Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-12
IIALY'S BREAD RIOTS.

Correspondent of the London Times
Sends by Mail . Dispatch Which the
Press Censor Refused to Allow to
Be Transmitted by Wire.
Rome. May Fit 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 Radical
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 its sub
scribers Christmas gifts of revo1vers
and hatchets, the latter inscribed in
the Milanese dialect with the motto
"DaIli al Tronco" {''Strike at the
Trunk'D. The regular subscribers
were largely priests.
1t is said that the editors of all the
Socialist papers throughout the coun-
try have or will be arrested and de-
tanned until complete order is restored.
In Milan alone 1000 persons were ar
rested, 500 killed and 1000 wounded.
In one instance 20 students were killed,
at the main station of the Vicina rail-
way line. Three hundred rioters set
fire to all the railway carriages, and
the military, hurrying up, unfortunate
ly fired upon the firemen who were
trying to dispense the rioters with a
hose. Many of the firemen were killed.
AS all the printing houses in Milan re-
fused to print the manifesto, the mill
tary government was proclaimed by
drums and the roar of cannon.
At Messina crowd of women and
children proceeded to the town hall.
demanding food. They were dispersed
by the police and the crowd then began
breaking street lamps and tried to
sack provision store. The proprietor
shot one of the rioters, which increased
the disturbance. Troops are now &C.
cupying the town.
The rioting at Naples Tuesday was
widespread. 1t was started by big
bands of students, armed with sticks
and revolvers. who operated in vari-
GUS quarters. They were soon joined
by others. and stone throwing became
general. The police frequently charged
and dispersed the rioters, who. how
ever, reformed and overturned horse
cars, with which they attempted to
build barbados in several streets. But
they were unable to withstand the
charges of the cavalry. The rioters
made several attacks upon the sol
diers, using stones and revolvers, and
the troops fired, killing or wounding a
number of the rioters. A number OF
trees and electric light poles in the
streets were felled and several guard
houses were burned by the rioters
Advices received from Milan give de-
tails of the arrest of 200 rioters in q
monastery there. 1t appears that the
students from Pavia, who Joined in the
disturbances, entrenched themselves in
the Capuchin monastery, and while a
detachment of troops was passing fired
upon them. The military authorities
sent two field guns to the scene, opened
fire on the monastery, made a breach
in its walls and entered the building
but the students escaped. All the
monks were arrested, and they will be
imprisoned previously to being dis
tributed among the other monasteries
of the order. For the present the
monks will be held at the disposal OF
the military authorities.
1t is extremely difficult to speak with
accuracy as to the number of the kill
ed and wounded, but the deaths arr
little short of thousand. Many cas-
llalties will probably never be known.