Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1886 — KILLED BY MEXICAN BANDITS. [ARTICLE]

KILLED BY MEXICAN BANDITS.

Two Citizen* of Council Klnflfa, lowa. Attacked , ami One Is Slain. [EI Paso (Texas) telegram,] J. T. Preston and Captain G. H. Howsef, while cn route from Sinslou, Mexico, to this oily, were attacked by two. Mexican bandits near Phrral, Mexico. Howser was killed, aud Preston was wounded in the arm. Both men were from Council Bluffs, lowa. They were heavily interested in mines in Mexico.' The defense made by Preston caused the bandits to flee. The Bell Telephone Company cleared $1,009,442 last year, Their newspaper printing bills will cut down their profits a good deal from that sum this year, however. At Salzburg, Switzerland, the Diet has passed a law against the sale of the bonnie edelweiss plant with roots. * . Mr. Parnell, some unrepnblic&n genealogist has found out, is a lineal descendant of old King-maker Warwick. Elevated roads encounter such prejudices in Boston that remedies for existing evils are chiefly sought in cable roads.