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...young man, his back against a wall. A moment later eight rifles spat fire and lead. The young man fell forward, dead. He was 28-year-old Alfredo Jauregui who, a week before, had drawn a black ballot† that meant death for the murder in 1917 of General Jose Manuel Pando, onetime President of Bolivia...
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...
Four men convicted of assassinating (in 1917) General Jose Manuel Pando, onetime (1899-1904) President of Bolivia, were gathered together at La Paz to draw lots to see who among them should die for the crime. Loud and long did the daughters of the murdered man cry out that all four were guilty. But the court directed that the lottery proceed. Three white and one black ballot were placed into a black hat-the black one signified death...
With laconic precision, the King declared the new Assembly open. The Dictator thanked the King for attending the opening so soon after his arrival from a visit to Morocco, and immediately quitted the building. Senor Jose Maria Yanguas, onetime Secretary of State, was chosen President of the Assembly and made the opening speech, in which, as he was bound to, he lauded Dictator de Rivera...
Meantime, news came from the royal palace that the new Belgian princess would be named Josephine Charlotte Ingeborg Elizabeth Marie Jose Marguerite Astrid. King Albert is to be godfather and the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, godmother. Foreign rulers, including the Pope, wired congratulations...