Semi-weekly herald., 1908-01-09

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securing any money or valuables. The
men escaped leaving no clew. The
train is known as the Flyer"
Shortly before starting time the
would-be robbers, four white men. en-
tered one of the forward day coaches
and walk UP and down the aisle. await
ing favorable opportunity to commence
their work. The station, aside from
this one train, was practically de-
serted.
DR.. Kennedy OF Kansas City gives
this statement of the attempted rob
berry:
"The four men walked through the
day coach several times Before any
of US realized what they were up to
two of the robbers showed revolvers,
pointing them at the passengers and
commanded them to give up their val
uables.
Just then II. w. Drew, the con.
ductor and David White, negro porter,
came into the car. Drew hit one OF
the robbers in the head with his Ian
tern and smashed it to pieces. Then
they ran.
| None of them were masked. Two
| started toward the rear of the car and
the other two toward the front door
made the porter unlock it. They then
| opened the vestibule and fed. The
others were in just as big hurry to
get out the front door"
The quartet lodged through long
| sidetrack and soon We're lost to
tracks and soon were soon lost to
sight. The police have put force
/ of men at work on the case.
Queenstown, Jan. 7.-The long over
due Canadian Pacific steamer Mount
| Royal steamed slowly into Queens
town today and the news of her safety
was received with gladness in shipping
circles. She had been last reported off
Lizard December 16 and watch was
being Kept for her on both sides of
| the Atlantic and SO far south as Ber-
| muda. She left Antwerp December Z
for ST. Johns, n, p. She had ON board
800 Hungarian emigrants and crew
OF about 100 men. She definitely sight
ed off Old Head of Kinsele sixteen
| miles west of port early today. She
then proceeded slowly under her own
OF e,g1 eh. tn
here. She declined the help of tug
sent out to assist her and reported
broken boiler and foul weather the
cause of her delay.
San Francisco. Jan. Tile Bulle-
tin this afternoon says j. Daznell
Brown. former vice president and gen
eral manager of the wrecked Califor.
mia Safe Deposit and Trust company.
and Walter j. Barnett, formerly direc-
tor of the same institution. under in
dictment for embezzlement will plead
guilty and throw themselves on the
mercy of the court.
Chicago Jan. 7.--"Remember gentle
men of the bar. an oath means moth
ing to a woman and Horace has so
truthfully expressed it, When a wom-
an starts out 10 periure herself, all
h cannot keep her record" With
these words and few like them Col.
James Hamilton Lewis took the breath
away from 200 students of the North
western university law school last
night. "A woman always comes to
testify as a witness for one or two
reasons" he said. EITHER she comes
through a sense Of affection or duty
to those whom she loves or she comes
to satisfy what she regards as a per
fectly legitimate feeling of revenge"
Washington, Jan. 7.-Rear Admiral
Brownson will demand a court of in
quiry or will resign from the navy
This is the opinion of officers of the
navy in view OF the denunciations of
the late chief of the bureau of naviga-
ton by Roosevelt. Admiral Brown
sons friends are of the opinion that
only by such court or by action taken
by congress that he could be vindi-
Gated.
Denver, Jan. While testing
generator at the West Denver plant
of the Denver Gas and Electric com
pany, about 10 o'clock this morning
Richard Jones. aged "a, was electro
cuted and died instantly. Jones had
been employed by the company as
cadet engineer, learning the profes-
sion. He worked in the loft of the
building with fellow employe named
Buddles. and when through with work
both started down. Buddles reached
the lower floor safely and after walt
ing a while for Jones returned to the
loft and found him, dead Nothing is
known how the accident happened.
Washington. Jan. IA bill reducing
the regular army after the first day
of December. 1908. to $4,000 men, TO-
600 of whom shall constitute an ar
tillery force for coast defense. was in
troduced today by Representative Will
liams. The standing army as now