The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-22
LAST OF AN EMPIRE.
Dom Pedro. Emperor Of Brazil
Deposed and a Repub-
Lie Formed.

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the Cause of the
Revolution
LONDON, Special.-A Brazilian cablne
has been organized as follows:
President without portfolio, Dodoro Da
Fonseca.
Minister of the interior, Aristide Loba.
Minister of Foreign affairs, Equlntln
BOcayura.
Minister of Finance, DR.. Barboza.
Minister of justice, Campos Sales.
Minister of War-Benjanin Constant.
Minister of Marine-Admiral Wander
holtz.
Minister of Agriculture Ribero.
Senior Secayura is journalist. Senior
Barboza was a member of the chamber of
deputies. Senior Constant is a Journalist
and a professor in the polytechnic
school. Gen. da Fonseca held COM
mand of the province of Minas
Geraes He was recently punished for in
subordination. The chamber of deputies
has Dissolved, and the council of state has
been abolished. Public opinion appears to
be in favor of peaceful trial of the new
form of government. Everything is quiet
The imperial ministers have been
PLACED UNDER ARREST
and are Kept in close confinement. The
provisional government has guaranteed
protection to the members of the imperial
family. The emperor is at his summer pal
ace at Petropolis. twenty-five miles north
of Rio de Janeiro. All business in the city is
suspended, but there is no danger to life or
property. A dispatch received to-day states
that the ministes of marine was not killed.
as reported yesterday, but that he was shot
and seriously wounded by rebels. An
other dispatch says that the question
as to the nature of the future
government will be submitted to a
plebiscite. The new Brazilian government
has issued manifesto announcing that the
monarchy has been abolished. Various
provinces have sent assurances of sup
port to the new regime. The former prime
minister has been arrested, The emperor
will be treated with the greatest considera-
ton.
TO IMPRIsON THE EMPEROR.
LISBON, Special.-The Commerce. DO
Portugal publishes dispatch dated at Rio
Janeiro $50 p. M. Friday, stating that Be-
nor Constant Bocaquava and Gen. Fonseca
virtually constitute the governments OF Brazil
Fonseca being the actual leader. At the time
of writing the despatch troops had started
for the palace, outside the city, to make
prisoners of the emperor and his family.
The populace are dazed at the uprising and
revolt of the army, but cling to the hope
that enough troops remain loyal to the en-
peror to put down the rebellion and crush
the rebels.
CAUSED BY WOMAN.
LONDON Specialize news received here
of the revolution in Rio de Janeiro, as the
result of desire on the part of the populace
for she establishment of a republic on the
ruins of the empire, created feeling of pro-
found surprise, but aroused no excitement.
For many years the empire of Brazil has
been regarded as existing under the most
liberal of all the monarchical governments
of the earth, and as according to its subjects
as great degree of liberty as enjoyed by
the citizens of any republic, with the
possible exception of the citizens of the
United States, and certainly more
than the citizens of the nominal
republic of France ever dreamed
Vi. OCdrCcly UlOI0 tlld1l yCdA dSO CAC
daughter of the venerable Dom Pedro, EN-
peror of Brazil, acting as regent in the alb
sence of her father, who was at the time
critically ill in Europe, signed decree
emancipating the slaves throughout the
empire in advance of the time when
they would become free by the operation of
a law fixing the time for their manumission.
This act, while it was hailed with joy by
the masses, was execrated by the upper
classes as an attempt on the part of Princess
Isabel to win popular favor at their
expense and even at the expense of
her father, in whose ostensible inter-
est she was acting. The operation of the
decree failed to modify the detestation in
which the heirs to the throne were held by
the people, and it certainly did not en-
nance the respect felt by the powerful
classes for Dom Pedro, since they openly
declared their belief that the emperor
should have remained at home and
GUARDED THE INTERESTS OF HIS PEOPLE
instead of going abroad, even in quest of
improved health, and leaving them at the
mercy of an intriguing woman, who had
nothing to distinguish herself but we'll
earned national hatred. The compl-
cations growing out of the di-
rect violation of the governments
faith with the slave-holding class,
involved in the emancipation of the slaves
in advance of the time fixed by law, were
undoubtedly the beginnings which culmi-
mated in the present uprising, whatever may
be its immediate cause, and the dread of
the succession of Princess Isabella to the
throne which chills the hearts of
the lower classes is not unlikely
another factor in the popular en-
deavor to add one more to the list
of South American republics. No monarch
was ever more beloved by his people than
is Dom Pedro, but the very spirit of de-
mocracy which he has evinced in his every
day life and contact with his sub
jects has unquestioably given them