The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-01-10
FIGHTING TAXES WITH FIRE.
Terrible Outbreak of the Working Class
:n Sicily

Terrible Outbreak OF the Working CLASS
&c Sicily
ROME, January 2-Disp2tches re.
ceived from Sicily today show that the
anti-taX movement has made great pro-
gress in the province of TrapaI!. SeY-
eral days ago the discomfort in Campo.
bello, a town of 5000 Inhabitants, near
Trapani city, had become so threaten,
ing that the town council passed res
olution abollshing the wheat octroi
As protests against this action the
lnillers refused to reduce the price OF
flour and the bakers announced an in,
crease in the price of bread.
When these measures became knoTn
yesterday morning about a thousand
men and fifty or more women Of the
working class gathered from the town
and the surrounding country and be-
gan marching through the streets. The
police who tried to disperse them were
put to flight. The rioters set fire to
all the public buildings except the
town hau. From these buildings the
fire spread to private houses. While
large district was in flames the mob
left the owners and officials alone tc
fight the fire, marched TO the prison
and took it by storm. al the persons
we're liberated.
The soldiers who had been confined
in their barracks were driven out bg
fire and then turned their attention tc
saving the rest of the town. They
we're very forbearing and did not frs
or use their bayonets upon the mob
Nearly third Of the town is now II
ruins. Many families that were burn
ed out walked the streets all last night
The whole toWl looks as if it had suf'
fered from q bombardment: Among
the buildings destroyed were every
mill and miller's house IN the place.
At Salemi, town of 1900 iphabl
tans, in the same district with Campo
bello, fires were started by anti-taS
rioters shortly n,:ora dark Yesterday
and half a doZ.l pri;i iAg were burn
ing by9 o'clock. Fires were set bJ
rioters in several smaller towns also
and in the early evening the whole dis
trict seemed ablazs. The troops, al
though provoked by the rioters repeat.
edly in Salemi, did not fire. Several
rioters were arrested aftef struggle
a private was shot IN the cheek and
captain in the stomach.
At Pietra Perzia. a town of ll,OOt
inhabitants, near Caltaulsetfs, an antl
tax mob set fire to three public build
ings and tried to get at the rest, bu'
was prevented by troops who had beel
called out to protect them. The ITO
tiers made such determined attacks o.
the military in their efforts to reacE
the buildlays that eventually the or
der to fire was given. Five were kill
ed and many wounded by the first vol
lev. The second yolley, fired over thel
heads, was followed quickly by the dis
solution Of the mob.
The town council in Marineo. nea
Palermo, abolished the wheat octrol OF
Saturday, but the millers and bakers
| like those of Campobello, refused to re
| duee their prices. The people rose yes
| terday and tried to destroy the tow
buildings, but were driven off by tn
troops after several stubborn fights, Il
which three rioters were killed an'
| several more we're wounded. Troop
continued to guard the houses OF th
mlllers and bakers and the puoil
buildings throughout the night.
i The communal councillors OF SyrS
! cuse have taken steps to quiet the poE
| lace by lowering the wheat tax. In
announcement Of this policy yesIeroa
morning vas received with Joy through
out the city, and the Governor was IT
ceived with tremendous applause Whe
he entered the theatre last evening.
All the ministers pronounced tn
situation in Sicily to be grayer than
any previous period of the anti.tax a:
itstiop. Several ministers e1presse
the opinion that the communal cou!
, ellis. whose bad administration ia
caused the disorder, ought to be di
solved py the Government. The appe
of the military commander OF the pe'
pie is considered in lhe !, ministry {
, well as among the people at laIgs to
!, proof at. .trea-da -dasoe!':sSsSr !'::ssSsSr " oTcsa.sa
anairs.
Several Sici!ian Deputies, who hay
. great influence with the people OF the
districts. have started for the island
help iu the work of pacifylng tneI
Premier Crispi is not expected un!
this evening to 60 to Sicily: put u
alarming reports received ID the Ia
dispatches have caused him to chanE
: his plans. He will not visit Sicily Il
the present, as he deems his presen'
in Rome Indispensable.
: A mass meeting Of all classes IN ia
: ermo last evening appointed g. deput
tion to report formally to the Cover
ment what reforms were most neec
hin Sicily, "as the government was b
| Ill informed by the officials repreSer
ing it on the island