St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 18, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 21 November 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA FONSECA IS SCARED. BRAZILIAN MATTERS NEARING A CRISIS. Coflee Unsettled Because of the Revolution—Deadly Tennessee Whisky—Seven People Said to Rave Burned—Rainmakers Successful in India—Chinese Matters. Arrested by Mexicans. Captain John G. Bourke, of Fort Ringgold, and Teputy United States Marshal John Jordan crossed into Mexico from Carrizo with a permit from the Deputy Collector at Carrizo, Texas, and the Mexican Custom House officials passed them at Guerrero without objection. At Paras, thirty miles from Guerrero, a drunken militiaman, a State ranger, arrested them on suspicion and would listen to no explanation. At this place they were under guard three hours. Thence they were taken under guard to Agua Bequas. They were disarmed and taken before the .judge. There it became evident they were held as revolutionary suspects, on Infori ation given by the ranger, who constantly followed them during the time they were under arr st. At Cerralevo Capt. Boorke wired t > Consul General Sudon at Laredo, who immediately demanded their release. Fatal Fire in Brooklyn. Fire was discovered in a four-story frame house in Brooklyn Several families lived there, and it is believed that seven people perished in the Hames. It, is not known how many were in the house when the fames broke out. When the firemen arrived the smoke was pouring out of the windowsin dense volumes, but two rescuers dashed in and In a few moments they reappeared, each with an unconscious child in his arms. Some adult occupants of the building were already in the street, all more or less injured by the fire, but so excited as to be incapable of giving any information regarding the number of people residing in the place. Desert the Dictator. Advices from Brazil state that the revolution is spreading, and that large bodies of troops are deserting Fonseca. I Tho dictator still exercises censorship । of press dispatches and newspapers, but j , the above leaked out in spite of his i , precautions. The Brazilian Minister at ( Washington received a cablegram di- ( recting him to deny any statement un- ] favorable to the dictator. 1 1 Drank Poisoned Whisky. , George Galbreath a farmer living I at Point Pleasant, Henderson County, * Tenn., invited several of his friends to ' participate in festivities at his house. ‘ During the evening a jug of whisky was 1 ’ produced and the company drank freely. | In a short time all were taken violently i 1 ill. A physician was summoned, but I Three of the men soon died. It is not known how the whisky became poisoned. Rail-Making Record Broken. The Edgar Thomson Steel Works, . i Braddock, Pa , now holds the record for , f making steel rails. In twenty-four hours c 1,907 tons of rails were turned out This I beats the best previous turn-out in the ' j same time at the South Chicago Rolling £ Mill by 232 tons. The works were oper- I ( ating on seventy-pound rails. Manager ■ Schwab started out to do 1,803 tons. 1 Railway Coaches Upset. The south-bound passenger train on . 1 the Houston & Texas Central Railway j was derailed between Calvert, Tex., and , 1 Hammond. A broken rail caused the 1 wreck. Three coaches were turned up- ' side down and the Pullman sleeper was j throw over on its side. No one was | killed, but four were badly injured. Advance in Coffee. There was quite - ripple of excitement among Ne v York traders in the coffee exchange, caused by the sharp a I- ' vance in coffee. The trouble in Brazil ; and reports of yellow fever in the ports ■ of that country, especially Rio Janeiro, : and the consequent difficulty in loading vessels, caused the rise in prices. Killed His Rival in Love. Near Holden, Mo., J. H. Nicholson, a young farmer, was killed by a blow from a club in the hands of Mike Davis. I During a quarrel about a girl Davis I struck the fatal blow. Nicholson died in a few minutes. Davis escaped and has not yet been caught. Two Men Blown to Pieces. Near Kingston, N. M., William , Hutchins and Dick Joy were both liter- i ally blown to pieces in the Brush Heap I j ■Mine by the premat ire explosion of i , twenty-five pounds o' powder. They | were about twenty years old, and the only support of widowed mothers Lincoln Fireman Dying. Captain Frank Chappf.lt,, Assistant ; Chief of the Lincoln, Neb., Fire Depart- , merit, received fatal burns at a livery I stable fire. He inhaled the Hames, injuring his lungs. The Chinese Rebels. The attack on the Chinese city of Tehwei was made by 15,030 rebels, with capable leaders. European residents fear a spread of the revolt. Results Were Satisfactory. Experiments with dynamite to produce rain have recently been made in India. A cablegram says the results were satisfactory. Cash For the Conventions. The San Francisco local finance committee having itr charge the collection of funds to secure the holding of the National Democratic and Republic an Conventions there have received a total of 85'',000, which was the sum considered necessary. Garza Wins a Fight. Garza, the Mexican revolutionist, recently repulsed a force of several hundred troops sent to capture him. Garza’s force numbered one hundred men.

