Show BOMB OR BLUFF A curious looking combination found at the depot A curious looking infernal machine or bomb was found fastened to the trucks of a car in the depot yards this morning but whether it was placed there with the intent to blow up a train or merely as a practical joke is a matter of doubt when the car inspector was making hie gounde thia morning at 7 he discovered the suspicious looking combine of gas pipe and fuse and after carefully examining it he took it to the depot masters office the combination was a piece of gas pipe about eight inches lone plugged up with wood at one end and having a fuse hanging out of the other which was securely tamped in with cloth the buee was fastened around the bead of a bolt on the truck in such a manner as to leave the piece of pipe hanging over the rail ane car has been standing in the yard since yesterday morning at which time it came in the north so the bomb must have been placed on the truck since that time nn one knew what to do with the apparatus but in order to determine what the thins was made of it was taken to the band ridge beai of the city and the fuge lighted it burned all right till it cot to the end of the pipe when it was either consumed or else went out no explosion followed so some of the men supposed it was only a bluff no one cared to approach near enough to find out whether there was any fire iu it or not and it was accordingly left on the sand hill same this antei noon it will be brought into town and ined |