The San Francisco call., 1898-05-12


 | from Italy. Various statements are circulated in the colony, alleged to be 1 based upon cipher telegrams. Accord l ing to one rumor on Monday night at 1 Naples a regiment flatly refused to obey orders to fire on the people. l Father Bannin, one of the priests of l the Italian church in Hatton Garden, London, says:
 We have been expecting a great 1 revolution for years, resulting from | the exorbitant taxation ground out of the Italian people,"
 Reports by way of various continen- tai papers are beginning to arrive for the London papers. fully confirming the early reports of the extreme gravity of the situation. The Times correspond ent explains that the bread issue is a mere pretext for insurrection, prepared beforehand by associations of navvies and railway employees, in which a strong socialist and republican leaven has long been working. He says:
 Besides many proofs of this state ment, 1t will suffice to say that the riot ing is confined to the richest districts in the country Another strong polit- ical motive underlying the movement is the well-known desire of the Vatican and the clericals to foment disorders. hoping thereby to overthrow the house of Savoy, in favor of a republic, which might pave the way to a restoration of the temporal power of the Pope"
 The Rome correspondent of the Times sends by mail a long dispatch which the censor had refused to allow to be transmitted by wire, practically con- ing at Milan and elsewhere.
 The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, describing the riots at Milan, says:
 "One thousand persons were arrested, 600 killed and o000 wounded. In one in- stance twenty students were killed at the main station of the Vicino Rail- way line. Three hundred rioters set fire to all the railway carriages and the military, hurrying up, unfortunately fired on the f1remen who were trying to disperse the rioters with a hose. Many of the f1remen were killed. As all print ing houses in Milan refused to print the manifesto the military government was proclaimed by drums and the roar of cannon"
 The Daily News, commenting this morning on the situation in Italy, says: We wish we could believe the whole of Italy tranquil. Our corre- spondents are unable to get their mes sages through, and if everything is so tranquil it is strange that the Italian Government should close up all the channels whereby such welcome news might spread
 ROME, May 12.-It will probably be 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 Radi- cal Secolo 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 it's sub- scribers Christmas presents of revolv- CTS and hatchets, the latter inscribed in the Milanese dialect with the motto "Dalli al Troncho" Strike at the Trunk).
 The regular subscribers were largely priests It is said tonight that all the socialist papers throughout the coun- try have been, or will be, arrested and detained until complete order is re- stored. Evidence accumulated that rail- way men were chiefly responsible for the risings The order calling them under arms is expected to have good deterrent effect.
 The military organ, Esercito, pub fishes an order calling under arms the reservistS employed on the railways. They are not to leave their employ ment but are to be under military law, and thus prevent railway strikes and agitation.
 The Governor of Milan has issued a decree declaring that persons found cy- cling in the province of Milan will be court-martialed.
 Another decree prolongs to May IS bills falling due after May B.
 ROME, May 12.-At midnight a semi official note was issued asserting that ''tranquillity'' prevails throughout the kingdom" According to the same au- thority the Russian Government has officially notified Italy that rumors of Russias intention to prevent the ex- port of cereals are unfounded.
 Martial law has been proclaimed in the province of Como. There was riot ing yesterday at Novara in Piedmont. A mob stoned the troops, who fired upon the rioters, injuring five of them. An officer and some soldiers were in- jured
 PARIS, May 1.-The correspondents in Rome of the newspapers of this city all affirm revolution in Italy is immi- nent and that popular rising throughout the country will not long be