EASTERN OCCURRENCES. At Boston, a young man entered the office of J. C. Davis, a money lender, grabbed a roll of bills amounting to about Sl,ooo, dashed into the street, and escaped capture. Ihe stock of the clothing firm of Adler & Mitchell, in Newark, N. Y., was seized by the Sheriff on judgments I aggregating nearly $40,000. It is said that the firm’s assets are between S6O - 000 and $70,000, and tho liabilities about SIOO,OOO. Fike at i ittsburg destroyed George W. Feas’ drug store. Rout’s carriage factory, J. R. Laird s co >fe d ioncry store, stabler of the Citizens’ Traction Company, J. J. Slattery’s i 00l room, the Wi dwoid Dairy, and a boarding house causing a loss of $75,000, on which there was insurance of $50,000. Fire was discovered in the large building at 6?9 Market street, Philadelphia, occupied by Lippincott, Johnson & Co, dealers in woolens and c othing. The flames spread rapidly and before the engines reached the scene the whole building was in flames from basement to roof. Lippincott, Johnson & Co. carried a full stock of goods, and the damage to the building and contents is roughly estimated at $250,000. Tho origin of the fire is unknown, but the general supposition is that it originated fiom gas escaping from a leaky ma n in the street.

The directors of the Catskill Mountain Railway Company have decided to build a cable road between North and South Mountains. It will be only a mile and a quarter long, but in that distance it will make an ascent of 1,700 feet. It will begin at the present station of the Catskill Mountain Railway, at the foot of the mountain, and end within an eighth of a mi e of the Catskill Mountain House, one mile from the Kaatcrskill and two miles from the Laurel House. Trains will make the trip in ten minutes. At present it is an hour and a half’s ride bj' stage c oach. Dr. Charles A. Barnes, of Mechanicsville, was arrested at Binghamton, N. Y., charged with abduction. An officer from Mechanicsville says Barnes has been married six times and has three wives living. Two years ago he was married to Miss Fenton, daughter of Rev. Mr. Fenton, of New York City. The couple moved to Round Lake, N. Y., and Barnes and his wife separated soon after a child was born to them Mrs. Barnes had some money left her by her father, which Barnes endeavored to get control of. Failing in this Barnes stole the child. Ho has secreted the child and olt'cors are s arching for it Miss Julia Hepburn, who lives near North Plains, Conn., has a mania for eating She has to be fe iat short intervals and anything that is edible she devours ravenously. 1o al physicians thought that she was suffering from a nervous as ection of th c stomach, and they suggested that sh ' be forced to take food until she became nauseated. This was tried, but she ate all that was [ laced before her without showing signs of distress. A magnetic healer from New Haven insisted that hypnotism would cure her, but his treatment failed to nrodu e beneficial results. A physician from Hartford put the. pat ent on a diet of three meals a day. the became delirious and had to be fed until her voracious appetite was satisfied WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Police Inspector Hubbard compelled the display of the American Lag at an anarchist meeting in C hicazo the other night. Three life convicts escaped from tho penitentiary at Waupun, Wis., through a tunnel that, it is said, must have re- I quired years to dig. Fire on the coal docks of the Northwestern Fuel Company, at Duluth, Minn., has already doneslso,ooo damage I and is still burning. P. P. Palmer, in charge of the Cheyenne Indian Agency in South Dakota, is alleged to have swindled the government out of several thousand dollars by false entries. A freight train on the Ohio Southern Road wa- derailed near Whitman Station, Ohio, and nineteen cars were wrecked. Ed Mahoy, fir. man, w dan- ; gcrously hurt. Comanche, a war horse, and the only i living thing that escaped the Indians at I the Little Big Horn massacre, died the othej’ day at Fort Riley. His skin will bo stuffed and exhibited at the \\ orld’s Fair. At Columbus, Ohio, a row of frame buildings was destroyed by fire. Four bodies were taken out and removed to the Coroner's o Fee. It seems the entire family of Charles Betheard was burned, j and this explains why the dead were not missed At San Francisco, Cal., an agreement to sell was recorded from Maric A. Stre'ingor, better known as the wife of M. B. Curtis, the actor, to Herbert A. < heseboro, of Los Angeles, by which sho disposes of the Peralta Park Hotel property at North Berkeley for $125,C00. The building is now occupied by Prof. Homer O. Sprague, for a girls’ sominarv. T h'S money will be used by Mrs. i trelinger

