Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — McCOYSBURG BURGLED AGAIN. [ARTICLE]

McCOYSBURG BURGLED AGAIN.

— — tt Postoffice, Two Stores and Black^ m ,b, Shop Broken Into. . / r * Reports from MoOoysburg, bight miles down the Monon. recLivfcd here on Thursday morning, w |re to the effeot that had been robbed dnring Ahe uighl, a td practically everything stolen J*. oept the railroad trsoks,’whicV wßre spiked down. Aa a matter of fact the bu r g' arß “did a large business at Bma ii profits” which is a oommon motto among business men. The burglars seem to have g<, ne to work in a systematio way. They broke into Walter Lee’s ha r( j* are store and took two razors, B( j me ohisles and other tools, they wanted in their business, 13 oents in money, whioh Walj er had left there for luok. They sjgo en . tered Geo. Stanford's blacksmith shop and took his medium ‘-flight sledge, a paaob and sour jjther tools, also to nse in their t W( aeßßi Then they broke into R? A£ c . Cjys’s store and post-offi un . locking the front door. Tl. d y|hi eir his safe with aitro glyoeric e> ÜB j n g also the tools they had tak 9Q from: the hardware and blacksmith shop. The inside of the safe was a [i torn to pieoes. At the they got about $45 worth of aa( j some S4O or SSO in money, This iaoladed a saok of 700 pp aQ ieg, whioh a Sunday School had paid for a money order. Tbey a t BO took a little tobaooo from MoCty. pl aoe . Jtm MoD maid's general gthre was raided by opening th e back door. Three pairs of aad a few other small articles Wdre a [[ that he missed this g e has a safe bat this they did no t open, probably not ha 7 i a g tuns after the post-offios job wag fi a i ß h. ecL i

Mr. MoOoy’s loss, Wsijdes the damage to his safe, %f|| I no t ha muoh over sllO. Thf other two did not lose over $5 eao jj t Tae Miohell blood-hounds were seat for. Taey snuffed and hollered arouid a while, aad tt, 9 owner then pit them in his bu,, y aa q left for hie home. He claimed too many people had be,«; a walking around fjr the dogs tc, g e t the right eoent The burglars are to have gon« southward, bnt nothing seems known about it. i or certain