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Newspaper

Salem Press

Location

Salem, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Mar 18, 1886

Page

4

Nationwide woes and major fires sweep the nation

A Detroit of 150000 fires, Missouri famine threats, pneumonia at McKeesport, and a Monarch Line dock fire in New York causing 980000 in losses. Boston Harbor an explosion killed five crewmen. Range of crimes, politics, and disasters fill the day with shocks from Georgia to Oregon.

California R. H W. McDonald Drug Co San Francisco Cal Wion Street Col. Charlton St New York

Bloody Express Robbery Ends in Murder and Safe Loot

A masked quartet robbed the west bound Rock Island express between Joliet and Morris after the Joliet departure at 12 45 am. Messenger H S Nichols fought the robbers until a fatal blow with an iron poker ended his resistance. The robbers escaped with the safe’s contents estimated between 25000 and 100000 dollars, leaving money and checks scattered. Conductor Wagoner and passengers suspect four men, with passes tied to R D Martin, boarding at Chicago and Blue Island. one pass dated 1884 had its date altered. No arrests announced.

Nichols Safa Ticindas Rock Island and Pacific Joliet Morris H. S. Nichols Morria Wagoner Nichola Chicago Blue Island R. D. Martin Good Kansas City

Mob Executes Archer Gang at Shoals Jail

A mob hanged three Archer brothers after storming the Shoals county jail. They selected maple trees by the courthouse yard and left the bodies suspended until the sheriff ordered removal at dawn. Governor Gray protestedlynching and urged upholding the law. The coroner's inquest blamed unknown lynchers.

Archer Shoals West Shoals John Martin Thomas Archer Gray John A. Boir Daviess County Lynch Bunch Arcera Indiana Court House John Lynch

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