to save her husband irom the gallows. ’ By ordinance the City Council of j Cleveland sought to reduce the price |of gas from SI to c>o cents. । The company demurred, asserting that lit would be virtual confiscation of their property. United States Judge Jackson made a ruling for the j company, holding that the city had no right to fix the price of an article of which it was a consumer, or to impair the validity of a contract made with the gas company in 184(5. Colonel Donn Piatt, the em'nent journalist, author, and diplo.i at, died at his home, Mak-o-Cheek near West Liberty, Ohio. He had been ill of lung fever nearly two weeks, but h's condition I was not considered at all critical. Donn j Piatt was born in Cincinnati, June 29, 1 1819. He prepared for the law and was elevated to the Common P eas bench at an early age. Under the administration of President I” rce he was the secretary -of the legaHo at Par s, and for more i than a year dir eg the illness of Minister , Mason served as charge d’affaires. ! In Hancock Count", Ohio, is a tract 1 of land known as “th' big woods,” - which is almost impenetrable owing to underbrush, old logs, and swales. For years the impression has prevailed that several wild men were living in these • vast wiide:nesses, and at various times - hunters and farmers have claimed to - have seen them, but no one has ever been able to get near enough to talk to

them. The wild men are' deserib^A uncouth, with long, matted a ? beards, and are dressed in th2* a,r and of ragged clothin^A part^ organized to explore the Soods. been The prisoners in the Morrow flail, at Mount Gilead, Ohio, picked the lock, and. overpowering the Sheriff made a bieak for liberty. Everv Ju’ oner escaped, and none has so fi? & Gano 00 ! wS®? 8 Dumber wero Rev. crooks. to be dangerous ■kreat care lectors to prevent foreign articles J C ° 'r 1 '""" 111 “'pTekageT A practice has grown up, which seems to be on the increase, by which facturers have included 7 h> sUtXv packages many foreign articles. This practice should be discontinued. A package of tobacco means a package containing tobacco and nothing X \ ou will please notify tho manufacturers in your district of the necessity hereafter for a full compliance with the terms of this circular. ” This completely knocks out the price package business that has been practiced so extensively in the tobacco trade. Carl Wentrock, of the Kansas City^H (Mo.) engineering department, received j of the gold oWS

Missouri River near the Hanhib'alTitli'fS way bridge. The sample submitted to the assayist, ho certifies, contained six and two-fifths ounces of gold and three and four-fifths ounces of silver. He declares that it wou’d weigh out $l2B of gold to the ton, which is remarkably rich orc. This gold is in a peculiar p ace, and it Is thought it would not be practicable to mine it, oven though it should all bo as rich as tho sample submitted to the assayist. It is found in the ground under the river bed, and geologists believe that it has been washed in from some gold-boaring regions. •SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. Four trainmen were killed in a wreck on tho Illinois Central near Medina, Tenn. Gen. Fullerton, of Ohio, President of the Chickamauga National Park Commission, was badly hurt while inspecting the old battlefield near < hattan oga, Tenn. At Nashvil’e, Tenn., the Rankin Cloth ng Manufacturing Company has made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. Liabilities, $133,993: assets, $193,585. Mrs. James Kiner, a widow, and her three children were murdered in their house in Fauquier County, Va , nnd tho house was fired to conceal the crime. The bodies w re badly burned before the fire could bo extinguished by neighbors. There is no clue to the murderers. At Collinsville, Ala , a gang of fifteen white men, well diessed, captured the railroad station and iay in wait for ).as-r-nger train No. 1, of the Queen and Crescent lino, from Cincinnati, for the purpose of robbery. Officers appeared] and drove the gang away As the train* pulled in four of the rubbers returnewl and itt tvin pt (Ml t<» Yxnird It 'I h«> o<tl • and trainm n fired on the gang, wio fled totiio woods. One who was sltgwW wonncToct was raptured Officers are nows s f or elm r.. 11l aI ml The pr soner is unknown. The largest suit ever brought in Alabama has been filed in the United States Court at Birmingham. It Is that of the United States against tho Tennessee and C<>o-a Kailroad Company and others, and involves 75.0 0 acres of land along i | that road from c'adsden, Etowah Coun- I tv. to Gunter’s Landing, Marshall Coun- I ty. Tho Government claims that It I never gave up the right 11 the land, and । will ask for a receiver Much the . I disputed property has been sold by tho j railroad company and improved. It is I now being occupied by farmers and town-. The amount of money Involved is several millions THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Secretary Foster denies the report that he has be >n asked by a Chicago national bank as to the proper method of procedure to change* tho bank into a , private institution. The report said that : the reason for desiring the change was the alleged discredit whi h the incompetency of th* Comptroller of tho Currency lias brought upon tho national banking system Lani> Commissioner Carter has issued his report The issue between him and Secretary Noble is the proper disposition of the arid lands Carter thinks that they should be given to the States in which they lie. Noble thinks that i they should remain in tho possession of ; the government Carter has embodied I his ideas in his report and handed it to the Secretary for transmission to the press. Carter argues that if the land is given to the respective States there will be some chance of their becoming irrigated. But the Secretary thinks that the United States Government can irrigate the lands more effectually than the individual States and he will not give fn to Carter. And as Carter won tj give in to the Secretary the public wltw

