Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1884 — Heavy Bank Robbery. [ARTICLE]

Heavy Bank Robbery.

[St. Paul (Minn.) special.) The People’s Bank was most adroitly and successfully robbed some time between Saturday night and Monday morning. Eddie Mason, a young fellow of St. Paul, who has been in the bank hardly six weeks, and who went in to lt-am the business, has disappeared. He is but 16 years old. The robbery was not even suspected until Monday morning, when upon opening the vault and the inside safe it was discovered that between $5,000 and SIO,COO had been stolen, the exact sum not being learned. The out-er.vanlt-door and lock were all right, securely locked, and bearing no evidencee of interference. Mr. Rittenhouse, cashier of the bank, opened the vault, the inside doors, and finally the inside safe before discovering that there was anything wrong. Then the loss was apparent Nearly SIO,OOO was missing. This was the first and only clew. Nothing has yet been discovered of the whereabouts of young Mason.

<sver a hundred schools in Paris are now provided with workshops. At present they turn out articles of wood from planing benches ffnd lathes. It is proposed soon to add iron to the material to be operated on. has paid $227,000 for nine horses —Joe Elliot, Edwin Forrest, Lady Stuart, Edward Everett, Pocahontas, Dexter, Earns,, and Maud S. JoHn Bright says the present is a perilous crisis in the history of England. * Edison is still enthusiastic over the prospects for alec trie railroading. (W