Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — KILLED HIS BROTHER [ARTICLE]

KILLED HIS BROTHER

CHILDREN FIND THEIR FATHER’S REVOLVER. In a Struggle for Its Possession an _ Bight-Year Old Boy Is Shot by His Brother Two Years Older—Robbers Get Nothing. Shot in Play. Harry Jones, a Chicago boy, 10 years old, is heartbroken and weeps in childish misery. In all his short life he has not experienced so great a sorrow, for he hns caused the death of his brother Archie, two years his junior. The children were left together in their father's home by their mother, who had gone down town. Mr. Jones, who is a telegraph operator, was at his place of employment. While playing hide and seek the brothers found a loaded revolver between the mattresses of their father’s bed. A struggle for possession of the weapon ensued, during which it was discharged, the bullet causing a wound in Archie’s head from which he died seven hours later at Provident hospital. Funset Limited Held Up. Meager particulars have been received in El Paso, Texas, from San Simon, a small station just east of Willcox, A. T., on the Southern Pacific, of a train holdup. Train No. 20, the sunset limited, had just left Steins Pass, N. M., near the Arizona line, when the engjiwar noticed a danger signal in front and immediately applied the air brakes. No sooner was the train brought to a stop than five men stepped out from their hiding places near the track, all heavily armed. One covered the engineer and fireman with his Winchester, while the others gave their attention to the train proper, more especially to the express car, firing their guns in the air and otherwise frightening the passengers. At this point the guards in the express car took a hand in the fusillade. Thirty or forty shots are said to have been fired by both sides. One WellsFargo guard, Jennings by name, succeeded in killing Robber Cullen, who was nearest to the car and who was evidently the leader, for as soon as the other robbers noticed his body lying on the ground they lost courage and made a break for their horses, but another bullet from Jen nings’ Winchester evidently struck one of the fleeing rObbers, as he was seen to fall and was assisted out of range by his comrades. No express money was stolen and none of the passengers was hurt.

Farm Products Are Higher. The Agricultural Department at Washington has issued the following, signed by John Hyde: .“The department's final estimates of the production of the principal crops are based largely on the December returns. The only information now available relates to the average farm price of certain products on the first day of the present month. The farm price of corn, as indicated, averages 2ti.5 cents per bushel, against 21.5 cents last year; that of oats, 21.5 cents, against 18.7 cents last year; that of barley, 37.7 cents, against 32,3 cents last year; that of rye, 44.7 cents, against 40.9 cents last .year; that of buckwheat, 42.1 cents, against 39.2 cents last year; that of hay, $6.65 per ton, against $0.55 last year. The averages for the products not given are withheld for revision, as are also the estimates of the acreage of winter wheat and rye. and the condition of these products.”