Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Texas Las been quarantined against certain South American porta because of the outbreak of cholera. The Gate City Guard, the crack company of Atlanta, Ga., will make a tour of

Europe in uniform and armed next summer. Governor and Mrs. Gordon, Colonel Emmons Clarke of the New York Seventh Regiment and wife, and Mrs. H. W. Grady have been invited to accompany them. Judge Duffy, of Baltimore, Mch, imprisoned a reporter named Morris for exposing grand jury proceedings. George Parks and Monroe Smith, colored, were lynched at Ringgold. Georgia, charged with incendiarism. Three robbers boarded a southbound passenger train on the Fort Worth and Donver Railroad at Bellevue, Texas, and robbed the passengers of eight watches and $lO4 .in money. A Fort Worth telegram furnishes the following particulars of the bold robbery: As the train drew up at Bellevue Station, Tox., three unmasked roboers took possession of it. One of them with a drawn pistol ordered Engineer Ayers and his fireman, and O. G. Miller, another engineer who was riding in the cab, to alight, which they did. Ho then marched them some thirty feet from the train and went through them, taking all tho valuables they had. While this was going on the other two men went through the train. Ono of the passengers in the rear car was looking out of the window and saw the oporation with the trainmen. Divining the situation he went into the forward cars, notified tho other passengers of what was going ou, and tol l them to secrete their money. Tais they did in various ways, givin ; most of it and their diamonds to several la lies aboard. Miss Kate Haas of Fort Worth took charge of $3,030 and other valuables. Mrs. Chambers of Potsdam, N. Y., received $5,0J0 and sorno diamonds, and Mrs. Wittick of Carthage, Mo., took her husband’s gold watch and several hundred dollars. Mrs. Wittick was graatly incensed at the proceedings, and boldly stood up in tho car and asked if forty men were going to tamoly submit to such an outrago at the hands of two highwaymen. About $12,000 in money and $4,003 worth of diamonds and other valuables were loft by the robbers in their haste to get through the train, and because they did not search the women. They wore evidently novices in the business and went away with the paltry sum of 8105, three gold watches, ten silver watches, five revolvers, un l one gold ring. The robbers left the train at the rear end of the sleeper, mounted horses standing near by, and rode rapidly away.