have to wait so i c time befuic getting a VI a look at the report. J The Speakership tight, says ° xx *shington dispate*’ ’■ ■•axing warm. SpecuUt.ons noon the outcome are to be heard in the rotundas of the hotels and in the departments. '1 here are as many opinions as there are candidates. Aman in favor of any particular candidate will bo enthused or discouraged according to the place in which be happens to find himse f. You can get consolation or despair all within a block. If you are merely seeking for information, you will ' come to the conclush n by the time you । have made the rounds that nobody knows anything definite about the outcome. The candidates themselves are more than sanguine. All but one. Springer. He will tell you that the outlook is favorable to his election, but that as there are over one hundred members who have expressed no preference ~ and who are known to have not yet made up their minds, it is idle to speak authoritatively on the subject > FOREIGN GOSSIP. Starving peasants in Samara, Russia, strangled a boy of 18 in order to rob him of a r< üble and a half. A New York bank has obtained an attachment against the property of the Texas Siftings Publishing Company for SI,OOO, due on a protested note. Counsel for the bank said that the bank had ■

AlTbut^l^oinf 8 h ng com rany $3,500. r . of It was paid. For that amount the company gave the note that has been protested. Gales throughout England wrecked many vessels, causing heavy loss of life and caused great destruction on land’ Houses wbre blown down, telegraph lines prostrated and lowlands submerged by swollen rivers. b y A dispatch from Essen savs that an explosion occurred in the Koen*’g Ludwig pit, near tha^ p:ace, and that eleven men met ’-ath through tho accident. Messrs. Moo^j and Sankey, the American evangelists, have agreed to make a tour of Sc .tland. Fire at Liverpool destroyed Evans & Co.’s wholesale dru<r house. The loss in castor oil and cod liver oil alone is estimated at $75,000. GENERAL notes. Statistics show that the corn crop of the past season was one of the best on record. Tee President of Mexico has issued a decree removing many of the arbitrary restrictions at tho custom house in tho City of Mexico. J For the first ten days of November the htistoms receipts at New York were $3,Kt 3,803, or $403,997 less than tho receipts ■hiring tho corresponding period last I An official of the Canadian government

