The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-29
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A CURIOUS MEXICAN MUDDLE-THE QUESTION
OF THE EXTRACTION OF HARRIS STILL UN-
sETTLED-A NARROW ESCAPE.
The Brownsville, Texas, correspondent of
the New York Herald, telegrsphed Fridays
issue of that paper: cdr. Harris has not
yet been surrendered. Meanwhile Judge
Margain, vino is to decide the question, has
been ordered to vscste his seat by Echsrtes,
chief justice of the state. Senior Montero,
Harris attorney, has been appointed to fill
the vacancy. Margain thus far declines to
be removed, and promises to deliver
Harris to the sheriff before he vscstes
his office. To-day General Lsbarra,
commander of the military in Msta-
moras, informed your correspondent that he
would Immediately telegraph to the capital
the condition of things and ask for prompt
action in the matter. This question of ex-
tradition generally, which is one of the great
thorough investigation and revissl. In its
present aspect it indicates, to use a mild ex-
preston, extraordinary and unaccount-
able supineness on the part of the United
States government or its diplomatic agents
at the capital OF Mexico; While tbs proyis-
republics may be clear enough, for
certain reasons it has always been
matter of great difficulty to carry
them into effect upon this border. Promi-
nent among these reasons are the local jeal-
ousies which exist between the two races,
causing the one invariably to sympathize
with those charged with crime by the other;
and again the fact that the cities of Browns
vile and Matamoras have always been the
asylum of political offenders from the sides
of the river opposite them respectively,
while the harboring of them has been re-
garded as a matter OF honor by both. Per-
haps, however, the greatest difficulty of all
lies in the long existing indictment against
Cortina and others in the Cameron county
courts, rendering any compliance with the
extrsdition laws a precedent dangerous to
the most powerful as he is the most popular
man on the frontier and many of his friends.
Terre Haute Express: Mark McCoole, a
laboring man about So years of age, who re-
sided near Rockville, was yesterday coming
toward town about noon, on the track of
the L., G. d 8. w. railroad, and while cross
ing trestle heard the whistle of the south
bound express, due here at 12:06 p. NJ, and
on looking back saw it so close that, think
ing he had not time to get off the trestle by
going forward, turned and started back in
the direction OF the train, expecting to get
of before the train could reach him, but
before Ssdo he ts could escape the engine struck
He was carried to the Office of
Drs. Cross 81 Gillum, who, upon examine
ton, discovered that the right side of the
head was terribly crushed, one arm broken
in three places, and all the ribs of the left
side fractured. He died in the evening
about O'Clock, whereupon Coroner Ayde-
lott summoned a jury to hold an inquest,
but at the time OF writing no verdict had
been rendered. 1t is generally supposed
that McCoole was intoxicated, and that, had
from the trestle, the engineer could have
discovered the man In time to stop the train
and prevent the sad occurrence. The de-
ceased left large family in poor circum-
stances. He was soldier In the 31st Indi-
ana regiment in the late war.