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Show employee of ho company, was Injured slightly. 1 Another dispatch reaching the department depart-ment said that bandits raided the office of the Penna-Mexico Fuel company, an American corporation, last Thursday and robbed it of 25.0U0 pesos. Another case of the kidnaping of an American citizen by Mexican bandits, who demanded ransom, was announced today by the stato deportment. He was a Porto Rican doctor, who was taken prisoner July 22. The ransom was to have been paid August 15, but the department has not been advised whether he has been released. The department's statement identified the Porto Kican as Dr. A. Goenga, and said that he was hold a prisoner at last reports on Ajusco mountain, which is not far from Mexico City. His captors, the statement said, had been identified as a band under the leadership of Valentine Keycs. The doctor succeeded in getting a letter let-ter through to an American friend in Mexico City, near where tho kidnaping occurred, and the American embassy immediately im-mediately reported the case to the Mexican Mex-ican government. The department's statement state-ment said tho Mexican government replied re-plied that troops would be dispatched immediately im-mediately to the scene and that if ncces- sary the government would pay the ran- sum. MORE OUTRAGES IN MEXICO REPORTED TO YANKEE CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Aug. IS. Moxtc.in j bandits operating in the vielnlty of Jim- j Inez rer-ently attacked a truck train of j the Alverado Mining & Milling company, en route to Parral. Dispatches to the state department today telling of tho attack at-tack said that Leslie Webb, an American I |