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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-09
CHARGE OF COERCION IS MADE
In the Canton State Bank Cases Defendant Miller
Files Plea Of Abatement and Two Weeks Con.
tinuanCe is Taken---Big Array of Attorneys TO
Represent the Indicted Officials

ecuting attorney threatened the
grand jurors with investigation and
prosecution upon his charges and
thereby coerced the jurors in their
further action upon the indictments
The defendant says that the prose
cutting attorney then declared to the
jurors that his defendant and 9TH
ers presented by the bills were guilty,
that they should be indicted, and if
they did not indict this defendant
the prosecuting attorney would not
accept any Of the bills but would
have the grand jury dismissed and
have a new jury called. IF the de-
fendant we're not presented by the
new grand jury the prosecuting at
torney would submit the charges
against the defendant before every
grand jury sitting during his term of
Office until he had the defendant in
dicted; and the prosecuting attorney
demanded of the grand jurors that
all the bills be presented to the court
against all the parties charged in the
bills
"The defendant says that the pros
ecuting attorney made other state
ments to the effect that the prosecut-
ing attorney strongly desired that all
the indictments be presented against
all the persons charged therein; that
as to the defendants G. c. Lawrence
and w. H. Walter he did not intend to
prosecute them and did not want in
dictments against them for that pur-
pose, but that he wanted indictments
against them to use as a club and to
be in position to secure their testi-
mony against other defendants.
THE defendant says that on yac.
count of this coercion the grand jul
rors no further considered the bills
as they were doing when the prose
cutting attorney re-entered the jury
room, and as they would have done
had it not been for the specified inn
| proper and unlawful conduct on the
| part of the prosecuting attorney, bu
then and there presented the bills o
| indictment to the court"
Some of the indicted officials ap
peared in the spectators portion of the
| room. These included Bachtel anC
Miller. Van Horn arrived after mat
ters had been settled. They were tn
object of the curious gaze of man!
persons in the crowded court room,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-09
RATE BILL
introduced Into the Ohio Legislature
by Rep. Freiner-ciVes Prose
cutors Right to Act. .,sa 9n,

Columbus, O., Feb. Representa-
tive Freiner introduced his freight
rate bill to the house this AFTERNOON.
The bill amends and supplements
Section 1878 of the revised statutes
which provides penalty of from
500 to $1,000 on any railroad chaIg-
ing a greater rate for short haul
than for long haul in the samendi-
rection and awards damages for dhe
victim double the amount of the over
charge. -or,o
Freiner's amendment strengthens
the present law in that it e&empts
from prosecution any persons testify
ing in any court in such cases, 1t
also gives the prosecuting attorney of
any county the right to bring the
proceedings and vests the courts with
power to compel appearance OF wit
nesses and the production of books,
freight rate schedules or other docu-
ments which may be wanted by tha
state.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-09
ALMOST A RIOT
When President DoIan Would Not Al.
low the Miners to Remove Him.

low the Miners to Remove Him.
Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 5.-An attempt
to remove President Pat Dolan of
District No. 5, United Mine Workers
at their annual convention today re-
suited in considerable dissension
among delegates and several times
threatened to end in a riot. When
the convention was called to order a
resolution was offered at once de-
manding President Dolan's removal
as an enemy of organized labor for
voting with the coal operators
at the Indianapolis conference. Presi-
dent Dolan refused to consider the
resolution declaring IL out of order.
This created much bitter feeling and
for a time physical attack on the
president seemed imminent. He re.
fused to recede from his position,
however, and throughout the entire
days session carried things with a
high hand. The resolution win be
offered tomorrow and threats are
made that IT will be forced through
unless Dolan recedes from his stand
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-09
DEFENSE EXPECTS
To Introduce Some Sensational Testl.
mony in the ereene-eaynor Case

