Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1899 — CHINAMEN ARE CANNIBALS. [ARTICLE]

CHINAMEN ARE CANNIBALS.

So Say Laborers at Work on Mexican Central <■ allway. Near Tampico. San Antonio, Texas, advices state that great excitement prevails in the seaport of Tampico, Mexico, over a brutal act of cannibalism which was committed by some of the laborers on the Mexican Central Rajlroad near Tampico Saturday last. The Chinamen who were recently imported to work on the railroad are charged with having murdered a female Mexican child and are said to have eaten its flesh. The child was the daughter of a Mexican section foreman. The affair has incensed the Mexicans against the Chinese, and the celestials are flocking into the city for protection. It is reported that the Mexican rurales have arrested the criminals.