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Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05
A SAMPLE CASE.
An Innocent Man Convicted on Circuna.
stantial Evidence.

"Did 1 ever know OF all innocent. man
being convicted on circumstantial evil
dence?" repeated a Detroit lawyer who
was smoking cigar in hotel the other
evening "Yes, know of case. In
fact. was the prisoners attorney 1t
happened il Missouri about 20 years ago
ard was one of my first cases.
"It was this way" continued the
lawyer as he got comfortably settled
down. a farmer had horse stolen.
and the animal was followed for tea
miles and fonnd under shed in the
suburbs Of the town where l lived. AT
the same time they found man il hid
ing He refused TO give any account OF
himself. and wheI charged with being
the horse thief he did not deny it. 1t
was not until he was put on trial =: the
higher court tina. l was retained. he
stoutly declared his innocence and ha:i
several men on hand to prove his good
character, but he wouldn't account for
his whereabouts on the night the horse
was stolen. not only felt sure Of his
guilt, but had no show TO make for hin,
and wasn't disappointed when he was
convicted offhaud AS to the 'circum
stantial part. they proved that he knew
the horse and had said he felt tempted
to steal it; also that he was seen that
evening within a mile Of the farmer
barn Horse hairs were found on his
trousers legs. and he was in hiding
near the horse. Everything pointed to
his guilt. and the jury made quick work
of him
And wasn't he Guilty?" asked one
Of the group.
mo. bit IF it. After he had been
sentenced for three years his wife came
to lie and wanted ma to advise him tc
tell the truth She knew i: all the time.
He was on. that night with two other
men to rob a store. and they got away
with Il wagon load Of goods. He was set
to watch, and while thus serving was
run into the shed by the men il pursuu:
of the horse thief. The latter got away
and the other was captured. To give his
gang time to get away he let himself be
taken to Jail and was ultimately tried,
convicted and sentenced. He had nc
more TO do with the horse than l had. "
And what did you adviser"
His best interest. of course. He'd got
three years for stealing horse. but if
he owned up to the store robbery he'd
get from 10 to l5 told him to shut
up. and the advice was SO good that
got $50 for it. Yes. circunIstantial evi-
dcnce sometimes cCnvictS an innocent
man. and if you are ever on jury ii
will be we'll to remember this fact. -
Detroit Eres Press.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05
A Man with a History.
HAs Body Covered with LumPs. Could
notea nnd Thought hc WAS
going to dry mp.

going to dry up.
(From the Ndshriiie, Tenn. Bdnner.,
Mr.. John W. Thomas, Jr., of Theta, Tenn.
Is a man with a most interesting history.
at was in "a" said he to a reporter wEo
had asked him for the story of his life, ''wh hen
| was working in the silver miaes of New
Mexico, that ny troubles began.
"From simple indigestion my maIady de.
veloped into a chronic inability TO take any
substantial food, and at times l was pros
trated by spells of hear; palpitation. On
the 1ith of April, 1898, l suddenly col.
lapsed, and for days l was unconscious,
in fact l was no. fully myself until July.
On September 1st 1 weighed but 20 pounds
whereas my normal weight is lG5 pounds.
All over my body there were lumps from
the size OF a grape to the size of walnut,
my fingers were cramped SO that could not
more than half straighten them. | had en-
tirely los. contral of my lower limbs and
my hand tremb!c,i 30 that could not drink
without spiIling the liquid. Nothing would
remain on my stomach, and it seemed that
l must dry up before many more days had
passed.
q made another round Of the physicians,
calling in one after the other, and b. the
aid If morphine and other medicines they
gave me-. managed to live though barely
through the fall"
Here Mr.. Thomas displayed his arms,
a large irregular stain as large os the palm
of the hand and of a purple color, the space
cove.e l by the mark was sunken nearly TO
the bone. THAT" said Mr. Thomas, '"is
what the doctors did by putting morphine
into RE.
''On The 1lth Of December, 1898, JUS eight
months after | took permanently t. bed
shall never forget the date c-my cousin, Joe
Foster, of Carriers Creek, called on me aud
gave me box Of Er. Williams Pink Fills
for Pale People, saying they had cured him
of partial paralysis, with which knew he
had ell but died. 1 followed his directions
aud began taking the medicine, a. a result
l stand before you to-day the most surprised
msn Oh earth. Look at my hand, It is rs
about il; have been attending to my
duties for month. Since 1 began taking
the pills haze gained ~ pounds. and | :,nl
still gaining. All the knots have dis,n.
peared from my body except this li;tI.
kernel here in my palm. ! have a good
appetite end l an almost as stroug a. eve.
was.
"Yesteriay rode th;rty-scvcn miles On
horseback, | feel tired to-day hut not sick.
! used to have from two to four si.e.ls c.
heart pa!pitaticn every night, since be "a n
the use of the pills | have had but four
spells altogether.
Il know positively that I wes cured bv
DR. Williams Pink Pills, and | bciieye
firmly that il is the most wonderful remedy
in existence to-day, and every fact ! have
presented TO you is known to nv rci-hbors
as well as to r,yself, and they will certify to
the truth of my remarkable cure"
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05

