New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-04
AN UPRISING IN SPAIN.
p.ND OF REPUBLICANS ATTEMPT TO SUR
PRISE THE GARRISON OF BARCELONA.
.u,pp FIGHTING FOR AWHILE. BUT THE AT
r,cKIyG PARTY FINALLY cAPTURED-A
RuMoR THAT THE MOVEMENT WAS
PLANNED BY BoURSE sPECULA-
ToRS-zoRILLA's DENIAL!
ToRS-zoRILLA's DENIAL.

p,rcslona Aug. 3.--Grcat excitement was
..nssd in this city last night by what for
time believed TO be a revolutionary movement
~ The part Of the Republican party, but which
.uhseoucntly was said % be a desperate attempt
,r the part of certain spectators on the
Ponrse 10 bring about decline in the prices or
the securities dealt in upon the exchange
The troops who garrison this city were in their
barracks. and the usual guards patrolling
, ,heir posts. when band of fifteen men. some of
whom were armed with rifles. while others carried
,evolyers in their hands, cautiously approached
,be buildings and attempted TO effect surprise
~ the guards, IL being apparently their intention
N force their way into the barracks The guards
oraered the band 10 halt and give the cOuntcrslgn
To do the latter was, of course, an imposslblilty
and the men made rush upon the sentries, trust
inc that In the confusion they would be able TO
force their way into the barracks. AS they ad-
yapced they delivered vOlley from their weapons
xsunding some of the guards. The other sentrleS'
boxever, stood their ground and answered TIE
valley with a fusillade from their rifles. For
short time a regular battle was fought, and num-
Der on both sides were wounded. In the mean
time the officers at the barracks Summoned the
troops 10 arms and the attacking party soon found
themselves surrounded Resistance useless,
and the whole party were placed under arrest
They will be tried by court-martial, and the
chances are that they will all be shot.
It has been found that the persons aTGStd GGbt t ARE
the Republicans expected the garrison TO JOIN
in the revolt. The loyalty of the troops frus-
tTated the Republican designs, which included
plan for a general rising at C0ribagena, Bilbao
'''f Paris, Aug. 3-SenOr Gorilla, the Spanish Re
publican. In an interview to-day denied that ne
was in any way implicated in the Barcelona
affair He said that he would do nothing with
out the certainty of success.
She latest report from Barcelona justifes the
belief that the affair was genuine revolutionary
attempt on the part OF Republicans.
The report that a bloody outbreak could have been
started by embarrassed stockholders is too farccal 10
be credited even when coming from Spain, the country
Of castles in the air and Of dcusons. Moreover, the
Barcelona dispatch says that only "a band of fifteen
men, attempted the revolutionary movement 1t adds.
nevertheless that regular battle fought and
humber on both sides wounded These two state
ments are conflicting and practically contradictory. and
the truth is evidently to be found in the last paragraph
Of the Barcelona dispatch and in the Paris dispatch
They say that the persons arrested not the mrengs
Of short" BOurse speculatOrs but Federal RepuDl-
oans.o and that the affair was genuine
revolutionary attempt on the part of the Repuoh-
cans. This latter version will appear to DC the only
correct TO those who know that Barcelona Is the
hobed of republlcanisn in spain, especially since the
Federasts were defeated some years ago at Carthagena
and compelled TO take refuge with their leader General
Contreras, board the Numancia
The attempted revolution has been promptly sup
pressed by the soldiers of Alfonso XIII. the baby
hing, and it has been disapproved, besides by
the bestknown leader of the Spanish Radicals
senor Gorilla. OF course, Castelar,, the chief of
the moderate Republicans, will be still more
emphatic in his disapproyal though he was re-
Gently ignored by the Queen Regent at reception in
friends house, and though he declared: " ms Iany
and myself win meet again. Neither Gorilla
CASTELAR, could sympatlize with movement when
Socialism In spain has It's headquarters at barcelona
great manufacturing city, and SalmerOn and Py Mar
gal are more popular there than the two other doc
thnare leaders of the Republican party. flnaily,
Zora though he has refused to avail himself OF the
amnesty recently granted to political refugees, Is not
vet ready 10 take up arms against the Government
which has recalled to Spain the Republicans who we're
in the exile in which he himself prefers TO remain Tor
tie present.