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Daring Train Bobbery,A CMOS 1‘ACIFIC EXI'KiSS a« WHEV'ED OF$*’lt;0,000 by anothuk ou.;.\xi*.vnON ofTHE JAMEStS.Aii Omuhit t-jM’fiul of the Iflh to the Chicago 7Wbum- give* the particulars of the Dig Spring* train rollon*. Tin* dw-prilcli Kiys:One of the most daring anti nucccsif-fnl miiroad express robberies ever per-f {K.'lnil«*U in this country occurred lust 1 night- Ut about lOi-ifi o’clock at Big I Springs, a small and isolated station on jthft Union l'acific railroad. 3C1 miles wcot of Omaha. The details of ihe robbery I have oblnined from Pacific o Hie in Is, who, early tbls morning were in receipt of dispatches announcing;lli THE STAKI'LING NEWS.! Just previous lo tin* arrival of Ihe express train Xo. 4. bound cast, in charge of conductor Tatieraoti, two masked melt stepped into the office of the station agent. Mr. Barnhart, who was taken completely by surprise. Tlu-collectc*d *1,300 in currency, besides watches, jewelry, and railroad tickets. They attcm pled to force open the door of u sleejKir, but failed. The pasacngen* say tlmt there were thirteen men in the parly. Every HIV,it will !e made lo capture them.¥ofhc Famine In Jndi*.IThose who are of opinion that war and famine will always sufficiently reduce the pupulation must feel that current- eVenu tend to justify them. For while the losses in the Jluiun and Turkish war arc enormous, the* famine Union (in southern India is terrible*. 'Hie accounts from that country are appalling. •‘The railway, says a correspondent in Mysore. ’‘Is taxed to its utmost limit, and is bringing four thousand tons ofSraiti a week into the province; but as us will only feed a million and a half of people, tlie other three millions and a half in Myrosc must starve, as nil tlie Mores of grain in the country are oxenerlt;In|neibuthem by taking up tliey stopped him and made him hike ut his rolay. which they carried off with them. The person who gave the order* was the captain, and Hceincd to be an intelligent num. and Mr. Bam-liun is of the opinion lliiit he is a telegraph operator. They then ordered him to put out his reel light, all the timehis sounder, hutel«atlt;ahallhatomcniifbrththhawlbalithnuited. Already the suffering* of the pointed 'four'cocked’ revolvers at him (Hro^e are awful, There is a regular l!‘ and ordered him to tear up histdegmph service organized, m addition to the po-; instrument. Barnhart tried to deceive bee, to keep iho .streets of Bn ngdorcclear of the dead and dving, but outride ihe municipal limits Oc«d bodies are lying in nil directions; the lower canto*are cooking and eating the bodies.” Myrose \* under British administration, ami it is stippled that half its po iula-tion will perish. The rain has failed for sc.'cral successive seasons. In Madras nearly :t million of people were de-dcpcmlcnt at the last accounts on reliefasTiai:ellevIvIk1?.efviKEEMNR HIM covEiuiD WITH KK\-OT.VKiej.! works, and another millon were foil {£After the red light was hung out pn tlie1, gratuitously. Cattle arc perching, and -track iViev commanded Barnhart ;o scM an mdescrujahle euknuty has overtakenhis mail ready as usual.Their arrangements were now complete for receiving the expected train. | which soon came along, and, of course,1 stopped in obedience to the red-light i signal. The masked marauders, there ! being seven of them in party, then at once liegnn to carry oul their well-laid plans. The four who had Barnhart in charge took him to the door of the express car and made him knock as hength-of•illthc.LOtnuiy Famine iu ludiu is periodical, nud those who hold that it is a providential provision for depleting overpopulation must also suppose tluit no human meansm0difocan prevent il. The condition of swarms of the people *«ho live upon a bare sustenance is such that they sink hy thousands under any privation. It h estimated that the whole power and energy of the government must now be supusual I v doe* when he wishes the ox-1 plomcnted hy profuse private aid tojavc pres.* messenger to open the door. Mil-1 even a lew of ihe victims. I he Lord iC-r, the express uiessenger, having' no suspicion that any other person exceptBarnhart was outside, opened the door a little way, when three of the robbers caught the door, and, til rowing it wide open, presented their revolvers at the messenger. They then went through (mo of tlie safes in the car and securedMayor of London has appealed to the public generosity, and the Timr*, in alluding lo the fact, say* that.it the moment nothing is to be done but to help without a stint, and when the fear of the immediate death of a pcoflehns passed, the methods of prevention must be con-de:S;rctnStn:ritiwwridcred. It seems lo think that UicjfrUic trcasui-e-book, containing$00,0*30 in! remedy, docs not lie in the huge storegold coin, 'fire through safe, which has it combination lock which is only