Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1917 — Mex Again Shows Signa Of . Hostility—Mail Carrier Killed. [ARTICLE]

Mex Again Shows Signa Of . Hostility—Mail Carrier Killed.

Valentine, Tex., Dec. 25—Men who brought the body of Mickey Welch, a United States mail carrier who was hanged by Mexican bandits at Candelaria, Texas, early today, reported that American troops and the rear guard of the Mexican bandits were fighting tonight in the vicinity of Candelaria. The men who arrived in an automobile from the river front at Candelaria also reported that two Amer-ican-Mexicans who were riding with Welch in the mail stage wefe killed. ..They had been reported missing all day. An American employed m the L. C. Brite store which was looted at Candelaria by the bandits, was shot but will recover, they said.