WALKING parties are to be the
thing with Washington girls this
autumn, quite as much as bicycling
parties will he another rage. The
short dresses with high boots and
lcggings Of every possible material
will also have fine showing, and
the streets Of the national capital,
especially those of the West End,
will witness unusual sights in this
respect.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05
Illinois Legislature CRtechism. /.

Chicago Post.
What is your busincss?"
IL am n statesman"
..An Illinois statesman?"
IAN Illinois statesman"
"You know your duties as such?"
IL do"
"Do you know all your rights and
privilcges?"
lido"
..Do you know the value OF repu-
tation?"
..Ycs."
"And your duty to your constitu-
cnts?"
Yes"
(Which is p"
AT all times to attend TO their in
tercsts and to be above reproach."
..llow would you classify any
charges that might be brought
against you?"
"As slander or libel"
What should he done with them ?"
They should be promptly rcfut-
ed"
'If man called YOU thief what
would it be your duty to doe"
Call him liar"
"And if he should call you a liar?"
"knock him down.
"And if he should publish his
charges?"
"Dcny them"
"But suppose he should offer to
prove them, what would be your
duiy?"
ITO deny them again"
"And il he still persistcd?'
Talk of libel suit"
"And il he continued to rcitcrate
these charses?"
..Then | should take time to think
it over"
"And if he still further emphasized
them and repeated them?"
1T would be my duty to continue
to think it over"
.And after that?"
keep on thinking"
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05
IICAGo IINES-IIERALI

CHICAGO TIMEs-IlERALD: Gen.
Cameron was n great man. So was
Thad Stevens. So is Matt Quay.
Each in his way. But when their
canonization is proposed rest assured
that the devils attorney, who, after
the custom of the church, opposes
the proposition. will have no lack OF
testimony on his side of the case.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05
Piles. Piles! Piles:

Or. Williams Indian Pile Ointment will cnre
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absorbs the tumors. allsy. the itching at once
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piles and itching OF the private parts. and nothIr
el.e. Every box is guaranteed. Sold by dru ).
gi.is, sent by mail, for 50 ceats and 81 per box
Williams Manufacturing company. Proprietors
Cleveland, Ohio. Sold BY T. II. Thomas.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05
That Tired Feeling

Is common complaint and it is a
dangerous symptom. 1t means that
the system is .dcbilitatcd because of
impure blood, and in this condition
it is especially liable to attacks OF
disease. Hoods Sarsaparilla is the
remedy for this condition, and also
for that weakness which prevails at
the change of season. climate of life
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05

AFTER more than l6 years Of liti-
CATION, the contest over the will of
Bishop Ames. Methodist Episcopal,
has been settled. The children are
to have equal share, Of what is left
Of the estate.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER s, 1895.

PRIVATE SECRETARY THCRBER'S
last joke is the retort: ..Of course
there is now harmony in the cabinet.
Does it not, in the new attorney gen.
cral, contain Harmon, eh?
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05

The reports received by the de-
partment of justice from the United
States district attorney and marshal
of Wyoming make j: plain that the
slaughter of number of BannOck
Indians in July was an atrocious
outrage, without a shadow Of justiti-
catinn
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05

THE superstitious who think the
Defender unlucky because of her
preliminary misbaps should remem-
Der that the Americas Cup was won
on Friday, Aug. %, 1851.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05

A gentleman sojourning in Edinburgh
and having heard much of the eloquence
Of the members of the general assembly
paid an early visit TO it. Next to him
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05
Found


at NJ. +. Bahnsen's drug store mar.
velous cure for all kidney complaints,
nervous exhaustion and female
weakness. 1t is the Clinic Kidney
Cure.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05

Hoods pills act easily, yet prompt
ly and efficiently on the bowels ant
liver-25 cents.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05

The ARGUS delivered every even
ing at your door ut 10c a week.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05
BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.

