The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-13
MURDER IN MEXICO.
Governor Corona ASsasSinated by
a Mailman
IN THE STREETS OF GUADALJARA
A Pennsylvania Maiden Puts Herself up as
the Stakes for Two Looms to
Fight for.

Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch
CRY or MEXICO, Nov. Ex-Governor
Corona, ex-minister to Spain and governor
of the state of Jalisco, died at o'clock
this morning from stab wounds received
at the hands Of mailman yesterday after
uoon. Governor Corona and his wife, who
is an American lady, were on their way to
the theatre in Guadaliara. There were
many people on the streets at that hour,
and in one of the most crowded portions OF
the town the general was suddenly set
upon by his assassin. The uneXpectedness
of the attack seemed to paralyze the spec
tators, and before anyone could come to
his rescue, the blade was plunged again and
again into the generals body.
Sonora CarOna, with Il Wife's instinct,
tried to ward off the aSsasSin's blows, and
received slight wound. Her husband
sank to the ground, blee ling freely, and,
unable to bear up under the shock, she
SWOored and fell near the mOrtally wounded
man. The spectators attempted to seize
the murderer, but springing backward he
turned the knife upon himself, dying almost
instantly.
Carona's wound was in the pypogondiac
region. Her corset, however, prevented it
from being serious. The wounded man and
his wife were at once taken to their resi-
dence and doctors summoned. 1t was dis
covered tlat General Caro- was lffering
from four ugly staOS, one Of which was pro-
uounced fatal. He sunk rapidly and the
end came this morning.
The assistant at the administrative
bureau was recently discharged from
the police servicefOr misconduct. 1t
is said that he is crazy, and al
though General Corona, as civil ad-
80,
it is not believed that the murder was IN
stigated by political motives. Revenge 20,
imagined private wrongs acting on an ex-
citable temper and unsound mental state
are thought to be the sole cause of the
crime The wife of General Corona was
from New York. Her maiden name was
Mary M. Ceatal, and her father had inter
ests in the state of Sinaloa, where she met
her future husband. Their married life
was very happy. They had four children,
two grown daughters OF extreme beauty,
a younger daughter and one son about
twenty-five, now studying law in this city.
All of the family speak English. which
was used in the household as Familiarity as
Spanish. Their residence in Mexico city,
vacated on General COrona's acceptance of
the goVernOrShip of JaliSco since General
Bragh's time, has been occupied as the
offices and dwellings OF the American min
lister. General Corona's services to the re
publican aud national C Iuse have been very
eminent. Along with POrtiriO Diaz, presi-
cent of the republic, he was one of the
most persistent and successful! chieftains
in combating the French during Napoleonic
intervention.
Later he won a good record rs a soldier
and did his country immense benefit by
hunting down, capturing and shooting the
revolutionary Indian chief. Lozada. For
many years he was Mexican minister to
Span and Pol tugal, with a residence at
Madrid. He was a tall man of fine soldierly
presence, about fifty years of age. He
was elected governor of Jalisco three years
ago, but in the discharge of the duties of
that Office did not make himself popular to
a large section of the inhabitants of that
state