Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
SOMEWHAT FISHY.
A Tale OF Riot and Carnage from
the City Of Mexico.
The Utter Defeat of the Clericals Who
Made Terrible Uprising Against
the Government.
Hundreds Of People Killed and Thousands
Made Prisoners-The Cause OF the Rebel
lion-The Full Particulars.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. Dec. 80 The follow
ing dispatch is printed here this morning
as having come from Ell Paso late last
night. 1t appears somewhat fishy and
the Associated Press is trying to get
something direct from the City of Mex
leo. Meanwhile it is sent for what it is
worth:
Ell PAsO, Ten, Dec. Ell Paso is
greatly excited over the details of the
news that has just been received of the
great clerical rising in the City of Mexico
and the utter and bloody defeat of the
clericals that took place yesterday. At
o clock on Thursday night, it seems,
Father Jose Casper, n well known priest,
hurried to the national palace and asked
for an immediate and secret conference
with President Diaz. What he disclosed
is not known, but a few minutes after
ward warrants of arrests were made out
for large number of prominent people,
but when the officers went after them not
one of them could be found.
At II CLOCK that night, an immense
mob attacked the national palace, joined
and reinforced by the garrisons of at least
three barracks and some artillery. The
conflict was fierce and bloody, but the
government held its own and gained the
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officers were killed. The government took
OVER 2000 PRISONERS
at the first fighting. Seventy-two priests
were among the slain which numbered
during the first onslaught 250. The next
day 200 additional priests were arrested
and ordered to be shot, among them the
EelfbfsASP. A number of women got
petitions to have them reprieved, but it
is not thought they met with success.
Great excitement prevails in Chihua-
hua where Governor Laura Garlic called
at once the state legislature together and
,erdered all the priests to be arrested. 1t
seems to have been the last effort of the
clerical party against the government.
II is NOT CREDITED.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 80 .-SenOr Romero,
Mexican minister, said to an Associated
Press reporter Tonight he did not believe
any such occurrences had taken place in
the City of Mexico as were stated TO have
happened. as reported from Ell PasO,
Tex. purporting to give an account of
great clerical uprising in the Mexican
capital. Senior Romero said if anything
of such magnitude had taken
place we should have heard Of it by cable
via Galveston, and not received the first
intine;tiou of the affair from such place
as FL Paso. FBesides, - he said, 81
have official dispatches by cable up to
last Friday evening and they do not say
word about it. If any such thing had
happened they would have said
something about it, especially
if it had such an ending
as is given in the published dispatch. "
The minister added it was a Mexican
custom for everyone on the 18th of De-
cember to tell the biggest yarns he could
think of and then laugh at those who be-
lieved them. 1t was sort of an Ameri-
can April fool day, and he thought that
perhaps the published story had such an
origin.