Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-17
REPORTS THAT CORPSE
OF VILLA is DUG UP
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Villa had been exhumed at San Fran
cisco Borja and was being brought into
Cusihuirachic. whence it was to be
sent on special train to Chihuahua
City.
Official word from Washington that
the United States troops would be i'm
mediately withdrawn from Mexico If
Villa was dead will undoubtedly result
in eXpediting the efforts of the de facto
government to ascertain the truth of
the reports of the locating of Villas
body.
May Battle Identification
If the supposed body of the bandit
is SUN inferred at San Francisco
Bora, as stated in latest Mexican City
advices, it would likely be many days
before an Identification can be made
unless the Mexican government ac-
cepts as final the identification made
by Carranza officers now in the vcin-
ity of San Francisco Borja, which is
80 miles by train south of Cusi-
huiriachic,
Identification of the body at this
time may prove battling. According
10 the reports from Mexico City, Villa
mas been dead over two weeks and
physical changes may be such as to
preclude any positive proof that the
dead man was Villa. Mexican officials
mere said that the United States Gov
ernment undoubtedly would accept
the identification if made by repons-
,ple MeXlcans who knew Villa and by
Mexican officials.
Rioting in Chihuahua
a number of newspaper correspon-
dents and few other Americans left
n dnN e..
the nope that the story of the finding
OF Villas body was true. Several
other Americans who had at first in
tended to go abandoned the trip. some
through skepticism and others be-
cause OF rioting that was reported here
70 nave occurred in the Mexican State
capital during the last two DAYS.
MESSAGES received here in regard to
th1s rioting stated that there had
oeen no anH-American outbreak, but
that the trouble was due solely to the
desperate condition of the masses of
tne people who. are facing starvation.
Corn is selling in chihuahua at two
pesos worth four cents American, a
quart, beans, the staple food of the
poorer MeMcans' diet, cost two and a
halt pesos kilogram Ca little over
Two pounds; lard is 1 5 pesos a quart.
with the standard of pay for a days
work at two pesos, the laboring classes
are nndlng hard time keeping body
and soul together.
Loot Food Shops
According to the messages received
mere the rioters have looted several
food shops and only virtually half
hearted attempts to control them have
Deen made by the soldiers, who are
themselves in almost as bad plight as
the MeXicans
Arrivals from Parral report that
there are only three Americans left
IN that city. These three are men
VINO have married into Mexican fami-
lies and regarded themselves as i'm
mune from the prevailing hostility to-
ward the "gringos.' Among the
Americans who left Parral following
the hghting between the Mexican gar
r1son and the American soldiers on
wednesday was a woman missionary.
1T was hopeless for me to think of
continuing my work." she said to-day.
The feeling against Americans was
growing in volume every day and the
fighting on Wednesday was the eli
max. The people of Parral are strong
ly sympathetic with Villa whom they
regard as a Mexican hero who is be-
ing prosecuted by America. They have
been told the old story about General
Carranza having sold Mexico to the
United States. There is no question
that Parral is not n safe place for
Americans at present and I am afraid
that 1t will be n long time before the
bitterness dies down on account of
the number of 1Iexicans who were
killed by the United States soldiers"
A new war of secession by which
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah,
California and Colorado will declare
their independence with a view to an
neXlng themselves to the republic OF
Mexico is the news that El Democratic.
a newspaper, published in Chihuahua
City, has just announced. JaiIs are to
be suppressed and the negroes and
Indians, who had been "subjugated by
Yankee gold, are to be liberated" if
the plot succeeds.