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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
uoLp.UP IN BLUE CUT.
IN, work of Train Robbers Near
Kansas City.

work OF Train Robbers Near
Kansas City.
City, Dec. 25.-Blue cut,
historic through the operations
II the James and Younger bands,
10 thew we're pioneers in the train
s!,a h%usiness, was the scene tonight
y. fourth hold-up by road agents.
=. 900 o'clock tonight, the st.
=. and Chicago express, which left
Ynsas City at $40, was tagged at
H. cut, and came to a standstill.
'"Led men Immediately covered the
.ineor and fireman and compelled
am 10 get down from their cab. At
4 soms time another member of the
Nd uucoupled the express.car from
- rest of the train. The robbers
'rickly climbed aboard the locomtive
II express.car and before the SUR
ICED trainmen had time to collect
bsir wits, the bandits were speeding
AVN the steep grade beyond Blue cut,
i'm the engine and express.car. The
'ruIess.messenger, A. j. Frier, of st.
oris was a prisoner in the express
4, When they had gone a safe dis
snce the robbers halted and proceeded
4 rifle the contents of the express-car.
They forced the messenger to give up
M KEYS of the smaller safe, and OPEN
Inc it secured several packages of
..oDey. They then attempted to blow
ID the larger safe with dynamite, but
an being told by the messenger that it
eontsined no valuables, they desisted.
Tbey then boarded the engine and
xent about two miles down the track
where they abandoned it and made
hood their escape, having secured sew
eral thousand dollars.
When the robbery became known at
~Independence, a posse of county officers
bet out for the scene of the hold-up,
and at n midnight, County Marshal Kesh.
bar was arranging to send out a force
of officers from Kansas City.
1t was at Blue cut in 1881 that the
James gang held up a Chicago & Alton
express train, and made one of the big
gest hauls in the history of train-rob.
bling, A few years later, another big
tsrin.robbery was committed at the
same place, and two months ago to-
might, on October %, a hold-up al
Blue cut occurred. The men who
planned the robbery in October were
|%noviCes, and got nothing. Two mem
.bers Of the gang have since been arrest
and are in Jail.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
BURNED TO A
Awful Fate Of the Wife OF a California
Mining Engineer.

San Francisco. Dec. &c. W. Has
kell, superintendent of the Savannah
mine at Grug Gulch, in MADEIRA coun-
ty, has arrived in this city with the re.
mains of his wife, who was burned to
death last Thursday night. This body
will be placed in a vault here prepare.
tory to sending it to New York city for
burial in the Trinity church graveyard.
The lady was a daughter of the late
DR.. Livingstone, of New York, and a
relative of the Vanderbilts and Kis.
sans. She was married five years ago
in Denver to Mr.. Haskell, who is a
graduate Of the United States nava!
academy at Annapolis, and was for u
number of years connected with govern
ment engineering work in various
parts of the country.
Mr.. Haskell's hands were badly
burned in attempting to smother the
fire in his wife's clothing. She had
placed a candle on a box in the kitchen
of the house and got upon another box
to get some cake and other food to pre-.
pare a luncheon for her husband and
herself. The bottom of her clothing
touched the candle, and in a moment
her dress was in a blszs. She ran
screaming out into the yard toward
her husbands office, where he was en-
gagged writing a letter. Selling a
blanket from a bed in the Office, he ran
to his wife's assistance and tried to
smother the blaze. He was only par
TALLY successful in this effort, and
only succeeded in extinguishing the
flames with a bucket Of water.
He carried the dying woman into
the house and attempted with the rem
edies at hand to alleviate her agony,
but she died twenty.fou hours after
the accident.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
LAWYER SLEEVES ACQUITTED,
Jury Came to an Agreement After
Three Days.


