The Irish standard., 1898-05-07
SHE lSBUSY ATH0ME
Spain Has No Time to Bother Her.
self with American Aggression.
IN GREAT DANGER OF A CIVIL WAR.
Has Little Confidence In the Loyalty
of Her Army-Serious Outbreaks
Occur in Number of
Provinces.

Of Her Army-serious Outbreaks
Occur In a Number of
Provinces.
London, May 5.-A special dispatch
from Madrid says that all the elements
Of long civil war exist in Spain. The
conservatives and Carlists are the great
parties of the future. Some conserva-
tives grayitate toward Carlism. The
dispatch adds that the republican and
Carlist emissaries are endeavoring to
incite mutinies in the garrison. Several
agitators have been arrested.
Has No Faith in the Army.
London, May b.-The Madrid corre-
spondent Of the Morning Post says.
''The government are aware that they
cannot rely upon the army. It is an
open secret that a society has been
formed within its ranks to put to an end
the humiliations Spain has suffered at
the hands of her incompetent ministers.
Judging from what one hears, terrible
things may shortly happen"
Queen Regent May Resign.
London, May 6.-The Vienna CORE.
spondent of the Daily Chronicle says:
"The idea of the resignation of the
regency by Queen Maria Christina Is
being seriously considered by the mem.
bers of the imperial family of Austria,
with view of averting an anti-dynastic
movement and saving the throne. An
exchange of ideas on the subject Is go.
ing on between the queen regent and
her Austrian family, but its most in
fiuential members are decidedly op-
posed"
Cabinet Crisis Imminent. y
Madrid, May Sit is believed that
the resignation OF the Spanish cabinet
IS imminent.
The Madrid newspapers are very
pessimtstic in their comments upon the
situation in the provinces and the de.
bates in the cortes, and 1t is believed
the resignation Of the cabinet is i'm.
minent.
The Carlist organ and the Impartial
and Liberal predict grave events. The
cabinet, however, is disposed to ener-
getically maintain order and hasten the
vote on the financial bills, in order to
suspend the cortes and give the crown
and executive power full freedom of &C.
tion.
Situation Is Serious.
London, May Sit is the absence of
actual news rs to the war operations
which is causing great anxiety. espe.
cially at Madrid, where Senior sagasta,
the premier, In the course of an inter.
view. has declared that absence the
"most disquieting feature of the situa-
ton"
Attention is again riveted upon Spain.
The special dispatches from Madrid In.
dictate that the questions Of the future
government of the country were be-
ginning to be discussed as If the figures
of the queen regent and King Alfonso
had already disappeared from the stage
OF Spanish politics. Gen. Weyler is
dubbed "the Spanish Boulanger," and
On some quarters military dictatorship
in his hands is regarded as probable.
But the wider opinion is that he will
not succeed any better than Boulanger
did.
The continental press notices the
broadening political ambition of the
United States, coupled with the increas-
ing friendship between Great Britain
and the United States with ill-concealed
aversion. Intervention rumors are
again in the air. !
Want Early Ending of War.
London, May 5.-The Standard says
there is growing impression in official
quarters that the Spanish queen and
government favor some arrangement to
lead to on early ending Of the war.
Martial Law in Valencia.
Madrid. May Sowing to the threat
ening attitude of the population Of
various towns, the authorities have pro-
claimed martial law In the province Of
Valencia.
Riots have occurred at Caceres, but
they are said to have been suppressed
by the gendarmes.
Gijon In State Of Siege.
Madrid, May "a state of siege has
been declared at Gijon, fortified sea-
port Of the Bay of Biscay, pillage be-
ing threatened.
Serious Disorders in Talavera.
Mudrid. May 5.-A dispatch from
Talavera (Talavera de La Reyna, about
81 miles from Toledo) announces that
rioters there have committed serious
disorders. They attacked and seized
the railroad station, burned the cars,
and then set fire to several private
houses and cafe. After that the riot
crs tried to break into the prison and
release the convicts. but were prevent
ed by civil guards. Many persons were
arrested.
Riots Arise from Hunger,
Madrid, May 5.-The outbreaks in
the provinces are assuming alarming
proportions. This is especially the
case in the province of Gijon. on the
Bay of Biscay, where the troops have
been compelled to fire on the rioters
Sin self-defense." The latest news from
Gijon Is that the artillery have been
ordered out. At Talavera de La Royna
one Of the Jesuit religious houses has
been burned. 1t is asserted here that
the riots arise from hunger rather than
from political motives.
In the Cortes.
Madrid, May 5.-Public attention CEN
tered again Wednesday in the congress
Clover house Of the cortes). There
was repetition Of the great crowds of
Tuesday. the police and civic guards, be-
sides the secret police, mingling with
the people.
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