The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 15, 1894, Page 6

SAFE. BL EW OPEN THE | Bank of Pieaeanton, Kansas, is} Looted by Burglars. They Get Away With $2.470. Pleasanton. Kan , March 7.—Some time between 1 and 4 o'clock this morning the vault aod safe of the Bank of Pleasanton were blown open with dynamite and mitro glycerine and $2,476 taken therefrom in silve currency, gold and postage stamp- A hole was drilled into the door ot dial and ban eb th mibination the vault between the dle, and by the use of a pur connection between the ¢ and bandie wax broken and the bolts could then be throws avy effort. The door of the safe wa- sprung with wedg+s, the seams put withou tied up around the deor and mitry glycerine poured in| Dynamite war then placed under the safe and touched off with fuse the glycerine to explode, throwin, the safe, which weighed two tons, from one side of the vault to the The front ana bottom of the safe is one mass of twisted and bro This caused other. ken mass of iron In the safe outside the chest was $1,250 in currency, $200 ia silver and $100 in gold, eu except $38 in siiver dollars. The department which was all tak burglar proof chest or withstood the shock of the explo- sion. This bex co tained $10,000 in currency and gold. The burglars m«de an effort to force an evtrance to thie wealth, but were frightened away or too short After robbing the safe of what they could get, the burglars went through all the private boxes, thirty in number, stealing $300 in currency property of R. A Oderweller, aod $620 worth of stamps from Post master Holmes’ box The vault door was the closed, then bolts thrown and the handle broken off so an en- trance was impossible until an expert sate opener from Kansas City er- rived at 1 o'clock: The books, papers, notes, ete., of the bank and those kept in private boxes are all mixed and in a bad condition. The safe bas been in use about seven years and was supposed to be burglar proof The expert says itisthe same kind and the one blown open at Liberty, Mo., about one year ago, and he believes the op erators are the same ones. There is no clue as yet to the guilty parties. From tracks building the indications are that there were four in the gang. Some! believe that part if not all of them live in Pleasanton. Last night sus picious characters were on the streets and cannot be found today. The! one who seemed to be leader was about 35 years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, light complected, smoothly shaven, blue or light gray eyes and! poorly dressed. They inquired for] a hotel, but never registered at any of them. A reward of $500 has been offered for the capture of the! robbers. undoubtedly time was around the| made | | | A Million Friends. 1 A fiiend in need is a triend EaCeeG) } and not less one million people found just such a triend in Dr. New Discovery tor Consumption Coughs | and Colds.—It you have never used this | great cough medicine one trial will con- vince you that it has wondertul cnrative | powers in all diseases of the throat, chest | and lungs, h botth eed to do all that is claimed or ney will be retunded. Trial bottles’ tree at H. L. Pucker’s drugstore. ONE OF THE BRAVEST. The Heroic Deed of a Young Soldier of | the Union Army. In July, 1864, when Gen. Grant) was closing in upon Petersburg, ! Gen. Lee determined to possible. break, if! Orders were given for an/ attack just before dawn ov the morn ing of the 19th Gen. South Carolina brigade was assign- ed to the right of the attacking ps Hagood’s | ty. His men were late in into line Daylight bad already union troops had manned their in- trenchments, and hed his command | in full view. Heordered bis men to} udvance. They were seasoved troops! and, though met by a terrible tire of artillery and rifles, they did uot fal ter. When they got within twenty feet of the line of the intrenchments they found a deep and wide ditch} before them, and involuntarily came} to a halt. jmiddle of the brigade. (the single horseman. getting | THEY “Spick AND SPANNEW” When Washed ¥ GLAIRETTE SOAP SOLD EVERYWHERE “or THENK FAIRBANK COMPANY, Sr.Lous. AT THE O. H. You will find the Best Grade of FURNITURH, Carpets, And Carpet Sweepers, for the money in Southwest Missouri. Also UNDERTAKING in All Branches. When in need of anything in my