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Show mm Tells Ranchers That Ha Would Celebrate Eve of Independence Day in Chihuahua, and Arrives Ar-rives at the State Capital Cap-ital With 600 of His Chosen Band. GENERAL TREVINO WOUNDED IN ARM Outlaws Penetrate Part of the Town, but Are Driven Out by Constitutionalists Con-stitutionalists With Heavy Losses; Details of Battle Not Known. Kb PASO, Tex., Sept. Hi. Villa attacked at-tacked Chihuahua City today with fi"0 men, penetrated part of the city, but was driven out with heavy losses by tho constitutionalist army. The captured cap-tured Villa followers were immediately put to death. General Tic vino was woDnded in an arm. This news was received in J uarez late tonight immediately u pon the establishment es-tablishment of telegraphic communication communica-tion with. Chihuahua. During the afternoon the operator at (he station of Sauz,, oo the line of the Mexican Central i ail way, twenty -five-miles north of Chihuahua, reported that he could hear distant sounds of cannonading. cannon-ading. Villa's Boast Recalled. Dispatches from Chihuahua receicd here yesterday reported that a feature of today 's Hidalgo day parade would be twenty-four field guns. Genera! Trevino 6aid last week that seouts who had interviewed ranchers on Villa's lino of march learned of a boast by Villa that he would celebrate tho eve of independence day in Chihuahua. The hour that the attack was made is not know n here, as tonight 'n dispatch to the Mexican officials in Juarez, lacked details. It told briefly of the repulse of Villa's fiOl) men, the capture of those who penetrated the city and their death, and the wound i it g qI General Trevino. Quiet at Juarez. Juarez, showed no ml'" of military excitement touieht. A large crowd of people f mm the town and neihbori ng eounlrv, in whieh women predominated, prn'iienadcil the main vlrct and around t lie plaza, where I he garrison ha nd plaved. In the cu-tom br-iK-e h ba.ll wan gi veil by 1 he el il p oi' I he town, with Genera! '.on .a Irs, po- comma ode r ; Consul Andres .i:ria, Minister llejrera and ot iier of f icia !s attending. Tim street crowd was in a holiday mood, throwing cmfetti mid filing fire-craek-er4-. No troops were in e id'-nee, except for the soldiers taking part in the mcr-rv-making. |