The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12
Details of the Disturb
ances in Italy, Which Are Now
Said to Be Checked.
REVOLUTION is IMPENDING
MASSES READY TO REBEL AGAINST
EXORBITANT TAXATION.
Political AEitatOrs Taking Advantage
of the Observation-Disclosures Also
Said to BE Plotting.

LONDON. May 1.-THE Vienna corre-
spondent of the Daily Telegraph, describing
the riots at Milan, says: lone thousand
persons were arrested, six hundred killed
and two thousand wounded. In one instance
twenty students were killed at the main
station of the Vicinia Railway line. Three
hundred rioters set fire to all the railway
carriages, and the military, hurrying, un-
fortunately fired on the fremen, who were
trying to dispense the rioters with hose
Many of the fremen were killed. AS all
the printing houses in Milan refused to
print the manifesto the military government
was proclaimed by drums and the roar of
cannon
The Italian colony in London is greatly
excited by the reports from Italy. Various
statements are circulated in the colony al
legged to be based upon cipher kilograms.
According to one rumor on Monday night
at Naples regiment fatty refused to obey
orders to fire on the people. Father Ban
min, of the Italian church in Hatton Gar
den, London, says: I'VE have been expect
ing a great revolution for years resulting
from the eXorbitant taxation ground out
of the Italian people," Reports by way of
various continental cities are beginning to
arrive for the London papers, fully con-
firming the early reports of the extreme
gravity of the situation.
The Rome correspondent of the Times
sends by mail a long dispatch, which the
censor had refused to allow to be trans
mitted by wire, practically confirming the
terrible nature of the rioting at Milan and
elsewhere. The Times correspondent ex-
plains that the bread issue is a mere pre-
text for insurrection prepared beforehand
by associations of navvies and railway en-
ployes, in which strong Socialist and Re-
publican leaven has long been working. He
says: Besides many other proofs of this
statement, it will suffice to say that the riot
ing is confined to the richest districts in the
country. Another strong political motive
underlying the movement is the well-known
desire of the Vatican and the cericals to
foment disorders. hoping thereby to over
throw the House of Savoy in favor of a re-
public, which might pave the way to res
toratlon of the temporal power of the Pope
An Associated Press dispatch from Rome
says: 1t will probably be many days be-
fore one is able fully to estimate the gravity
of the riots and the number of killed and
wounded. The two suppressed papers. the
Radical Seeolo and the Republican Italia
del Popoto, of Milan, were undoubtedly
chiefly responsible for the riots there. The
latter journal has been in the habit for some
years of giving it's subscribers Christmas
gifts of revolvers and hatchets, the latter
inscribed in the Milanese dialect with the
motto, DALI al tronco" (strike at the
trunk')
Evidence accumulates that railway men
were chiefly responsible for the risings. The
order calling them under arms is expected
to have a good deterrent effect.
The Daily News, commenting this morn
ing on the situation in Italy says: 1--WE
wish we could believe the whole of Italy
tranquil. Our correspondents unable to
get their messages through, and if every
thing is so tranquil it is strange that the
Italian government should close up all the
channels whereby such welcome news might
spread"