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Show REBELS OUTWIT THE FEDERALS Slip Around Town, Board and Disable Gunboat and Seize Dynamite. Twenty Insurgents Take Gasoline Gaso-line Launch and Overpower Tuxpam Crew. Mexico City. Dec 9 The rebels uoder General Candldo Aguilar. In the vicinity of Tuxpam, scored a sue cess over the federal troops there yesterday by slipping round tho edge of the towu and boarding the gunboat gun-boat Tuxpam while the federal troops were not looking, disabling le r machinery ma-chinery and guns and getting away 1 tli a quantity of dynamite. According to tho story reaching the odsral capital, the trick of the rebels reb-els was due to "carelessness on the part of some of the federals " The gunboat was stationed some distance above the town to observe the movements of. and menace, the rebels. The latter got a gasollue launch, manned It With twenty men and boarded tho gunboat while she was In charge of a small crew which they OVi rpow erod. f |