——————"—
THE NEWS,
A report has reached Paris, Texas, that
three men wera murdered in a boat on Red
River, a few miles below Arthur City, No
details are obtainable The National
Household Economics Association has elect
od officers at Milwaukee, Wis, aa follows:
President, Dr. Mary Green, Charlotte, Mich ;
vocording secretary, Mrs, Marguerite Phillip,
Charlotte, Mich.: treasurer, Mrs. Ellen F,
Marshal, Chicago, ~The steamship Havel,
from Europe to New York, brought #1,235,.
000 in gold. —-Monmouth township, War-
reu county, Ill, has completed 3,000 feet of
brick pavement, the first hard country road
ever putdown in the United States. The brick
{8 single course, laid on six inches of sand,
supported on each side by two and one-half
feet of crushed stone. The cost will be less
than #5000 a mile ——A disastrous collis-
fon happened on the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Railway at Wapakoneta, Ohio,
"he through fast freight train ran into three
toaded oll car tanks, which were left on the
main track by the local freight train. The
{reight train was sot on fire, destroying it
and about 12 loaded cars. The engineer,
fireman and brakeman cannot be found and
are supposed to be {un the ruins. The fire
occurred near the Manhattan Oll Company's
pumping station, to which the flames
epread. It will be a total loss.
The Supreme Court of Columbus, O.,
granted Romulus Cotell, the murderer of the
Stone family, indefinite postponement of ex-
eoution pending a new trial. ——Alexander
and Edward Day, brothers, living near Cass-
ville, Wis., quarrelled over a trival matter
and Bdward shot Alexander dead. The
murderer was arrested, — Edward Hugh-
son, convicted of murder in the first degree
for killing his wife, was sentenced to be eiec~
trocuted at Dannemora, N. Y., daring the
week commencing December 14. ——The ex
ecutive warrant on which Edward E. Wil
son, a Doston commission merchant, was ar-
rested as a fugitive from justice at the re-
quest of Kansas City authorities, has been
revoked by Lieutenant-Governor Wolcott,
and the sureties on Wilson's ball recogniz-
ance were discharged by Judge Allen
in the Superior Court.——The Ban Fran-
eisco Post says that the effect of transfer of
artillery troops at the Presidio leaves the iat-
ter reservation with no one competent
handle artillery defenses constructed at the
Presidio. The Government has spent over
$3,000,000 on these guns and defense works,
which are now virtually neglected
Gen. Morton C. Hunter died of paralysis
He was the most honored citizen of
ington, and was distinguished both
He was the hero ¢
iny at
on itd
smith (
and military life,
grass Hill
mauga.
toga, N. ¥.,
on an execution
Weller & C
pert c
rection
apd make a
dition of the ssal herds
and
vy, and their repos
irs
and saved the
The Adam B
Airy goods h
for 17,000 ir
New Y
ering
ng Sea has
The University «
ri her oy $4.00 }
’
persons, chisel am
Hearst, widow
from California
% mine-car on
road, Shamokin, eter , 8 miner, was
killed, ut against a
telegraph pole. hl . ibiot
Gerber, James Troewitt and Michael Dut
laborers, s
fatal
loadad cars at the
The joint select comm created at
last session of Congress to Investigate and
report upon the question of
hol free of tax the maaufacture and arts
will assemble ia Washingt after the
middie of November [or the purpose of form-
ulating a report to Congress. This will be
accompanied by the draft of a law whish
will place domestio industries on as favor
able a Laals as similar industries in foreige
countries. Durlag their sessions in Wash.
iagton hearings will probably be given In
his brains bein
thke
istain 3 i “ GAY pre
» «" r
The ropaw
i“
foot of a steep decline,
: “i
ition
the use of aloo
in
in
a soon
through interrogatories to be sent out ——
The call for the next annual Farmer's
National Congress was Issued by President
B. F. Clayton, of Indiaacla, Iowa, and Hee-
retary John M. Stahl, of Chicago. The ocon-
gress will be held at Indianapolis, Ind.
