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Show ROBBED BY HIGHWAY-MAN HIGHWAY-MAN OH DARK STREET Sunday night Mr C 10. Itlfe was held up by highwaymen and relieved of liTis vnluables, which at that time coiiBlBtod ot a package of cigarettes, It was 11:30 p. m. and happened a half block north of tho Win. Chlpman i oriipr, wlioro tlio dnrkness cnuaed by the don bo trees mado it cuHy to escape being recognized. Mr Hire's wlfo being taken III, he hurrldly Bllppcd on ills trousers and overcoat and wont to li Is mother's homo for boiiio medicine. Whon pas-lug pas-lug under tho biggest of tho trees a man8 iioked a gnu lu his faco and K ntjy Bald stick up your hands. Ju.it henWilH companion Mopped from bo hind, a froo and commenced going . lirough Itlfo'H pockots, hut as ho had m only an overcoat and trousers, containing con-taining no valuables, tho holdup was fruitless. Ilotli men woro well dressed dres-sed and woro white collnrH, and one of them wiib nbout fi feet 10 iuchcB high. It Is known (hero woro bo vorn I H M rangers In town thnt evening mid H some of them Btraiided without money, H but as the officers worn not notified H at the time, they woro unnblo to pick H up any oluo to work on. H |