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Show MEXICANS RIOT ' OKEBJEUfilOU SEVENTEEN WOUNDED WHEN MOB STORMS PROVINCIAL PROVIN-CIAL PALACE Committee of Catholics Marches to Governor's Office; The Assemblage Assem-blage Starts Hurling Stones Mexico City. Newspaper dispatches from Purango City report that ten persons were killed and seventeen wounded, eight seriously, when a mob Thursday stormed the provincial palace in protest against the law limiting to twenty-five the number of clergymen allowed each religious denomination. Military patrols were on duty throughout the state capitol during the night. The trouble grew out of what was intended to be a demonstration and protests against the law. A committee commit-tee of prominent Catholics, accompanied accompan-ied by a crowd of 3,000 persons, marched to the palace to ask the gov ernor and legislature to rescind the measure. While its spokesmen were awaiting admittance to the building the assemblage listened to several fiery speeches and finally began to bombard the palace with stones. The guard of mounted police discharged dis-charged their rifles over the head of the crowd, whereupon the demonstrators demon-strators rushed the guards and disarmed dis-armed them. In the promiscuous shooting that followed three policemen police-men and seven civilians were killed. Promulgation of the law about ten days ago caused great excitement throughout the state, in which there are normally about 250 Catholic clergymen. Church officials have served notice that services will be suspended and the measure removed. |