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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
Satin de Luxor, 81.

A dress Silk that won't rumplo or
crease q Silk that won't split Isn't
such Silk worth having? That it IL,
and here's your opportunity to buy i
cheap 81 is under price. and you'll
say so when you see it.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05

PRICE & CO.,
Fourth and Broad streets.
IKad GAo0es.

You might travel long way and not md
such stock OF Kid Gloves rs you find
here. We keep only reliable makes
gloves that have stood the test OF time
aud gloves that are economy 10 buy |;
gloves that We can nt You at the counter,
with guarantee Of their goodness and a
full warrant.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
s. +. GERMAN HENRIETTA,
80 INCHES WIDE, SOC.

80 INCHES WIDE, SOC.
This is great bargain, and We havo
i. in two blacks--s bright, rich black
for ordinary wear, and deep Jet black
for mourning wesr. Every yard fully
warranted as represented or money re-
funded. Good judges viii DO quick TO
buy this splendid bargain, and We advise
you to come at once.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
the Chance 10 Buy
Millinery Fixings.

AZ rrtrmmcd Felt and Straw Hats that Rockwell =, n
I4laam sold from Doc. TO 800 Sale price is. VvC.
A. r...r.umoi hats that Rockwell Barham sold "a ~
t4 .lc e. 81 sale price is. ................ = -
All r,tru.ocd Hats that Rockwell & Barham sold - ~
u eI50 to S250-sale price is................ DUO
Ar Irs Aicrettes Birds Feathers. and Ornaments that
r. ven "a Barham sold from 75c TO Sl.5O-sae ~ :,
f.a soc
A. RI h. most Elegant OsrichFeaher Ornaments and such
...fi g the finest millinery establishments, no mat 50 n
trlaF high IL price they were-sole price IS. - DC
T. .fs and Wreaths that Rockwell & Barham sold a,
irus much fifty cents-sGle prco IS ........ seC.
T-r p. ana yreaths that Rockwell & Barhsm sold . -
ras much dollarsae price is.......... 4 nc
4. o. Rockwell & Barhams finest Flowers Wreaths, and
Crowns. 10 matter how large the price and as fine as
kept 10 any millinery establishment Of this city a
nn3 ends Of Millinery Trimmings JETS Crowns, Orna
u,uis, CreTes Silks Innings Edgings, Gimps. Iinses
Zee al actually tenth OF Rockwell a Barhams prices.
have do is to look the counter and boxes
70 val be worth your while looking.
I3-twel Barhams entire stock of Fancy Parasos. Chit
n PLAIN Pads, Silks. &c, at almost nominal prices many
OF them Just as stylish this year as last
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
And N0tU. LiSteDI

We want to talk to you about 6nor
Black Goods. We cannot 90 into detail,
as that would require q great amount Of
space-and you'd want to see the goods
anyhow, and that's what we're after.
We simply tell you of tho kinds here.
and We want you 20 see the rich blacks
and the good qualities face to face.
French Serge, IS inches wide, TOO.
and 81 yard.
Fine Silk.Warp Henriettss. 81, 1928.
and 81. 80 q yard.
Broadcloth, 81 inches wide, 81 AMI
$3.50 a yard.
4G-inch Brilliant Mohair, 80 and Csc.
q yard.
Silk-warp Gloris Cloth, IS inchea
wide, 75o. yard.
Silk.Warp "Lansaown," sl.25 .
yard.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
Hosiery.

Very few people know the magnitude OF our
Hosiery stock and much less OF the many
choice styles we carry. Probably no house
In this city ever did or ever will carry such
an assortment OF everything for ladies,
misses, and children as we show this sea-
son.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
High-GradG Henrietta,
4s INCHES WIDE, s7io.

10 IANOL-IA1 " Il7Ii 0fLV'
After seeing this superb k.Finished
Black Henrietta you won't hesitate
moment about buying it. Quality, ser
vice. and reliability are plainly stamped
upon the surface OF every yard, and car
ries with it conviction stronger than
any able salesman could produce with
an inferior piece Of goods.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05

nOOK AND JOB WORK NEATLY
10 AxlCgxSp AZ yn1 pnEAxcn x10l4
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HOUSEKEEPING.

Priestley's Silk-warp Nun's-yeiling
OF 81, Sl.50. and 81 per yard.
All-Silk Nun's-Veiling. very fine,
light, and transparent, only 81 per yard.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
Laces,
EmbfO1der7eS.

