The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-08-05
STRIKE NEAR IN SPAIN
IN NEW PERIL BY
REVOLUTIONISTS.
Latest Dispatches Would Indicate BARGE
Iona Is Quiet-119 Insurgents
Executed

BAyONNE, France. Aug Reliable
rews regarding the situation in Spain
reached here this morning from San Sc
bastian and reports conditions as very
grave throughout the northern part OF
the country, where all the trades unions
have given notice of the beginning of a
general strike today.
The government has seized all the tele-
graph and telephone wires i'll the affect
ed provinces to prevent the leaders OF
the strike movement from communlcat-
ing, with each other. The transmission
of newspaper dispatches has been en-
tirely stopped. forcing a suspension oil
a majority of the journals.
The greatest excitement reiSns among
the working classes. reports received
here direct from Madrid sa! that King
Alfonso is greatly depressed oyer the
interior situation. He desired to throw
his personal popularity n the scale, and
ii was with difficulty that he could be
diSSuaded from going 10 barcelona III
person. Premier Maura told him it
would be equivalent TO suicide to enter
that hotbed of anarchy.
Try to Win Back Workmen.
PARIS. Aug The facts as to the
situation at Barcelona remain somewhat
shrouded as no correspondent yet has
reached the city, which Is isolated by
land and sea.
The censored report coming out of
Madrid are suspected of being over-op-
timistic. Nevertheless il appears certain
that Gen. Santiago has succeeded in re-
storing a semblance of order in the city,
and today a serious effort TO resume
work will be made. At the solicitation
of the authorities the employers of Bar
celona have agreed TO offer premium
of a weeks wages to every person com
ing back TO work.
Many Certainly Sacrificed.
At what cost in life and property com
parative tranquility has been restored in
Barcelona, however, continues unknown.
Reports agree that the troops by the
use of machine guns drove the revolu
tionists back. The main body of the
mob escaped. and took refuge behind the
barricades in the workmenS quarter,
whence the revOlutionists We're finally eX-
PEELED by shells from the guns on Fort
Montiuich Refugees arriving at the
frontier speak of the terrific slaughter,
and estimate the dead at thousands but
allowance must be made for panic.
Whether or not the ringleaders who were
captured and were condemned by court
martial have actually been executed is
not vet clear. Some reports declare that
Gen. Santiago has not yet approved the
death sentences in the cases of these
men. 1t is known, however. that Emf
liano Iglesias. editor of The Progresso,
was shot without trial
Report of a Republic.
But if order has been restored at Bar
celona. it seems equally certain that tile
~utlving country especially the district
north of the city, is i'll the hands of the
revoutionaries, and probably entail nue.
additional bloOdshed. Even the official
dispatches from Madrid speak of tine
necessity of restoring order in the lnte-
rior of the province, and of the difficulty
of dislodging the Anarchists who have
taken refuge in the mountains.
Some reports insist that a republic has
already been proclaimed and that Il regu-
lar iunta is directing the operations OF
the revolutionists.
119 Insurgents Executed
LONDON, Aug. "A special dispatch
received here from Cerbere. on the Span
ish frontier. says the reports that 1l9
insurgents of Barcelona were sentenced
by courtmartal to death and executed
| by shooting yesterday at the fort Of
Mont Zurich, have been officially CON
tirmed.
BARCELONA. Aug. Order is to-
day almost completely re-establshed N
Barcelona proper, but the trouble con
tinues on the outskirts. Railroad com
muncation has not yet been established.
The losses suffered by commerce III the
rioting during the past week have been
enormous and the destruction OF prop
erty has been great.
Among the victims of the military
courtmartia are two members of the
Chamber of Deputies and eight alder
men.
Portugal Gets the Fever. d.
LISBON, Aug. AT big public
meeting of free thinkers from all par
ties, but principally Republicans, il was
decided today to organize an imposing
procession to march to the houses of
Parliament and demand the suppression
of the religious orders in Portugal. and
the abrogation of existing laws against
freedom of conscience.