The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-05-26
CARRANZA KILLED
WHILE ASLEEP

Mexico City May 23.-The body of
Venustiano Carranza, murdered presi-
dent Of Mexico, arrived here at z p. m.
on a special train.
The body will be delivered to the
former presidents daughters, Julia
and Virginia, the latter the wife Of
Gen. Candida Aguilar, the Carranza
foreign minister.
The daughters will arrange for
funeral and burial.
Washington, May 2S.-Venustiano
Carranza has joined the long line Of
Latin-Ameriean dictators who have
ended their stormy careers in flight
and death.
A fugitive in the mountains of
Pdebla, the old man, who kept the
United States and Mexico in a broil
for the last five years, was killed on
Thursday by some of the troops which
had protected him as a loyal body
guard in his flight from the Mexican
capital.
Whether he fell fighting or a vic
tim of the celebrated "ley fuega,"
which made dead men Of Madero and
Suarez, or actually was murdered in
coup d'etat is obscured in such frag-
mentary information as has come out
of the tropical fastness Of Tlaxcal-
tonga, where he died, presumably sur
rounded by a few loyal friends.
Early dispatches from Mexico City
said the former president had been
killed in an attack led by Gen. Her
zero, who had gone with Carranza
in flight, but later deserted to the
revolutionists. The announcement
made at headquarters of Gen. Obre-
gon, head Of the revolutionary move
ment, gave the impression that Car
rama had died in battle.
Slain in Ccwardly Manner"
But later advices received in FL
Paso charged that Carranza had been
made prisoner and assassinated in
"a cowardly Manner" and said some
Of the friends who were with him at
the time had sent a protest to Gen.
Pablo Gonzales.
The full story may not be immedi-
ately known, and even then may be
the subject of disputes. In any event,
it adds one more drop in the river of
blood which has flowed over Mexico
since Porfrio Diaz signed his abdica-
ton in tears and died heart broken
man in Spain.
But it does bring to mind pro-
phecy, said to have been made by
nun, which is now being talked about
all over Mexico.
The nun prophesied, according to
report, that after Mexico had seen
three Franchises in public life she
would have for president an Old man
withaa beard who would meet vio-1
lent death and that he would be sue
ceeded by a president who, mounted
his horse from the wrong side. The
prophecy also added that thereafter
Mexico would lose its independence.
There have been three Franciseos
in Mexico's public life since the pro-
phesy was made. They were Fran
cisco dc la Barra, now an exile;
Francisco |. Madero, the murdered
president Of 1918, and Francisco Villa,
The bandit leader. Carranza was well
known for his whiskers. 0bregon,
who led the revolt against him and is
expected by many to succeed to the
head of the government, lost an arm
in the battle of Celaya, with Villa,
and mounts his horse from the
wrong" side
Carranza's death and the manner
Of it probably will have some import
ant bearing on the action of the |
United States when the time comes to
consider recognition of the govern
nent which succeeds him. When |
President Wilson was refusing to re-
,ognize Huerta, he based his action
IN the untimely deaths of Madero and
Suarcz and announced a broad gen
,ral policy to the effect that no gov