No moro busy spot in our store than the
Lace Counter, and probably no better
stock OF l.aces OF all kinds TO 10 found
anywhere All tho new Laces In all widths.
Novelties 10 Yeilings, New Embrolderie',
Hands erchieis, DC, in an assortment IN
oQualled.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
MattIne,
OtI-C0tkS.

The On-Cloths are here, and oyery one who
has seen them say they are the pretnest
Patterns ever ehown In tho city. The
quality IS the best known 20 tho trade ana
the prices start at SOC. per yard ana so up
10 4Jc Tor the heaviest made.
Linoleums In all grades direct from the best
manufacturers at popular prices
The Mattlnps we're due hero Friday, but
owing 10 the stOpDage OF oil freights ull
after the Inauguration they will not reach
here before Monday, whom wo viii show
tho most handsome patterns ever OK
hibifed In this city. many OF which nave
never been seen In Richmond before
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05

Ready-Made DRESSES
Blazer suits-navy, all-wool la1y's-cloth-
s4SS. In serge, e5.
All-Wool Serge Eton Suits, navy and black, So.
Ali-Wool Flannel Eton Suits, navy and black,
Navy and Black Eton Suits, sleeveless, $3.50.
And so on, for increasing els-
gance, up to S38.
Gun DDENIC CINGHAM
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
CHILDREN'S GINGHAM
DRESSES,

nicely made, ruflled yoke, 3oc
Gretchen style, white embroidered rest, o0c.
Better at Zoe.
Childrens Dresses at ell, sl.25, and up TO
s2l2.
Infants Long White Dresses, csc. TO $3.50.
Take Elevator.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
Silks and
Dress Goods.

The largest stock south OF New York. While
We do not claim 70 show as many styles IN
tho cheap mixtures that are so lroslY
offered now by most evory house, W W
claim 20 have the largest and best assort :
neni Of solid, eerviceable, honest-made
Silks and Wool Dress Goods 20 be found In
any house IN the South at prices no more
than yon sometimes pay for Inferior goods,
and in al assortment OF patterns surpass-
ed by no house In this country. II you
consult your own interest you will require
DO invitation to buy after you see our goods
and prlcea-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
You Don't Want to Miss this Chance
hundreds of them.

Isl Damasks b'eached unbleached come with 4, o~1
.rel borders that Rockwell Barham sold for -
70 t.c and 7Jc-sale price is................ Yard.
Tire Linen Napkins fringed and coored borlered that
.o,Awel s. BaTAam sold for forty cents-sae LAn
,s.e pr dozen. $SOc.
I'D. Ires Ginghams, every piece that Rockwell ,e,1
-a4 sold Tor ten and twelve ceDts-sale price 4 &c.
'''' '"'''
tr.. le understood that Rockwell Barham were the
m elchants and carried finest stock il Petersburg, Va
.-e --.e s. for this week only.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
Fer Pretty
Home G07Uns.

Yerd-gide Percales in all the colors and
styles, 1213c.
DO1ble-Fleeced Outings In all the bsn'
shades, 1910.
Fine India Twills, 80 inches wide, 1919.
The genuine Scotch Ginghams 10 stripes ana
plaids. The 20 and soc quality for lSc'
We cannot commence to nnmo all the bright.
ness Of n counter given up 20 weatn on
handsome patterns in French and scotch
Ginghams.
French Satteens and French Organizes. OF
course you will come aud see them, hs the
styles are exclusively our own and cannot
b. found elsewhere.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
Tie Catbet
Deb01tN1ent

will soon be in order. when We will show
the most extensive line Of Carpets to be
ready arrived and the balance viii be here
this week.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05
Tie Upholstery
DEPARTMENT

has many special offerings in Lace and
Chcnule Curtains, Table Covers, Furniture
Coverings. sc. Particular attention Is
callci to our new line Of Clrtain-Poles In
ell the latest styles, including the popular
Ivory and Gold.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-05

[mh 3 So, W&F3tl
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-10-12
Hcyan Since the War.