November 10-18. The regular delegates
from each State are one from each congres-
sional district and two at large, appointed
by the Governor. The heads agricul
tural colieges and State agricultural boards
are members of the congress by virtue of
their offices
The British steamer Alene, Captain Zeid.
Jr3, which arrived from Port Limon at New
York, brought Capt Chas F. Bunker and
six of the crew of the Boston steamer F. T.
Driskow, which was dismasted in the harri-
cane which swept over the North Atlantic on
October 11 and was abandoned almost water.
logged on October 25 in latitude 32 degrees
is mioutes, longitudes 75 degrees 50 minutes,
when the Alens's boat took off the crew, —
The whaling bark John Winthrop has re-
turned to the port of San Francisco after an
absepce of thirty-one months, duriag the
greater portion of which time she was with
im the Arctic circle, There is not a barrel of
oll in ber bold or a pound of whalebone, and
Captain A. T. Simmons’ logbook shows only
bard juek.~——In the United States Court of
Appeals st 88 Paul opinion was rendered by
Judge Sanborn in the case of the Adams
Electric Ralilway Company against the Lio
dell Rallway Company, of 8. Louis. The
eourt holds that the Sprague electric motor
is not an infringement, —Judge James W.
Locke, in the United States Court, at Jack-
souvilis, Fis, ordered a postponement of the
sale of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key
West Raliway until the first Monday in
“March, 1897. The sals was to have taken
Place November 2, but the complainant, the
Pennsylvania Company, for insurance on
lives and granting annuities, petitioned for
the chauge ‘on sccouut of the disordersd
eondition of the money market" ——Rlova-
tors A and B, of the Pacific Elevator Com-
pany, at the intersection of Hines street and
thie North Brauch of the Chicago river, wore
destroyed by fire, The loss is about
1,000,000.
The Swadish government Las dectded to
ask the next Riksdag for oredits for money
to build warships and begin she fortifleation
of the Gulf of Bothaia
of ail
BY HIGHWAYNEN
| Woman Killed and Her
Husband Wounded,
HELD UP BY MEN IN AWOOD.
The Woman’s Love For a Few
Trinkets Costs Her Her Life
Robbers Take Dellberate
Alm.—~The Place's
Reputation,
A Special despatch from Norristown, Pa.
says: —A terrible tragedy and highway rob-
bery took piace at half-past 6 o'clock Wed-
nesday evenlog In upper Merion Township
on the outskirts of Bridgeport. The victim
was Mra Emma Kalser, wife of Charles
Kalser, Jr,, of this torough. She and her
husband were returning from a pleasure
drive In a one-horse buggy, when near the
old Crooked Lane Bohool House, a lonesome
loeslity fringed by thick woods, two men
jumped from smbush and selzed the horse's
head.
Whea the horse was brought toa stand.
still the men demanded money and valu-
ables, Kalser at once handed over his
Mrs. EKalsor was next
In com-
ying with the request she extended her
but asked that she
knife and jewelry,
Irse, be allowed roe.
me small amount and a few
he valued as souvenirs,
nake
money and her
Her reluctance to an
’
rt by
i
ah
The r
his revolver
bber who
and
yietd
taxing
at his helpless m discharged the
The ball struck iis mark, plerci
Rg through
Without a groan
carnse
rpse.
hrou ve | vi
through the biceps {
The robbers then rau f
Crazed with pain and fri
that strange
isolated spot
appeared on the
fie
alter
SOND 6
He
duced him t
minutes the murder,
quaiated with Kalser and in
irive his
WAS Ad
wile to a
nearby physician, under
ainted,
Arriving at Dr. C. H. Maan's office in
suspl ns
his wife was a corpse were confirm
physician,
to caring for
wi! then turne
the wounded arm
The amount of be ured was
ollars, which Mrs. Kai
hort
’
ook, id watch
stud and a small am
Kaiser had in
two RB
The cens of
the robbery and mu
the exact spot where the two Hungarian
women say they saw a bioyellst stabbed and
sarried away one day Suman
(a ier,
y were disposed not to give oredence
to that occurrence are
murder of the unknows
able
yor
4
RR TN.
