The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-11-04
MEXICAN NEWS.

TRANSLATED FROM RECENT MEN
ICAN EXCHANGES.
Dulitz, new explosive, has been pat
ented in Mexico.
The city of Vera Cruz is to have a Jail
exclusively for women.
Rich gold deposits have been found
near Garmitta, state of Queretaro.
canal is being dug between the Girl
jalva and Gonzales rivers, at Tabasco.
Mr.. Lionel Garden has been appointed
British consul at the City of Mexico.
During the month of September the
Vera Cruz custom house took in $830,000.
About 1000 persons are engaged in the
cultivation of hennequen in the Hunucina
district, Yucatan.
The Eco says that Terso Cavazos, while
suffering from temporary insanity, killed
himself at. Laredo.
Lieut.. Col. Manuel de la Cuesta y.
Fuentes, of the engineer corps, recently
died in the City of Mexico.
Between Buena Vista and San Marcial
Sonora, Sr. Gomez and his sons were
killed and robbed by bandits.
The Morelia papers announce the dis
covery of rich gold placers IN the district
of Sinda, state of Michoocan.
hail storm occurred lately at Tecan-
axtlahuaca in Oaxaca, killing several ami
mails and destroying many crops.
The heat has been terrible at Mazatlan
during the last few days. Fortunately, no
case of yellow fever has been reported.
Sr. Julian Quintero has gotten a con-
tract from the state government of Cam
peche, to put street railway in Carmen.
Near Parral, at the Vale river, the mail
stage was swept down by the flood, the
mail was lost and several persons drowned.
Don Melquiades Torres appears to be
the general fayorite of the press as can
didate for mayor of the city of Mata-
moras.
Pajedis Torres, one of the ferrymen irr
a fight the other day, in the lower part OF
Matamoras, received quite severe cut in
the neck.
man named Placedo CARA was found
dead the other day in the road near Rey-
nosa. He had been killed by some par
ties unknown.
The famous bandit, Margarito Sorio,
was recently killed near the Alotes ranch,
not far from Silao, Guanajuato. He made
a hard fight for his life.
At Bustemante, Nuevo Leon, nine
year-old GIRL named Manuella Rodriguez,
was strangled to death by her mother and
thrown into an irrigating ditch.
Recently the Yaquis, 500 streng, attack
ed the little town of Pocitos, and killed
Firmin, Escobar and Jose Valencia. The
Yaquis were commanded by the cajime in
person.
Patents have been granted Entignio
Murrillo for system and machine for
making ammonia and its salts, and to
Pedro Manheo for process of treating
copper ore.
Recently, at Mazatlan, Sra-Luciana
Ramirez, crazy with jealousy, wet her
clothes with coal oil and set them on fire.
She died in the hospital in the most terri
BILE agony.
A curious waterfall has been discovered
near Tombsachico, Vera Cruz. II falls
from the top of an inaccessible hill into a
still more inaccessible gulf below, and the
water is as red as blood.
The Associated Press of Mexico contin-
ues to agitate the question of holding a
Worlds fair in the City of Mexico in the
year 1892, in celebration of the Four
hundredth anniversary of the discovery Of
Mexico.
The last information received from the
gold placers at Cimarron, Sinaloa, where
many Chinese are employed, is TO the eff
feet that the Celestials have not been sue
cessful, and that many of them have left
their fields of operation.