Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-01-16

commanded ny GSnSId VINO hACN
ssan four troops Of the Tenth United
states cavalry while they were across
the border on Sunday. Two of the
s3avalrymen were wounded and all
four were arrested by the rebels and
held until their immediate release was
demanded by Captain Tompkins, COM
n1ander of the border patrol here. The
incident aroused intense feeling on
both sides of the border and more
trouble is looked for.
Preside. Eek, Jan 13.-The Next
can federal army with it's nine gener-
ais evacuated Ojinaga, Mexico, and
The triumphant rebel forces under
Gen. Francisco villa occupied the vii
Eage on Saturday.
Defeat of the federal army at this
.,oint marks the most important reDe!
victory OF the present revolution. IL
leaves the rebels in possession prac-
sIcaiIy of all the north of Mexico.
General Castro and General Merca-
do of the federal regulars saw that
sac assault was to be nothing less
Z
4eft only so rounds of ammunition for
each man. Generals Castro and Mer-
cado therefore gave the order to
eyacuate
All the federal soldiers and their of
ticers who could scramble to the
American side did so. The others ran
En all directions. Gen. Pascual Oroz-
IN. 80 foJ Ol11y<.
Seers, who was threatened with sum-
mary execution by Villa, was the first
ia cross 1t was believed he escaped
into the Texas mountains.
None Of the Wierd scenes in the
moonlight while the horde Of rebels
WAS pouring into Ojinaga and the fed
erafs were rushing out in disorder was
more intensely pathetic than that OF
General Mercado himself, command
er of the federal garrison, who ap-
reared at the river banks and in
aormed an orderly of the United
States army that he wished asylum
"a Il foreign country. He was taken
st once to Major McNamee, command
7ng the United States patrol, who
&3ier General Bliss.
FOR fiFe hours the sharp flashes of
xI3e rebel fire had been seen drawing
closer to the federal entertainments.
The whole scene was bathed in a
moonlight, partly obscured by dust
and powder smoke. The country about
ojinaga is mostly desert, with little
ssoverished federals would be unable
10 proceed any great distance.
At midnight there reigned among
she victorious rebels scene of mer-
y5ment Fires were built, such music
AS could be improyised was heard
and crowds Of the rebel soldiers, still
grinay with the smoke of battle, sur
rounded General Villa.
The last scenes in the capture OF
Ojinaga by Francisco Villas rebels
were enacted on Sunday. Villa had
taken more than 800 prisoners during
Fac mad rush following evacuation Of
she fortress. Many captives were
identified as volunteer members of the
0vozco and Salazar commands and
every one Of these was executed
shortly after daybreak without the
fornaality of court-martial.
City of Mexico, Jan. ia plot to
1sidnnp American Charge O'Shaugh-
messy and his wife by holding up a
aFain was behind an attack of rebels
on the Mexican railway, said fed
eral officer on Sunday. Information
obtained by federal spies from rebels
along the railway enabled the
q sShaughnessys to escape running
into the danger Huerta has fur
aishad sufficiently formidable escort,
10 safeguard Mr.. O'Shaughnessy in re-
turning. from Orizaba to Mexico City.
Possibility of the landing of British
troops in Mexico was brought to the
front on Sunday by the action of Sir
Lionel Garden, British minister, after
the American charge d'affaires, Nell
SaR O'Shaughnessy had been tied up
0y the dyaamiting of a train on the
Mexican railway between Vera Cruz
and this capital. Sir Lionel made
personal representations to President
Iiuerta and insisted on better polio
ing of the railway, which is British
property, at once.
Ia the concession granted to the
English builders of the Mexican rail-
way more than forty years ago it was
provided that they should at any time
have the right to police the property
with British troops The action of Sir
Lionel revived speculation in the cap
ltai as to how far the British govern
naent would go in protecting the prop.
eEty OF its nationals.
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