Portland, Or, Dec. 30 .-Xenophon
N. Sleeves is a free man. This morn
ing at Hillsboro at 10 o'clock the one
juror who hung out for conviction cap.
ltulated, and a verdict of acquittal was
returned to Judge McBride's court.
For over twenty.four hours the ballot
stood eleven for acquittsl and n for
conviction. Saturday the jury stood
ten for acquittal and two for convic.
ton, but yesterday one of the obstinate
jurors gave up and sometime last night
the twelfth man voted mot guilty"
and the jury went to sleep. This
morning when the balif of the court
was called he was informed that an
agreement had been reached.
Juror Catchings was i%ndisposed from
the long confinement. He became so
ill yesterday that he had to be taken to
a physician.
The great expense of the trial and
the time and care expended in trying
the case demanded a verdict n way
or another, and when the result was
announced in Portland general salts.
faction was expressed. The Sleeves
jury locked up last Friday evening
and up to last night it was generally
expected there would be a disagree
ment.
Sleeves returns to Portland this
evening. He was the recipient of
many congratulations from friends to-
day on his acquittal. His friends in
Portland have been confident of his &C.
uuittal throughout, and have resolutely
stood by him during the trial.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31

New York, Dec. 25.-Mrs. Estby
ana her daughter, Clara, aged 10 years.
tne transcontinental pedestrians, COM
pleted the journey from Spokane to
.nls city at 1880 o'clock this afternoon.
ihey left the Western city May 8, on a
wager with a New York woman that
.ney could cross the continent in less
taan seven months. The conditions
Vi the wager were that each woman
was to leave town with only So and
earn their living en- route. If any
sickness befell either, the time con-
sumed by it was to be distracted from
the total time.
On the way across the continent
lucy did Homework, sewing, and sold
photographs Of themselves. At Lin
voln, Neb., Mrs. w. j. Bryan fed
Suem and bought photographs. In
Unio they called on Major and Mrs.
Mckinley.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
To Make Them Laugh.

Some of the superstltions OF the chi
nese have a humorous turn. They have
an impression that when there Is a
lone drought it is because the gods are
either angry or in a bad mood. so they
dress a dog in a comical way and lead
him through the streets. All the people
laugh. and it is supposed that the gods
cannot help laughing too. After that,
M matter how long after, it is sure to
rain. and this proves that the Chinese
theory Is correct.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
THE FISH Of UNKNOWN ORIGIN.

two miles, and placed it in a jar Of
water, when it revived and yet lives.
The peculiar find has attracted much
attention, and the great question in the
~neighborhood is: Where did the fish
come from? Many incline to the belief
that 1t was drawn up by the sun or
wind from some distant body of water
and carried in the clouds overland until
it dropped where 1t was found. The
fish somewhat resembles a %sunperch.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
DRANK WOOD ALCOHOL.
And the Wonder is That Any OF this
RascaIs Recovered

Nation, ILL.,, Dec. 24.-Two deaths,
the result of alcoholism, have occurred,
and several men ara under the care OF
physicians, and more deaths may be an
nounced. A number of young men,
ranging from II to % years of age,
and belonging to a club having rooms
III a business block, started in on a
holiday celebration last Sunday. One
young mar supplied the crowd with
crude alcohol, and the youths com.
pounded a mixed drink of alcohol, wa
ter, sugar and cinnamon drops. About
half a gallon Of alcohol was used, and
several gallons Of the mixture was con.
sumed. Some of the partakers became
intoxicated, and yesterday John Mad
ison died. This evening Bert Well.
man died in commissions. The investi-
CATION of the %coroner's jury brought to
light that the alcohol had been taken
from the Nation gas works, and is
what is known as wood alcohol, con-
sidered to be a deadly poison if taken
in any quantity. Physicians express
surprise that any of the young men sur
vivad
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
ARM TATTooED BY LIGHTNING.
Singular Phenomenon Wrought by
the Electric Fluid Upon a Woman.

the Electric Fluid Upon a Woman.
On the arm of Il young woman at
DenniSport, Mass, is Il photograph plac-
ed there by lightning. Mrs. Florence l..
Kelly was the victim of this peculiar
visitation of Jove. She is Il telegraph
operator. 1t is always the unexpected
that happens, and this is shown by the
story that Mrs. Kelley tells, as fol
lows:
Il have been an operator for several
years, and until this strange thing hap
pened to me | was as careless regard
ing electricity as everyone comes to he
who sees it flashing about them every
day. You know in Il telegraph office
whenever there is Il thunderstorm we
have a brilliant electrical display about
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
spain's warlike Preparations.

