A terrible tragedy has taken pace at Faye. ihe facts have been long in coming to light, but the falling of the flood water has proved that the stories we heard were true. A party of robber: ober ten in number, planned to take a: vantage of the fact that the flood had reached he high back wall of a large business house, to rob the place. In making the plans one of the number was offended and he withdrew from the scheme, and warned the firm of the projected robbery. The result was that the firm arranged a guard, which included 2 man with a rifle, who was stationed on the look-out stand on the roof. Ten of the robbers were supposed to be coming by boat to the wall, and sure enough near midnight the watcher saw the top of a ast swaying and then the head and shoulders of a man appeared. He was climbing the mast to get on to the wall watcher fired with what proved t be tly aim, the man ical, and in fal over the boat. Search was m not a trace of the boat was found. Two men, who alleged that they had been shipwrecked on the lake near b; subsequently arrested and, un ture, confessed that they belonged to the y declared that they with two m ashore after the sinking of the boat. These other two were not caught. The boat. has now been found embedded in the mud at the bottom of the flood water, and with it the bodies of six men.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.