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anteed to give perfect satisfaction. or
money refunded. Price Is cents per
box. For sale bv Hartz & Ullemeyer.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05
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They do not weaken by their action
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Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-05

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The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-02

is only strengthened by admission O. the sagacity and skill of the genera through whose leadership final victory was brought to the union arms. If he was deficient in what Europeans tern strategy he was abundantly suppleG with strong common sense, an apt appreciation of the energy, courage and skill of his adversaries and an in vincible tenacity of purpose in the exc cution of his plans. He could not be persuaded that the issue of single battle determined the strength or weakness of an army, but with tentative energy looked to the cumula tive results of many battles. The Wilderness was, in his eyes, but a scene in the act of the great wal drama, and he shifted it within a week for another great bloody presentation So before Petersburg in the great fina, act, day after day the work of slaugh. tering went on, while the enemy steadily and surely grew less strong tc resist. Hence it may almost be said without eXaggeration that his move ments during the war presented an al most continuous array of force against force and constant clangor of death dealing arms. Finally he accepted peace as the most blessSl boon of a common country Sl rejoiced that the sound of war was heard no more in all the land.
 The time has not yet arrived to prop. erly estimate the military character and work of Gen. Grant. The events in which he so prominently figured arc of too recent date, and too many of the movers in them are now living to expect that justice shall be dealt out to thix. His former foes are not likely to forget the magnanimous terms he gave to Lee at Appomattox, nor his de- termined purpose of resistance in their behalf when q misguided chief execu- tive soon aftcrward sought to set aside those conditions by arrcsting and bring ing to trial those to whom he had pledged protection. The sublime and pathetic manner of his dying contrib uted to the allaying of much of the feeling that had been cherished against him, and the expressions of kindly re- gard and sympathy that poured in as glad sunlight after a season of cloud and darkness tended to brighten the hours of his dissolution. The closing days of his remarkable career offer the highest evidence to the greatness of his spirit. Still, despite all that has been written, the fact remains that the duty of placing Grant where he properly be. longs remains to future historian.
 WILLIAM RoSsEB CoBBE
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-02
The Mohammedan Women.

One of the leading Mohammedan cit izens of Bombay, Hon. Budredeen Tyabjee, has long taken the lead in the question of female education. He has bestowed on all his daughters an education that fits them to take their place among their English sisters in the higher circles of European society in Bombay. One of the members of his household, the wife of Mir. Abar Tyabjee, judge of the Bardoda high court. can boast of being the first Mo- hammedan woman to pay visit to the house of commons. It would be well if all 'Mobammedan gentlemen were to follow MT. Tyabjee's enlightened ex- ample and educate their daughters to keep pace with the educated young men of the rising generation, fourteen out of fifteen of whom, according to the startling disclosures recently made in the Indian census report on female education, are now doomed to take as partners women utterly illiterate and with whom they can have no commu- nity of thought or feeling.-Literary Digest.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-02

It has frequently been charged that Gen. Grant did not show proper regard for human life, in that his battles in- variably were stamped by great slaugh. ter. This implication he himself brushed aside with the explanation that all war is bloody and that that general is the best friend of peace who hastens it to its end. He further stated that the commander who hesitated to dislodge m enemy from desired point because it might demand the sacrifice of life scarcely deserved to win victory. War was to him the sure road to lasting peace, and he sought by every means in his power to make the journey a short one. 1t was his fixed conclusion that the briefest war showed the few est casualties and the least amount of human suffering.
 Common fairness should suggest the injustice of comparing Grants cam paigns with the memorable ones of Europe, for the plain reason that the conditions of the former were utterly dissimilar to those of the latter. Ours was civil war of vast proportions, which brought into acquisition every possible energy of all the sections of the country. There was very good reason why the contest should not be protracted indefinitely, and in this Grant was keenly alive to the situation. It is islander against brave and noble people to underestimate the beset- ments of the commander of the union forces. By common consent there was fair reason for honest difference as to the right of a state to secede from the union. Unquestionably the south maintained the secession view with en- thusiasm. Her people were thoroughly united, courageous and fired with pa- triotic determination to resist all in. vasion and coercion, to the shedding of the last drop of blood. The leaders of the southern armies were experienced soldiers, thoroughly equipped for their stations and well qualified to inspire confidence and obedience in their fol- lowers, The ordinary courage of the southern soldiers was intensified in the knowledge that they were fighting upon their own soil in defense of their homes and firesides. True, Grant had the advantage of numbers, but it is also true that he was at the disadvan. tage, usually, of acting on the offensive. Gen. Grant realized at an early day in the contest that the recuperative powers of the south had their set limita. | tions-that the southern armies could not recruit new men continuously, and that it's resources might be exhausted. He recognized the fact that after each heavy blow of battle the strength ot the south waned visibly, and like the trained athlete he followed up blow with blow in quick succession. Con. fession of these plain facts is no dis credit to the people or the leaders of | the section which was overcome. That they made a skilled, energetic and heroic attempt to establish their cause is an admitted fact of history, which
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-02

