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Show DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. JBI,500,000 Worth or rroperij Couiamtd by the names. EXPftCSS CAR HCkD UP AND RODOCD. HatUnic Hjantl Was a iT, VM by the (!cmiaa (.'otera- rarul. Cj TelraFS W lbs SlWS-1 . Tlis Customary tlold-Up. Tims, Ohio, Oct. A liold express ex-press robbery was committed on the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland train south of here this morning. The Adam's Express messenger was held up by masked men armed with revolvers and a safe was ransacked. The Iosj is supposed to bo several thousand dollars. Tho rubbers escaped. es-caped. AOniTtoAI FACTS. Im nedlttely after tho train left Artuua, two masked men with cocked revolver entered the express car and oomp.-IIed the Alm' Ex-pre5me8HM15ir, Ex-pre5me8HM15ir, A. L. Scudder, to Srowunlilsliands. They tied him sMurt-lj and rAbe.1 Uio safe of packages containing several Jhou Land "lollars and oUier vslnabies. While at work a brakeman attempt ed to enter Uie car and was shot a. byoaeofthcrolOiers. He gave the alarm nud tho train slowed up to give an opportunity to capture the robber, but theyjumpe! from the Iriln J i.t as it was entering West lilberty ani dlapr-ired In the darkness NEKV ECVIWKK. Miengvr Scudder wa bound it hiselmr. One of the roll .crs tried to kill Said ler before laaving tlie car Placing a revolver at his head he l!l tho trigger, but the cart ridge failed to exidwdc. The other robber thn prevented b nt from tre.ucagain, wheu Uie Uiln rl1' celt. At West Liberty the two scoundrel again got on the train, holding Uie entire crew at bay. Scudder. who had been rele-ased. opeued firu on them with a pistol from his cardoor, but was compelled to retreat. The robbers kept award until Hellefoiifcilne was rrached, when they again Jumped "ffand dlsanared. Tho ofllcers at Ilei'c-fontaine Ilei'c-fontaine arc searching for them. silver Abroad. AJiSTKitHiM, Oct. 2. The price of fine silver In the open market advanced from S3 to SO guilders Jr i kilo. ft It Sreplnl. WasiiiSutoX. O't. 2. TlieDt-rartment TlieDt-rartment of State lias received a elUiiatch from thu United States legation le-gation atRuoiios A res, announcing announc-ing that thepresldcut of the Argen-Uuo Argen-Uuo ReiHiWIc lias Iueil a decree acceltliig the plan for IuteijontJ-nental IuteijontJ-nental rallroai commbelou. tae onree- PAUIS, Ott. 2. Madam Itonnet, tho woman who was arretted at Cannes on su splcton of being a German Ger-man spy nnd In whose possession were found tho plans of defeue of that place, has confessed that she was lu the employ of the German government at a monthly salary etf francs, bjsWes traveling expenses. expen-ses. World's I'alrs rn II ore. llKUeEi.L3, Oct 2. Tlie liultpetf dence Jl9t(fe says tlie adopuoii of the McKlnley UrilTblll Insures tho failure fail-ure of the World' Fair nt Clilcauo, as It will be a nsdl-a and hopelS ex(eue for Eurojieniia to feud cx-hlblU cx-hlblU there. ltebli'stlrculitr. 2Cltw VotiK, Oe-t. 21. A circular has liren l,tied b Vlce-Pretident Webbof Uie New Vork Central, in which it Is stated that Uie company edjectetl to its employe being Knights of Labor. The management manage-ment U satisfied that membership In fiat onreniiittou l lucousistent with n faithful an J enlclent service aud likely at any time to I revent it from tHsehorglns it duties to the public. Tbo facts and connection of the late strike on that nud Is recited re-cited lu proof aud the heads of the de-p.itmenUare illreehled tooail Uie nllentiou tf Uie emoloyes to the cir cuiar. Ureal I Ire In .Sydney Su.Bi, S. W., Oct. 2. A fire broke cut in tills city hst night and. despite the efforts of firemen and attauce by the citlxew, 11 spread and raphlly extemled over a large area on Pltl, Callc Ueaeh, Moore arl Hunter street. Among the iMikllugs destroyed were the City Rank. Athenaeum Club and warehouses cf Iirt t Son, Fetd-liflm Fetd-liflm A. Co Hall Co., Gibs, ShIIIard A Co Irtivler A Co., Itlehirdsou A Wrench. A nurolr of other business houses were Injured. In-jured. Damage XlOO.OOO. SlQiitansr. Ioxiv, Oct 2. Roulsnger will spend the riuter In MsJta. Immlxrnnlt tlrrrhnnlrtT. Xkw Vork, Oct. 2. The authorities author-ities at the UargeOnlcr this morn-lug morn-lug ifed an InniBUe ainnunt of moral peruaslou on thirty - two young .Mormons tlat arrivnl yts-t yts-t nlay on the steamer IJmi, lo Iniuctt llie-ni to fore-go their iuten-tbin iuten-tbin of becoming proseiltes to the Mormon faith. Theglrbweresepur-atcel Theglrbweresepur-atcel from the other passengers at they itxled and placed lu a room by thenwlvca. The female missionaries mis-sionaries from (lie Emigrants' Girls' Home went am jug th-m and tried to convince them of the foil of the course they pred to follow. The attempt of the mfokinarirs to influence in-fluence them proved an utter failure. The entire J.arty will proceed on their j urncy tomorrow. The party compritet, c'l told, 202 Fouls, of whonv, thirty two are children. |