Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1914 — U. S. TROOPS FIRED ON MEXICANS MONDAY [ARTICLE]

U. S. TROOPS FIRED ON MEXICANS MONDAY

Cavalry Stationed at Del Rio, Texas, Fired On Federals Who Were Pursuing Rebels.

U. 8. Cavalry troops, stationed as a border patrol at Del Rio, Texas; Monday fired upon Mexican federals who were pursuing the constitutionalist soldiers as they crossed the Rio Grande to the United States and safety. Bullets from the federal rifles flew across the border and it is reported killed three of the U. S. cavalry horses. Captain Winterburn, of Troop E, Fourteenth cavalry, signaled to the federals to cease firing and when they failed to do so he ordered a detachment of fifteen U. S. soldiers to fire and a dharp fussilade lasted for fifteen minutes.« No Americans were hurt. It is not known how many Mexicans were killed or wounded. Washington authorities back the action of the troops, as the Mexicans have had sufficient warning that they must not fire so that their bullets can reach American soil

Garfield Cox, a freshman at Earlhhm colelge, won the Indiana intercollegiate peace oratorical contest held Friday night at Butler college in Indianapolis. Miss Olive Beldon, of Indiana university, was second.