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Show OFFERS REWARD OF $2500 FOR ARREST OF BANK ROBBERS PHILADELPHIA, March 27. The Pennsylvania railroad announces that it will pay a reward of $2500 for the arrest ar-rest and conviction of the persons guilty of attempting to wreck its trains on the Pittsburg division. PITTSBURG, March 27. In trying to kcato the missing fish plates, the rail-- rail-- road officials discovered that one of these had been fixed tightly between the two rails that had been disjointed. The purpose of this was to prevent the inter- ruption of tho electric current caused by the breaking of the binding wires, Which would have set the signals to danger before the engineer could have reached the wrecking point. The west-hound west-hound rails had been similarly fixed. The alleged wreckers had adopted an easy method of circumventing the block signal and the discovery caused the officials offi-cials much concern, as it meant that the wreckers are men experienced in signal sig-nal matters. |