Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — Train Robbers Foiled in Texas. [ARTICLE]

Train Robbers Foiled in Texas.

The Mexican Central pay-car, which arrived here, yesterday evening was attacked by robbers at Lerdo, 500 miles south. A stone was thrown into the train, supposedly to stop it, when a great number of horsemen were seen riding slowly on the track ahead. The train had a guard of twenty men armed with Winchesters, and they immediately prepared for an attack, but the robbers seeing them fled. The Pullman car headquarters, at Paso del Norte, across the river from here, was robbed last night. The loss has not been ascertained. It consisted of money and Pullman supplies. T. C. Schneider, of Baltimore, has just finished a new micrometer, to measure the wave length of light. It is said to be the finest instmment of the kind in the world. The red flannel shirt which, tied to an oar, was used as a distress signal by the Greely party in the arctic regions, will be on exhibition at the Cincinnati Exposition. Victor Hugo is such an ardent admirer of Rhea that he is almost persuaded to come to this country to see her again. Theodore Walrond has arranged to write the life of Deen Stanley.