Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1874 — Battling With Masked Rebbers. [ARTICLE]

Battling With Masked Rebbers.

SOn last Friday evening, about eight o’clock, three men called at the farmhouse of Miss Hoover, near Donegal Springs, and asked permission to sleep in Hie barn. It was granted, and just while the family, which consisted of Miss Hoover, an old man named Bishop, a boy about eighteen years old, and a girl of the same age, were preparing to retire for the night, the men returned to the house and demanded something Ed eat. Suspicion was at once aroused in the minds of the occupants of the house that all was not right. Mr. Bishop passed the food out through, a window, when one of the men—all of whom were now masked —knocked the dish from his hands and leaped through the window into the house, followed by the others. Here a struggle began. In the fight Miss Hoover was knocked down by a blow from one of the ruffians, which sent her reeling under a table. She soou recovered, however, and tore the mask from the face of one of them. Mr. Bishop was knocked down twice, but, being a very stout man, fought manfully, deal--ing.heavy blows on their heads with a smoothing-iron. While the fight was going on . the girl ran up-stairs, locked herself in a room, a’nd blew a horn from the window. This brought the neighbors, but before the assistance came the scoundrels had made their escape. The boy* is severely cut abo&b th,c eyes and head. Miss Hoover is an old lady, and is supposed to have a large amount of money. Bishop, being a brave man, prevented her being robbed and perhaps murdered. The kitchen and dining-room were literally covered with blood from the fray.— Lancaster (Pa.) Express. .' •*'-