mony in the Greene-Gaynor Case
Savannah, Ca, Feb. 5.-The gov
eminent made little progress today in
making out its case against Greene
and Ghynor in the United States
court, although Judge Speer refused
to permit Mr.. Osborne, for the de-
fense, to correct certain alleged i'm
proper constructions placed upon evi-
dence by District Attorney Erwin.
The district attorney drew conclu-
sions without having evidence in sup
port of them so Mr.. Osborne claimed
and he interposed a strenuous objec-
tion.
"You will have your innings, Mr.,
Osborne, it is the district attorneys
time now" said Judge Speer. when
you present your defense you can cor.
rect Mr., Erwin"
Mr.. Osborne attempted to insist
that the mis-statenents should be
corrected when mace and was order
ed by the court to take his seat.
The case promises to be replete
with sensational incidents when
the defense begins the introduction
of testimony. Five witnesses were
examined but their evidence revealed
no new facts.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-09
Bomb Was Thrown.

Warsaw, Feb. Ga dispatch from
Sosnowice, Southern Poland, states
that a bomb thrown by an unknown
person wrecked the house of a work
man there, killing four persons and
fatally ininring two others. A guam
tity of explosives were found in the
ruins.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-09
Wants Canton Branch.

The energetic citizens of Bolivar,
are working hard to get the Canton
branch line Of the Sandy Valley Trac
tion Co., to start there. This OF
course means the location of a power
house, car barns, repair shops, Office
and the homes of many employees
Magnolia Press.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-09

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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-09
The President Invited.

Washington, Feb. 5.-A delegation
of state officials and prominent citi-
zens of Pennsylvania waited on the
president this afternoon to invite him
to the laying of the corner stone OF
the new state house at Harrisburg
next October. The president was un-
able to say definitely whether he could
accept.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07
DRIFT OF OPINION.

The man who conducts a stand.
pat campaign this year will have to be
| the kind of a conductor who punches
with care, tOo.-Indianapolis News.
Secretary Taft is to be given
more time to consider the supreme JUS
ticeship, but what he would like is four
years in which to forget it.--St Louis
Globe-Democrat.
AS a matter of fact we seem to
have three national birds in this coun-
try-the eagle, the stork and the phoe-
nig."-Kansas City Journal. What's
the matter with canned chicken?
The committee of the United
States senate on interoceanic canals has
very properly upheld Senator Morgan
in requiring William Nelson Cromwell
to answer the questions put to HIM
about the Panama canal deal prior to
the purchase of the canal by the Unit
ed States. Senators Millard and Hop
kins stood alone in trying to prevent
the exposure of the scandal that is evil
IDENTIFY covered up in the purchase.
THE officials of the geological sur
vey have emulated the example of
President Roosevelt by debating to and
bringing pressure to bear on the repre-
sentatives OF the people. This inter-
ference of the executive departments
of tho government with the legislature
is not only unconstitutional, but is
likely, as in the case of the geological
survey, to lead to scandal, extrava-
gance and grating.
The controversy between the
president and the senators leads the
Springfield Republican Und.) to mar
vel at "the revelation of executive man
agement of the business of the United
States senate. As one recalls the oc-
casional uprisings of the senate in de-
fence of it's sacred prerogatives, espe-
cially IN treaty-making, from executive
interference, the winters performance
in Washington reaches the acme of in
terest."
to build the Panama canal; private en-
terprise will rebuild San Francisco.
Watch If San Francisco is not rebuilt
before the canal is fairly started
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A New York Republican went to
Washington to see about the transac-
ton of a piece of public business. AS
he once lived in Ohio he called on Sen
ator Dick and asked his assistance. |
"But why do you come to me?" asked |
Dick. why not enlist the services of |
the senators from New York;" I'VE
the solemn answer.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

The bureau of corporations says
it has evidence of 1000 distinct viola
tions OF the anti-rebate law by rail-
roads in connection with the oil mono
poly. Such being the case, it might
be well to take at least one case into
court. These advance notices no longer
thrill.
San Francisco, we learn, has
been several feet out of its old latitude
and longitude since the earthquake.
The standpatters, however, remain ex-
actly where they were in 1897, and the
most delicate tests show them to be
quite unaffected by the tariff reform
upheavals since then.
There are probably no more con-
tented men nowadays than the tariff
protected trust barcns; they have
whipped the Republican tariff reform
ers at every turn and have forced Pres
ident Roosevelt to postpone any tariff
revision project he bad until the in.
dafn;te futura
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07
Subsidies Great and Small.