Solitary travellers were first intimi-
3otod and robbed by solitary highway
u u'Dn stage coaches were stopped by
n ,",' or more men and the passengers
D"Tovcd of their valuables and the
holding up of railroad trains at the
,oint Of rUvolvers by a limited number
|1f dcspcradors and determined men
,.as 4 natural evolution Highway rob-
Forv on the rail WIS unknown before
|tbr war. There had been instances of
|oynrrss messengers being robbed and
|mIrderrd by persons who had obtained
aces. 10 the car, but the bold capture
l.: train crews, the forciblc rifling of
L bp treasure boxes of the express COM
|nynics and tho subsequent robbery of
|m entire train-load of passengers, dates
from 1866 only, and this particular
form of piracy may bc said to have been
|sartcd by the Reno gang of four
|hrothcrs and their brother-in-law,
Anderson, who lived in and
|about Seymour, Ind. There was.
previous to this, an extensive
Robbery Of passengers that was semi
military in its nature. On September
Ia, 1864. occurred at Centralia, Mo-, the
memorable massacre of thirty-two
4 Union soldiers by Bill Andcrson's band
! Of eucrrilIas. The band of robbers
/ and murderers, from which were after
! wards recruited the world-famous
James and Younger gangs of despera-
4 does, had ridden into Centralia. pill
i LACED the town and then taken possess
1 sion OF the depot. When the North
/ Missouri train came along it was cap
8 mrcd by Andcrson's gang of cut
tmuats the thirty-tWo soldiers taken
& out. disalmcd and then stood against Il
8 wall and murdered. After the coward
4 " deed of blood the guerrillas went
! throUgh the train and robbed all of the
Passengers without distinction.
This WAS. however, an incident of
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safe from mob violence. But they
We're not, for on the night of the day
which they were confined mob of
nearly a thousand people came to the
city over the j.. NJ. & |. Railroad from
Seymour and adjacent towns, attacked
the massive jail, which for four hours
resisted their assaults. forced their
way to the prisoners cells, and despite
a most desperate resistance. during
which the four prisoners defended
themselves with savage fury, armed
only with portions of the cell furni-
ture, they were taken out and hanged
to a telegraph pole 1t is said that the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-10-12

robbers. led by the notorious Bill Bass.
held up an express train and secured
$4,000 from the express car. Three
of the gang then went through the
train and robbed every passenger from
headlight to bulls-eye." RUDE Bur-
rows, man desperate to the point Of
insanity, was the leader of d gang Of
train robbers that for years terrorized
the people and railroad officials
throughout the entire South, and it
was not until he was killed. three years
ago. that train robbing ceased in the
Gulf States.
On the Rock Island, Chicago and Pa
cific Road, in August, 1856, as the
train was nearing water tank near
Joliet, Messenger Nichols was Drained
by blow from poker, and his safe
robbed of over $500 When the train
came to q standstll at the water tank
the brakeman, who later proved to be
the murderer and robber. raised an
alarm, and stated that tramps had
boarded the express car at the water
tank, murdered and robbed the mes
senger. The story was believed for
more than three mont rs, and the
brakeman continued on his regular
run. He was suspected, however. and
arrested in Philadelphia, and part of
the money recovered He is now serv-
ing life term in Joliet.
n Plucky Messenger.
Five years ago. while a Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago express train
was nearing Fort Wayne, the messen-
ger was surprised to find himself con-
fronted by masked man who made a
command to throw up his hands. The
messenger was slow IN throwing up his
hands and the robber fired d shot at
him, but failed to register. The mes
scnger, who was also armed. quickly
drew his revolver and returned the
shot, striking the robber and killing
him instantly The robber proved to
be freight conductor ON the same
road. and he had gained entrance to
the car by means of duplicate keys.
The Daltons, who within the past
three wears made for themselves in the
Southwest record as bank and train
robbers almost equal to that of the
James outfit, began their career on
the Pacific Slope. Four years ago they
held up the Los Angeles express be-
cured $4,000. Less than two years ago
John Sontag and Chris Evans help up
the south-bound express at Ceres, q
small station on the line of the South
ern Pacific in Stanislaus County, Cal.
The messenger surrendered and opened
the safe for $4,000. The money was
found afterward in Evans back yard in
Visalia. When officers went to arrest
them one was killed and two badly
wounded. The bandits escaped to the
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subsequent murder of an express mes
senger on the Rock Island Railroad and
his robbery by one of the trains crew
is not a case in point. After the Van
dalia affair train-robbing began to be
heard of west of the Mississippi, where,
with the exception of the comparative
ly recent effort of an insanely reckless
man at Schenectady, n. Y, the Rube
Burrows exploits in Tennessee and the
Gulf States, and the efforts of the
present year, it has since been con-
fined.
The Horror at Council Bluffs.
There had been one train robbery in
the West prior to this affair in Indiana.
On the evening of July Il, 1870, train
was robbed on the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Road, about five
miles east of Council Bluffs, Iowa. This
outrageous affair was credited to Frank
and Jesse James, the three Younger
brothers, Bud Singleton and Clel Mil
Ter, but not until years afterward,
when the country rang with their
exploits in Wisconsin and when any and
all crimes that embodied daring and
reclklessness were charged to them
Eight men were engaged in the Council
Bluffs job. They hitched their horses
near UuC UItCk, lHcu IOic up VIC IullS
for 100 feet. The train was badly
wrecked, the engineer being instantly
killed and fifteen passengers desper-
ately injured. The bandits took adj
vantage of the confusion to rob the
wounded and terrified passengers, and
forced the injured messenger to open
the safe and give up $4,000. The train
that they were really after came along
twelve hours later carrying Sl50,000 in
gold and currency. Rewards aggre
eating $50 900 We're offered for the cap
ture of the perpetrators of this mon
strous crime. yet the best detective
talent in America failed to secure q
conviction or an arrest that was plausl-
BILE. 1t is now an accepted police ira
dition that this was the first appear
ance of the James gang as train rob
bers. Then followed the exploits Of
the James and Younger gang which
startled the whole country by their
holiness. The story of their repeated
robberies is known to every one, as is
also the tragic end of the last of the
daring desperadoes.
At Big Springs, on the Union Pacific
Railroad, Sept. 10, 1877, a gang of seven
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-10-12
Steel Masks and Bre stplatcs

