Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1883 — A MOVABLE WAR DEPOT. [ARTICLE]

A MOVABLE WAR DEPOT.

In Spain a railway train has been adopted consisting of two engines and twenty-four carriages, which contains a complete equipment for the reception, for a lengthened period, of eight officers and 136 men, and forms a little movable war depot. The carriages are ironclad and provided with loopholes, and the train carries four guns. Nervous Western travelers would feel very much relieved by having such a conveyance. Some of the jury verdicts of to-day—-those of course which have been “fixed” n some mysterious way—resemble one which was recorded in the last generation concerning a poor fellow who has lain on the river bed all night and was flashed up in the morning, to the effect that he came to his death by a blow on the head, “wjiich was given either before or after dying.”