Word: escobar
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...Arnulfo Gomez, executed last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 14), was laid, amid great weeping and hysteria, in its last resting place. At the same time what purported to be the true report of the manner of his capture and death was circulated. Surrounded by the troops of General Jose Gonzales Escobar, General Gomez, making a futile effort to draw his gun, fell on the slippery ground. Seeing that his game was up, he surrendered, and, fearing that he was about to be summarily shot, begged for his life, offering to take any punishment other than death...
Holding on to the sleeve of General Escobar, Senor Gomez was taken to the village of Tepcelo, where at 1 o'clock in the morning a court martial was held and his death sentence pronounced...
General Arnulfo Gomez, onetime presidential candidate, fell into an ambush prepared for him by General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, who personally made the capture. A few hours later he was executed by a firing squad in the hamlet of Teocelo, Vera Cruz. With him died his nephew, Lieut. Col. Francisco Gomez Vizcarra. Shortly afterwards, Federal troops also shot General Adalberto Palacios, Colonel Salvador Costanos, Major Francisco Meza Perez. Their bodies were all shipped to Mexico City, where their relatives claimed them. Each showed a bullet hole through the temple...
...better this season than last. It retains most of its stars, some of these of wide reputation-Anna Fitziu, Alice True Gentle, Marie Rappold, Sophie Charlebois, Bianca Saroya, Manuel Salazar, Taki Miura. It has made some noteworthy additions-the tenors Tommasini and O'Moore, the soprano Consuelo Escobar. Its productions are generally " good "- voices, orchestra, chorus...
...Consuelo Escobar, who (with the San Carlo Company) has demonstrated a small, but pretty and very flexible soprano voice, is a native of Mexico, where she has sung with success. This success, she says, is the more praiseworthy because the Mexicans are biased against Mexican artists. Like natives of the U. S., they will patronize a foreign troupe enthusiastically, while a local company gain small patronage and less applause...