Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — American Prospectors Murdered in Mexico. [ARTICLE]

American Prospectors Murdered in Mexico.

A recent dispatch from the City of Mexico says: News has been received here thatan entire prospecting party, headed byHenry Natiere, a well-known New York miner, was recently murdered in the Sierra Madre mountains by robbers. PoliticaL murders are of alarming frequency in somesections. The military in Nueva Leon areassassinating all those opposed to the administration of Gov. Tolentino, who has; ordered the execution of sixty persons. A man was murdered near Zaragosa yesterday, his body being cut to pieces and his head split open. Tolentino’s civil officer® were witnesses of the affair. Pittsbugh is said to have the largestvariety, as well as some of the handsomest bridges in the country, representing alt styles of architecture and material. The skin of a Florida rattlesnake, eightfeet two inches long, has been forwarded tothe National Museum at Washington. Gov. St. John ran away from home at 12 years of age, was married at 19, and wasa widower at 20.