The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-21
FORTY KILLED.
Loss of Life in the Rioting at
Barcelona.
Strikers Attack the Jail but
Are Repulsed.
DISTRESS is GREAT.
Ordinary Necessaries of Life
Are Running Low.
Rioters Are Receiving Large
Sums From London.

Barcelona, Feb. 21.-Forty persons
have been killed since the disturbances
broke out here The strikers today at
tackled the jail in attempt to rescue
their imprisoned comrades but they
We're repulsed by the troops, after a
number OF robbers had been killed
wounded.
The ordinary necessaries of life are
failing and the distress is becoming ac-
centuated. The strikers are said TO be
receiving large sums of money from
London
en- the neighboring towns the disturb
ances are spreading and are increasing
in gravity.
THE GOVERNMENTS STORY.
Madrid. Feb. 21.--According to this
mornings advices from Barcelona the
situation there is improving. though 1t
is still threatening. An effort will be
made to resume ordinary avocations.
The most stringent measures have
been prepared to protect traffic and
business. The strikers have few rifles,
but are well supplied with revolvers
and daggers.
The search of suspected houses cor
tinues, resulting in the arrest of large
numbers CT anarchists and revolution
lists of all kinds, who are considered TO
be the prime movers in the troubles. The
cosmopolitan character of Barcelona
makes 1t a resort for representatives OF
all the revolutionary elements in Europe
and the ranks of the malcontent work
men have been swelled by French and
| other foreign political agitators. The re-
publicanS are busy among the troops,
urging them not to use their arms
against their own class in defense of
plutocrats
| the strikers. Martial law has been pro-
| claimed at Tarragona. The strike is
| spreading in the Llobregat and Cardona
valleys. There is general cessation of
work at Castellon de La Plana and
Grave and much excitement prevails at
Batea- Forces of gendarmie have been
dispatched to those places.
Delegates from the labor societies of
| Saragossa have visited the governor
and declared themselves opposed to the
ANARCHISTS ACTIVE.
| Bilbao, Spain, Feb PA number of
anarchists have arrived here with the
! object of melting a strike. The social
! lists have refused to cooperate in the
| movement.
EXAGGERATED ACCOUNTS
! London, Feb. 21.-Dispatches received
! here from Madrid and Barcelona and
| from various towns in close touch with
| the scenes of the disturbances in Spain,
quite diScredit the sensational dispatch to
| the Exchange Telegraph company say
| ing that a fierce battle had been fought
| between troops and rioters in a suburb
| street after street and that 500 persons
were reported to have been killed or
| fact up to last evening the total num-
ber of persons killed throughout the dis
| turbances was only 40.
STRIKE ENDS.
CaStellOn de La Plana, Spain, Feb. 81
The employers and their employees
| reached an understanding this after
noon and the strike here is ended.
| ATTACK A COLLEGE.
I ENoI, A ,1,]..
| of rioters attacked the Jesuit college
| here last night. The fathers fired on the
mob believing their assailants to be
thieves.
| CONFLICT AT VALENCIA
| Valencia, Spain, Feb. 21.-In conflict
here yesterday between rioters and the
| police, three persons We're wounded.
| Fourteen arrests were made.
| ITALIANS FLOCKING IN.
! Seville, Spain Feb. PA number of
Italian anarchists have arrived here.
| essary precautions to prevent an out
/ break.
| ALARMING REPORTS.
| Hehdaye, France, Feb 21.-People
who have arrived here from Saragossa,
/ Spain, bring alarming reports of the
| situation there. They say the working
| people have thrown in their lot with
| their Catalonian comrades and that
| the threatening attitude of the strikers
/ has caused the flight of the richer
| families.
| The civil administration of the whole
/ province of Saragossa has been taken
/ over by the military authorities
| WEYLER CAUSES TROUBLE
| special dispatch from Madrid that Gen.
/ Weyler, the war minister, is urging the
/ queen regent TO give him free hand in
/ ealing with the ''rebels in Catalonia and
| that Premier Sagasta threatens to resign
/ if Gen. Wey1er s request Is granted. The
queen regent is said to favor Gen. Wey-
| lers plan.
| Advices received here direct from Bilboa,
! nd in
| dustrial centerS of Spain. show that the
| attitude of the miners and other workers
| is distinctly threatening. The greatest ex-
| citement prevails everywhere and the gen.
risonS of Burgos and Victoria have been
ordered to be in readiness to start for Sar-
| agossa at a moihents notice. All the rail-
roads are guarded by troops.
| Barcelona, Feb. 21.-The predon1inance
of bayonets here has had due effect and
| the most turbulent spirits have been
driven off the streets. Outwardly the city
quiet. The leading citizens are joining
| the military and civil authorities in re-
| storing order. The captain general has
| ordered the newspapers to resume publi-
public vehicles to again engage in their
| regular work. If the printers refuse to
| work their names and residences are to be
| handed to the captain general. who will
| take out vehicles VIII be deprived of their
| licenses
Temperatures of Large Cities.
Chicago Feb. 21-7 a. M tempera-
| lures: New York 60; Boston "a; Phila-
delpEia "a; Washington 2S; Cincinnati
| %; Chicago "a; Minneapolis "A; ST. Louis