The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-19
11A1kIAIIILANss EXECUTION
 TO BID CELEBRATED
 TO-DAY IN MEXICO.

For many years the nineteenth Of June was a holiday in Mexico. corn- memcratfng the execuIaon of Maxi milan, the Austrian prince who had sought to found an empire in Mexico and of his generals. Miralnon and Me- jia. Even now. forty seven years af- ter, the tragedy of Queratero is still fresh in the minds of Mextcans. and It will be celebrated today in many a rebel camp, where the fate of one ty- rants' will be recalled as prophetic Of what will be rneted out to present and future dictators.
 It was o'clock of that June i1norn- ing forty-seven years ago today when the Emperor Maxirnilian was led from his cell In the little prison at Quere- an adobe wall and facing a firing squad Of Mexican soldiers. Bravely and without d treu1or he looked he marks men suuareIy in the eyes. Aim well, boys. aim at my heart, he called out. The officer in command raised his sword alld uttered a. word of conn mand, the rifles spoke, and Maxiu1iI- ian's dream of empire was ended Mi ramon and Mejia, traitors to their country though they were. faced death as brave1y as their chief
 A groan of horror went around the ] world when the news spread that the Mexican 'sbarbar1ans'' had carried out the sentence of execution passed upon the Austrians Arrhduke. All of the European powers had joined in repre- sentations to the Mexican government I in the. hope that the sentence Of death would be changed to exile. Up to the last moment 1t was believed thaA N1aximilian would be spared. but all such hopes failed to take into consid- eration the Mexican lust for vengeance. When MaxiIninan. supported by the lbayonets of the French army under Bazaine, had Iorded it at Chapultepec he--or at least the officers under him had shown no mercy. Nearly all o1 the Juarist generals captured by the I inperia1ists had been promptly shot I Mexican women and children had beer 4 outraged and bttchered by the Euro pean army of invasion. MaxiuniIian in his days of power, had granted nc mercy, and in his hour of weakness he Ecould expect none It is true that Max
 irniIian had not approved of Bazaine's
 cruelty. but the acts Of ttthe Butcher had been performed in his name, and the Mextcans, having suffered so much lcould not be expected to be in the mooc
 for fine distinctions. Stern Mariana Escobedo, who had caIQured MaxiuliI
 ian at Queratero, refused to listen te
 any plea for mercy, and could be sat.
 isded with nothing less than the deatt
 of the Austrian prince.
 After the French troops were with,
 oAS1Wus ana the impress Car1otEa hae
 hastened to Europe in a vain attenap
 to secure assistance to bolster up tn,
 tottering throne, Maximilian establish
 ed himself at Queratero. There hi
 forces were in command of Migue
 Miramon, g. former President who has
 allied himself with the imperiaIists as I assisted by Tomas Nejia, the India1 King of the Mountains,' and Genera - Lopez. When Gen. Mariana Esscobed, besieged Queratero, Lopez turned trai
 tor and betrayed the Emperor. It Ina. been alleged that Escobedo personal, negotiated with Lopez, and that h. } Maximilian as a prisoner of war Il any event, the Emperor, with <Miramol
 and Mejia, were tried by court-nar tial, convicted. and sentenced to death
 The condemned men remained in pris
 on from the day Of their capture, Ma, 15, 1S67 until they were led out to b