—————s——— TEXAS TRAIN ROBBERY. FOUR UNMASKED MEN LOOT AN EXPRESS IN DAYLIGHT, m— They Stopped a Train by Pulling Up the Track, Were Polite to the Ladies, Forced Section Hands to | Assist Them, and Then Rode Off | With the Booty. At noon, a few days ago, four men, un- | > y . RO, { out England, is making a tour of Australia, masked, hald up and robbed the through St, Louis and El Pase Texas and Paocifle and express train near the little town Gordon, in the Pale Points Mountains of Texans, It is known that they secured not #12,000, as mail of Jess than £1000, and probably heir Lonts ‘kahy, station foreman, was called at 11.80 o'clock and o take two of hig section men and tear four rafl lengths, He de. 1t thelr rifies secon induced him to The rails were torn up minutes of train time, and the » robbers told Lockaby to get the lown the train, He sald that * want to wiack the train, All 1 was the money on board, Loek- I'he fact that the miles from its regular nln . W. Cooper, a ecitl- ion, to jump fre train and the men who acted leaders of s with the query : 's wrong?" z ack on the train or you will be ' was the reply. ‘hat are you giving me, 1 the three robbers stationed rain opened fire from the rifl very hastily had business on the ral on chair and ping cars began screaming, when the e robbers took off his hat A his three confederates stoppe 1d sald : es need not one of you." 1 to quiet them, Two of the men y the locomotive and compelled risson and the fireman to get out and, with Lookaby and oae of went to the express ear, kaby carry a heavy slodge ha by the four men wns told. ym the as pard?” asked ladles the be afrald. en, be ear, they ordered Lockaby mbination lock off the safe, but ey falled to open it. They sw wered the bber who t y their horses they Pinto es and an « ing to the foot of the I trainms ns 19 money. fisappear: there has been a band of i in tha Joni Mountains, les wast of Palo Pinto, and Palo Pinto has been expecting robbery. It was reported attempt to rob the coal sompany at Thurber would likely be nade, and a guard of twelve men was ready at the junction to protect the coal sompany’s strong box containing £50,000 to y off the miners. The robbers evidently ad a tip and robbod the train ten miles from the junetion. In the safe hammered by the section foreman, was the coal com- pany’s money, and it bad to be taken through to E! Paso, H. K. Thurber, the New York grocer, is largely interssted in the mines, and the town Is named after him. He snd Colonel RB, D. Hunter, for the company, fave offered a reward of $500 a head for the tobbers, Governor Hogg was on the train, coming rth, that was delayed at Gordon he torn-up track, He was of the facts, and says he will offer a reward for the State, ho men were well dressed and rode fine horses, Two males of Rangers, the frontie guards of Texas, have been ordered to tak the fleld and hunt the robbers. It 1s sald the Hughes brothers, two Taxas outlaws, wore {n the gang. ss e— ———— JA Will Pursue the War With Conquest, i i tha an China to session of the Japanese Parlia- the that at Hiroshima by persos, who requestad easures presented should delay, and regretted stinaey E ast | : war navi erations i: “But, the Mmonot conse op~ shall have been nses are estim 1 $26,080,000 Is to t reserve fund, raising a further 000,000, payable in in- not to excoed six her bill provides for internal loan of $100 staliments, with interest per cont, Under this re tow In ¢ ushed 1 ) Jiao hereto eonstru arms and m the least pe An address the throne was lation work upon the ships [ construction shall the additional de. posed shall be rapidly ted id the necessary supply of war be secured with ba to the speech from presanted by the Presidents ses 19 ymbers of the Diet, thanking the Mikado for advancing the standard of Japan by personally assuming direction of the war, the natural results of which have been the Japanese victories on land and sea, The ross sinded as follows: “Your Majesty rightly considers China an enemy to civilization, and we comply with the Imper- fal desire 10 destroy the barbarous obstinacy of that race TWO BOYS HANGED. The Murderers of Bartender Lind. hofl, of St. Paul, Executad, Otto Wonigkelt and Charles Ermisoh were hanged for murder in the jail yard, 8t, Paul, Mina. , at The four doctors in at tendance pronounced Wonigkeit dead In eleven minutes and Ermisoh in twelve min utes, Death in both eases resulted fron strangulation The crime hanged was the shooting of Bartender Lindhoff, on the night of May 2 last, The boys were seventeen and nineteen years old respectively THE CZARINA STRICKEN, She Is Sald to Have Had a Stroke ol Apoplexy. 