When it comes to anything free. /"
most of us like to get our share of It
and as free seeds are the only subsidy
the planters of the south, or the farm.
er of the north, get from Uncle Sam
congress has determined to continue
the distribution. But what a price the
recipients pay for their five cents
worth of seeds, for the same system
on much greater scale allows the
trusts and combines to receive enor-
nous subsidies through the protective
tariff and other special privileges. All
these subsidies from the government.
petty and great, are paid from the
taxes collected from the people, and
the farmers pay, on the average, $1OO
for the five cents they receive, for, in
addition to their share of the taxes,
the subsidized trusts, protected by the
tariff, add to the price they charge for
their products so that the cost of living
has advanced about 40 per cent
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

We sometimes see huge ring or
halo round the moon, occupying a
space in the heavens so large that
ninety moons breaG+Ns would but Just
suffice to span it, yet the body of the
sun would fill all that space ere we
had approached within 100000 miles
OF him. Once on his apparent sur
lace were we permitted to travel there
on and with the speed of an express
train it would require five whole years
Of continuous journeying before we
could make the circuit of this orb.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07
FACTS GUARANTEED
Neuralgia and Ansemia are Cured bv
Or. Williams Pink Pills.

For nearly a generation the people Of
this country have known Dr. Williams
Pink Pills, during which time proof Of
thousands of cures by this remedy has
been published and confirmed and not
one person has been harmed in the slight.
est degree by their use. The pills con.
tain no opiate, narcotic or stimulant,
nor any drug which could injure the
most delicate constitution.
"For over year" says Miss Charlotte
Van Salisbury, Of Castleton, NY, ~
suffered from neuralgia and palpitation
of the heart. My skin was pale and sal
low and / was troubled with dizziness,
fainting spells and fits of indigestion. I
was very nervous and would start at the
slightest sound. At times great weak
ness would come over me and on one oc-
casion my limbs gave way under me and
fell to the sidewalk.
"Of course was treated by our local
physicians and also consulted a noted
doctor at Albany, but nothing they gave
me seemed to benefit me. One day I
read in a newspaper about DR. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People and / imme-
diately gave them trial. 1 soon felt
much better and my color had begun to
return. continued using the pills and
by the time had taken eight boxes I
was entirely cured.
"My sister, Sarah Van Salisbury, suf-
fered terribly from anamia. She was.
pale and thin and we feared that she
would become victim of consumption.
She tried DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People and in short time she be-
gan to gain in strength and weight.
She is now strong and well and we both
heartily recommend DR.. Williams Pink
Pills to all who are in i'll health"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by all
druggists or sent, postpaid, on receipt
of price, so cents per box, six boxes for
So so, by the DR.. Williams Medicine Co.,
Schenectady, Ny. Descriptive pam
phlets free on request.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

To crafty the pride and stimulate
the ambition Of the soldiers of the reg.
ular army the general staff has issued
an order requiring veterans of the
Spanish war, the Philippine insured
tion and the Peking relief expedition
to wear bronze medals on dress pa.
rade and occasions Of ceremony. This
will give the boys something to be
proud of. The general staff also pro-
vided a special badge to be worn by
soldiers Of the regular army who have
been awarded what is known as the
certificate of merit. 1t entities the
holder to 81 a month extra
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07
One of the American visitors who

One Of the American visitors who
are swarming into Oxford for the
eighth week was surprised to learn
from a porter on the station that he
had about another mile to cover before
he reached Magdalen. He asked-as
many have asked more mildly-why
the blazes the station had been built
so far from the colleges. The Oxford
porter replied, gravely: Il dunno, sir;
but l 'spect they thought it more
handy to have it down here by the
railway"
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

