The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
TRY TO KILL HIM.
Mexicans Make Attempt on Life
of Ambassador Wilson.
elimination of an Anti-Ameri-
can Demonstration.
TEAR DOWN THE FLAG
Mob of Rioters Insult the Stars
and Stripes.
The Office of an American News
paper Is Stoned.
WINDOWSARE BROKEN
In Number of Business Houses
Operated by Americans.
Trouble Starts Over Lynching
Of a Mexican in Texas.
WINDOWS ARE BROKEN
In a Number Of Business Houses
Operated by Americans.
Trouble Starts Over Lynchlng
of a Mexican in Texas.

san Antonio, Nov. 1O.-Advices re-
ceived here from Laredo state tha1
rioters in Mexico City today had at
+empted the life of United States Am
bassador Wilson. The report came
from sources considered reliable.
The attempt on the life of the am
bassador was made early this atter-
noon. The attack was the elimination
of an anti-American demonstration
which began last night in which two
Mexican students and Mexican on
locker were killed by the police IN an
a+tenont to preserve order. Further
hitter feeling was aroused as a result
of these fatalities and more trouD4e
was expected with the break of day.
on. account of a rigorous censorship
reports reaching here are meagre'
washington, Nov. 10.-Oficial dis
patches giving details OF the anu
American demonstration in Mexico
CITY reached the state department To-
dav from United States AMBASSADOR
Wilson and Arnold Franklin. the
American consul general. MI wilson
confirmed the press reporls t4at ne
had protested to the Mexican depart
rnent of foreign relations against the
insults offered Americans and SAID the
riot grew out of the lynching of a Mex
lean, Antonio Rodriguez, at ROCK
Strings Texas, on November ).
Mr.. Franklin's dispatch said the
riotOus students who paraded the
streets cried death to Americans,
and threatened the consulate general;
He also told how the students had
pulled an American flag from a busi-
ness house and had trampled 1t under
foot.
The department is awaiting FURTHER
advices from Mr.. Wilson before taking
any action in the matter.
Mexico City, Nov. 10.-Through in
suits to the American flag and as
saults made openly upon American cit
liens in the street, an anti-Amerlcan
demonstration which began with the
stoning of the Mexican Herald office,
has developed into an affair of inter-
national importance.
A vigorous protest was registered by
the American ambassador with the
Mexican department of foreign rela-
tions and at the same time the facts
were telegraphed to Washington and
instructions asked for.
Windows in a dozen American busi-
ness places were smashed. All about
town shutters were hurriedly drawn
and establishments closed. Forces
of police appeared in the streets and
kept the crowds moving.
While the police looked on and
seemingly made no effort to prevent
it, an American flag floating in front
of a candy store in the business dis
trict, was torn down by crowd of
students and Others trampled and
spat upon, and torn to bits. Later
photographs of the crowd were taken
before the offices of the Diario Del
Hogar, a Mexican newspaper, with
many individuals waving bits of the
tattered banner.
The demonstration was a continual
tion of the affair, caused by antipathy
aroused among the people by the
burning at the stake of Antonio Rod
riguez at Rock Springs, Tex, on the
night of November 8.
Publication of the violent attacks
on Americans by several Mexican pa
pers tended to further incense the
medical students, who were the pro-
moters of the demonstration.