Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-11-11
A TRAIN HELD UP.
Robbers Dynamite the Safe and the
Train Catches Fire.
AN EIGHT YEAR. OLD'S WILD CAREER
Brutal Hold-Up in Chioago-FIfty Miners
Held Up-A Steamer Founders-An-
initiated by Nitro Glycerine--
Football Players Hurt.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Nov. SAT-
lantic e. Pacific passenger train No. 2
from the west was held up by four
men near Grants station, 95 miles west
of this city, at 1880 yesterday evening.
After blowing open the express COM
pany's safe, the robbers wrecked the
train, which caught fire, the express,
baggage and smoking cars being total
ly destroyed. 1t is not yet known wheth-
err they were successful in obtaining
booty, but it was thought q large
amount of money was carried by the
train. The robbers had boarded the
train at some point further west and
when near Grants, one Of them boarded
the engine and, covering the engineer
with a gun, ordered him to stop the
train. The coaches were cut off and
left at the stock yards, The rest Of
the train was then run out / Il miles
from the station, where the express
safe was dynamited. After robbing
the safe the robbers reversed the en-
CINE and made their escape.
AN hluhl-l EAh-OLD WILD CAhEEh'
CHICAGO, Nov. S.--James Bowe, aged
eight, by occupation u highway rob
Der and by confessed tastes murder
err, has temporarily stopped his wild
career of crime. Jimmie was arrested
Saturday evening. 1t was reported
that he had attempted to hold up the
agent at the Lake street station Of the
Metropolitan railroad. Jimmie de-
clares that as soon as he is liberated
he will buy n gun and kill police
man. Jimmie has strong competitor
for the junior criminal championship
in Towfil Dowgillo, aged II, who held
up Theodore Masur. Towfl says
he robbed Theodore to get even with
him for an assault which cost Towfls
mother IS.
BRUTAL HoLD-UP IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Nov. S.--William Kastner,
a cook, was held up by two footpads
when passing under the Lake Street
Elevated railroad structure in Market
street yesterday evening. The robbers
searched Kastner's pockets, but find
ing nothing of value there, they deter
mined to rob him of his speech. One
of them placed revolver close to the
victims throat and fred. The bullet
cut through the vocal cords and COM
pletely destroyed Kastner's power of
speech. The robbers escaped.
FIFTY MINERS HELD UP.
DIES MONIES, Ia, Nov. s. -Three col
ored desperadoes, armed with a shot
gun and two big revolvers, held up
the mining town of Marquisville, four
miles north of here, They walked
into the pool room and, calling on so
miners to hold up their hands, one of
the party went through their pockets.
The miners had just been paid and
quite sum was taken, but it is not
known just how much.
A STEAMER FOUNDERS.
BUFFALO N. Y, Nov. S-The West
ern Transit company's steamship Ida
no, which left here for Chicago Friday,
foundered at four o'clock Saturday
morning off Long Point Lake Erie.
The first mate and q sailor, who got
into the rigging, were rescued by the
steamer Mariposa and brought here,
Nineteen men, all sailors, were
drowned. The boat carried no pas
sengers
ANNIHILATED BY NITRo-GLYCERINE.
WHEELING, w. Va, Nov. ga maya
zine of nitro-glycerine exploded in
Pine Fork, in the Wetzel county oil
field, Saturday afternoon, killing three
men and leaving hardly trace of
them or of the magazine and two
teams of horses that were near.
FOOTBALL PLAYERS INJURED.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. Sin foot
ball games here Saturday Robert
Grange, of the Bollifeld Athletic team,
suffered cerebral conclusion from
which he is lying in a precarious con-
dition and Bert Richie received posi-
bly, fatal internal injuries.