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Show W AGAIN Magonistas Are Now Advancing on a Border Town El Paso, Texas, SepL 16. At 2:30 o'clock this morning a body of about 100 or moro Magonlstas crossed the river near the smelter, and are now advancing on the western outskirts of Ciudad Juarcte with the avowed intention in-tention of attacking. The men are heavily armed and their alleged IntenUon is to destroy the tracks of the Mexican Central railway to prevent, If possible, the coming of more troops into Juarez this morning from Chihuahua. Whether this Ms the real object of the movement is not known, but it is certain that the river crossing has been made and that the advance is proceeding. The reaLpurpoaa-Is-sald-to be an advance on the iterior of the state of Chihuahua wrehe the Magonista forces are said to be organizing. or-ganizing. Other Liberals aro reported last night to have crossed near Columbus, OJ. M., about sixty miles west of hero, and are presumed to be headed for the same point in the Interior. Juarez is Quiet EI Paso, Tex., Sept. 16. Juarez celobrated Mexican independence by dancing all night and firing a salute of 21 guns this morning and is today as quiet as a country village. Threatened attacks on the town havo not materialized and the largest band of magonlstas reported In the country around Juarez Is at Rachorla, thirty miles below the town, where thirty men are said to be under arms. No attack pn Juarez is threatened today, to-day, and tho only disorders feared in tho border town aro those usually attending celebrations. |