The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-05-28
ANARCHY In VENEZUELA
Numerous Dynamite Outrages
at the Capital.
DEPLcRABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS

Women and Girls Kidnapped by Raiders
Agriculture at a standstill-The Country
Dead, Commercially 90 No Prospect of
Speedy settlement of the Revolution.
PANAMA, via Galveston, May 2S.-The
officers of a 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
lists. Several score of wounded have
been brought to Caracas, but the gov
eminent reports, nevertheless, that it's
troops nave 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
the governments persistent p~rolonga-
ton of the struggle is generally con-
sidered to be due to Palacio's inditfer-
euce 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
the Capital for the past two weeks has
been unprecedented. Carloads of pris-
oners nave 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 a merely superficial examination.
Hardly a night passes without a raid by
Palacio's soldiers on the families of prl-
vate citizens. The houses are searched,
the plate and money seized, and the
men are led off to prison.
Three eXploa.sns of dynamite within
the last LNo Wyals have increased the
approximations of all residents of the city
and nav given the Government
for arresting many innocent men. On
May 13 a 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 bombardment The streets
were filed 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 a
Government spy Another explosion on
the following night shattered the win
dows of houses near the Cathedral, but
nobody was injured.
Palacio attributes the outrages to
Crespists who are intent upon inaugur-
ating in the city the reign Of plumber
nov supreme in the country. The Cresp-
lists 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 brighten Palacio and his ad-
visers into fleeing from the city.
Rumors that the palace will be blown
-. -ra-a I - ALa Il
and the Government claims to ave sup
pressed one such plot by arresting 6
group of Crespist dynamiters.
The PRESENT position of Crespo's troops
is not known. The Government has nc
information as to his next move, but is
busy spreading the report that the sup
plies and ammunition of the revolution
lists are exhausted and that they are on
q the verge of disbanding.
The condition of the rural districts II
Z miserable beyond description. Raideri
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
ceived almost constantly in Caracas anC
La Guayra. The farmers have beer
robbed of their money and their cattle
and those who have defended themselves
against the plhnderers have been pun
ished by the burning of their houses anC
sheds,
No effort is made to cultivate thu
fields, as no man can be sure of harvest
ing his crops or Of keeping them if they
are allowed to mature. Work in tn,
factories is at a standstill as the mer
cannot be relied on TO attend to thei.
duties. Commercially the country i:
dead as the merchants have either he,
d or have hidden their money.
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