi liiG otttNO WI llG
Union ticket, running considerably ahead
Of his associates. AT the close of his term
he returned to Louisville and entered upon
an extensive practice of law, his business
partner being Col. Brstow, ex.Secretary
of the Treasury. In 1871 Gen. Harlan was
the republican candidate for governor at
which time he stumped the state with his
competitor for the position, after the Ken
lucky custom. In 1872 he participated in
The republican canvass, speaking in Maine
and other states of the north with much
effect. In 1875 he was again the republic
can candidate for governor in Kentucky,
and increased his vote by very active
canvass. His championship of republican
ism In Kentucky has made him the ac-
knowledged leader of tie party in that
state.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-24

VERMONT AND CANADA RAILROAD
The annual meeting of the sjockholder.
OF the Vermont and Canada Railroad Com.
pany was held ut Towns Hotel, Bellows
Falls, Thursday, October 18th. Presiden,
Nichols presented an annual statement o.
the condition of the company On the lOlt
OF May last contract for the sale of the
road to the Central Vermont Railroad
Company was executed by the president,
OF these companies, and it is now depend
inc upon the decision of questions at issue
before the Supreme Court of Vermont.
The old board of officers was reelected a.
follows: President, DR.. James r. Nichols
Haverhill, Mass; Secretary and Treas
urer, A. G, Stafford, St. Adams; Directors
James r. Nichols, Samuel Wells, J. A
Griswold, Bradley Barlow, Edward Bangs
John Curtis and William Mixler
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-24

The Episcopal Convention, at Boston
ends tonight The proposition to change
the name Of the church came up for direc
action, on Saturday, in the house of depu
ties, in the shape of u report from the
proper committee, that no change should
be made. This report received the affirm
ativ1 vote of all the clergy save four, ant
ofevery lay deputy. The church remains
therefore, Protestant" with the recorded
dissent only of Rev. Drs. james DE Koven
and A. D. Cole Of Wisconsin, Rev. Mr.
Vernon of Fond du Lac, and Rev. G. H.
Hunt Of Alabama. The amendment to
the canon providing for the stricter disci-
pline of ministers for drunkenness and
other immortality created lively and
rather bitter discussion, which ended in
not concurring with the bishops, who
passed the amendment. A resolution for
the use of the dictionary of the English
church till the next general convention
was adopted.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-24

The Free Press says the first perform
anCe of the newly appointed receivers OF
the Portland & Ogdensburgh railroad was
to cease making connections with the Bur-
lington & Lamoille road; and denounces
the proceedings as a gross outrage upon
the city of Burlington and manifest
attempt TO favor Swanton.
Constable II. B. Ladd of Enosburgh
passed through here to-day in charge of a
by named Charles Coffrin, sixteen years
of age, who broke into o. Woodward's
store at Center Enosburg on Sunday night
but who was discovered by the proprietor
before he had taken anything OF Value
81. Adams Messenger.
The good people of Enosburg have
come to pretty pass when they will al
low a constable to pass through the conn-
y in charge of boy charged with steal
ing.
A son of Mr.. Belknap was instantly
killed at Holland, VT, on Saturday, Bel
Fnap and another young man had loaded
heir guns preparatory TO attending a
~hooting match. The other boy, having
set his gun in sap-holder, stepped some
light feet back, When Belknap placed
his gun in the holder he hit the lock of the
other gun, discharging it, and the charge
struck him in the chin and blew the top Of
his head entirely off.
The Vergenncs Kcrmonter says the Re-
form School is in a healthy and prosperous
condition. There are one hundred and
twenty-three boys and sixteen girls. The
near presence of diphthera-it has been
raging fatally within mile of the grounds
has led to the observance of the most
stringent sanitary rules, and the result has
been very gratifying. Thus far not case
has occurred. There is one case of fever
but the general health of the inmates i,
excellent.
1t will be remembered that the applica.
lion of the receivers of the Central Yer
mont for leave to sell receivership proper.
and to get the Vermont railroads " out
of chancery was heard at St, Adams ir
July by the Supreme Court. The full
bench of judges met in Montpelier yes.
terday for final consultation. The case
was in July given to Judge Barrett tc
write the opinion. The decision will be
announced and opinion read next Tuesday
evening, that being the evening of the
first day of the General Term of the Su.
preme Court.