Show REBELS HOLD AMERICAN PRISONER FOR RANSOM Robert Hobert Ward VarI Seized at b liy cnn can Insurgents nail and Carried Into Mountains Mountain Washington Feb 1 TIle The The and holding holding- of ot Americans for ransom continues 9 a favorite means for tor raising raisinS Mexican rebel war al funds Tho The latest victim Is Robert Rober Ward now a prisoner In a a. camp about eighteen miles from Crom Chihuahua Olty Gity Consul Letcher says Mr 11 Ward ard was was seized b by eight armed men at Parral Thursday night and hurried Into the tho mountains A r ransom m om of Mexican Is rl demanded for his release As Improved cd conditions in Vera Cruz ruz make it unnecessary for the gunboat Wheeling to remain thero there longer the I vessel essel was ordered to Mobile Ala Kl El Paso Te Tex c. c Feb 1 After I. After movIng moving ing fin fifty miles alon along th the tho Mexico Northwestern railway southwest of or Juarez General Salazar's army Is returning to the tho border opposite opposite- Columbus Columbus Col Col- umbus N. N M. M The Tho rebels burned all trestles and stationary equipment Cavalry ca which arrived In Juarez JUQrez at atthe atthe atthe the time of or the expected rebel attack has mad mado no move mO t to pursue the enem enemy |