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Show I BOLD BURGLARY. 1 Cedar Mercantile Store Broken Into JMay NigM. I - Burglar Frightened Away Before lie -,- Secures Much Extent 111s Haul ' but hour Dollars. I , Last Monday night nbout half paet twelve sbotB were heard by t ho real-I real-I dents of main street near thu Moreen tile ooinpany'a store. I Investigation proved that the shoot lac was warrnutod. Two of our towns men heard nnd raw dimly in the dark I no88 that u burglar wdb at work. I Someone bad noticed a match being fitrnok In Iho building and this I aionaod the eueplolone of the towns I men referred to. They immediately I made nn Investigation, and found that I tbo burglar had guiued ontranoe at a I , baok window by breaking the glasj, I went to Iho cash till and was rifling I it when bo was alarmed by some I noise. Uo hastily mudo bla exit, ou I ly socutiug 31 in coin, overlooking m some 815 moro in coin and checku H totaling a like amonnt. H Whon ho came through thu window B the men who had deteotcd him In his I actions commandod him to stop, nnd I leveled revolvors at him. But thu I bold burglar did not pay head to tbo command, but took to bla heels uink I ing a record raoo for safely. The H pursuers fired Ht the fleolng robtor, I but were unsuccessful in winging him and bo thus escaped in the darkness ft"-- No ciuo as to whom tbo robber might bo soems to bo forthcomiog. as it was roally too dark to distinctly oeo I bin features. I 'Ibis is about tbo tenth robbery of this uaturo with uo clues to tbo per , petrntors, although suspioion rests 5$- n upon cortnin luoivlduals, so rumors z&fa&r&i " -have It. It acorna atrango that the WKlL Bpfei MrtlHTrj-ilT-l '" bo caught, and. U 4 looks now ns though it would pay tho , merchants to keep u guard on every night to protect their property. r t -n- - |