'States that Premier Abbott had decided upon a thorough reconstruction of his fimmigratfon policy, which would be carried out as soon as the new ministiy was formed and the successor to Minister of Agiiculture Carling appointed. He said that pari ament would I e asked to vote a considerably increased sum for immigi at on purposes, as it wa- intended tc wage ware upon tho immigration farming populafon of Europe, with a view to securing a consido able share of that c’ass of immigrants now going to the Unite ! States. A City of Mexico dispatch says: Before leaving for the United States Mr. Ryan, United States Minist r, had several Interviews with James Ives, Mexican Commissioner, in regard to a reciprocity treaty between the two repub- । lies. The interviews wero private and confidential, but it is generally believed that a reciprocity treaty will be arranged between Mexico and the United States, in which the latter country will be given certain •oncessions by Mexico for reciprocal exchange. The concessions, it is believed, will be in lavor of beef, catt e, hogs and farm protracts. The latest advices from the State of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil say that the revolt against Dictator Fonseca continues to spread. The insurgents’ ranks are increasing in size hourly, and the rebels show great b ddness. Ono band fully armed attacked and captured the town of Santa Anna on. the Riier Sino, north of tho capital, Porto Alogere. They were led by General Fernandez. A number of prisoners wero taken Very little resistance was made t» the rebels, and as a con equence no one was killed or wounded in the capture of the place. This would indicate j that Santa Anna, which has a populaj tion of about 2,500, was at heart friendly to the revolutionists. (->• I’reshlent of the Baited States — p-K piiiclaniatiofi: It Is a very glad Incident (of the marvelous p osperlty which has | crowned the yvnr now drawln t to a close i that Its helpful and re is.urmz tmeh has been felt by all our people. It has bee ias wide as our c mntry. and so sp *cial that | every home has felt its comforting in- ‘ fluence. It is too great to lie the work of num's power and t >o particular to lie tho I device of his mind. To Goi, the beneficent an I tlie all wise, who makes the labors of i men t > be fruitful, redeems their hisses by | Ills grace, and the measure of whose giving Is as mud) beyond the thoughts of man us It Is beyond his deserts, tho praisj and I gratitude of the people of this favored na- ; tion are justly due. Now, therefore, 1. Benjamin. Harrison, President of the United States of America, do hereby appoint Thursday, the twentysixth day of November present, to be a day | of joyful thanksgiving to God for the bounties of Uis providence, for the peace In which we are permitted to enjoy them, and for the preservation of those institutions of civil and religious liberty which lie gave our fathers the wisdom to devise and establish and us the courage to preserve. Among the appropriate observances of the day are rest from toll, worship In the public congregation, the renewal of family ties about our American firesides, mid thoughtful helpfulness toward tliose who suffer hick of the body or of the spirit. In testimony v hereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of iho United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this thirteenth day of November, In the year of our Lord ISOI and of the Independence of the United States the With. Benjamin Harrison. By the President: James G. Blaine. Secretary of State. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.50 @ 6.50 Hoes—Shipping Grades 8.50 i<i 4.25 Su KF-Fair to Choice 800 (!*■ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red U 4 @ .95 Cohn-No. 2 53’.<><d» .54^ O ts--No. 2 31 & .32 Rye -No. 2 .*... d'l & .93 UuTIBB-Choice Creamery 27 (gl .29 CnErsE—Full Cream, Hats 12 (g .13 Fugs—Fresh. 22’- .24*4 a jf 1 Potatoes—Car-loailß, per bu 30 & .4U JT IMiIAXAI'OLR. W XI LB—Shipping. - - ...U77.... 3d!5 @ 5.75 [SP£'?r^ ! J‘Bmmen‘'to Prime 3.00 4.25

’WIIE T—No. 2 Red 94 @ .95 A obn—No. 1 White 54 est .55 Oats—No. 2 White 33 & .34 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 & .25 Hogs 350 & .25 Wheat No. 2 Red 93 @ .94 Corn— No. 2 40 est 5.42 Oats—No. 2 3 > @ 431 Rye—No. 2 t7 @ .89 CINCINNATI Cattle 3.50 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 est 4.25 Sn « 3.00 est 4.75 Wheat No. 2 Red 96 est .98 Cohn—No. 2 40 id .42 Oats-No. 2 Mixed 34 @ .35 DETROIT. Ca.tle 3.C0 @ 5.00 H os 3.00 est 401 Sheep 3.09 est 4.25 Wheat No. 2 Red 9J & IcP Cohn—No. 2 Yellow 50 est .51 Oats -No. 2 White 35 est .31 TOLEDO. Wfeat—New <(8 est .93 C BN—No. 2 Yellow 56 est .57 Oats—No. 2 White 32 est .31 Rye 95 (gj .96 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 4.0 @ 5.7a Live Ho s 4.00 & 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01 & 1.13 Cobh—No. 2 61 est .65 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spiing 91 est .93 Cohn-No. 3 46 @ .48 Oats—No. 2 White l2l£@ 38J4 Rye—No. 1 92 @ .94 Babley—No. 2 59 @ .39 RoBK Mess 10.75 (dll 25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.00 Hogs 4.0 J @ 4.50 Sheep z VSO @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.06 est 1.67 Corn—No. 2 74 @ .76 Oats—Mixed Western ' 6 ei- -40 B utteb - c reamerj- 23 est .30 Pobk—New Mess 10.50 @ll.OO i j

