Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-02
FOREIGN TOPICS OF rsrxRxsr.
The Rapid Rise and FAN Of the Revolt In
Portugal.

The Rapid Rise and FAN Of the Revolt In
Portugal.
The revolt in Portugal which WAS announced
in Saturday STAR, did not last long. The in
surgents seized the town hall Of Oporto, but
the government troops opened . fusflads on
the place, which soon surrendered. Twenty
persons were killed. Saturday evening Oporto
was a city Of rejoicing. The storekeepers
threw down the barricades from the windows
and doors Of their houses and everybody was
congratulating everybody else that the insur-
gent outbreak was not SO serious rs people at
first expected II would be. Perfect quiet
reigned in the city yesterday. Government re-
Inducements arrived from all parts Of the
country. Three hundred civilians and soldiers
were arrested. All of the republican clubs
were closed and all Of the republican news
papers seized by the government. The revo-
iutionary movement was due principally to
military sergeants who were dissatisfied at not
receiving promotion at the same time with the
juniors. ,
The government, susp Getting that there was
discomfort in the Oporto garrison. had issued
orders for the transfer Of several officers there
to other regiments. This action. together with
the recent Imprisonment of the editor OF the
Repubdacd Fortuquesca, expedited the outbreak.
A decree has been published suspendinE the
habcas corpus act and authorizing the suppress
sion throughout the country of journals preju-
dical to the state. The republican papers
Pofrid and Debates have already been sup
pressed. 1t has TRANSFERRED that the insurgents
counted upon simultaneous risings at Colmbra.
Braga and Wien, and were only waiting Tor the
departure OF the troops TO attack the capital.
but it appears that the dissensions revealed ut
recent republican conferences upset their
plans.
MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN ITALY.
In the debate Saturday in the Italian cham
Der of deputies on the spirit taxes bill Signor
Crispi, the prime minister, urged that the
taxes proposed by the government we're I'M
peratively necessary to prevent Italy from
falling again to the servile condition she was
in as regards foreign powers in 1874. The
conservative members Of the chamber pro-
tested against the language of the prime min
lister SiSnor Crispi was greatly agitated and
tried to explain his words, but he could not be
heard above the howls of his opponents. The
bill was finally rejected. large majority of
The members voting against it, Then Signor
Crispi announced that he would resign. King
HumDert received Premier Crispi, but de-
clined to accept his resignation until he had
further considered the situation.
MI. PARSELL SPEAKS AGAIN.
Mr.. Parnell spoke in Ennis yesterday ac-
cording to program His Journey from Dub
lin to Ennis was IA triumphant progress. There
was remarkable series Of demonstrations in
his honor all along the route Upon arriving
at Ennis Mr. Parnell was greeted by the re-
ception committee and by donse multitude
OF people from all the surrounding districts.
Mr.. Parnell, III his speech. declared that Ire
land would gain parliament with real power
to protect the interests of every class, to settle
the questions of land and police and to disarm
and convert the constabulary with a civil force
under the control of Irelands elected repre-
sentatives. Under such q parliament Ireland
ipafi fn no
In the evening he returned to Dublin on his
way TO London. The meeting was the last of
those definitely arranged for by Mr.. Parnell
METHOD OF PRODUCING xocns LYMPH.
Prof. Koch, who is about to start for Egypt,
gave farewell reception to his laboratory as
sistants yesterday. The professor says that he
will probably be absent from Berlin about three
months. He explains that he only partially dis
closed the method Of the production of the
curative lymph because he desired to stop the
rush OF doctors to Berlin. II he had described
the method Of manufacture more fully he says
ne would have been more worried about the
details. Great discomfort prevails among med
ical men regarding the published account of
the method of manufacture of the lymph.
they have made numberless attempts to bro
duce the lymph, but they find Prof. Koch's de-
scrlptlon inadequate to enable them to make it,
TROUBLE WITH BELGIAN SOLDIERS.
The military classes recently drafted into the
Belgian army to cope with the radical riots
were promised a months leave of absence at
the time they were drafted. This leave of alb
sence has already been granted in the prov
lnces. but not in Brussels. On account OF this
the men in the Brussels drafts have become
discontented, and yesterday many of them
openly disobeyed orders and left the bar
racks. These visited various inns and work.
mems club houses, making speeches. in which
they protested against the way in which they
were treated, and singing the Mnrseillaise
They were finally arrested by the police and
forcibly conveyed to their barracks. Several
were locked up in the police station. Such an
occurrence among the troops is unparalleled in
Belgium and indicates that they have become
infected with socalstic ideas