London, Dec. 25.-A Rome dispatch
70 the News says: All indications
uere seem to prove that Spain has been
preparing for the event of warlike com.
plcations with the United States. The
hurried manufacture of a large guam.
,'y OF cartridges has been ordered at
nrescia, and four cruisers have been
C,uered from the Ansaldo yards in
Genoa.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
WHENCE GAME THE FISH2
Up in a Sandbed Far from
Water After II Heavy Rain.

A short time ago a peculiar fish was
picked up under unusual circumstances
on II bed of sand near EstOver, $. G..
There is no stream or pond of water
anywhere near that spot, but II day
after "A severe rainstorm the fish was
found there, apparently dead. The
finder carried it home, n distance of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
Another Cure for Corns.

DIR. Sofshue says llnseed oil Is a sure
remedy for both hard and soft corns,
If they are indurated and very painful
the relief 1t gives in a short time IL
most grateful. Bind Oh n soft rag satu-
rated with the oil every night and
morning until the corr Is removed
easily and without pain.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
law must Not Be Violated.

Albany. N. Y, Dec. .24.-Governor
Morton has sent to the sheriff of Queen
county a proclamation, calling upon
him to see that the law is not violated
by those engaged in the Lavigne.Mc.
Keever fight, at Long Island City, to.
morrow night.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31

Parsons, Kan, Dec. 24.-E. H.. Hun
sacker, chief train dispatcher of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad
here, committed suicide today by
shooting himself with a revolver.
He had been drinking to excess.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
ESTIMATE FOR THIS YEAR.

The expenditures for the same period
are estimated at $472, 1913, 1870, leaving
an estimated deficiency for the year of
1874, 500, 000.
These estimates of receipts and ex-
penditures, the secretary says, are
made upon the assumption that there
will be no substantial change in exist
ing business conditions, and that the
present scale Of public expenditures
will not be reduced. But if our ordin-
airy business activity should be resumed
and the consumption of articles subject
to taxation should increase to its
normal proportions, there may be, in
fact, no deficiency in Jul revenues.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31

About Brltons: "Rudyard Kipling
saws in his last poem, we must beware
of his country when his country grows
polite" ale is right. Afectation IL
always dangerous."-Puck.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31

You never had a friend who did not
talk about you.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-31
c ARLISLE'S REPORT.
Statement of tho Governments Finan.
cial ConditiOn-Debt is Increasing

Washington, Dec. %. - Secretary
Carlisle, in his annual report on the
state OF the finances shows the revenues
OF the government from all sources to
have been $4O9, 475, 4OS, and the expen.
ditures $434, 67S, 654, which leaves a
deficit for the year ended June /,
1896, of s25, 2O3, 245.
In addition TO the ordinary revenues
collected during the year the cash in
the treasury was increased by the fol-
lowing sums:
From the sale of 100, 900, 900 4 per
cent thirty year bonds $l11, 1865, 246;
aud from the issue of 4 per zen bonds
in liquidation of interest accrued on
%refunding certificates converted during
the year. 81, 100, making a total of
Fill, ITO, 376.
AS compared with the fiscal year
1895, the receipts for 1896 increased
$40, l02, 215, of which the following are
the principal items of increase:
internal revenue. ....."......... ....... . 3,3il 49,
Profit Oh coinage OF bullion deposited,
cue -. l,206,5ll
Ioslal 0,ol0,Oou
There is shown to have been a de-
crease in ordinary expenditures of 3d.,
Ole, S52.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-04-02
EXAMINERS REPORT,
Canton, Sta1k COun1y, ohio.
TO The Honorable Probate Ju6Qe :.