In their flight they threw away three
sets of bullet-proof steel armor, the
like of which had never been seen be-
fore. The steel mask, which covered
the face and neck, was like section OF
stove-pipe. with holes cut for the eyes
and mouth. The breastplates. which
reached below the hips, We're made IN
three sections. It was afterwards
learned that this armor had been made
in Indianapolis to the order of the rob-
bers. Rewards were offered aggregat-
inc $4,000 for the arrest of the rob
bers and murderers, but the guilty
parties were never apprehended.
About FIVE years ago it. .a develG 2 T tia:
Hanta and that the leader was man
named Shoemaker, whose brother was
at the time Chief of Police Of Terre
Haute, and who was one OF the most 40,
two months hunt for the rob-
bars. This was the last case OF
holding up train in Indiana. The
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-10-12

when the point of attack was rea a11'al
tba wonld-be robbers found themselves
face face to face with a heavily armed posse use
VI We've en-, pursued. Three OF them were i !,
f At davlight mob storned the jan,
took them to a point one nile =; anu th a
half west of the town, where ae;e d AZ 't in
midst Of a field stands to .nls aa ase -
plain view of the railroad track n.;na sr the
+ which they we're hung. o nTLlns rob OBJ
day the remaining three wo quo. ni rJ
thew thew were hung to the same n srse1
civ bodies on the one tree pre arm;tted
SIN arew w sight, and were pe aan
TO The certainty that some such 1shsd 'rt the
,,ant as this awaited them urs era;nst
Renos It to make gh as aga mith
aa,s+rad;tion. When all was i is +a In
eSer thew begged not to be taken ael
n back took them to New vss n1oabI
cow fua Where they would be pres0
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men we're as matter of fact dead
when hanged, having been shot and
beaten to death in the cells. OF the
Reno gang Jack is alive, having been
released from Jefferson City several
years ago, and was recently keeping a
saloon at Seymour.
The very decisive method of show
ing disapproval of the profession of
train-robbing in Southern Indiana had
the effect of discouraging the business
both there and elsewhere, and it was
not until seven years later, June 8,
1875, that the country was startled by
the daring attempt to rob a Vandalia
express car and the murder of Milo
Games. the engineer, at Long Point, q
water station about thirty miles west
stopped at the tank. a lonesome place.
with but one habitation in sight, and
it little groggery, that was supposed
to have been established by the rob-
bers, when three mon, heavily masked,
and further disguised with SLOUGH hats
and linen busters, boarded the engine,
and drawing their pistols, shot Games
dead. The fireman. who was standing
on the tender. gave one look and fell
off the tender into the ditch. One
of the robbers understood an en-
CINE, and he pulled out carrying
the express car. which had been pre-
viously uneoupled, two miles down the
road. where a confederate with horse
and wagon was waiting on the opposite
side of a field. The Adams Express
messenger, Burke, brave man, took
in the situation and made preparations
to defend the car, which was an old
Pennsylvania car without end doors
and as strong as a fortress. He piled
up freight so as to make a barricade
on either side. TO the demand of the
robbers to open up he returned def
ant answer. They went to work on the
car with axes. but gave up the job in
disgust. They then began to fire
through the car. He returned the
fire, wounding one of the robbers, as
blood stains in the field proved, and
was slightly wounded himself. Over
forty shots we're exchanged. An effort
was made to set the car on fire, but be-
fore it could be carried out the conduc-
tor and a posse of armed passengers
came up the track and the robbers
fled.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-10-12