asad A
EVENTS
Maine raliroads are giving more
crosslag tendlag jobs to women,
A Louse ln Bradford, Mass,
have Lean moved three fest {rom It
position by the wind iate storm
Iu one house {n Nashua N. H, every one
of the famiiles who have lived ia
duriog the eight bave
fever.
f the
years bad scariest
Decatur county (Ga ) £
tobacco instead of
paid for the change.
for their erops per acre.
A Hollis (N. H.) man recently received a
letter containing $200, which the unknown
writer said
maa while the latter was
Boston years ago.
mers who planted
*otton have been well
{ them got #300
re.
Home «
he bad stolen from the Hollis
in business In
An enterprising Vernon cou Va.
tractor credited with something
record-breaking performance in his lin
work. He haa
bridges there
weaka,
One
is
com pleted sizxtesn county
within a period of
eigh
of the
at a depth of 10 feet
Solid chunks of lead weighing
78 to 100 pounds each are being taken out.
A Bangor (Me.) man was sitting in a joeal
drug store recently when be caught a faint
whiff of smoke that amelled as though it
came from burning woolen. He got ap and
looked around, but could find no blaze
soon as he was seated again the odor was
again peroeptibie, He repeatad this cpora-
tion several times, and at last Le discovered
that he had been sitting on a spot where the
sun was brought to a focus by the water
botties in the pharmacist’s window, The
rays foousesd in different places on his baok
a8 ho changed position, aad burned litte
holes each time,
other day,
FATAL BULL FIGHT.
Ploador Ploroed and Mangled by as Infesiated
Brute.
A bull fight, with fatal results, ccourred at
Norgales, Sonora, Ariz., aad for a short me
caused a pasle in the audience,
Ons of the bulls becoming more enraged
than nsusi at these rather tame fights, rush-
od about the arena goring everything within
fa reach. A horse was disembowsisd. A
pieador, Jose Angulo, in an attempt to pisces
a thorn in the side of the wild animal, was
caught on one of his long horns, which
ploroed him like a sword. He was tossed
and fell to the ground blesding and man
gled, whore the beast held him between his
horns aod bit and pawed him,
He was {rightfully injured and dled a few
minutes later. There was intense excitement
in the audience, and at one time It was on
the verge of a panlo, bat was quieted by the
killing of the bull
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
Epitome of Nows (leaned From Varlous Parts of
the Btate
Pedestrians wore horrified to seo a man on
his back, clinging to the brake ehaln,
dragged under a troliey car on Market
Street, Chester, The man was Motorman R,
Hyland, and he narrowly escaped with his
lite, He had attempted to put on the brake
as he approached the P. W. & B. crossing
when the lock slipped and he was thrown off
tho car. He fell In front of the moving car
and with rare presences of mind grasped the
brake chain. His absence from the car was
not missed for some time, when the rear
brake was put on and the car stopped. Hy-
land was taken out from beneath the car
quite badly bruised and out and his clothing
torn in shreds,
A "head-on" collision oceurred on the
Reading & Columbia branch of the Philadel.
phia & Reading Raliroad, near Cordelia Sta-
tion, three miles fromm Columbia. Through
a misunderstanding of train orders two
freight trains came together, badly wrecking
both engines, Fireman John Hartman, was
painfully injured, his condition, however, is
not serious. Fortunately the engineers saw
each other's lights while still some distances
off, and managed to check the speed of thelr
trains.
