Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-28
ANARCHY IN VENEZUELA
Numerous Dynamite outrages
 at the Capital.
DEPLoRABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS

Women and Girls Kidnapped by Raiders
 Agriculture at a stanastiII-The Country
 Dead, Commercially - No Prospect of
 Speedy Settlement of the Revolution.
 PANAMA, via Galveston, May 2S.-The officers of 8 steamship arriving here from La Guayra confirm the worst of re- cent reports as to the Anarchistic con- dition of Venezuela and give news of repeated dynamite outrages which have spread terror among the citizens of the Capital.
 Frequent engagements have taken place within the last two weeks, but the combatants have been only small bands of government troops and gangs of raiders who call themselves revolution ists. Several scora of wounded have been brought to Caracas, but the gov- ornment reports, nevertheless, that it's troops have been victorious in every en- gagement.
 Gen. Crespo's challenge to Casanas to bring his army in the open field and set tie the question of supremacy once for all so as to relieve the sufferings of the people has won him many friends, as
  tion of the struggle is generally con- sidered to be due to Palacio's indiffer- ence to the welfare of the country. Casa mas, after refusing to meet Crespo, re- turned to Caracas and resigned his offices as Palacio's physician, chief ad- wiser and commander of the army. Pa- lacio suspected treachery and committed him to prison.
 The state of general intimidation in hA fkoI fo tho Cf tNn4 haz been unprecedented. Carloads of pris- oners have been brought in from La Guayra and other cities in the hands of the government, and have been marched in chains through the principal streets as warnings to local disloyalists. The prisons are full of men arrested in Cara cas, and private houses have been seized and turned into prisons to receive the suspects from other cities.
 All are confined without trial and after Q merely superficial examination. Hardly Q night passes without raid by Palacio's soldiers on the families of pri- vate citizens The houses are searched, the plate and money seized, and the men are led off to prison.
 Three explosions of dynamite within the last two weeks have increased the apprehensions of all residents of the city and have given the Government excuses for arresting many innocent men. On May IS bomb was exploded in the en- trYway of the Military Academy. The door leading into the first lecture room was blown in, and two cadets and an officer were killed by flying metal and flying splinters. Several others were in- jured, including three men and a woman passing the building at the time of the explosion.
 The entire district around the academy was shaken, and the report got abroad that Crespo was before the city and had begun the bonabardment. The streets were filled with frightened men and women. The military was called out, and for two hours panic and the widest apprehensions prevailed throughout the city.
 Four days later a shanty on the out skirts of the city was blown up and one man injured. He is supposed to be 8 1 Government spy. Another explosion on the following night shattered the win dows of houses near the Cathedral, but nobody was injured.
 Palacio attributes the outragess to Crespists who are intent upon inaugur- ating in the city the reign of plunder now supreme in the country. The Cresp- ists say that the explosions were caused by the Governments agents who wish to discredit the revolutionists, as did Balmaceda. The general belief is, how ever, that the explosions are the work of irresponsible and ill-advised Crespists who hope to frighten Palacio and his ad- visers into fleeing from the city. Rumors that the palace will be blown up were thick when the steamship sailed and the Government claims to have sup pressed one such plot by arrestin g a | group of Crespist dynamiters.
 The present position of Crespo's troops | is not known. The Government has no information as to his next move, but is busy spreading the report that the sup l plies and ammunition of the revolution | ists arc exhausted and that they are on the verge of disbanding.
 The condition of the rural districts is miserable beyond description. Raiders have completely intimidated and i'm poverished most of the rural population. Women and girls are being kidnapped nightly, and reports of murders are re- l ceived almost constantly in Caracas and La Guayra. The farmers have been | robbed of their money and their cattle and those who have defended themselves | against the plundererS have been pun ished by the burning of their houses and sheds.
 No effort is made to cultivate ths fields, as no man can be sure of harvest ing his crops or of keeping them if they are allowed to mature. Work in thu factories is at standstill as the mer cannot be relied on to attend to theil duties. Commercially the country is dead as the merchants have either hej or have hidden their money. ! - -
 Minister Grubb Coming Home.