BY authority derived from officially
OF March, 1885, and after being duly according
A. House and William Feer
ntmaion to the County Treasurer
on forthwith entered into the County Treasury
W aforesaid to the County Treasurer demanded the
and s proceeded Immediately the
inspect examine the Books Records
with all other which
We then proceeded forthwith the County Auditor
ascertaned how much
the Auditors books the exact property
amount belonging particular
requiring certificates of such examination hereby certify that
thousand hundred thirty and dollars
act amount found counted in the Treasury
that the statement annexed which with
presents the exact balances and
the then in the custody
the time and in the counted
inspected the books belonging the City Treasury
that hundred thousand
dollars the amount found
City that
with books the Clerk
payments each fund
Respectfully,
VIM. TELLER,
JEFF. A. HOUSER, Examiners.
Canton Ohio, March 3Oth, 1896.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-04-02
ConkIing and Thurman.

Senator Roscoe Conkling was once
addressing the senate in an impassioned
manner and seemed to direct his re.
marks to Senator Thurman. At length
the latter got irritated.
"Does the senator from New York, +"
he roared, "expect me to answer him
every time he turns to me?'
For a moment Mr.. Conkling hesitat-
ed, and everybody expected terrific ex-
plosion. Then with an air of exquisite
courtesy he replied:
"When speak Of the law, / turn to
the senator from Ohio as the Mussul Imam
turns toward Mecca. / turn to him as ]
do to the English common law as the
worlds most copious fountain of hu-
man jurisprudence.
The usually decorUus senate broke in
to storm of applause, and the Thur
man eye moistened little. 1t is ever q
pleasure to be complimented, but to be
complimented as a lawyer by Roscoe
Conkling-that was praise indeed. The
two statesmen were the best of friends
and greatly enjoyed each others society
when "off duty. "-Baltimore Ameri-
can,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-04-02
AN OFFICE BEGGAR.

For township clerk, that genial and
obliging gentleman, Cavie Richardson
is q candidate for re election. Mr.. Rich
ardson is resident of Canton township,
and for the past two years has filed the
office with credit to himself and his CON
stituents. The afleirs of the office for
the next two years can not be put into
better hands.--The Sunday Record.
oh, yes, Mr.. Richardson is such good
man that he manages to hold two Off
ces at the same time. He he's done
nothing but seek office for the last eight
or nine years. For several years he was
assessor in the seventh ward. He has
served as a member Of the Board of
Equalization. He is now Township
Clerk. The two last offices named, he
held for awhile at the same time. But
he was still not satisfied, and wanted to
gobble up the city clerkship last spring,
but was foiled in the attempt. He is the
best representation of an office heggar
we have in Canton, and he ought to join
the "lIog Combine" of Pennsylvania.
But say, Mr.. Record, while you were
dilating on his geniality, etc', why did
you fail to state that he secretly bolted
James ], Grant for Mayor last spring?
Was it an oversight, or was it intention
ally omitted? In your paper yesterday,
you had quite lengthy editorial under
the caption of "our position" In it
you stated that it was the duty Of the
Record to publish all the news, espe-
cially concerning candidates, and you
further stated that ga paper that does
not do this, does not do justice to itself,
its constituency, or the community in
which it is published" Now a mans
political record is the first thing the peo-
pie want to know. Especially do the
Republicans at this time want TO know
why James j. Grant was defeated for
Mayor, when the city went from five to
eight hundred Republican, and every
man on the ticket was elected, but
Grant. And if there are some Republi-
cans on the ticket now, who secretly
connived to defeat Mr.. Grant, your Re-
publican readers want to know that
also, and if you fail to publish it, you
donot do justice to your constituency,
or the community.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-04-02
HOW THE PEOPLE ARE FOOLED.

The masses of the Republican party
are fooled with the idea that they have
something to do with making President
ial candidates, but they really cut no
figure. The delegations of the different
States are made by the bosses. Conven.
tons are held to do the work that is cut
and dried for them, and the common
people are made to believe that, be-
cause caucuses and conventions have
been held, in which they have either
participated or been invited to attend
they are important factors in the great
political movement. On the day of
election, they turn out and ratify the
work of the bosses and imagined they
have performed patriotic duty. Moth
ing more is wanted Of them until the
next campaign, when they will be called
upon to again play the part Of
"patriots" When the people can be
thus easily handled and kept in political
leading strings, tamely submitting to
the rule Of party bosses, is it any won
der that magnates of great corporate in.
terests defy popular rights, and in the
security which they feel, sometimes say:
"The public be d. -d!"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-04-02
TO BE DEcAPITATED.