The deputy State veterinarian examined
the cattle of the Forrest Btook Farm of
Robert Holmes, three miies south of Birds-
boro, and condemned thirteen Holstein cows
as being afflicted with tuberculosis,
The ofMelal also visited the farm of Joseph
Clemmer, at Douglassville, and o
killing of four Alderney cows,
D. Goodisck, a Slavoulan, was
the engine drawing the early train out
Wilkes-Barre over the Wilkes Barre & East.
Ho was pleking «« the
it
Ki on
n account of
fatally injured by accidentally sh
sell with a shot He was ab
when, taking
is
oting him-
at tos
alm, his
gun. 200k
foot
FUCO BR Io
the o
‘ stepting tl
34 x one trating the
whi
t wie
i
tion that as the gun whent of ntents
tht sl ribs
side of the body in a fright.
f
His recovery is doubtful,
entered his ri §
and tearing the
fal manner,
A rupaway team with a load of lumber was
daahin across Malo Street, Wryalusing,
struck the curd, suddenly
wagon, but sending 8 plank
crashing through a plate glass show window
in Hallock's A clerk, seeing
the missile, jumped out of its path, broken
ginas, clocks and other articles being seats
tered about the place he had just cocupled,
George I Mackey
{ Allegheny, was 0d od by the
when a wheel
stopping the
jewelry store
sx-ammiant Mlinasior
Grand
in the Ugited Biat District Court,
Jury
sharged with having
erument funds while |
Mr. Mackey says ih
'
technical and ©
£ i
was Kill t
TE
yin Fownes!
H
awarded $1400 ia cou
venden
mel
Nore
o Artist
rt at ie
! Mrs, H
Male
est into the deaths
qu fut
Walker
he ir ar
riot L Shae
Walker, was
falisd to aol
iT except to
med. N
were
sustained by the svidene faced
the case more i
established that the supposed |
WAS pure sa ware thor estates in
The dying depositions of
They blamed the ten for
verdict rendered declared
making
yatarious than ever. It was
monous les
the housa
the women
heir Hlinese
the tw
were
read
The
A house and barn at Newioh
owned by Dr, J. D. Thomas and cecupied ly
Charles Essay, wore burned. Martin
who has been working for Essay, ar
rested on the charge of being implicated 2
starting the fire. He claims he is innocent
a — I —
RAIDED TOWN OF CARNEY.
was
uildinge.
nik
town of
Al
six
outlaws, supposed to
been headed by the notoric
Dick,” one of the associates of the
Haturday night
Carney is a town of about 3% people, The
robbers entered the village from the north,
with a great show of firearm. Two of the
stora of I
the safe. After securing about #30 from
them they bound both the father and son,
threw them upon horses, and earriod them
about two miles put of town, where they tied
them to a tree.
In the meantime the rest of the gang had
entered the postoflice, but faillug to secure
anything of walue, they raided the hotel
compelilog the proprietor and several trav.
sling men who were stopping there to turn
over their money, watches, aad jewelry
Bevaral smaller stores were also raided. Be
fore entering Carney the outlaws had taken
the precaution to cut the telephone wires
leading to Chandier, 80 that there might be
no chanos of a fallare. During the raid the
bandits kept up a fusiiiade of buliets in all
directions, terrorizing the inhablissts so
that very little effort was made to resist the
raiders,
It wan some time after the bandits had lof)
before order could be restored and an on
ganized punuit begun. Finally, afier cone
sd’erable delay, about 100 armed men began
the chase. The pursuers were divided inte
three bands, and went into different direo
dons. Baturday morning a band of four
men, bellevew to huve been membors of the
gang that ‘sided Carney, appeared at Mak
hall, held up a livery stable keeper, and com
polled him to supply them with a relay of
fresh _ho sea, Soveral United States Mas
shals headed by Deputy Coleord, are lo
" varsult
MINE HORROR.
An Explosion of Gas Costs
About Twelve Lives.
A TALE ONLY HALE T0LD.
the Deadly Fire Damp, While
Searching for the Bod-
les of Other
Victims,
A special despatch from
Pa, says: —A terrible explosion of gas oc-
ocurred In No. 3mine of the Lehigh and Wii
kes-Barre Coal Company, in South Wilkes.
