Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-26
ROME AVA AXES
And Realizes the Danger to
Which She is Exposed.
The Government Preparing for
an Outbreak.

The Prospect of a Renewal of the Flour
Tax Causes Great Dissatisfaction Am ong
the Working C1asses-The Austrian
Embassy Evidently Anticipates an At
tack and Preparations Are Being
Made for 1t.
ROME, April 26.-Monday the authori-
ties began the work of barricading the
residences of officials and also the banks.
This is done in view of disturbances
which occurred Sunday, and of the ap-
prehension of more serious disturbances.
The working classes are greatly stirred
up by the prospect of a renewal of the
flour tax, this being used as an argu-
ment to animate them against the
government. The extreme socialists
are very active, and besides appealing to
the prejudice against the moneyed and
upper classes, they have enlisted the
sympathy and cooperation of the irri-
dentist agitators.
Threats Againstthe Austrians.
Threats are freely uttered against the
Austrians, and there is reason to fear
that in the event of a riot, the Austrian
u.
reason the lower windows of the Aus
trian embassy are being walled up
strongly enough to prevent any assail-
ants from Ell tering or shooting into the
embassy. The members and servants
of the embassy are armed, and every
preparation has been made to give
deadly reception to mob.
Feeling against the Austrians is run
MING vary biub nartly haoo11ca Of ha
close friendship shown between the
Vatican and the Austrian court. King
Humbert has given particular instruc-
tons to protect the embassy from VIC
lence, and the troops of the garrison are
kept ready to go to the rescue at the
first sign of uanger.
The Public Alarmed,
The preparations made by the author
tiles are SO extensive and serious that
the public are more alarmed thereby
than by the threats and demonstrations
of the anarchists. The opinion prevails
that these preparations would not be
made unless the authorities had infor-
nation of dangerous conspiracy which
they have not made public.
Hiding valuables.
The greatest uneasiness prevails and
people of means are secreting their valu-
ables, and TO, lowing the example of the
officials i'll making their residences ready
to offer some resistance to a mob, in case
of an attack. Access to the palacesof
the nobility is made extremely difficult,
and especially of the nobility known to
adhere to the Vatican, and galleries of
paintings and statuary that have been
readily accessible to visitors are now sur
rounded with safeguards that are both
novel and announcement.
Guards Doubled.
The military authorities have doubled
the guards where arms and munitions
are stored, as it is feared that the an
archists may try to create panic in ad- |
vance of an uprising by causing an ex-
plosion similar to that which shook |
Rome to its foundation about a year
ago,
Have Little to Say.
1t is known that the officials have |
been extremely reticent for some time
past, while at the same time quietly
making the preparations, of which
Mondays work was the open continue
ton. This reticenCe, it is reported, has
been inspired by desire not to deter
visitors from coming to Rome. The
situation is now, however. so serious,
and the danger of an outbreak so press
ing, that steps are being taken to meet
the peril without any concealment
whatever.