Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-06
.SEETHES WITH REVOLUTION.
Riots in Spain Threaten 10 Break Out Into
Civil War.
Women rs Well AS Men Killed by Troops
Iifty People Shot at Cries
for weylcr and Don Carlos.

New York. May ga special to the
Journal and Advertiser from Madrid
says: .,l.
Riot still ramps and raves through
Spain and continually threatens TO
break into revolutionary war. More
and more II is apparent that tho. Sa-
gasta ministry is afraid to act hero
Ically The niobs are temporized with
where 1t Is feared that shooting will
lead to more serious disturbances.
In Gijon. province of ovicdo. the
killing of women by the troops during
the rloting of the fsherwomen and
tobacco girls has caused tremendous
demolstra. lion. The guardia civil has
Joined the rioters, many OF the guards
having sweethearts among the disaf-
fected women. DOL
The Octroi duties were merely an ex-
cused for the outburst The price OF
bread and the interference with the
tobacco work was enough to start the
women, but the men We're melted
from below-by agltators who are
working for the downfall OF the gov
eminent. 4
And the Gijon massacre, instead OF
putting down the riot, has Increased
Its violence. Cries against the throne
are OPEN Mutterings of revenge
against the soldiery are on all lips.
one party of rioters has attacked the
Casa Blanca and almost demolished IT,.
The infantry fears to venture from the
barracks. 4
The artillery made. an attempt to
capture the gun carried off by desert
ers the dav before. but the attempt
WINS unsuccessful, and they retired un-
der the shower, of stones dead animals
and hot water. The gun has been
taken. into the back country and des.
peradoes are collecting around ID, and
n band of throat bandits, who are
ripe for spoil, Weyler's secret emis-
saries are Whispering that he is the
friend of the poor; that he will make
bread cheap, reduce taxes and humble
the hated Americans. .ttf4 ~ IT, u
In barcelona the Yankees of Spain,
are expressing their disapproval, OF
the government by run on the bank,
demanding silver for notes. In the
harbor there have been heard mutter-
ings of mutiny in, the navy and of
plot to capture a torpedo destroyer.
Cartagena bubbles and seethes with
revolution. Thirty.s miles away, in
Marcia, n great army of miners and
their sympathizers, estimated at from
1000 to 10000 men and women. has been
tuihuiluuuSiy -sHoutiubs lyt'itn 10 tlle
thieves" Down with Sagasta," Who
stole our tax money!" t
This great throng fired the railroad
depot and threw dynamite into the
Quartet. Then they started for Car
tagena, the war port $50, M.
Troops were hurried to, meet them
The angry rioters refused. to dispense
and withstood two yolleys before they
ran. Reports place the dead and
wounded at more than 90. including
The ringleaders rallied the mob and
began a shouting. Give us iWeyler or
Don Carlos" They gathered on the
heights and gave battle to 1.-THE soldiers.
At last accounts the troops We're on the
defensive and achievements, were be-
ing hurried to their support. la'eS If,
Martial law has been proclaimed in
Carthagena itself, but the officers are
poweriess to prevent gatherings and
incendiary speeches. one crowd
from the Parque Central stoned the
house ofiithe mayor and looted store
house where navy supplies were stored,
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