unlocked at each end of the Union Tacific mad, they did not touch, us the messenger (lid not know the combination,and could not therefore, reveal the secret to ... them, notwithstanding their threatened demand. The robbers did not inter-1 fere with theUNITED STATES MAllA,hut went from the express cur into the firsl clues passenger coaches and robbed the passengers, after which Ibcy disappeared.They hud no horses in sight, but it w supposed that they had their steeds concealed near hy. Above are the particulars according to Barnhart's dis-pnlch. Further details siro learned from Conductor Faltersou’a telegrams, in which it is stated that the party numbered Iron*TEN TO FIFTEEN MRS.When he arrived at Big Springs Sihouse* of grain, but ill promoting easy and rapid communications, so that the supply of one part of the country may be made available in nuoth or. And miles:* British svmpatbv with the Turk has touched British intelligence with Turkish fatalism, it will not leave thi* problem long unlived.—llar/yyie l»Vr%.msIh.th-►urveneI'Vhefoal!i»lrein-:\n«TCthelo!ndi of•ofc;itisc,Wettrflmd am red t of il.t--Allouton.onA Crazy Engineer’.* Freak.Meitnra Polls Gazelle.Wednesday night the Urea I Western railway yard authorities at Clifton were surprised to hoc Lurry C«l!r.n, an engineer on the line, draw out of tlie round-house, and instead of coupling on the steamboat express, which he was to draw to Windsor, start off with his locomotive for St. Catharines. The engineer laid Ixsou waiting quietly in the roundhouse and hislireman had guuc to sleep. He did not move down the yard for his when he was due. and a messenger was After being called he ........., , ;aent for him. -...........0 ...........lion they had. a? slated above, captured i Iaiaitoil for the switch, but instead of re-llio agent, cut the telegraph iiwlruinunb* i turning for his train ho pulled the thrnt-and hvnig out a red light for orders.When ho stopped upon the platform iuyet his telegraphic orders, two men with cocked revolvers in each Imiul tokl him to throw ini his hands, which he did. They bad Already captured the express messenger, engineer and fireman. Besides the coin they got in currency from tlu* express cur. From a passenger named L. ^lorris they got a cold watch, $43t» in money, and a ticket lo Chicago- Whilo they were robbing Hie pns.icngers,IT.Einm' T1IAIX NO. 1ftcame along, and this interrupted them in their pluudrring process among the niwscugcrs. As the freight was a)»-jiroaching. Conductor l’atterson was allowed to go under guard to Hag il. A -nurd accompanied him until ho passedthe sleepers, when the guard rejoined the main gang, who then quickly disapon,ou*m-2nd«le*itv.mIhe t ofwasneared. They h-ul extinguished Iho fire In the engine’of the express train, and. when the freight train cnmc up, Conductor Patterson shitted .thu freight-engine out to spread tlie new.* and gel up a party lo pursue them. Miller, the express messenger, wna somewhat bruised sftwut the head, but not dangerously, sit the hand* of the’rubbers, who took his revolvers away from him.tie \vi3fy open and shutcd olf for Bt. CailmriiHW. Tho lireman, who by this time was thorn uglily awakened, vcntur-cil lo suggest that they return fur the train, ami in answer got a short dwfjui-silion on the rdative ^loshions of an engineer and fireman thai wu* more noted for LI ti emphasis than its coherency. At Thorold the fireman got. ofi‘ and the engineer went, on to St. Catharines. At this point lie reported for ordo.re. and in obedience io a telegram from Clifton rotunlcd lo the grade, when his steam gave out. and lie remained until another engine and crew took him in charge, and opened the track for the stennftmnt express. The next day the engineer a]-neared as usual, but profcscod an utter ignorance of tho transactions of tlie previous night, neither did ho seem lo understand what had been the mailer with his mental organs. Asa matter or course lie lias been discharged from the road.vrmlas mm i led iol-icli-i united I linear, ft ig ars, ..se,Vml die ,1/JO ic in anthe30:ilil tovishvfulorkhv.:uxllior-SlIEIUKF MCCABTIIY, OF SIDNEV, started out early this morning with a posse in pursuit of die thieves, and tfherilV Bradley, of North PJaUo. luw al-jso gone after them. Tlie country in ’ whicti the robbery was committed is wild and dreary, mul some, trouble may he experienced in striking the right trail. It i* thought they have gone north, and that they arc the smnc rol»-bcrs who have recently been plundering Black I [ills stage coachc*. p /U|on receipt of tlie dispatches in Omului, lefore daylight this morning, they were carried to Ccnerol Superm-tendcni Clark, at his residence, and he was soon at liis oflicc. Tito first thing lie did was to notify all telegraph stu-lions along the line ju.i in the Black Hills, olfering ajtEWAlMOF ? 