The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Train Robbers Take $4,000 Near
New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, April Is. 1S92.-News
from McComb City give the details of 6
train robbery near there. The Illinois
Central train No. was held up and the
express car robbed between Arcola and
Pangipoha. about nine o'clock Wednes
day night, by five armad and masked men,
One man got aboard of the engine al
Hammond, held up the engineer and fire
man with guns and told them to do as
they were ordered. The train
went on the side track at Independence
to meet another train. Soon aftel
leaving Arcola the man on the engine
ordered the engineer to stop. Severa
men were awaiting the train at this polnt
then the masked inan forced the engineer
and fireman to go to the express Car ano
order the messenger to open the doors
The robbers escaped with $4,000.
A Youn. Frenchman Attempts Suicide.
NEW YORK, April Is, 1S92.-Charles
Botter, young Frenchman. stabbed
himself over the heart at the lodging
house, No. 2l7 Sullivan street, this morn
ing. The landlord heard groaus in his
room at midnight and burst in the door
Upou the bed, dressed but with barred
breast. lay the lodger. Blood gushed
from two wounds over the heart In his
right hand he held an old bread knife
worn half down to the handle but ground
to razor edge. He was too weak tc
use it then. Set up against the
wall in the bedroom stood photograph
cabinet size, OF q handsome French girl
with raven hair and dark eyes.
The wounded mans eyes were
riHe5ed ri4 upon .no it as ~ he osiGhe siGhed ed
the intruders away. His feeble
fingers groped for the knife. but could
not grasp it. With the effort the blood
gushed from his wounds again.
He was sent to st. Vincent's Hospital.
where he now lies with fair chances for
recovery. Nothing can be learned about
the cause OF his deed.
Mysterious Mrs. Lees Suicide.
NEW YORK, April 49, 1S92.-No further
information could be obtained this morn
ing about Mrs Mary Lee, patient, who
was killed by jumping from a third story
window yesterday afternoon.
According to the DOCTORS statement the
young woman was Southerner, twenty
two years OF age, and came from North
Carolina. She became an inmate of DR.
Ayers hospital several months ago, and
had been very i'll since she first entered
She was slightly better yesterday and
the nurse left the room for few moments.
While she was gone Mrs. Lee left her bed
and with nothing on but her night dress
jumped through the window. She was
dead when found.
Sudden Death of a New York Merchant
NEW YORK, April 10. 1s92.-Peter Fenny
Gates died suddenly on the third floor Of
No. 80 Dey street this morning. Mr.. Gates
was sixty-one years old and occupied
an office on the third floor of the build
ing. His business was the sale of patent
novelties and unique inventions. He was
a widower and lived in apartments in The
rear of his office. He fell to the floor in
attempt to leave his bed and expired with
heart disease.
Inspector Milhoi1and's Removal.
Colonel Bliss said this morning that
Secretary Foster late last night removed
John E. Milholland, Chief Inspector oi
the Immigration Bureau.
The Milholland men say that this is 6
campaign statement.