Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-13
STORIES FROM BRAZIL.
| How Rumors of Revolutions Are Started
English Motives for Exaggeration.

How Rurnors of Revolutions Are Started
English Motives for Exaggeration.
A gentleman now N this city who is familiar
with the situation in Brazil. speaking to a STAR
reporter today characterized recent statements
concerning revolutionary movements in Brazil
coming to this country via London as false,
malicious and inexcusable.
DO you not suppose he said. ''that if the
three principal states of Brazil had seeded
those that stand in Brazil as New York, Penn
syivania and Ohio do in the United States--that
the United States minister there, Mr.. Conger,
or the consul general, Mr.. Doclery.
would have sent some notice TO the
Department of State? The fact is that nothing
has occurred in Brazil since the dissolution of
the congress that Mr.. Conger has considered
| weftA teSogrspuane. and that means q good
deal The reports sent out from Lon
don are intended to affect the stock
market tirst. and second to destroy confidence
in the present Brazilian government, because
the political and commercial relations between
Europe and Brazil can never be under a re-
publican form OF government what they were
under the empire. Believe no news of Brazil
that comes by way of Valparaiso and believe no
news of Central America that comes by wav of
Mexico. 1 have the latest Brazilian papeR this
morning and they contain accounts of the last
revolution tnat occurred there a month ago.
You will remember that we got some very en-
tertSiniug dispatches about the destruction of
the republic and the restoration OF the empire.
the overthrow of the Fonseca government and
martial law.
THE FACTS OF THE CASE.
1.-The facts were these:
''Some young rowdies in Rio de Janeiro, be-
coming dissatisfied with the performance of a
| certain actress, made a disturbance in the
theater. The manager and the ush-
! ma IN ..x-
called in the police. The police
made several arrests While they were on
their way to the station the friends
and sympathizers of the prisoners at
tempted to rescue them and u street riot fol-
lowed. The police down there carry guns
and are very reckless with them some
times. They fired into the crowd and killed
three or four men. There Was tremendous
excitement all over the city. with rumors OF a
revolution. and it was three or four days be-
fore the PEOPLE quieted down.
I'm the meantime either in ignorance of the
true cause of the disturbance or for malicious
re reasons-probably the latter-the correspond
ents of the London papers had given brief ac-
counts of an outbreak. The correspondents of
American papers in London elaborated these
brief accounts to sait themselves adding cor
roborative details from their fertile imagina-
ton. BY the time the news got to New York
the entire republic OF Brazil was IN the throes
Of revolution.
oNLh WAGON LOAD OF BARRELS
San interesting story is told Of a similar rev.
olution in Brazil that was caused by some mis-
chievous youngsters cutting rope that bound
a lot of empty barrels on wagon. This wagon
stood in one of the principal streets
of the city near the stock exchange. and near
the cuartel or headquarters of the troops
There were fifteen to twenty barrels on
wagon held by slender cord. The
youth. like he who fred the Ephe-
sian DOME thought he would create a
little sensation, SO he cut the rope and the bar
rels came banging down on the cobble-stone
pavement. You can imagine what a racket they
made Instantly there was a panic in all that
part of the city. The brokers in the stock ex-
change. supposiag they heard the reports Of
cannonading, fed to the woods. while the mill
tary garrison in the cuartel grabbed their guns
rushed into the street and fired away at what
ever they saw. In an hour the entire city was
torn up with excitement and il took several
days to quiet down again. In fact. although
there was investigation by the authorities,
a large number of good people have never yet
been able TO determine in their own minds what
caused that revolution and what results were
accomplished by it"