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Show r,rr t i. urn nrr , ,r ,ri -ri 1 i j ' INSURRECTION IN OLD MEXICO Several Town Sacked and Many Per I aont Slam aa Reault of Uprising I in State cf Yucatan. j Vera Cm -The l t Keilous upMa- ttic w"h which ihe Mexican govern-l: govern-l: en? ha had to ileal In n long time has iM-eurted in the state o( Yiu-ntun. Mid ti'o.ps an- la n! rushed tu the disunited area lu the melilllluie lepu's ItullCatO lint tin re has heen much bloodshed mid that the Itisiirgen-s are pp-pared lor hatlle with lite government forces. The Independent te wspaper. '. lllctllinen. puhhsheH lllspllehes from Merlihi, the capital ot Yucatan, to tho rficl that forty lei,:,s were killed b the May a Ind at.s on Salunlav. Further dispatches received here any that ."(.olio nf these Insurgents sucked Ihe town of Ynllodnild mneiy-tlve miles to the southeast of Morlda killing nil the principal government employees, the chief of police and foih-ra. They sclrcd rules and pistols and instituted a reign of terror. Many or the liihuhl-tunta liihuhl-tunta or Ynllndnlid are Hoeing tu Merldn. The gunhont Morel'os hna nlreudy left I his port w ith lino soldiers aboard, while ihe Yiicniun gunboat Xurugoxa Is lying In the harbor ready to Inks l.nt'O nildlllomil Hoops, who urn expelled ex-pelled from the Interior. Hullroad and telegraph communication communica-tion hetween Morltlu and the scene nf Ihe trouble Is cut off. Twenty miles of the Yuruiiin ruilCnud huvn been destroyed by the Indians, while II la reiKirted ninny telegraph operators have been killed nr made prisoners, A Judge nf the crlmlnul court Is tiinoug the Mead The rebels ut strongly entrenched In iintlclpuilon 'of Ihe ml vance nf federal troops. Maximilian Itumlcrc llnnilla, tho former rebel leader, and Colonel Victor Vic-tor Monteiiegrn me said to he at tho hi nd of Ihe uprising. |