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Show Speculators Corner Market and Cause Bread Riot In Mexico. News was received at San Ar tonio, Tex., Wednesday, that a Pn x-t-j-'JJL1' I Mexicp, October 28th," a bread riotoc-' j curred, in which twenty people were wounded, many of them fatally. The cause of the riot is said to have been the action of speculators in cornering the supply of corn. A corn famine has existed in that section of Mexico for months, and the government recently removed the import im-port duty on corn from the United States as a measure of relief. It is said that speculators cornered the shipments to Puruandiro and raised the price 100 per cent. The starving people, driven to desperation, attacked the warehouses, women and children leading the assault. They were shot down by the guards. Those who escaped es-caped the bnllets fled appalled at what had happened. The condition in that section of the republic south of the City of Mexico are described as terrible. The government govern-ment has sent troops to the scene. |