Barre, between 1 and 2 o'clock Thursday
afternoon. Bix men are
and three injured,
It is not yet known how many men wer:
12 are reported missing and, it
all of them have perished
never be known.
The mine was idle for the day.
there are from 400 to 600 men employed
the mines. Had they all been at work when
have been fearful The only men in
mine were the company bands and the
bosses, who were at work inthe r
changing the alr course,
David Williams, driver
head of
explosion occurred, and was hb
distance and injured
in that vicinity who
The explosion was so
plainly felt at the
roof of the fan h
the airways and brattios {nsi
the
fire
ek tu
anel,
boss, was at the
the slope, HOO feet away, when the
iried some
He was the
only one
escaped ailve,
severe that it was
! The
mouth of the shaft,
ff and al
fo ware wrecked
ise was blown o
and blown away, Th
given and
children rushe
The grie! of the won ind, whe h
was prompliy
§
ndr of men, women and
ito the
shaft
te
bands, sons or br
hearirending.
“
Lhe work of organizing rescues gangs was
It was a perilous up”
3 raking, ss the so juel pr
faltered Fire |
sistant Mis
the men for
the
begun without delay.
ved, bul no man
# Wm. HR ones and As
ied WKY
I
ng
ght
Ktewart and
> bivy
ng
I's ear'y
ower to aid tl
of walter were ac
fa by ares ¥
ish a tomy
rary air «
AS ih pr
of! reacge w
os i
! 4 gress
nay be six men
miner insist
sup ponaitl ’
On March 2, 168%
eight men
they could
The socident oce alter 4
and was caused by an explosion of
were imprisoned and
be reached by the resculs
. M.,
srred a iittle
the naked lamp of a
the
feodor was ignited by
driver boy named Jameson
was not
conl was set
on fire, and it extinguished until the
nt
mines were Hooded,
GIC SEALING,
Jommisries Favors Ite Total Buse
PEL
Ihe American
which was ap-
visit the
The expert
pointed by direction of Congress
islands and make a sciantifie Inquiry isto
of the seal herds of the North
rned to this
| son
f tha »
ndition
i Deriag rea
Y ah has retu
snore, Messrs
re
jt]
United States commingic
joeger,
vnmission, comp weed
dan, Lucas and Bi were 800
nied by a British
Messrs, D'Arey, Thompson and Mascoun.
The two commissions will make independent
{ reports to their respective governments
The American commissioners favor a total
| suspension of pelagic sealing if possible, and
while it is hardly probable that the British
would be willing to concede this much, itis
believed they may be disposed to recommend
further restrictions upon peiagic sealing,
sither by extending the boundaries of the
tioned zone, lengthening the close season, of
both. The Hessian and Japaness govern-
mente, having seals of their own to protect,
are interesting themselves om the United
States side of the case,
sts tA
ENTOMBED 28 HOURS.
Bereard McNeeney Was Baved by a Mase o
Timbers from Being Bmothered.
Bernard McNeeuey, a laborer, was en.
tomabad in a trench 20 feet deep in Newark
N. J. He wea taken out alive at § o'clock
P. M., after havieg been buried twenty-eight
hours
Daring all that time a gang of men were
incessantly at work in the attempt to extri-
oats him, and fifty men, under the super
vison of experts, wers sngaged in the rescus,
Sauffetent liquid nourishment to keep Me,
Neeansy alive was sent down to him through
a gas pipe.
At 8 o'closk inthe afternoon the rescuers
wncoverd his head and it was found that he
was standing erect among a mass of timbers,
whieh had kept the earth from smothering
tim. The danger of a further oavein was
imminent and the rescuers had to work so
slowly and carefully that MeNoeney, fearing
they would leave him altogether, began
walling piteously, He was sent to the hos
pita. where it was found that he had sus
|] tsined no injury beyond that of shock.
