Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1910 — RIOTING ALONG BORDER [ARTICLE]

RIOTING ALONG BORDER

Americans Beat Mexicans Near Texan Slate Border. Stories of Fights Vary, Each Side Claiming Other Party Were Aggressors in the Battles. Galveston, Tex., Nov. 11. A half dozen riots between Mexicans and whites were reported along the border as a result of unfounded reports circulated about riots in Mexico City. Below Rio Grande City five or six Mexicans were assaulted by Americans and badly beaten and many others escaped Into Mexico. In Zapata, Starr, Webb and Maverick counties Mexicans quit krork on the farms and irrigation canals and were flocking to the border towns and numerous fights were reported in which the citizens claimed the Mexicans attacked them and the Mexicans claim they were assaulted by whites. Near Rio Grande, about thirty Mexicans were driven across the river into Mexico by a crowd of whites who attacked them.