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Train Robbery and Holiday Adjournment Reported
Special notes recount December 21 to January 1 adjournment for holidays and a Mississippi train robbery near Duck Hill. A passenger train was halted one mile north of Duck Hill, robbers looted the express car, a messenger was fired upon, and Mr Chess Hughes of Jackson, Tennessee was wounded fatally after confronting with a Winchester.
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Grexapa
Dee
Ilnois Central
Duck Hill
Yeenger Hill
Chess Hughes
Jackson
Tenn