The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-25

STRANGE HAPPENINGS IN MEXICAN
CITY OF QUERENDARO.

Are They Reared by the Uneasy
Ghosts of the Guerilla Chief Mar
ron and His Gang or by the Re-
sentfuI Wraiths of His Victims.
From the Boston Herald
For scores of years the old one-story
stone house on the street of the Seven
Gentlemen in the city of Querendaro had
remained in the possession of the Allen
des, till. in the troublous times preceding
Gen. Diaz's coming into power, it had
passed into the hands of Col" Marion,
guerilla leader against the French and
imperialists as he preferred to be known,
but regarded by the "Mocho" party in
the city as a bloody handed robber and
highwayman.
How the Colonel had become possess
ed of the house was something of mys-
terry No deed was passed; the old own
ers, the family of Allende, most respecta-
BILE people with haciendas and shares in
mines, had been extinguished, there re-
naming at last only one old man, as deaf
as a wall. to occupy the place. He dis
appeared one night and the next day the
mayor" or staff, desperate crew re-
cruited among the sort of people who hang
on the edges of every revolutionary cy-
clone. And as the Colonel was testy
person whose hands were stained with
powder, and something more doubtful, and
rs his enemies had a trick of vanishing,
nobody in the city dared inquire into the
conditions of his tenure of the Ailende
property He was a tall, wry sinewy
man with long, brownish mustachios, eyes
gray and fun of fire, harsh mouth, ana
an eagles beak of a nose. Things were
unsettled in the state and the "Colonel
was much afeld, usually in the SIERRA
where, like a hawk, he watched the FER
tile plain below and swooped down on an
unwary enemy. During the war of the
Intervention he commanded as many as
1,4O0 dare-devis, and once had made
dash into Querendaro surprising and pun
ishng awfuly 1000 French soldiers. some
of whom had seen African service and all
tough chaps. That exploit made the
name of Col" Marion famous. For a
few days he was master of the city, ana
good mperialistic citizens were hldlhS
away in the disguise of cotton-clad poems
A dozen or more were ranged against d
wall out by the cemetery and shot FOR
enemies against the republic" 1t was
slve and profitable ooting Anyhow, he
seemed, in after years. 10 have hidden
treasure TO resort to in case OF hnanclai
difficulties.
The Emperor Macmillan went to MS
doom, and slowly peace returned The
ron handed Juarez ruled in the city Oh
Mexico and finished the anti-clerieaI pro
siamme begun years before by President
tomonfort. Friars and nuns were pun
ned out of the converts and monasterles'
great properties, the result of centuries
Of church rule. were sold to speculative
people for whatever they chose to pay
dnd thus the great leveler, revolution re-
distributed accumulated wealth. II seems
natural sort of process-it happened III
h"nry's time IN England Il has occurred
many lands a different epochs Pres
r''t Juarez gave place 70 President
H'ido, who was q mder man ana mad
strenuous work to accomplish, ana,
nua'iy' there doomed high ~ the political
ornament Of Mexico a soldier Of genius
no the ablest of them all, the great son
destiny, Porhrio Diaz. Lerdo was