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Show ViCTOHY OR DEATH i i FORMER MEXICAN WAR MINISTER SUICIDES AFTER DEFEAT OF HIS FORCES. Beaten in Battle and Compelled to Retreat Before Victorious Rebels, General Jose Gonzales Salas Shoots Himself Through the Head. Mexico City. Jose Gonzales Salas, who left the war ministry to take active charge of the campaign against Orozco, committed suicide at liermi-jillo liermi-jillo by shooting himself through the head while, with a part of his army, he was retreating to Torreon after a reverse Monday at Corralitos, twenty miles south of Jiminez. Apparently reliable messages received re-ceived by El Imparcial report a federal fed-eral rout at Jiminez. Both Generals Blanquet and Tellez are reported wounded; other officers were killed and fifty officers were taken prison-srs prison-srs to Chihuahua, together with many privates. The federal flight toward Torreon began Sunday afternoon, according to a telegram to El Imparcial, and General Gen-eral Pascual Orozco with his victorious victor-ious army is said to be close on the heels of the retreating federals. |