LABOR'S PROGRESS.
Ohio has 17,500 ofl wells,
Australia has 3,879 Americans,
Toledo carpet layers organized,
Awerica has 30,000 book k« epere.
London has 4,000 flower makers.
In China labor unious are growing,
Washingson detectives use bleyecies,
There are 9,174 union clear factories,
soston garment workers won & strike,
Buffalo has sn Italian labor union
The Krupp works has 1.0600 furnmees,
Paris department stores board employes,
Grand Rapids is to have a contral union,
Amerien pow has 1,000,000 trade unionists
New York bas 1.500 A.D, T,
boy ».
Baltimore ls to haves credit men's associ
ation,
City iaborers in Adelaide, Australia, get
$1.60 a day, ;
Washington stonemasons want allen
prohibited,
messenger
labor
Fail River Unionists protest against work-
ing overtime in a textile mill
Kansas City union stersotypers must nog
work more than six days a week,
Detroit machinery workers won & strike
for 8 minimum wage of §2.50 a day.
The convention of retail liquor dealers at
Duluth decided ©
A Catholle
» handle only union clgars
priest addressed a mass meet
ich, aud advocated un-
t
4% Bi
108 its organization
uo sick and death benefits,
{international ©
We rkers «
it last week
uvention
of the
iw
ars, free trans!
lower steps and
§
* guaranteed
LU slrect rali ways,
by Lis ©
r Canada
f ¥ . f »
for the discharge «
* Canadians in
Cansdian
Las hoe
HWE
Ph
Eight People Crushed in a Rail-
road Collision:
RESULT OF DISOBEDIENCE
An Excursion Train Containing
Crand Army Veterans and Their
Families Crashes Into an Ac-
commodation-Several
Cars Telescoped,
A despatch from Bt Louis, Mo, say®
Shortly before ten o'clock Bunday forenoon
the
Ban Francisco Raliroad, collide iy op
two passenger trains on Louls apd
posite Winds
r Btation, abou
from this city, instantly killiog eight persons
and injuring more than thirty, three of whom
will probably die,
4
The collision occurred between the second
section of an excursion train
bound Wes
and the Frisco Valley Park sccommodation,
eastbound.
¥rom what can be learned the accident was
f discbedience, or neglect of or-
train crews
Park
fasion
iBlI00n
al
ths =»
who should have remained
4
aud
1 at
0%
train was the second sect
The excursion
ec : L ! si. J Re M
ith Wales
inllway Comm ws that the total
SATHIOES STOom (De JOLARL TRILIWAYE
9.558, and
% %
£3.1
i iranways am
¢ expenditure to £] (IR 171, leaving a bal
paying working expenses of
1.831 477.
At Paris the great department stores have
fon for their em} yoR wi
#4
ary BL Es in
Aiton
:
i
ins
mpletes
he seashore , whe
sever
VERS
So ———————
OABLE SPARKS
De. Willa Campion president of Queen's
College, Cambridge, England, is dead
a! Buenos Ayres has
which 1¢
The Hpaulsh colony
raised $2,000 000
Spain & new
wiih present
rulser
fe
LG
TH 1 andor Tr
AWe LORI wa
Boots
charge
Lord Brassey, G
grand jury Lady
inw of Ear
Hussell, who Is
al libel
wother-in
3 by the Earl with eric
ria, pr
he Angl >
BOCLE tha tag ft
vernon it
poses a grand jelonmive :
$
Saxon
A races 1
a t
wWor.a
ring bus been
New Caledonia
Ibe missionary ship Day B
x
wreckeo
4
0A MOCK BOTVG
isand Nine persons are scpposed 10 have
perishod,
Mr. and XMre
Francisco, were
London
MM. Castle
&150 000
charge
Walter
held in
in on the
liftin
in
The town of Kurefl,
Russian Poland, has been almos
totally destroyed by 0
are left homeless.