She was large and majestic, and Just
before the elevated train in which she
was riding approached the station she
arose and sailed down the aisle to be
at the door first. In an instant she
sensed rather than saw man just be-
hind her. Taking deep breath, she
widened her chest and stood firm No
man should push by her. Turning
slightly, she said, with massive calm
and coldness, Kindly cease pushing;
am getting off here" "Yes, know,
lady" came in meek tones, "but have
to open the gate for YOU" 1t was the
guard.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

A Melbourne clerk has achieved a
great feat in penmanship. With q
steel pen, and without the use Of a
magnifying glass, he has inscribed on
post card l0,1G1 words The writing
consists of selections from the words
OF Shakespeare and Dickens, a chap.
ter from Genesis, and the song. Home.
Sweet Home" The ". rk is so beau.
ufully done that many people have
been able to read the writing with the
naked eve
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

We have all heard of hobos, tramps,
etc., becoming car riders. but 1t re-
mained for the S. A. L. passenger train
going to Tampa the other day to ex.
hibit the first rooster tramp ever seen
In Florida. AS the train arrived at the
depot a half grown rooster was seen
flying from the middle car coup
ling to a pond, take drink, scratch
around at great rate for a grub
stake" and just as the conductor cried
sAll aboard" the rooster flew to his
perch, and no amount of coaxing or
shooiug would cause him to leave his
seat
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07
PRICES GREATLY INCREASED
Cost of Living Advanced 46 Per
Cent. Under Influence Of
Monopoly.

The cost of living is now AZ per cent
higher than on July 1, 1897, without
including rent though it is safe to
say that rent keeps pace with the Ia
creased cost Of building material s.
AS everyone pays these increased
has caused such an enormous advance
1t should be first noted that the pres
ent trust-fostering tariff law went into
effect July "a, 1897, and that almost
Immediately the price of all protected
articles began to advance in this coun-
try, although there was no similar
rapid advance of prices in other cCun-
tries. AS this tariff law protected the
American producers from competition
| 1t was very natural that they should
increase the price they charged for
| their products to the point where for
eign goods could be imported and pay
the freight and costs and also the tar
iff duties averaging over so per cent.
The large profits possible under the
protective tariff induced the formation
of trusts and combines to control the
home market and this monopoly ad-
vanced prices to the highest limit. No
figures or argument are necessary to
prove the advance in prices, everyone
who buys food or clothing, or pays
rent, knows of the large increase from
their daily experience. 1t is most ex-
asperating to also know that the trusts
and combines, which produce about all
the necessities and luxuries of life,
are selling their surplus stocks, after
the American people have bought all
they can afford, at much lower prices
to foreigners than they charge our
own people. AS the tariff is a political
issue, the Republican leaders and
writer's denied until lately this selling
abroad cheaper than here, and de-
nOunced it is Democratic fabrication,
but the evidence produced of the facts
has now compelled them to admit it,
and in sheer desperation boast of it
as one evidence of prosperity. Yet il
the trusts would offer this surplus to
the American people at the same price
as they sell to foreigners, our people
would gladly buy this surplus at the
reduced price, but that would naturally
tend to decrease the demand for the
high prices goods and lead to reduc-
tion of the price of the whole trust
productions.
There IS another cause for the con-
slant advance in prices, that is work
ing the world over which Is the extra
ordinary increase in the production of
gold. AS gold is the measure of values,
when it becomes more plentiful, it de-
creaSeS in value-aS measured by la
bor-and thus the prices of all classes
of commodities measured by gold
are advancing to higher levels. But
prices in the United States are so much
higher than in other countries, espe-
cially in England, which Is on a tar
iff for revenue basis, that there must
be some great fundamental cause at
work to produce so much higher prices
here than elsewhere. AS our high tar
if taxes prevent the importation of
foreign goods, which would compete |
with the trusts and combines, except |
to limited extent of high class goods. |
we are at the mercy Of monopolists |
banded to gether to plunder us.
TO obtain relief from high prices, |
the tariff must be revised.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

The interesting thing about China
town il San Francisco was its genuine
character as an Oriental settlement,
living Of, for and by itself. as truly
eastern as any community in a re-
mote part of China. Many of its in.
habitants never went out Of the pre-.
cincts of Chinatown from one end OF
the year to another
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07
Uafe Deposit.

