Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-07-02
NO CALL MADE FOR Us. TROOPS
Mexican Military Forces Have sltua-
tIon in Hand at Las Vacas-Revo-
iutionists Flee to Moutains.

san antonio, IeX.-OmCerS at FOrt
Sam Houston are kept posted upon the
progress of the revolution in northern
Mexico, but have received no orders
to make any preparations to march
to the border. The concensus of opin-
ion among them is that no federal
troops will be needed.
A dispatch from Saltillo, Mexico,
says:
Three companies of the Seventh
regiment stationed in Saltillo, under
command of Maj. Cervantes, were Or
dered to Viesca, this state, where &C
cording to meagre reports received
here, an attack was made on the resi-
dence of Mayor Thomas Zertuche, dur
ing which several persons were kill
ed. The family of Senior Zertuche is
reorted to have escaped.
1.-THE rioters, numbering about 200,
cut the telegraph wires and tore up
the rails of the Coahuila and Pacific
Railroad between Viesca and Torreon.
The passenger train on this division
was held up at Parras.
1.-The cause of the riot is not known,
but it is presumed that dissatisfaction
with the mayor is the cause of the
trouble. The local companies of cav
airy left on a special train for the
scene of the trouble"
A special from Eagle Pass, Tex,
says:
mo new developments here in the
revolution in Mexico. Suidad Porfirio
Diaz is quiet, the town and military
authorities patrol the city, and guards
are stationed at all ?outlying entries to
the city. The military are sending
scouting parties into the surrounding
country"
A special from Del Rio, Tex, says:
"The situation in Las Vacas has mate
rally improved and the military forces
are in complete control of the town.
The revolutionary forces have fled to-
ward the mountains and are being pur-
sued by the cavalry Communication
was reopened Sunday and it is now
possible for those who are well known
to the Mexican authorities to pass over
into Mexico. 1t is now positively
known that nine soldiers and II reyo-
lutionists were killed"
A long-distance telephone message
from Del Rio, Tex, says that Edward
O'Reilly, a San Antonio newspaper
man, who left here Saturday to report
the revolution in Mexico, had been
shot in the arm and his Mexican guide
killed by revolutionists. O'Reilly and
his guide crossed the Rio Grande
half mile above here. They uneXpect-
eddy ran into party of revolutionists,
who promptly opened fire. The Next
can guide was killed, but O'Reilly, al
though shot in the arm, managed to
cross the river again and came into
Del Rio. He is not dangerously hurt.
A special from Ell Paso, Tex, says:
Three hundred federal troops of Mex
leo arrived in Juarez over the Mexican
Central to reinforce the garrison at
that place. Officials still fear an at
tack may be made on that place to
loot the custom house and banks, as
it is believed all the revolutionary in
clined Mexicans in Ell Paso have not
been apprehended by the United
States government on charges of vio-
lating the neutrality law.
1t is also reported in Juarez that a
detachment of the troops will be sent
out Monday morning to cross over the
Sierro Madre, Rio Grande and Pacific
to relieve the posses of citizens who
have been guarding night and day the
business houses of prominent business
men whose lives were threatened dur
ing the disturbance there last week"