A drought has occurred the Northern
f which
¢
in
the harvest is a total failures Numbers «
lebels in the Philippise Islands are re
others to death, and
Nort Xk.
in
engaged in
Bol
yon
alton
investigations mon
Isiands, were altacked
The anniversary of the battle of Tralaigar
in which the British fleet defeated the com-
in London. The oelebration was
looked upon as a reminder to FraJdee and
Germany that England has been able to
make hersell respected in the past
———
WENT ASHORE IN A FOG.
Beamer Arago Ruse Agroued and Twelve People
Were Drowned,
The steamer Arago, plying between Coon
Bay and 8an Fraucisco went ashore in a
heavy fog just north of Coos Bay jetty, near
where the whaleback Whitmore was lost in
attempting to land a boatload of passengers,
Twolve were drowned, four passengers
and eight of the crew,
+ The accident occurred during a heavy fog.
What is left of the steamer to be seen is two
spars projecting upon the ocean beach, The
survivors were brought to Empire City on
the tug Columbia. None of the bodies of the
lost were recovered.
The Arago was built by the Union Iron
Works in 1885, Her gross tonage Is placed
at M47 tons, The oraft bas long been in the
eonsting trade, and is one of the best kpown
boats of this sort,
on
SNEEZED HIS EYE OUT.
4 Mas Took a Pinch of Boal With Strange
Berulte
Charles Doran, a business man of Glen.
dale, Ohio, took a pinch of snuff for a cold,
and so severe was the result of sneezing that
the inferior oblique muscie of the left eve
was ruptured, and, as he continued
sneese, the exertion forced the eye out of fis
pocket,
The eye has been replaced and bandaged
i
iich were seventy
nd
were taken Ir
the
SOMONE
wy! “5
plie of
evervhody
time had rescued the
Doctor
3
towns, hurried t and rendered
what assistance they could to the suffering
pisces of salely
of 8t. Louis
Frisc
physician,
who were transported to
were
Rall
sal of the
Starkiof, the sel
wh
ihe
city
out for the scene of wrock with a corps
of assistants and ambulances, but owiag to
were
their services
uot need od
HOLD-UP ON THE ALTON.
Bandits Bod the Car
5
Expross
Mo., says:
the Chi,
uis 8 seven o'clock, Was
sur masked men Fri.
Cut,
A special Clty,
A passenger and express train on
and Bt 1A
from
Kansas
between
The scenn
day evening at Blue Springs
tant from Kaosas City. Thetrain was fiagged
at the cut While two of the robbers stood
guard over the passenger coaches, the other
twd covered the conductor, engineer and
fireman with their pistols, and compelled
them to go to the express osr. There the
robbers commanded the messenger to open
the door of the ear, threatening to break in
the doors should he refuses,
After some deiay the robbers were admit.
ted to the oar. They compelled the messen-
ger to opon the sale, and extracted from R
several packages, Having secured the pack.
ages, the robbers left the train and sptered
the woods. Though several shots were fired
no one was injured. The trata prosesded to
1ndependsace, and information of the rob
ery was telegraphed from there. A deputy
sheriff and posse left Independence at ones,
and a squad of polisemen were detailed from
bere, but it is thought the bandits are now
safely out of the way. Thers have been three
bold-upe tn the Blue Springs Out. The James
gang held up a train thers in 1881
The express messenger, however, bad sur-
mised what the tronble was, While the ban
dite had been demanding admission he had
quickiy opened the sale, taken out the money
packages and tossed them into a chicken
coop, and shen he fAually admitted the rob-
bears to the oar and operand the sale for them
the strong box contained but two or thres
packages of jewelry. Even at the point of the
robbers’ pistols and Winohesters the wiemsen-
gor insted that he carried no enrrency
Taking the very little booty at hand, the out.
inws uncoupled fhe engine, jumped aboard
#0 that it cannot fall out again. The doctor
believes the oye is not destroyed.
without having fired a shot.