OF Marshal Field III. an AmaEng
story was recently told at Lakewood.
The boy, according to the story, ap-
preached an old lady in q Lakewood
hotel and said to her:
Can you crack nuts?"
mo, ny dear, can't" the old lady
replied. Il lost all my teeth years
ago."
"Then," said the little boy, extend
ing two hands full of walnuts. please
hold these while / go and get some
more."-Denyer Times.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

A PittsburS lady on a Summing tour
was so shocked that the board of safe
ty has ordered that all Pittsburg peo-
pie shall eat in their houses and that
the mothers shall see that their chill
nren wear plenty of clothes, no matter
what the state of the weather. Here
Is a field of reform and exposure that
has been left open.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

That Philadelphia burglar who hab.
itually carried a Bible in his pocket
would have had much more sympathy
with the jury if he hadn't also car.
riel choice selection Of jimmies.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

Perhaps there should be less dispo
sitton to sneer at the railroad clerks
who got coal stock without paying any.
thing for it. Were those who didn't
take it the persons who were not pre-
sented with opportunities? 1t is not
regarded as in good taste to look
q gift horse in the mouth
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

Princeton took a baseball series
from Yale the other day. Old Eli
was just beginning to think that he
was about to regain his old position of
wellnigh unquestioned supremacy u
the intercollegiate baseball world.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

Thomas Nelson Page, just home
from the other side of the pond, says
that Europeans look on Americans
as nation of grafters." Also, as vic
tins to guides, hotels and about every
thing else
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

Most of us don't know how much we
have to be thankful for until we really
do have some trouble. AS rule, the
most Indifferent people are those who
have always had an easy road to
travel
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

AS soon as a man gets the notion
that his employer can't get along with
out him he is getting ready to loose
his lob
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

Religion is used as cloak In some
families, and you may have noticed
that there is generally coat of dust
on the family Bible In such homes.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07
Women Want Much.

Skoller-Of course, the generic
term man" includes the women
Maryat-Not always.
Skoller-Oi yes. You see
Maryat-Nonsense! For instance,
the sentence, Man wants but little
here below" would be ridiculous in
that tcase.-Washington Star.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

1t Is to be hoped congress won't
sit forever, like the douma proposes to
do.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-07

The bill pending before congress
granting right of way for an electric
road through Shiloh Park has passed
the lower. body and if it becomes a law
the electric line from Corinth to Pitts
burg Landing on the Tennessee river
will be Immediately built. This project
has been on foot for some years and
would be worth great deal to that sec
tion of the country. 1t is believed that
with this line built and in operation
Corinth would get material reduction
in freight rates and that the whole
country adjacent to the route would be
equally benefited.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-15

A fine new stock OF hsmmocks at
Boyle Bros. 5l,tf
Boyle Bros. & Co. have hammocks
ouiit Tor two. :1-tf
Mrs. II. W. Kiefer of Idaho Falls visit
ed Mrs. Wasley Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs, Guy Nunamaker is here visiting
her parents, Mr., and Mrs. Thompson.
Mrs. Harry Gesas is expected back
from New York and Baltimore about the
tirst of July.
Next Monday Rev. W. s. Black leaves
tor Nova Scotia to visit his aged mother
who is critically i'll.
Miss Lillian Gesas who is attending
school at the Sacred Heart Academy at
Ogden is expected home on the % inst.
The best rest is to be had while re-
chnlng. Get hammock of Boyle Bros,
and notice the benefits of using it. 3l-tf
W. +, Martin The coal dealer is getting
material on the ground to build an Office and
storage room near the office OF the Weeter
Lumber company.
In the absence of Rev. Haley, pastor
Black will preach in the Methodist
church Sunday morning and in the eve.
ming.