The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-22
OUR SISTER REPUBLIC SEEN,
TO BE ENTERING AN ERA or
RAILROAD BUILDING
SEVERAL PROTECTED LINE,
WITH SUBSTANTIAL BACKrNo
Methodist Mission Authorities in IN.
Gala Complain of Being Persecuto,
by the Municipal Authorities-Tbo
Veraslegui-Romero Duel Trial

City of Mexico, Aug. 20.-Via Laro,.
Tex.)-New railway projects continna Nv
ing made public, and al are in the bons
of financially interested parties. ~
Puebia and Pacific Carboniferous vol
way is a stanard gauge line which vi,
start southwark from near Tlacotneo -
the Mexican Southern railway IT,
mate destination being Acapulco. or So oro,
point on the coast below thar nort Sue
veys and location are finished to AcatIon
LOO kilometres south, and plans for o.,
kilometres are ready for presentation - -
lne department of communications e
maj approval, when construction win -
once begin by Mexican capitalists at AZ
foreign money being employed. mo ,; NV
will cost for the first section S10 o1e
per klIometre and will tap Goa! beds ana
gold mining regions.
News from Guatemala today Announces
that 1t is seriously proposed to buiId
Inc from some point on the Guatemalan
Northern road to the Mexican frontier
where, according to plans now formin9
here, the line will be built south FROM
Iehauntepec, the National road to meet
1t there, thus forming a standard gaurs
connection with Central America.
Arrangements are completed for q snpr
line from the Mexican Central pear
Aguas Calientas to the new SINE ~
owned by Messrs. Guggenheim of New
York, proprietOrs of the smelters at
Aguas Calientas, Monterey, PuebIa
State of Colorado, United States, and
Perth Amboy, n. j.
Cuban patriot sympa thizers here have
formed league and are remitting $1,000
gold monthly to friends on the island
1t is reported that this government
recently asked permission of the govern.
ment OF Belize to permit Mexican soldiers
destined to fight Indian rebels in Yucatan,
to pass over waterways in that colony.
Complaint is made that DR.. Ancona.
bishop of 1ucatan, has openly violated
the reform laws by appearing in a car
rage in public in full ecclesiastical vest
ments, which is directly contrary to the
law prohibiting clergy of any sect to ap-
pear outside of the church in religious
garb.
Officials in Merida are charged with
w:nking at this violation of the law, to
which their attention was Immediately
called by the manager of Ell Libre EX-
anime, newspaper of that city.
The Methodist mission authorities here
complain that in the town of Tzolpante-
pee, State of TlaXcala, the municipal au-
thorities are prosecuting Methodist con-
verts and school teachers and imprisoned
a widow named Lopez and her two sons,
the mother having withdrawn her chill.
dren from the municipal school to place
them in the mission school. A convert
named Joaquin Lima, who advised the
woman to do so, was imprisoned on the
absurd charge of seduction, and the next
thing the triumphant town authorities
did was to dock up the Methodist schoo'
master, named CarrillO, on a trumped III
charge of not having placed proper rev
enue stamps on some document. The
Methodist mission here has lodged con-
plant with the governor of the State
TlaXcala.
Methodists will be aided in their work
of prosecution by a newly organized Lib
eral reform club which has for its special
object the compelling of the observance
of laws requiring tolerance in religion and
punishment for all demonstrations of IA
naticism.
VoX De Mexico, the organ of Arch
bishop AlaricOn, in 4 controversy with
the Liberal party papers over the fail of
MaXimilian's empire, says it was not
the Liberals who vanquished the clergy
at that time, but the government at
Washington.
The discussion between the clerical and
Liberal papers is growing acrimonious
Archbishop of Santa Fe and archbishop
of Vancouver have accepted invitations
to assist at the coronation of the virgin
of Guadalupe in October.
Editor Castillo of Partition, Liberal
daily newspaper, was a witness today in
the Verastegui-Romero duel trial. The
chief points of his testimony was that the
real reason of the duel was Nerastegui's
well founded jealousy of Romero, who
had interfered with his mistress, sup
posed to be a married woman. A po-
litical preteXt was made to save the
woman's name. The witness admitted
| rifed pistols were used, but said the
duel was fair to both combatants.
The anniversary of the battle of Cher
ubusco, fought with Americans in 1871,
was imposingly celebrated today at that
| place, few miles from this city. A
| large number of TROOPS We're present,
General Daz attending. The Mexicans
| were vanquished in that fight but hon
orably, having only old fashioned mus
| kets and getting out of ammunition.
| The battle is often compared to that OF
| Bunker Hill. Only about % officers
and men remain of the Mexican troops at
Cherubusco.
A great find of Aztec idols has beer
made in the State of Jalisco.
Coffee crops in the State of Vera Cruz
this year will not exceed $4,000 quintals,
as compared with 10000 quintals Las
year. Frosts, which fell in January, {,
responsible for the short crops.
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