1 Ak on 5a m, A special dispaten from St, Petersburg says that the Czarina of Russia, who had watched constantly at her husband's bed. side, had astroke of apoplexy, The Grand Duchoss Xenis, her eld: daughter, broke down under the nervous strain, and 1s obliged to pass most of the timo in bed. I — Tur report comes from Fort Soott, Kan, that the season of 1804 will mark the total fadlure of the sorghum Industry in Kansas, | followed, for which the two boys wer: rROMINENT PEOPLE, Brssarcx has fought in twenty dusis, Ques Vicroria has twenty-two grands | ohiidren, | Tur Mikado of Japan has never, willing- | ly, been photographed | Tux Emperor of Germany is a proficient i drummer and ean give lessons 10 the best | army drummers in beating the tattoo, A carn will extended to Dwight L., | Moody to go to Japan for six months to do evangelistic work by the Foreign Board, Mure. Beirx Corr, the American con- tralto, who is immensely popular through bo for whioh she penses rocoives £35,000 and ex Kixa Hoxnent, of Italy, is ¢ more than ordinary skill, bagged elghteen wild goats chamois, All the antmals the head, marksman of He rocontly and thirty<two wereshot through Gexeran Boorn, of the Salvation Army, has six children engaged in the work hoe has in hand, and they ar eloquent and earnest enoug his training, clover, sensible, Ht to ato 40 er Dan. 811 ssor ol! Oriental at the Univers profi { fusing to fusing Wirnian HAM] CONGREGATIONS SECEDE, Resign Their Edifices and New Form the Evangelical Church QO ’ M vaniia, Kenta I New York, an which is valued at about $30,000,000, will vert tothe Evan Association, A come mittee was appointed to confer with the Evangelical Association as to an amicable settlement property question. Ten delegates w ¢ to the conve 2 of the new Naper ‘ennsy relical *barch ne non at DESTRUCTIVE PRAIRIE FIRES Lives Fost of Cattle Perish in the Flames. and Thousands and alter usands of NAVAL HOSPITAL CORP, The Annual Report of Surgeon-Gen. eral Tryon. sneral Tryon, in his annual ree 10 necessity of an organized wl States Navy. A station on t ad corps in the vised, to Lae used exclusively for examining intended re. eruits, as far greater care squired in the on ! erulsery of crews | e new tn the old ships where during long practioally select cruises under sail the mon Hved in the open air and the men's physical cone lition imoroved after enlistment, Now the nditions are reversad and only those nears yor n in body should be enlisted, Surgeon-General Tyron recommends that officers of his corps detalied as naval medical attaches to the American Embassies sbroad, be I— TRAMPLED TO DEATH. Panle Follows the Cry ot Fire In a Church In During the Russia, consecration of a ohuroh In | the village of Trokh, near Ostr wwinnsk, In the Don Provines, Russia, a lamp set. A ory ol was up. firo was raised and a panle During the rush for the doors two women and threes ohildron were trampled to death, and twenty-seven people were seriously in. Jured, eS, FLOOD IN CHINA. The Waters Cover an Area 150 Miles | Long by 10 to 30 Miles Wide, steamer Australia, The waters sovered an aren of the best agricultural land 150 miles long by from ten to thirty miles wide, Theloss was enormous, How great was the loss of lite will never bw known. Many were drowned, killed by falling houses, and houshold effects, ——— . AT Port-au-Prince, Haytl, President Hip polite and his minister of war had a hand-to- and fight in the palace the other day, The minister of war was badly whipped in the encounter with his dusky chief, —————— - Rurnznronn Prarr Haves, son of the late ox-President, ani Miss Luoy Ha Platt were married, un fow days ago, at oe lumbus, Ohio, Missions | News of heavy rains, followed by a tor | rible flood, in China was brought by the | numbers perished in attempting