Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The county officials of Paris, Ark., stole some money from the county treasury, and the taxpayers are now looking for them to lynch them. One official has surrendered, fearing mob violence. The Patapsco Chemical Works, of Baltimore, made an assignment, the liabilities being about #200,003. 8. H. Phelan, an Atlanta, Ga., cotton dualer, failed for #300,000 on account of tbe markets going the wrong way. Foub masked robbers captured a Texas and Pacific express train near Fort Worth and rifled the express car. About #5,000 is supposed to have been stolen. A Fort Worth special gives the following particulars of the affair: Mr. Marsh, the express messenger, -was interviewed. He says that at 7:45 the train was stopped suddenly on the trestle at Brushy creek, eight miles west. F e threw open the door to see what was up, and found four robbers guarding the engineer and fireman. Advancing to his car, they threw their pistols down on him and called out: “Up with your hands!” A man who appeared to be the leader, and who was at least six feet tall, jumped into the car and said he wanted all the money he had—every cent of it. Marsh was making up this run for delivery at Fort Worth, and told the robber that he had the drop on him and could take all there was. The robber started to the safe, holding a sack in one hand, and with the other took what he found in the safe and transferred it to the sack. He demanded of the messenger whether that was the extent cf the valuables on board, and Marsh answered that he had it all The messenger jocularly asked for a cigar, and the robber said he had none with him. Jumping out of the car, the robber and his three associates went to the mail-car, in charge of Mail Agent Skiles, and the leader, jumping into the car, ordered Skiles to give him the registered matter. Three packages were handed out. After the mail-car was through with, the robbers jumped out and the four, ordering tbe engineer and fireman to the cab, told them to go on, and d d fast, too.