The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-17
REVOLT AGAINST
THE PRESIDENT
Mob, Unhindered by the Police,
Sweeps Through Caracas,
Destroying Property.
SEVERAL FATALITIES OCCUR
Enemies Of President Of Republic Be-
gan Activities Monday-Pictures
OF Dictator Are Burned
and Houses Wrecked.

Caracas, Nenuezulea, Dec. IL,
via, Willemstadt, Curacao.-The
Venezuelan capital yesterday wit
messed an outbreak of disorder, fol-
lowing the warlike activities of the
Dutch warships along the coast, that
made it necessary to declare martial
law by nightfall in order to put an
end to the rioting and pillaging.
Foreigners were not molested.
All the demonstrations were against
the regime of President Castro, at
present in Berlin. and none against
Holland, despite the hostile activity
of Dutch warships along the coast.
1t appears certain that Castros ca
reer in Venezuela is ended
No official act deposing Castro
from the presidency has yet been Ia
ken, but such a step is expected at
any moment.
An enormous crowd, swelled by
people from the outlying country,
gathered soon after daybreak and
began marching up and down the
main thoroughfares, violently de-
nouncing Castro. 1t was apparent
that it would soon break into overt
acts, but the police stood by and
made no attempt to restrain the mob.
The first building to be attacked
was that of the lottery monopoly, a
state enterprise that has enriched
itself at the expense of the people.
The Office was ransacked and pillag-
ed, the furniture being broken and
thrown in the streets and lottery
tickets destroyed.
The crowd then moved to the
printing Office of Ell Constitutional,
the organ of President Castro of
which Gumersindo Rivas is editor
and pillaged it completely. A steam
laundry belonging to Senior Rivas
also was wrecked.
The crowd then turned its atten-
tion to several drug stores belong
ing to Senior Thielan, son-in-law of
Gen. Tello Mendoza, and turned
them inside out.
Gen. Mendoza was at one time
minister of finance and public credit
under Castro and is as universally
hated as Castro himself.
The crowd next rounded up all
the statues and pictures of President
Castro from the clubs and other
semi-public buildings and burned
them with rejoicing on the Plaza
Bolivar.
Caracas has been ornamented
with many public inscriptions setting
forth the virtues of Castro and ex-
tolling his powers. These next at
tracted the attention of the mob, and
every one of them was hacked out
and erased. Some of them were car
we'd on the buildings.
Soon after l o'clock in the after
noon the crowd, which had lacked
leadership, paused in default of 9TH
er fields for its destructive energies,
1t was then that a detachment Of
troops was called out and Acting
President Gomez issued manifesto
prohibiting further manifestations.
The mob dispersed.
The attack on the offices of Ell
Ell Constitutional, when the crowd
was curbed by a detachment of SOL
diers who fired into the demonstra-
tors, resulted in several fatalities.
A criminal action has been begun
against Editor Rivas and other em-
ployes of the paper, who, it is alleg-
ed, fired first on the people. The
paper has suspended publication and
Caracas is practically without a
newspaper now.