BOLD EXPRESS ROBBERS. THEY HOLD UP A TRAIN IN 1 WISCONSIN. Hlew the Car Doors Open with Dynamite ' —ACTter Securing About SIG,OOO the ' Daring Highwaymen Flee and Leave No ! Trace. • A Daring Attack. A passenger train which left Chicago on the St Paul road the other n : ght for 1 Milwaukee, was held up a mile beyond Western Lnion Junction, Wis., by two masked men, and the express car was

robbed of $5,003. ‘ Safes, with $103,000, i belonging t» tho American Express; Co., wero dumped! from the car. b it the ■ pair of bold robbers ' were frightened away before they* could break open the steel boxes. The robbery

one or the MAWEwts a most dar in g i used. an j sensational one Not the least of its features wore the use | of dynamite bombs in the breaking open ■ of the boxes of the express car, where Messenger J. C. Murphy was In charge, and the fact that the attack was made in a thickly populated part of the coun try. Tho robbers evidently boarded the train on the front platform of the front car at Western Union Junction. They put on their masks, and as they passed the water-tank, two thirds of a mile

north of the junction, they climbed over the tender. Each had a breech-loading double-

barreled shotgun and one'of the bombs. a large-calibered revolver. They com manded the engineer to stop the train. He did so. They compelled the engineer and fireman to leave the engine and go with them to the express-ear. They tried to secure admission It was refused. They threw bombs into the car and so terrorized the messenger that when they knocked a second £hne he opened the door. They robbed the car of $5-,000 cash, i tossed out two safes, marched the en--1 gineer, fireman, express .messenger, and his assistant up the tracks for a half

— ■ nilil BLOWINO UP THE EXVIIESS CAR.

• mile, and marched them b-ck ami forth for ten minutes, then :ent them back to j tho engine. The crew mounted tlieiren- ' glue and after a delay of half an hour ■ went to Milwaukee The robbers were I so fri htened at the delay that, they made I n<> attempt to o[ on the safes they had । thrown out. Their dynamite bombs । wrecked the car, tearing away heavy iron ' plates and tossing them fifty feet away. I After the robbery the plunderers disap- j peared, while tha cjuntry in that vicin ( ity was scoured for them by detectives of the railroad and of the city police of ■ Milwaukee. Concerning the manner, in' which .the robbers di 4 their work, Engineer Mackey said:. “We bad got about a j ■ quarter of a mile nortif of the Western Union Junction. The fireman was put-J ting in coal. Suddenly he heard a noise and looked up. I saw there was something wrong from the expression of his face. I looked ch se by to see what It was and I saw a masked man with a double barreled gun in one hand and a revolver in the other. They were leveled at the fireman. Quicker than I could think another masked man appeared and pointed a" gun and a revolver at me. “Fireman Averill got his speech first and tailed out. ‘What do you wa-nt?’ • “ ‘Throw up your hands!’ said the robber. Up went Averill s hands. “I asked what they wanted. ‘None of your business.^ We’ll let you know so >n enough,’ replied the man who held that big.gun and revolver pointed at me. “The other robber handed the fireman a cigar and said: ‘Light it and I e quick about it, or I'll blow your head off.’ “The fireman lit it at tho water gla-s | lamp and I egan comfortably puffing 1 away at it when the robber said: ‘Give l it to me.’ It was quickly handed to > him. “The man who held the gun my head said: ‘Stop her, and be quick aboutit, too. * I stopped her. He said: ‘Vou two Thoy followed as. They said Ro RD to the express car. We did so. They said: ‘Get that car open.’ I rapped on the side door. There are no end doors to those cars. They are what tramps call ‘blind baggage’ cars. “Well, I rapped, but there was no ! answer from the inside. One of the : robbers left us and crawled through | under the car to the other side; the other ! covered both myself and the fireman i with* his shot gun and revolver. Soon we heard a terrific explosion. That was I a bomb which he had taken from his I pocket and placed on the ledge of the । side door of the express car. “He soon crawled baclx under the car jto us. He pulled from his pocket a i bottle about eight inches long, which 4 could see as he stood close to me had two fuses in it. He lit the fuses from the cigar which he was then smoking, and which he had compelled the fireman to light. He laid th s bottle on the ledge of the door and motioned us to get down the embankment. We ran down. They i-ept us covered all the lime with the guns. It did not go off. He threw it away. It was picked up and is now i held by the detectives frbm Milwaukee. i ' “Ho drew another from his pocket, lighted it from his cigar. The other robber said: ‘Throw it into tho car.’ He held it until it burned down pretty well. As I stood close to him I trembled a trifle, I’d sooner face the revolver than the bomb. Then he tossed it through the glass above the side door. It didn’t explode for twenty seconds. Then the explosion threw tho glass all