{he war, and police officers in discuss
!ng train robheries always date from
! >0o, when the Renos began operations
Southern Indiana.
The Reno Gang of Robbers.
] There were four brothers, Frank,
eSSle, Sim and Jack Reno. and their
Rrother-in-law Anderson. all four boys
Fho loaIed much of their time about
nc streets OF Seymour. One night IN
september of 1866, the west-bound Ohio
Nd Mississippi train was on its way
Eastward from Seymour and had
eaehed Brownstown, where it stopped
men the engineer and fireman found
s0omseIves suddenly looking into two
s''0iyers held by two masked men and
Re"ru an imperative order to pull out.
NS 'Ae engineer complied, the express
a' was cut off from the train, a simple
1''er IN those days, and the engineer
''eo to run ahead two miles, when
was ordered to stop. One man re-
"lned on the engine and three en-
'eo the express car, which had end
ooFS, oyerpowered the messenger and
.'eu him to open the safe. They
FL $4,000, and then fed, leav-
- 'ne engineer to return
IN his locomotive to his train.
~ a shot was fired. This bold
n successful crime created the pro-
'"eSt sensation. Col. l.. G. Weir,
8 Nv was at the time agent of the
"""S Express Company. recognized
,,", 'n'S was but the first of what
, Si prove long series of compara-
wy safe and profitable crimes, and he
hiaL ''gan that course of procedure
y'' 'n" mas made his name terror to
tt'GSS robbers and his conduct q
".' 'of the thief-takers of the coun-
Sr " emulate. The Reno family
lTE,; -. 'he time under some slight
I&y;G S,o,"l'' out there was no tangible
~, ''e against them.
Ia, ST months later the coupling pin
b. p~I'eo out of an east-bound train,
cacl, heer forced to run down the
@bhhaa 'te messenger held up and
tw rT ol $4,000. This was the work
a agn 'o r., neither of them 10 years
srsrs ney were delivered to the
hem ~ ~ their fathers. who had seen
reS 'aashlng masks, the money recov-
ent;ar~u.' o they We're sent to the peni-
Brcss "'y for long terms. The en-
be move people began to think that
the industry had been nipped
kter .h qua, when, nine months
ano,h he country was startled
PutaI an mG' train robbery of most
emo had :asgravating details. Jack
issouri ana IA the meanwhile gone to
the robh ,' was arrested for his share
Sank, for n ,1,y OF the Daviess County
'' which he was sent to the
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located through the untiring efforts of
Col. Weir, who directed the operations
where they were found living under
made a hard fight against extradition.
1t was over a year, and their cases were
taken to the court of last resort before
they We're surrendered to the United
States authorities.
Six Indiana Robbers Lynched
A circumstance had occurred at Sey-
mour during the interim that made the
Renos equally DESTROYS not to be re-
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mountains near SIMPSONS Flat in the
Sierra Nevadas. Here. in another bat
tie, two detectives were killed. In the
third battle another detective was
killed. Finally they fell into an ambush
near Young's cabin and Sontag was
killed and Evans wounded and captur-
ed. Evans is now in Jail at Fresno.
The noted Jim Cummings" robbery on
the Frisco road, near Pacific, Mo-, in
October, 1886, is another that is still
fresh in the minds of the public on ac-
count of the daring manner in which it
was executed.
Oliver Curtis Perry's Exploit.
Oliver Curtis Perry is the name of
a lone train robber. In October, 1892,
he attacked the express car attached
to New York Central train shortly
after the train had pulled out of AL
bany, N. Y. Perry climbed upon the
express car, and, by means of rope
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-10-12

turned to Indiana Six young men
living in the vicinity of Seymour, fired
TO the point of enthusiasm by the sue
cess which had attended the two train
robbery exploits of the Renos, banded
together for the purpose of enrlchlng
themselves at the expense OF the eX-
press company. "A time, tram ana
place had been selected, but weak
kneed confederate betrayed the plot,
little dreaming Of the fearful results
to follow. The doomed train was
mounted with a strong guard, and