10.000Tor the capture of the thieve* and monev, or a proportionate amount for either. Ho then tclegninhcd die uifor-j mation to nil other puns of tho country. Thi* is tho iirst robbery of the kind that I has ever occurred on the Union Pacific,1 although it i* a wonder lo many that ihe trains on this road have not long before hern ai tacked, as they have been on other roads running through tluekly Fettled region^. Tlie loss, of course, falli upon the Union Bacilli: exprtes company, an orgnnizition that is part of tlie railroad company. The above amount of coin is considered a very laige sum as compared with the averIs Mars Inhithllrd.Is this neighboring world the aluklcof living creature*? The question is bc-yoiuiihe ]reKent |mvcr of science lonn-Hvver. But would it not he strange 1m yond expression if a world, with land and wflier, and changing scitson?, and apparently all tin* conditions required hy life, so like our earth that it i* oVeil possible Unit man could exist u]Kin itssurface, should roll on through the agesuni nimbi Intcd and unonjoyed? Uur earth teems with life in its remotest cor-: l nor. yet some Mnniul nstronoinor may i j at lhis inonnmt tc wondering what i.s.;a the usoof us. and whether uur planet in \. thealxdoof intelligent beings. After i. the wonder* that science has nfready J achieved, Ik* wouhl he bold who should!{ say that this problem can never bc‘ solved. L’nfortuilately, we cannot hope for nnicl) from the improvement of our tele.^opda and the increase of their magnifying iowcr. The disturbances I j proilucetl hy our atmosphere are uggra-1; vated by every imch inciensc. But. j when the problem of life in other wordt* ,is solved—if ii ever shall he -it seemssafctoiay that it will be by tho alien-1 tivc study of our near neighbor. •CVkuiV? ; H‘. in The Clt;tl‘ix/Je,r Oci'r.agoIcil-tun-this bie.j ting! *0'j jircs* carsit was n shipment from California.Printing Before the FIikmI.A great deal has been Riid. says the j1 Jxmttan Echo, as to tiie invemorof the j J art of printing, the period when ihe in-! vention first saw the light, and the lo-j1 cality where it was horn. Two or throe •1of thesi? points, however, need not ox- jcite discussion. 11 is a good while since the remark that llicrc is nothing new under llm sunTi wa5* made, blit anterior to ijuil rcnuitc period—namely, some four thousand years ago—the firel )riril-;ng machine cxistelt;l in Babylon ; If the nroof lfi requirctl of this rather stari-Tho com pan v hse« expected that some: ling assertion, it may be easily found, j ‘ such affair would happen at some time. a far }t exist* no farther off than Trinity I ‘ and, in anticipation of just such devil-; College, Cnmbridge. In that place there j * they have had the door* of tliccx-ffe preserved n solid cylindrical figure • ’about seven inches in length and ihrd* liAKREh wrnt wtixrt hwn. j inches in diameter at each end. On; Machinery is so arranged that mesx*n-i the surface of ihi* miniature cast-like j inv tunc so as not to! cvlinder. mimitelv and finely wrought «1ok[gew can nx HI open the door more Ilian *iv iiichw, iik ; and hence, in this case, there must be 1 to j somegotxl explanation, as nndoubuxlh-fold1 there i*. a* to how the r«bl*em managed ens-i to throw the door wide otien. One man riel.! it is paid, with ihe usual »0“U and ma-icnt chincrv. ought to keep nut twenty.men n of! Sheriff Bradly,. of North Finite, when n-eS j ten miles out of Big Springs, struck thepro-ircdSUpernbhci’s' trail, and fouud two of their revolvers and n trcasure-box empty. Upon the arrival of the train here at fi o’clock this evening I interviewed passengers(•Ji;ira*'lei-s arc engraved, :tnlt;l these are rangcil in vertical line*. Jt is. therefore- a Mi-iking example of the ingenuity of tin? ancient*, and shows their method of preserving and innliiplying niilioml or family recoixls. Il U rjtiitcum ! and traimneti. and found their sudtpnt! ntciils to agree in tlie main with the j present day ' luctor FatlciYon.j ~evidcnii'rom the intended leuemol die BahylonirtJi printing machine—for such j it really i*—that some mean* of apply*; ing prtsturc to it was in use among the •; Nmcviie “typos: ibis being so, thci jiriitiiiivc appliance at Cambridge most I !c said to embody the identical prinoi-! pic of ihe newspaper macliine* of iliej€LrjalOvc account. Con e,w-! whilo under guard,was robbed of money jCoilAl.T ELKCTROTVriNU.'-Mr. ,1. Ad* I cod ! and watch, but got hi* watch hack, an j Aina, of Ri*inn, kns found that the |: liar- they dropped it and lift picked il up j simple auj^. Aidav was on a’cnr platform, an.roc! nflKr they left- Andy Kilty, otto city j will, .mother clecirmypc such m tho I * -form, and thcv ordered j chlontc of ammonium, or the sulphate — • • or I ho p.U Inridt: of Tiiairne-AlA, i mi I aT
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Palo Alto Reporter
Emmetsburg, Iowa, US
Sat, Sep 29, 1877
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