duties, and charitable hands were reached forth to supply the needs of the unfortunate old man.
 It is rather remarkable fact that the greatest vicissitudes cf life, usually spanning length of years, befell the Tyler family during their occupancy of the white house, viz: funeral, two births and wedding. And that grand wedding, which attracted the atten- tion of the world, was the marriage of Letitia Tyler in the white house; the wedding of the first lady of the land" {" who afterwards became the guest of the "Louise homc," an institution of private charity, founded and endowed by millionaire, as a monument to the memory of daughter beloved by him, whose taking away nearly broke his heart.
 But, returning to the girls and ladies of the white house, it is a singular fact that during the past season three of the best beloved of these ladies have been residing in the national capital and quietly mingling with the society in which they were once supreme. Mrs. Sartoris came here last winter and was welcomed by society with open arms. She was married in the white house, where, as Nellie Grant, the daughter of the great soldier statesman, she was one of the brightest and most popular belles of the white house. She en- bodied in her character the genial and unaffected qualities which for her father won so many friends. She con- ducted herself in all respects as a sim pie and happy girl; made friends by the score and was in everything as lovable as though her father were not presi- dent and herself the "observed of all observers"
 During her residence at the white house there was series of lavish en- tertainments never before equaled in the history of the republic, culminat- ing in the historic wedding beneath tie marriage bell, which robbed America of one of its favored daughters, and gave to England n matron endowed with the sterling qualities of American womanhood. The details of her unfor- tunate marriage are too well known to be more than touched upon. The fact that it alienated her from her native land has been subject of deep regret to wide circle of friends. When, therefore, in her widowhood she sought the home of her former triumphs, 1t was with real warmth that Nellie Grant was welcomed
 Little Mollie Garfield came here last December with her husband and two little children. J. Stanley Brown was private secretary to President Garfield, and had been friend of the Garfield family for many years before the nomi- nation and election of the famous and good man who came to such an untime- ly end at the hand of an insane assassin. Mir. Brown knew little Mollie Garfield when she was child in short dresses; and he often petted her and caressed the child when he was stenographer to
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-02
Maine's Most Thoughtful Dog.

A lady near here, says the Portland Express, recently made cake to take to society supper, and after it was well frosted set it out of doors to cool When she went for it it had disap. peared, and, not having time to bake another, she had to buy one to carry. The same afternoon a church circle, who were getting ready for a supper, were called out by big dog, who was found in the vestry holding in his mouth handsome cake on pan. Nc one recognized the dog, but, supposing he had been sent by some one, the cake was taken from him, he giving it up cheerfully. But on inquiry later no one could be found who knew anything about the dog. The mystery increased until it came to the ears of the lady who lost the cake, but even yet the mystery of the dog's friendship for that particular church is unsolved.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-02
EDO Reward, SIOO.

The reader of this paper will be pleased to disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving tle patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting naturein doing its work The proprietors have so much faith in its cura. tive powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure Send for list of testimonials.
 Address, F. J. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, O. 8 Sold by Druggists, 75c.
 Halls Family Pills, 25 cents.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-02
WHITE HOUSE BABIES.
Not One Of Them Has Ever Really
 Come to Grief.
Dut Some Of the Ladies Who Have Occu- pied the Mansion Have Had De- cidedly Hard and Cruel Time
 Since They Lett
Especial Washington Letter. I

Grover Cleveland was once a working man; or rather working boy. After he attained the years of manhood he ceased to labor with his hands and pended all his energies to the develop ment of his brain. Hence, although a patient plodding law student and law yer, in his mature years he never act ually toilcd with his hands for his daily bread. But he has been laborer and worker in the intellectual field for many years, and deserves common dation for the success which he has achieved.
 But this letter is not intended to be laudatory of Grover Cleveland. His little girls look up to him, however, just as the little ones look up to their fathers who carry full dinner pails with them when they go to work in the morning, and bring back their tin