The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-26
Italian Authorities Fortifying OfIlcial
Residences and Banks Against
Nm Attack.
The Austrian Embassy Also Barrk
caded on Account OF the Bitter
Feeling Against tt
Preparations Which Have Been MAX
ing Secretly Now Carried on
Openly with Great Haste.

ROME, April 20. The authorities D.
gan the work Of barricading the rest-1
dences Of officials and also the banks
This is done in view Of disturbances
which occurred Sunday and Of tho ap-
prehension Of more serious disturbances
The working classes are greatly stirred
mp by the prospect Of . renewal Of the
flour tax, this being used - a.
argument to animate them
against the government. The ex-
treme socialists are very active
and besides appealing to the prejudice
against the moneyed and upper Glasses,
they hare enlisted the sympathy and
cooperation Of the Irredentist agitatorss|
Threats are freely uttered against the
Austrains, and there is reason to fear
that In the event Of riot the Austrian
embassy would be assailed. For this
reason the lower windows Of the Aus
triam embassy are being walled
strongly enough to prevent any
assailants from entering or shoot
ing into the embassy. The members
and servants of the embassy are armed,
and every preparation has been made To
give = deadly reception to mob. Feel
ing against the Austrians il running
very high, partly because Of the Close
friendship shown between the yaticsn
and the Austrian court. King Humbert
has given particular instructions to pro-
tect the embassy from violence, and the
troops OF the garrison are kept ready To
60 to the rescne at the FIRST, sign of
danger. The preparations made "
the authorities are so extensive
and serious that the public are more
alarmed thereby than by the threats
and the demonstrations Of tho
anarchists. The opinion. prevails that
these preparations would not be made
unless the authorities had information
OF dangerous conspiracy which they
have not made public. The greatest
uneasiness prevails, and people ofmeans
are secreting their valuables, and, fol-
lowing the example of the officials, in
making their residences ready to offer
some resistance to mob in case Of
attack.
Access to the palaces OF the nobility
IL made extremely difficult, especially
of the nobility known to adhere to the
Vatican and galleries OF paintings and
statuary that have been readily acces-
sible to visitors are now surrounded
with safeguards that are both
novel and. inconvenient. The mill
tary authorities have doubled
the guards, whose arms and munitions
are stored, as it is feared that the an
archists may try to create panic in
advance Of an uprising by causing an
explosion similar to that which shook
Rome to its foundations about year
ago.
It Is known that the officials have
been extremely reticent for some time
past, while at the same time quietly
making the preparations of which the
days work is the open continuation.
This reticence, it is reported, has been
inspired by desire not to
deter visitors from coming to Rome.
The situation is now, however, 20 se-
rious, and the danger of an outbreak so
pressing that steps are being taken to
meet the peril without any concealment
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