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Show During SInire Robberies. Galveston, 19. There has been another daring stage robbery on the El Paso line. One stage and two hacks full of passengers were slopped by three highwaymen o the open prairie, eighteen miles west of Dallas. Before finishing their work another hack full of passengers came up, on being ordered to stop tho driver put the whip to his horses and escaped. Several shots were fired by the robbers, rob-bers, and the fire was returned by fhe passengers, but no one was hurt. As soon as the robbers secured the booty, $7,000, they shot their own horses, mounted the best ones belonging to tho stage, and rode toward the Indian nation. They arc supposed to be the same who recently captured the San Antonio stages. Mounted squads of men started in pursuit. Information has been received that ten men in pursuit of the robbers rob-bers were only ten minutes behind them early this morning on the Grain prairie. From the description given it is supposed they are tbej James brothers. The entire country 1 is aroused, and their capture U con-1 sidered certain. I |