John Il. Poyser and Henry A. Bixler
were elected to the Offices of commits
sioner and infrmary director in the fall
of 1898 by large majorities. They are
men Of good judgment, sound sense, of
character, respect and decency, and both
of them are unflinching Republicans.
BY all party precedent, they are en-
titled to denominations, but they do not
suit Joe Reed, John Fraley, AL Eynon,
AL True and Bill McRoberts, and they
are slated for decapitation on April IS.
Candidates have been brought out
against them and they are apt to meet
the fate of Henry A. Cavnah, who was
politically assassinated two weeks ago.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-04-02

ton of American Independence, all our
great franchises and bulwarks have con-
tinuously flowed. He was the first bold
enemy of human slavery, the leader in
the first great acquisition of territory,
the fearless foe of ali monopolies, the
great apostle of universal education,
and the relentless enemy of all jobs and
corruptions in government. He died at
the great age of SO, after a career full of
wonderful works, not the least of which
was his honesty, purity, patriotism, and
large humanity, Never were deathless
doctrines of a true Democracy more
inspinngly stated than in his two in
augural addresses. Let every Democrat
ic club in the country cherish his mem
ory by appropriate resolutions.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-04-02
The "Bad Man,sr Sense of Humor.

A young man from way down east
had gone to Denver armed with an old
fashioned Allen revolver-"pepper box"
that weapon was called in those days.
In gambling house one night he be-
came involved with bad man" in a
quarrel and drew forth his pepper
box. " The "bad man, ;" who was really
tough citizen from the mountains, and
who had not the remotest idea of fear,
and who was always armed with a pair
of big navies, threw up his hand in we'll
feigned dismay and said:
"Heavens, man You amt a-goin TO
throw that at me, are you?"
For the sake of his joke he spared the
young mans life, and to that one of the
wealthiest and most respected citizens
of Denver now owes the fact that he is
doing business in the western metropolis
He is monument Of that border
mans sense Of humor Chicago Times
Herald.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-04-02
A DESERVING MAN Is CoMPLI.
MENTED.

The Alliance Critic, so ably edited by
WV. Roberts, indorses Hon. Edward S.
Raft for national delegate, in the follow.
ing brilliant editorial:
"The name of Hon. Edward S. Raft
has been mentioned in connection with
the selection of delegates from this Con
gressional District, to the Democratic
National Convention, at Chicago. Mr..
Raft is eminently worthy of the honor.
Personally, Mr. Raft is a gentleman of
the highest type of character; noble in
spirit and purpose, manly and honor
able in all his dealings, a man of strong
and forcible intellectually, and of
scholarly attainments; dignified and
commanding in every position which he
occupies and gentleman of scrupulous
and conscientious devotion to his con.
victions of duty. Mr.. Raft would be a
model delegate 10 represent the Dem
ocracy of this District in the National
Convention.
1t is well known that Mr.. Raft, two
years ago, willingly accepted the bur-
den of the Congressional canvass, and
became the standard bearer of the Dem
oCracy of this district, when the canvass
was a perfectly hopeless undertaking,
and when only the spectre of defeat
stared the Democracy in the face by
day, and haunted Them in their dreams
by night Mr.. Raft made an earnest and
able canvass of the district at his own
expense when he and everybody
else knew that there was not a shadow
of prospect of his election. 1t cer-
tainly would now be the graceful thing
for the Democrats of the district to do,
to bestow upon Mr.. Raft the honor of a
delegate to the national convention.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-04-02

AN Enquirer correspondent says that
the tables sent out with some regularity
by Joe Manley and General Grosvenor
are not worth the paper they are written
on. They are entirely speculative, and
Based on newspaper reports. The fact
is not one-half Of the state conventions
have been held. In April, the following
states are to meet; Alabama, Georgia,
Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Nebraska,
New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennes-
see and Virginia. In May, California,
Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan and
West Virginia-hye in all, while 10