Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1894 — TERROR IN KANSAS. [ARTICLE]

TERROR IN KANSAS.

Four Men Bob Every glare In Wntov*. Four men robbed every store and thy postoffice In the village of Watova, a station on the Kansas A Arkansas Valley road, 125 miles west of Ft Smith, Ark., Monday might. A holdup at Taiala, six miles this side of Watova, was anticipated, but did not take place. John Varna has been captured and Is in jail. A reign of terror prevails all along the line froas Ft Gibson to Coffeyville, Kas. Clerks and merchants in all the towns go well armed in their places of business. Two of the train robbers who held op » train at Aqnla Creek; Va., OcL 12, an believed to have been arrested at Comberland, Md. A poach containing a part dt the booty was also recovered. The men are known as Searcey and Morgan, bat the names are believed to be fictiliooSL The maximum penalty for train robbery In Virginia is death, and the minimum l» twenty years’ confinement at hard labor. George H. Adams and Samuel Bierer, who visited Pullman by direction of thy citizens of Hiawatha. Kas., to Investlgaty the Pullman club, reported at a meeting of stockholders that the scheme of cut- , •rating a co-operative manufactory at K- t awatba • racticabie. > * ;' *• . **-r ~ r~- —