People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — SHOT BY RENEGADES [ARTICLE]

SHOT BY RENEGADES

Two American Kallway liullderi are Murdered In Mexico. City of Mexico, Jan. i Report comes' from Tehuantepec that Col. Dunn and Thomas Murphy have been murdered in Guatemala while en route for the line of the Guatemala Northern railway, whither they were taken 100 mules, purchased in this republic to work on the construction of that railroad. There is little doubt the outrage was committed by renegades along the border for the purpose of getting better mounts for use in the threatened conflict between Mexico and Guatemala. The murdered men were Americans, formerly connected with the Tehuantepec Railway Construction company. An investigation will bo demanded by the Americans in Mexico and Guatemala.