Show MEXICAN REVOLUTIONISTS A Futile Attempt Made to Capture Pied ras Ne ras EAGLE PASS Tex Aug 16 This morning 100 armed men made their appearance ap-pearance above Piedras Negras and 325 men under command of Colonel Trevno were seen in the valley below town Major Elvarez in command of the federal troops wired President Diaz that a large body of armed men were about to make an attack upon the town Tho president wired to resist the attack Upon this Alvarez Al-varez with about fifty soldiers and sixty citizens went out to meet Trevno and held a conference with him and showed him his authority from the City of Mexico Mexco Trevno replied they had come to take charge of the town and put new officers in charge that i was the intention of the neople to have a fair election and it was impossible to effect this under present mt He also demanded that arrangement political po-litical prisoners now being held in Pied i ras Negras be released without the formality form-ality of trial Alvarez again replied that he would forcibly resist the capture of the town and Tre vno finally ordered his men to retire re-tire to Little river But for tho firm stand taken by Major Alvarez with his I J U p handful of troops Piedras Negras would I tion now be in the hand of the Cardenes fac I |