Anderson Co., TX - Newspapers: Wills Point Chronicle, 1895 ********************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Scott Fitzgerald USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************** From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, June 20, 1895: A Bold Robber Palestine, Tex., June 14. - The mail car on train No. 4 of the International and Great Northern, arriving here at 9:15 last night, had no postal clerk and the car was set out here, supposing that the clerk had fallen out of it at some point along the road. Two hours later, however, the mystery of his disappearance was solved by the following telegram, which he sent to Trainmaster Gregory: "Masked man crawled into the car just after leaving Tucker, and at the point of a revolver demanded the safe keys. When informed that he was not in the express car he then demanded the keys to the mail car. Upon their surrender he ordered me to jump out. White man about 5 feet 7 inches, weighed perhaps 150 pounds, wore dark clothes and carried a dark hand grip, wore white handkerchief for mask, supposed to be clean shaven, used a large Colt's revolver with side ejection. Am slightly injured by jumping, "Orin Davis; clerk." Trainmaster Gregory at once about to run the robber down and at this hour he and officers are scouring the town as it is almost certain that the robber left the car after the train slowed up in yards here. Eight registered packages are all that are known to have been taken from the car. From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, July 4, 1895: Recently on Brushy creek, in Anderson county, a cloud burst occurred. In an hour's time after the cloud began to pour the rain all of the level land was submerged with water 8 or 10 inches deep, and the bridges across the streams and the crops were washed away. It spread over an area of several thousand acres of fine farming sections, and the amount of dames, it is stated, will reach many thousands of dollars. From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, Sept. 26, 1895: Robert Monroe of Palestine is in the city on his way to Canton to visit relatives.