San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-03-13
MEXICAN ITEMS.

The Baron mine, owned by the Real
del Monte Company, has stopped work.
The Government of Sinaloa has re-
the State infantry.
Eraclio Bernal. the bandit, is said to
have 400 men under arms, and at last ac-
counts was preparing to attack JOcuisti-
ia, Sinaloa.
Rev. Jose Maria VeleZ, an ingenious
priest in Morelia, has invented chem
zeal solution with which to nickel plate
any substance.
The new telephone company which
wishes to supply the City of Mexico,
offers to do it at a cost of 81 q month to
each subscriber.
Manuel Perez Bibbins, the printer who
did the work on the libelous AcusadOr
PolticO, has been released from Jail as
not being responsible for the utteranCes
of the paper.
An Indian boy u years of age violated
his niece, a young girl, and then cruelty
mutilated her. She was at last accounts
in danger of losing her life. This oc-
cured in La Perla, town near OTiZava.
The boy was tied ON a horse and escort
ed into Orizava for trial.
Night before last a man was stabbed
in front Ofthe Metropolitan SagrariO or
chapel of the Cathedral of this City of
Mexico. When found by the police he
was pact the power of speech. There is
no clue yet to the murderer. The vic
tim was stranger, and left nothing to
identify him.
The forest keeper, Victor Landa. who
took care of the trees in the Calimaya
municipality, met with a terrible fate q
few days ago. He was chopped to pieces
with an ak. Mariana Guadarama, a des-
pcrate character, who lives in the noun
tains with his band, ia supposed to have
butchered Landa. Guadara ma was cap
tured week after, and will be tried for
this and other crimes.
The wages question in the Hercules
and the Purisima cotton factories, near
QueretaT0, did not assume the proper
tons of strike. The company wanted
to make a reduction of Ct per cent. in the
salaries of the workmen, and the latter
were called together and told that it
was necessary in order to keep the fac
tories running to reduce the wages.
The wOrkmen refused TO listen to any
such proposition, and the matter was
dropped right there.
The work on the drainage of the val
ley of Mexico has not commenced be-
cause the Board of Management, under
eX-Mayor Gallardo, has not yet resolved
on the plan TO be pursued. There are
two plans proposed. One is to drain the
valley through the Tequisquiac tunnel,
and the other is to raise all the sewers
contents and the superfuOus water by a
system Of elevators placed at certain
distances from each other and thus carry
it out ofthe valley. Meanwhile the fund
of So 1888 is aCcumulating for the pur-
pose, each month.
About a week ago quite an exciting
event occurred in AtOyac, Jalisco. To-
renZans, a bandit, entered the town and
rode to the house of Adrian Ruiz. rich
planter, who is friend of his. The peo-
pie turned out and tried to catch the
bandit. but he escaped under the guild
ance of his friend Ruiz. The Mayor of
the town, Matias Anguino, and Modesto
Avila, the Tax Collector, started after
the fugitives, but Ruiz turned and shot
them dead, and then escaped. The Ruiz
family is a line of criminals. The grand
father, NarcisO Ruiz, killed Jose Cutter
reZ, the Project of Atoyac; the father,
Francisco Ruiz, strangled to death Pho
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Board, and now the son follows their
tragic example.
The desperate bandit, Ignacio Galindo,
who has terrorlzed the State of Guerrero
for many years, has at last bit the dust.
One day, toward the close of February,
the State troops made a covered attack
on the bandit camp, whereupon Galindo
fed and took refuge in the house of an
old accomplish, Vicente Ocampo. The
soldiers surrounded the house and called
on Galindo to surrender. He answered
with volley. The soldiers then fired
into the house killing Ocampo and
wounding his son. At the same time
the troops set fire to the house. Galindo
jumped out of the burning house, ac-
COmpanied by daughter of Ocampo,
and with his rifle broke through the be-
sieging circle. He did not 90 far before
he fell dead with q bullet through his
heart, while the girl was badly wounded.
The walters in the GuardiOla restaur-
ant left the service in body, in the City
OF Mexico. They claim that the pro-
prietors Of the restaurant did not give
proper food, although she insists on the
contrary. Walters, as rule, In Mex
leo are not likely to become milliOnaires.
Their daily wages are three reals and
they get besides their coffee-desayuno
in the morning and dinner at noon from
the tabe-leavings. They take supper
in their own houses at night, Though
their salary is small, they calculate on
making it up in fees. The fee amounts
to medic generally. The walters in
the ConcOrdia resort to a novel dodge.
They return the change with a loose
medic, and the tourist is expect to shove
that back to them. The walters in the
Humboldt restaurant are said to have
followed the example of the Guardiola
walters.