Post-election riot in Texas border town

Laredo voters observed a century-old custom on Apr. 6, 1886 by picking public servants for the coming year. But when the winners tried to rub salt in the losers’ wounds, the streets of the border town turned into a battleground. By Texas standards, Laredo is an ancient settlement. Founded in 1755 on the banks of the Rio Grande, it slumbered for generations in peaceful solitude. More Mexican than…