Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1914 — AMERICANS AT MEXICO CITY FACE EXECUTION [ARTICLE]

AMERICANS AT MEXICO CITY FACE EXECUTION

O’Shaughnessy and Wife Safe at Vera Cruz After Perilous Trip From Huerta’s Capital.

FEDERALS BURN A CITY , Rioting in Nuevo Laredo, a Mexican Border City, Resulted in the Firing of the Town and the Necessity of Using U. S. Bullets to Drive the Huerta Soldiers Away—ln a Wild Orgy They Burned and Dynamited Buildings—The Prop* erty Damage is Estimated at $500,000—Seven Americans Are Threatened With Execution at Coroba. The Mexican crisis seemed a little nearer at hand when dispatches Friday night related the horrors that threatened Americans at Mexico City and also of the risky ride which Charge O’Shaughnessy and wife and child had to reach Vera Cruz.' It was necessary for troops to go some distance down the Mexican railroad and give the American Charge the protection of the stars and stripes. Vera Cruz, is now orderly and quiet, but the American elufb house at Mexico City was stoned, the stars and stripes were trampled under (foot and Americans everywhere insulted. The hatred of Villa for Huerta, it is said, will prevent a union of forces and Secretary Bryan has sent another note to Carranza, Uniforming him that the United Slates is friendly to the rebel cause and

wants only redress from Huerta and that if Carranza and the part of the country he represents will only remain neutral the cause he stands for will be saved, while if he joins with Huerta the outcome will 'be the loss of Carranza’s influence. Secretary Bryan, so a dispatch says, has threatened to withdraw from the cabinet if President Wilson declares war. Nuevo Laredo is a Mexican city on the northern border and federal soldiers rioted there Friday and destroyed property valued at $500,000, firing some buildings and dynamiting others. In order to stop the orgy U. S. troops fired into the soldiers and forced them to evacuate the town. Two were reported killed. . Seven Americans are held by Mexican soldiers at Ooroba between Vera Cruz and Mexico City and are threatened with, execution. Indications still point to further serious trouble and preparations are being made to have the militia oif the various states ready to mobilize on short notice. In Indiana Adjutant-General Bridges stated Friday that he had received no word, but that he desires all companies to recruit new members and place them in training. In Indianapolis thirty-five recruits were being trained Friday at the new armory.