Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Secretary of State at Washington has received a report from United States Consul Lynn in regard to the case of Francisco Rasures. the naturalized American citizen who was surrendered to the police authorities at Piedras Negras, Mexico, as a horse-thief, and summarily executed by them. IJae Secretary has directed a thorough investigation to'be made of all the facts in the case... .In the Cutting affair, Mexican lawyers appear to be of the opinion that the decision had been arrived at before the trial began. They think he will be sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. Cutting is an American citizen who, up to the time of his arrest, published a paper called El Centinela in the Spanish language at Paso del Norte, Mexico. In thatpaper he made an attack upon a Mexican named Emiglio Medina, who was about to establish a rival sheet in the same town. Medina had him arrested and taken before a Mexican court, where he was forced to retract the slander or libel, or whatever it was, and then set at liberty. It seems that almost immediatelv he Yecrossed the Rio Grande, going to Ll Paso in Texas, and there had printed in the Herald of that town, a paper published in English and Spanish, the following card: In a late issue of El Centinela, published in Paso del Norte, Hex., I made the assertion that Emiglio Medina wa* a fraud, and that the Spanish. newspaper he proposed to issue in Paso del Norte was a scheme to swindle advertisers, etc. This morning said Medina took the matter to a Mexican court, where I was forced to sign a reconciliation. Now. Ido hereby reiterate my original assertion that said Emiglio Medina is a fraud, and add deadbeat to the same ; also, that his taking advantage of the Mexican law and forcing me to a reconciliation was contemptible and cowardly, and in keeping with the odious reputation of said Emiglio Medina. Shpuld the said Emiglio Medina desire American satisfaction for this reiteration. I will be pleased to grant him all he may desire at any time and in any manner. A. K. Cutting. On his return to Paso del Norte he was reafrestecj for libel and contempt of court and thrown into the vile Mexican jail, where he now is. Leading officials of the Treasury Department are about to request the Civilservice Commissioners to take charge of examinations for promotions The first proof of the new $lO silver certificate is now in the hands of Treasurer Jordan. It bears a vignette, portrait of Vice President Hendricks. The $1 certificate will have a copy of the Stuart portrait of Martha Washington, never heretofore used on any of the Federal securities.