The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
Severe Fighting Accompan-
les Rioting in Spanish
Cities.
ATTACKS ON JESUITS
At Valencia the MalcOntents Erect
BarricadeS, Which Are Charged
by Cavalry.

VALENCIA. Spain, July 2.-Very Sc
rious disturbances are in progress
here. Under the orders of the captain
general of Valencia, General Motto the
troops occupied the streets yesterday
morning. and now hold all the stra-
tegic points
In the beginning of the riots the
mob placed obstacles on the street rail-
way tracks and stopped the cars, ston-
ing the gendaTmes when they tried TO
remove the barriers. Finally the troops
charged and the first shots were fired.
Several persons We're wounded. In one
case. a bullet passed through shop
door and killed a shop assistant within.
AS the day advanced the disorders in
creased. The troops were stationed at
many points, and the artillery was held
in readiness. The rioters thereupon
erected barricades, which the cavalry
captured only after fierce fighting, in
which many were wounded.
Al s o'clock last evening the mob at
tackled a monastery, and the brother
who was acting as gate porter was
obliged to defend himself with a re-
vOlver. 1t then moved upon a Jesuit
house. which had q narrow escape from
being burned to the ground, the troops
arriving just in the nick of time to pre-
vent the mob setting it on fire. An enor-
NOUS number of arrests have been
made 1t is not known how many men
have been wounded.
At a late hour last evening the gen
erals held a conference and decided to
continue the military occupation of all
points of vantage. The Mayor Of Va
lencia issued a proclamation calling
upon the people TO cease resisting the
law. as the riots were renewed to-day
and the rioters stoned the gendarmerie
in the barracks. II is reported that a
captain Of gendarmes was severely in
jured by flying missiles.
MADRID, July 2.-AdYices from Sc
Vile and SaragOssa report all as quiet
there to-day, but the precautionary
measures are continued. There has been
a slight disturbance in Constantine, in
the province Of Seville. At Badalona,
about six miles northeast of Barcelona,
more than thirty persons were injured
during the rioting yesterday, some IA
tally. After a largely attended
meeting in Barcelona to-day in
favor of the revision Of the trial
of alleged anarchists now impris-
Oned at Mont Juich for completely in
the bOmb-thrOwing during the Corpus
Christi procession, formidable demon
stration was made against the Jesuit
convent. The gendarmes, who were
summoned, were received with volleys
of stones They charged the rioters,
injuring many.
The Minister of War, General Pola-
vieja, after a prolonged conference to-
day with the Premier, SenOr Silvela,
consented to reduce the budget esti-
mate Of the strength of the active
army from 107, 900 to $4,000 men.
The disorders in Barcelona were re-
neWed after the bull fight. A crowd at
tackled a party of monks who recently
returned from the Philippines. The po-
lice rescued the monks with some diff
ficulty. The mob then paraded the
streets. closing shops and stoning the
Cathedral, several churches and the
Jesuit convent, as well as the street
railway cars. The gendarmes were pow
erless to restore order.