purchasing, they will help you. R. J. HURLEY, Pseviweyt. Bates Co, Elevator Co, (INCORPORATED.) ; BUTLER, DEALERS IN Grain, Seeds, Flour, Feedand Farm Implements. Branch House at FOSTER and SPRAGUE. Be" Flax Seed to Loan to Farmers. | hopeless fire and stood still. P describes the affair, ealis “the bravest dee i of the war ” At that deadly juncture amounted officer emerged from the sally port opposite the Heg to the color bearer of a South Caro- J Mackey. who of an earthwork nearly »ped lina regiment and hand de | the colors. extending his of the Judge Mackey, who was manded the surrender | the nacaptain of engineers in the describes him as years old, tall and confederate army, about handsome. The flag was thirty peculiarly dear to the regiment, and had been borne aloft with honor on many a battle field; but now the color bearer seem ved to be dazed—paralyzed, by the effrontery of the demand of At all events, he surrendered the colors. Stranger still, the thousand armed men behind him seemed to have lost s. Not so on foot, his their wi Gen. He wa horse having | been shot under him, and was per haps sevent away; but jhe came forward on the run to in- jtercept the union officer, jriding x slowly along the front of the regiment, but edgiug alittle toward his own lines Gen. Hagood seized the horse by the bridle. leveled the revolver at Hagood. ive yards who was , the officer's breast and shouthed: come, and Gen. Hagood saw that the “Give me the fl sir! “Who are you?” asked the horse , ms Rh. “T command this brigade. Iad mire your bravery. Give me the flag and you shall return unmolested to your lines.” “General,” said the union soldier, “you had bettef surrender to me yourself. Look behind you!” The general looked and saw that They delivered their) jalarge force had gallied out of the | ican labor. Just jthen was witnessed what Judge T. perhaps | , fourth Iowa volunteer infantry. The | | mere inconsiderate rashness, for, in | | named John Smith. the night rolled into} L | A RAW RECRUIT. oOoK hin His Fright While Under Fire He | Vutruns a Canpen Ball. | The enemy flank us and are mov- |ing to our rear; some one calls out: | “Everybody for himself!” The line} | breake, I go with the others, back and down the hill, across a small} ravine, and into the camp of the Eleventh Illinois cavalry with the howling, rushing mass of the euemy pressing in close pursuit. When I rose I was ascoolas one could expect a raw recruit would be in his first fight. I was partially dazed, and the full force of the sit uation did not impress me at the time. AsI reached the bottom of \the hill and entered the camp of cavalry, the urtillery seemed to have across fire, and at short range was sweeping the ground with canister and the musketry fire was awful; the striking ™ ™ of the balls on the Sibley tents of the cavalry camp gave out a short, F. S ) The enemy was active, cutting sound that territied me. The striking of the shot on the ground threw up alittle cloud of dust, and the falling of men all around ine im pressed me with a desire to get far away. I recollect that the hair now commenced to rise on the back of my head and was soon standing straight up, and I felt sure a cannon ball was close behind me, giving me a chase as I started for the river. In Window Shades, my mind it was a race between me aud that cannon ball. For the first mile I traveled I won. I was never so frightened before, and trust I may never be again; I never ran so fast before, and I know I never will again. I was in such a storm of bullets before or since; it seemed asif the trees were casting them. Out of that fire I came ahve and uuharmed, but it was a marvel that any of us did, for and examina tion of the field afterwards showed the ground plowd with shot, and the smallest twig told of the storm of death that had swept over it. “Chaos had come again,” and the slope was slippery with blood and strewn with the dead Having escaped from the cannon Picture Frames, never lize, let me quote you prices before c. B. HICKMAN. G. B. HICKMAN, Vice Pres. Missouri. ball, Isoon found my self in com- pary with a stalwart young Irishman belong to the Fifteenth Iowa, who was blacked with smoke, aud his gun, showed that he had been in fight. lasked him where he was going. 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