Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1916 — VILLA IS NEARING END OF HIS ROPE [ARTICLE]

VILLA IS NEARING END OF HIS ROPE

Mexican Bandit Said to Have Been Wounded In Battle With U. S. Troops Friday. Pancho Villa’s days are numbered. Colonel Dodd, of the forces under. General Pershing, engaged the outlaws in battle Friday, the cavalry | swooping down on them as they were celebrating the massacre two days before of 172 Carranza soldiers. Thirty Villistas Were killed, one of the number being Elisio Hernandez, said to be the chief military commander of Villa. Reports say that Villa was himself wounded. Four American soldiers were wounded. It is believed that this attack by U. S. troops sounds the near finish of the bandit and probably the campaign of the army in Mexico. When the official report of the battle was read m congress all members indulged in an exhibition of patriotism, shouting praises of the American soldiers.