San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-10
MEXICAN NEWS ITEMS.

CITY OF MEXICO, Oct. 10.-When
interviewed by an Associated Press
reporter on the project originally
formed by the Protestant mission
aries to carry on a crusade against
the alteration Of the virgin OF Quad
alupe, Archbishop Chappelle, Of
Santa Fe, n. NJ, said: 81 will be
delighted to hear that the project
has been abandoned. 1t would
have been a great mistake on the
occasion Of festivity which par
takes largely of a national charac.
ter, to sound such offensive dis
cord. The cause of international
amity would undoubtedly have
been lost by the crusade and what
have the Protestant ministers, from
their point Of view, gained +? Just
nothing. They would have con-
WINGED no body. No, it would have
been mistake, a sad mistake"
The Union Iron works, of San
Francisco, have taken the contract
for the installation of a large lot of
machinery for gold mine belong
ing to William Landau.
An effort is being made in con-
gress to secure an extension of time
of the concession for building a
railway along the Mexican side Of
the Rio Grande, and it will likely
succeed, as the government will re-
quire that bond be given, which
the Chicago capitalists will be will
ing to furnish.
The police and judicial authori-
ties at Guadalupe announce that
they will compel the Catholic and
Professionals alike, to respect the re-
form laws. Pilgrims will not be
allowed to carry religious banners
nor wear insignia in public. II the
missionaries desire to worship the
virgin OF Guadalupe by means Of
the circulation OF literature they
will be amply protected, but the
Professionals, no more than the
Catholics, may organize demon
strations in public streets.
some damage to shipping.
George l. Loop has received a
| concession for the establishment of
two factories in this country, one
in the federal district, for the man.
ufacture OF gunpowder, smokeless
powder and dynamite also facto-
ries for making acids, which at
present are all imported. Ameri-
can capitalists are behind the i'm
portant undertaking.
The rise in government per
cent gold bonds in Europe to with
in 3 per cent Of par, causes the
press to eulogize the successful ad-
ministration of the finance depart
ment by Minister Limantour.
There is steady demand from
Europe for the new per cent sill
yer bonds, which are great favor
ties with European investors. They
are today quoted at 80.
Mexico City 5 per cent gold bonds
are at S3.
Lieutenant Dryer, military at
tache of the United States lega-
ton, has reported to Minister Ran
som on the Negro colonists in
northern Mexico, stating that there
are 107 Negroes at Eagle Pass and
it will cost $4,000 to return them
to their old homes. The Negroes
at Tepuila were housed exactly as
the native poems and were treated
the same. but disease inexplicable
to them and to the Mexicans, broke
out among them and many died.
The Negroes fled, but many died at
the frontier points of smallpox.
The experiment was unfortunate
in its results, but no attempt was
made to maltreat them. They
proved much better laborers in the
cotton fields than were the poems.
or total Of 1926 Negro colonists
the whereabouts Of $50 remain I'M
known.