The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-11
RIOTING IN SPAIN.
students Make Anta-CIericaI Demon
strattons-GeneralS Spirit of DIS
satisfa ctiou Prevails

Madrid, Feb. 10.-Last evening at the
close of a meeting of the Students Union
on the occasion of lecture dealing with
the anti-clerical play ELECTRA" the stu
dents demonstrated and stoned the police
Four policemen. including two lieutenants
and three students, were badly injured.
A number of others were slightly hurt,
but were able to go to their homes.
Twenty-siX arrests were made and sew
eral of the persons in custody will be
contaminated. II was o'clock this
morning before quiet was restored. and
mounted gendarmes patrolled the streets
all night
Similar demonstrations occurred this
evening on Alcala street.
Similar demonstrations occurred last
evening on Alcala street The authorities,
evidently alarmed, took extensive meas
ures last night to cope with a revival Of
disorder.
The Communal Club has presented
petition to the Minister of the Interior
against religious congregations on the
ground that several of these are engaged
in business. The petition asks for the
! suppression of authorized bodies, notably
the Society of Jesuits.
Ell Impartial protests vigorously
against the stoning of the carriage of the
that he represents the person of the au-
| gust pontiff
Speaking generally of the situation in
| Spain it says:
1.-THE disasters and misfortuntes have
exhausted the patience of the country,
for no attempt is made to remedy them.
General indignation prevails
Other Liberal organs refer to the dis
quoting conditions. Ell Liberal publishes
1 I'll, H., -
| in Ebullition."
Six hundred students have sent in an
address to the minister of public instruc-
tion declaring that Considering the mar
| riage of the Princess of the Asturias with
| the son prince Charles OF Bourbon) of
him who caused the nation so many sor-
rows to be a national misfortune and a
reason for mourning instead of rejoicing"
| they deemed it their duty to accept holt
| days in honor of the event.
Senior Ugarte, the minister of the in
terror said in the course of an interview
that yesterdays troubles were more Sc
rious than those of the preceding days
because political factions had Joined with
the students and, therefore, he had resolv-
ed to adopt vigorous measures of repres-
sion
At Valladolid yesterday at the close
of the lectures the university students
demonstrated against clerical establish
ments, stoning the converts and monas-
teries. 1t was necessary for the gen
darmes to charge them and a municipal
guardsman was wounded. Thereupon
the students marched to the Jesuit Col
lege shouting: Long live liberty and
Down with the Jesuits.'
They shattered the windows with
stones and did not dispense until the
rector of the university personally ap-
pealed to them to be prudent and grant
ed them holidays.
To-day in Valladolid the Franciscans who
appeared in the streets were stoned and
compelled to take refuge in the town
hall.
At the conclusion of the bull fight there
the gendarmes charged the crowd which
mad stoned the windows of the tradesmen
for refusing to close their shops
AT Barcelona, yesterday, a group Of
students demonstrated in the seminary.
shouting, Long live liberty" and Down
with clericalism!' They were dispersed
by the police
1t is said that luncheon will soon be
given by a grandee of Spain in honor
of Senior Galdos. author of Electra 8"
and that representatives of the Republi-
| cans and Liberals, among them Senior
Romero Robledo, will be present with
view OF planning a campaign against
all forms of reaction.
The project of Vallodolid has authorized
an anti-clerical meeting, on condition that
it is not held in the street
Anti-clerical demonstrators in Valencia
yesterday. stoned the projects carriage.