over us and threw out great plates of iron from the car sides. Then they ordered the fireman and me to go on the : other side of the ear. They held the j guns on us and we crawled under the cars. “Ihe explosion of the bombs had ; scared the express messengers, and when the robbers knocked with their revolvers on the closed doors on the other side of the car, the messengers at once opened the doors. Express Messenger Murphy said: ‘What do you want?’ ‘You know । well. Throw up your hands.’ “Up went the hands. ‘Get that box,* yelled one of tho robbers. Murphy replied: ‘1 here’s nothing on the train tonight.’ TJet down here out of the car.* yelled the robber. Out hopped Murphy : and his assistant, Cook. ‘Put up your : hands and hold them up,’ was the next order. Up went the hands of Murphy and Cook. Cne robber covered Murphy, Cook and my.-elf, while the other helped . Fireman Averill inta the car. Then the working robter came aid helped the messenger's helper, Cook, into the cur, । too. He got iiu-after them, bo ding h s revolver on them all the time. I gob i pretty tired of ho'd ; ng my hands up and ■lo-Aered them a little. The man cn i guard saw this and deliberately leveled the shotgun*at my eyes and coolly asked', ‘Will you hold up your hands?' I yelled, ‘Don’t shoot!’ and raised my hands again. “Then the robter inside the car out the helper out and called for the messenger. Murphy was helped in. I don’t know what they did, for tho man with the mask held the gun on me all the time. It was the funniest mask you ev.er saw. It was simply a pasteboard shoo box, which the man had stuck over his head, with big eyeholes in it It came from Chicago, too, and the name of a Chi< ago shoe firm was on it But, though I felt like laughing at it, I was afraid to move. “Well, pretty soon they struggled to the door and throw out two small stool money safes. I knew theso wero the through safes and they generally had lots of money in them. Then the robbers came from the inside, and the fireman, myself, the express mes eager, and his assistant were all ordered to march ahead. They walked us up the track ahead of the engine about a quarter of a mile. All this time we had to hold up our hands. Then they turned u? around and marched ns ba< k toward tho engine.

r T*ho>- us closely with /runs nr revolvers covering us. xuen tney ordered tho fireman to put out the headlight. He did so. Ono robber said: ‘We haven’t got time now. Let's go lack.’ They turned us again and marched us along tho track once more. They marched tho four of us a half mile this time. Suddenly one said: ‘Haiti’ We halted, hands up all the time, mind you. “Go back to your engrnq,’ shouted one of them. We marched slowly back. They did no’, follow us. To tell you the truth I thought we’d be shot in the back any second. “Wo got back and the four of us got on the engine We waited abput five m nutes. The passengers had heard the shooting and they were hiding their valr uab es. There wasn’t a head sticking out of a window during the entire timeAfter we had waited about five minutes I started up the engine. We had, of course, to run past tho place where these robbers had left us. I sat on the lookout. I stood at my post, for the engine was in motion and the lives of the “STOP HER AND BE QUICK ABOUT IT 1 .” passengers wero in my hands, but .1 never felt I wa so near death as at the time when I pas ed the point where those men had left us. I looked out of the windows for the robbers, but did not see them, and so wo got away. They detained us, 1 Ihink, about half an hour, but It seemed to me more like half a'day., “There was no bravery exhibited. There was little show for any. Two robbers did the work. They secured about $5,000 -from the little safe while they were in the car. The two safes they threw out they evidently intended 1 to wreck by bombs, but wero scared away, and tho o safes, which contained between $ .0,000 and $100,0: 0. were not attacked. It was a cool robbery. Tho 'J men had tho drop Resistance would ’ have been madness. I guess suicide would have been about the name for it ; 5Ve simply did our duty by holding our ' 1 hands up and saving our lives.” A Western physician kept account of one hundred cases of childbirth, and found that half occurred between 6 a. ni. and 6 p. in., and the other 1 half, of course, between 6 p. m. and i 6 a. in. I Mr. Hoivells finds Kipling’s last book “less cockahoop than other collections from his pen.” The value of such a criticism,,no doubt, lies iii^the obscurity Qf’lts meaning.