Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — TO AID MEXICAN REFUGEES [ARTICLE]

TO AID MEXICAN REFUGEES

Senate Passes Measure Providing for Tents for Americans Fleeing Across the Border. Washington, July 30.—The senate passed a joint resolution authorizing the war department to supply tents for the care of American refugees from Mexico to El Paso. A telegram read by Senator Fall from the mayor of El Paso said that 2,500 Americans from Mexico would be in El Paso within twenty-four hours and that the city had no facilities to care for them. A telegram received at the state department from American Consul Edwards at Juarez seems to have put a quietus on alarming reports which came from Mexico regarding the intent of the rebels to kill every American within the rebel territory. In substance, the telegram indicates that the excitement is nothing more than a stampede caused by threats of rebel officers for revenge.