New York Times 100 years ago today, December 15, 1912:
Many Bodies Show Mexico's Summary Method of Treating Insurrectos.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 14.— Sixty bodies of rebels hanging from trees were counted by persons traveling by road yesterday from Las Cruces to Tomasoaltepect in the State of Mexico. This is one or the results of the campaign conducted against the rebels in that district by Col. Riveroll. His troops yesterday defeated a Detachment or rebels at Las Cruces.
Passengers coming from the north report that nine bodies of rebels were seen hanging from telegraph poles near the town of Pedrisena.
From the State of Mexico the rebels are making their way into the Slate of Morelos. Railroad communication between the capital and Cuernavaca is again interrupted.
The Chamber of Deputies has authorized an issue of bonds to the total of 40,000,000 pesos, (about $20,000,000,) at 5 per cent. This will form part of the National debt for the purpose of railroad subsidies and other public works, and for the payment of indemnities in connection with the revolution of 1910.
Rafael Hernandez, Mexican Minister of the Interior, called together the Protestant clergymen and the high officers of all the Masons' lodges to-day in order to ask them to render whatever aid they could in the restoration of peace. This is a sequel to his similar appeal made recently to Mgr. Beggiani, the Apostolic Delegate, as a result of which a special mass was said in all the Catholic churches of Mexico on Dec. 8, asking for divine intervention for peace.
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