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Show J made a Coop haul. , Nearly Fifteen Hundred oDollars Stolen From a Station Agent In Texas. Tyler, Tex., Oct. 18. At Llndale last night as the International agent at the office was closing after the eleven o'clock train had passed north and just as he blew out the lamp and turned to go from the office, he. was confronted by two masked men who ordered him to "hold up" and tell them where he kept the money. The robbers received in all $1485, of which $89 belonged to the Pacific Express Ex-press company, $90 belonging to the agent and the rest ticket sales of the International. The burglars were not green men, as before leaving they took particular pains to remove the bars from the te'egraph instrument and took them with them, showing that they were acquainted ac-quainted with the workings of the telegraph tele-graph apparatus. In doing this they left the agent without with-out a way of giving any signal or message. mes-sage. The first news of the affair was brought on the passenger this morning at 4:13 a. m. Dogs were sent down from Mincola this morning, but no further particulars have been announced. an-nounced. , , |