to save thelr | and SALVATION ARMY BOOTH. THE FOUNDER OF THE OR- GANIZATION WELCOMED, He 1s on a Tour of luspection Around the World—Carnegloe Hall, York City, Thronged With mirers — Army Statistics General Outlines His Plans. Goneral Willlam Booth, of England, the founder of the Balvation Army, who is on a tour around the church militant, New Ad. The world, Inspecting his vast has reach the United States, and the reception given him a ago in Carnegie Hall, N marked few nights cont ras ith thosa his first trip to rica some ago, when the Balvat Army smnller affair than it is now, ganization was ridien arters, Pres Joined in the general bel nal good ould 1 noisy metho some 0 melody. ordained m sage sign clergy In N COMMANXDRES WAS War ngraialated 8 forces adh by the work, which showed gool results from the outset, ‘‘Poople have sald our ways are peculiar and methods wrong, but | toll you that we would not have converted the thousands we have had we emplowed the customary ser- mon and indoor exercises of religion, And has not the end justified the means? “We went and found the people and ver | eld offloers | 3 | © ~ MRA BALLINGTON BOOTH, In his speech General Booth reviewed his career ns a leader of the Baivation Army, told how, before the army was organized, he was moved to do “something” for the unbe. Hovers and otttonsts whom the church conld not reach, They were the kind for whom the church bells, the organ and sanctuary bad no charms, He first enterad the field of of religion twenty-nine years ago, “and al though at the beginning of my career as an evangelist,” sald the General, “I was re- viled and struck with many a snowball with anfone in it, I was urged to greater efforts | | | | thinks, w York City, was in | the army General, Ord Was spo yw at the very walls of Nouy have 14.000 andol M among t) Then ont 'y Atty ve Christ, the Salva nine yours old, SAN Army Number of local off en irtments quarters Sreons emt otters mailed in one week General Booth Is six says that he Is in splen oare he takes of in Canada he has spent 324 hours in travel ing. ol which twelve nights were in rallwa trains, and hs has gons He } made nineteen short addresses, fiftywix | ones, devoted 110 hours to businsss, written fifty iotters and addressed 100,607 people, In an interview General Booth outlined his plans for social regenerat In Great Britain the army has 220 lastitutions, class fled as follows : Mum posts, sixiy-four; ros. ens homes, forty-eight ; ex-oriminal homes, twelve; food depots, twenty-one ; shelters, thirty<three ; labor bureaus, hinstesn ; labor factories, seventeen farm colontes, »ix total, 290, He says that seventy per cent, of degraded women who are placed in institu tions by the army are still saved, after three years, Poor men who are unfortunate, he through losing their chances or through illness, oan be lifted up If only there is some one to lift them. He says that Queen Victoria long ago expressed herself favorably in regard to the Salvation Army himsel! 3°50 miles, rATAL EXPLOSIONS, Five Men Killed and Three Hurt » Mortally in Jollet, NL Two explosions of giant powder in Ricker, Loo & Co.'s camp, on the drainage canal, Jollet, Ill, resulted in the killing of five laborers. Three others were fatally maimed, Both explosions were promaturs blasts, The first explosion took p at 0 o'clock and ennsod the death of two nen, By the second explosion, whish osourred soveral hours later, three men were killed outright and three wars fatally injured, The dead men have not yet been identified, Ther com fled when the acsldents occurred vo not since returned NAVAL ESTIMATES, The Largest Submitted Since the New | Orta Navy Begun, The total of the asnual estimates of the Novy Department is $30,052,020,40, against 925,595, 426.72 appropriated for the current fisenl yor, This is the largest submitted sinos the construction of the new navy was bogun, and provides for no new work, but it includes the finsl and largest payments on several new battleships and RB. dry The aannal report of the chief of the Nawal Burean of Bquipmert shows that it costs over $500,000 to supply naval vessels with brought them in, and to-day we have mill | { fons in our army and it has headquarters | | throughout the globe, | RyeState,...... MISSIONARIES MASSAOKED, Stations in China Destroyed and Thelr | Inmates Assassinated, Information has been rocelved at the Vatl san, Rome, Italy, that a number of mission stations in China have been destroyed and | their inmates massacred, Other Christian: Miso have been threatened, The Powers will | be requested by the Vatican to take steps for the protection of its workers vhinese mission flelds, THE MAINE'S BONUS, The Crulser's Speed Will Give the Bullders $30,000 Extra, i women in The Engineer Board which has been en. gaged in enleulating the actual horse power wy the armored cruls rip, say the This i= 229 ho i contracts of the bullders of the er h will earn a bonus of between £20,000 ma 30,000, ess sons sn TI — KILLED ON THE ARETHUSE, Men-o'War's-Men Victims loller Explosion. than re Six of a 1iser ot, | | 'r % at Dr E woller ex; her, Kling » thers. A Petty Robber’s Life Sentence. Judge Walls at San Francisco, Ca THE MARKETS, Late Wholesale of Country Produce Quoted in New York. Prices Mr DRAESSED POULTRY Parkeys, § " Chickens Westorn, " Jersey, #0 Fowis, ¥ Ducks spring, L.L&East? Goose, ¥ Ib Bquals, ¥ dow hg ¥ Phila, broilers, YROETARLES Potatoes, St. &k Jersey, ¥ bhi Lon 4 Isl wd Nuwoot, ¥ bd, Cablnge, ¥ 100 Onlons Yellow, ¥ bbl Red, ¥ bis . Squash, marrow, ¥ Habbard “ Tarnips, Rossin, ¥ bol Egg pinot, ¥ bbl . Cuolery, ¥ doz, roots Tomatoes, ¥ crate Lima beans, ¥ bag Cauliflower, # Hin String beans, L 1 GRALIX, ETO, Flour Winter Patunts, .... Spring Patents, occ cveves Wheat, No, 2 hed. coun: December .... Corn-No, 2 RB NO, 2 White, ova 0004 wus Trook mixed. coovvernvine bri Ungraded Wastorn Timothy, ¥ 190 Barley Bowls ClO, coov0vs sues Lard Clty Steam , .. LIVE STOCK, Booven, city Arossed. . ...... Mileh Cows, com, 10 good. ... Onlves, olty dressed. ....... Country dressed .... 0.00. Bhoap, #100 Me. ooiivniiins Lambs, ¥ 10018. . ...oouess HogeLive, #100 Bs. ..... Dressed LE EE EEE ros aS8fualas in ths | | instructors $20, O00), Belva Lockwood is about to begin the practice of law in Virginia, In Delaware suffrage several is exercised by municipalities, Among Vassar Colle Aare e's forty fourteen seven of her own alumnae, Women than men, and act in given opegation wourt for tw | rode a bicyele. Brooklyn is the only eity in the Coited States ema ic which oan boast of a Deputy Collector of Internal Miss Lucy E. Ball has just ted to that position in the evenn da AN } n° has ther 1t 1s j nestion raised in roper for women f Own Bex. he work of L is largely that vaelr whi r and mixed and buttons to match n trimming An is several as the dust and become shabby AAT K¢ nthusmastic shanges in a season, to ent cause a suit very soon. This is bad news for the girl visits the winter resort wing started against rings the ita proposed ADOT that A crusade is engagement ns given for is that many girls engaged for no other purpose than to add another ring to their collection and break off the con- tract as soon as it becomes convenient, the One of igs L become New York buys more laces than any ther city in the world. It has a least a soore of women whose laces exceed £50,000 in value, and probaby a hun lred whose collections would sell for Five hundred dollar fichus, {| $200 handkerchiefs, $300 searfs, and a 81000 over-dress are mere bagatelles in the wardrobes of the wives of mill- | jonaires. Mrs. Ernestine Schaffner, of New York, known as the “Tombs Angel” | has been doing for nearly ten years her good work of seeking to free from | jail innocent persons who are falsely { nocused. | time on about £20,000 bail bonds she { has not in all her experience lost more Although she is most of the than $1000, and she was cheated oul of a large part of that sum by a dis honest lawyer, When Mrs, Hetty Green, of New York, who is said to be worth £30, 000,000, entered the TiM House at Buffalo, the other day, the clerks thought she was a beggar and were disinclined to let her register. She wore a rusty old black dress and ose. ried the dilapidated handbag that has been her trusty companion for years, She walked with the aid of a cane. The room given her was the cheapest sad most secluded in the hotel
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