The record-union., 1898-05-12
Believed a Popular Rising Will Not
Long be Delayed.
The Riots at Milan Far More Serious Than
First Reported.
Estimated That Six Hundred Peo-
pie Were Killed, Two Thousand
Wounded and One Thousand
Persons Arrested-Martia1 Law
Proclaimed in the Province Of
Coao.

PARIS. MAY 1.-THE correspondents
IN Rome of the newspapers of this city
all affirm revolution in Italy is i'm
minent, and that the popular rising
throughout the country will not long
be delayed The news causes great
satisfaction here, where a republican
Italy is regarded as the natural friend
of France, and as an enemy OF the
Dreidbund.
SIX HUNDRED KILLED.
LONDON, May 12.-The Vienna cor
respondent of the Daily Telegraph,
describing the riots at Milan, says:
''Onc thousand persons were arrested
600 killed and 1000 wounded. In one
instance twenty students were Killed al
the main station of the Vicina railway
line. Three hundred rioters set lire
to all the railway carriages, ana the
military, hurrying up, unfortunately
fired on the firemen, who were trying to
disperse the rioters with hose Many
of the firemen were killed. AS all the
printing houses in Milan refused TO
print the manifesto, the military Gov
ernment was proclaimed by drums ana
the roar of cannon"
The Italian colony here is greatly ex-
cited by the reports from Italy. va
rious statements are circulated in the
colony, alleged to be based on cipher
kilograms. According to one rumor,
on Monday night at Naples a regiment
f1atl- refused to obey orders to fire on
the people.
Father Bannin, che of the priests OF
the Italian church III Hatton Garden
London says: I'VE have beer expect
ing a great revolution for years, re
suiting from the eXorbitant taxation
graGa1 lat nf the Italian recrt4.
Reports by way of various Cent?
mental cities are beginning to arrive -tor
the London rapers. fully confirming the
early reports of the extreme gravity OF
the situation.
The Times" " correspondent explains
that the bread issue is a mere pretext
for resurrection prepared beforehand
by associations of navies and railway
employees, which a strong Socialist and
Republican leaven has long been work
ing.
He says: Besides many proofs gof
this statement, it will suffice TO say
that the rioting is confined to the rich
est districts in the country. Another
strong political motive underlying the
movement is the well-known desire OF
the Vatican and the clericals to TO-
ment disorders, hoping thereby to over
throw the house of Savoy, in favor of
a republic, which might pave the way
to a restoration of the temporal power
of the Pope"
GRAVITY OF RIOTS CANNOT BE
ESTIMATED.
- ~ oI.1x INe
many days before one is able fully to
estimate the gravity of the riots, and
the number of killed and wounded. The
two suppressed papers, the Radical
"Secola" and the Republican Italia del
Popolo," of Milan, were undoubtedly
chiefly responsible for the riots there.
The latter journal has been in the habit
for some years of giving its subscrib-
ers Christmas presents of revolvers and
hatchets, the latter INSCRIBED in the
Milanese dialect with the motto DALI
al Troncho'' (strike at the trunk. The
regular subscribers were largely priests.
It is said tonight that all the Socialist
papers throughout the country have
been or will be arrested and detained
until complete order is restored.
Evidence accumulates that railway
men were chiefly responsible for the
risings. The order calling them under
arms is expected to have good de-
terraDt effect