The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-03-14
KING MENELIESY VICTORY.
Italians Negotiating for Peace
with the African Monarch.
LIBERAL ACTION BY THE CABINET.

Amnesty Granted TO Participants In the
sicilian Uprlslngs of 1898 and 1S04-Re-
servists who Fled Rather Than Go to
Africa VIII Not he Punished.
ROME, March 1I.-Out of the terrible
storm of popular anger which swept over
Italy when the news of the defeat of the
army under General Baratieri reached /
here, little remains but a feeling of great
resentment against the Italian com
mander All rioting has ceased. The Re
servists who fled from the country sooner .
than go to Africa at the call of the govern
ment for the class of 1872 are returning, .
and It is not believed any steps will be .
taken to punish them. Negotiations with .
King Menelik have been opened, it is an
ticipated that peace will be concluded be-
fore long, and the war Office has counter
manded the instructions sent to various
points for the hurrying forward of rein
forcements to Africa.
The news of the peace negotiations has
produced a feeling of surprise amounting
to stupor in most quarters. The condi-
tions fixing the frontier at the Mared river
line, and the prohibition of Notifications
on the frontier are considered humiliat-
ing, Liz llttJoIlug VI Vlo bSpuulCo hoN
here oppose the project.
1t has been ascertained that Colonel
Calliano. who was reported certainly to
have been killed at the battle of Adowah,
was severely wounded and is prisoner in
the Shoan camp.
The cabinet council, with a view to APP
peasing the populace, has decided TO grant
amnesty to the participants in the upris-
ing in Sicily and Massa Carrara in 1893 and
1894, except such as were guilty of homi-
cides There are 120 persons who will ben
fit by such a decree, including several
members of the chamber Of deputies, who
have been elected since they were impris-
oned The revolt in Italy assumed serious
proportions in 1894, during the former pre-
miership of Premier Crispi. Troops were
| sent to the island, and many desperate
and fatal encounters occurred. Martial
| law was proclaimed on the island early in
the year.
There seemed to be two elements in the
uprising, one of peasantry, discontented
and suffering with heavy taxation, and
the other melted by socialist clubs known
as the Fasci del Lavoratori The latter
was shown to be supported literally with
arms and money, and was intended to
spread as a revolutionary movement to
Italy There was no further development
of the plot in Italy, however, than slight
outbreaks insthe province of Massa Car
rara and at Leghorn.
Signor Crispi, in n speech at the time,
\ asserted that these revolutionary associa-
tions had 2S9, 900 members This state of
things, he maintained, justified the eX-
treme measures that had been adopted.
The deputy, Signor De Felice Guiffrida,
who was arrested because of his connec-
tion with the outbreaks, was condemned
TO the loss of his position as deputy and to
eighteen years solitary confinement.
The conferences which have taken place
here recently between the Marquis di Ru-
dini, the new premier, and the Duke OF
Sermoneta, their audiences with King
Humbert and the constant exchange OF
telegraphic messages between this city
and the German capital, have been coin
cident with the meetings in Berlin of the
Austrian minister for foreign affairs
Count Goluchowski; the German foreign
minister, Baron Marschall Won Bieber
stein; the Italian ambassador TO Germany
Count LAMA di Busca, and the imperia
chancellor Prince Hohenlohe, supple
mented by audiences with Emperor VIII
lam.
Out of all these exchanges OF views, 1t il
believed, has grown mucn healtnlef sJdu'
of affairs for all Europe The German EN-
peror is understood to have been some
what, if not entirely weaned from hi
longings for closer relations with Russia
and possible alliance Of the three e1nper
ors and the attitude of Germany toward
Great Britain. it is anticipated, will un
dergo IA change for the better. This is du
to the fact, according to report that Grea
Britain, when the situation was outlines
to her from Berlin, before the arrival ther
of Count Goluchowski promised loya
support for the Italians in the emergency