The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-31
Situation in Spain Shows no Improve
ment and Monday is Expected
to be the Turning Point
OF Affairs.
THE RIOTERS ARE SHOT
Two Hundred Barceionians Were
Backed up Against Stone Wall
and Filled Full Of Lead
at Sunrise.

MADRID, July 31.-The government
silshtiy relaxed its censorship on war
news today. 1t is said that Premier
Maura, responding to public clamor
VIII dismiss Minister of Interior Lac.
lerva, who has embittered the people
because of his hatred for the press.
The cabinet and Queen are urging the
King not to carry out his threat to go
to Melilla Dissatisfaction continues
to spread in Madrid. Placing the army
on war footing has increased the an.
prehensioon of the people to such an
extent that they are ready to support
either a Carlist or republican move
ment rather than to continue the pres.
I,,cnt regime. Pabla Iglesia the social.
ist leader declared today that the time
is ripe for a general strike. which is
feared will be ordered on Monday. The
situation at Melilla is unchanged. Gen.
Masina is referring from an aggressive
movement untilsthe reinforcements arr
rive. He is placing guns in position
to command Mount Guguru. If he can
take the mountain, a victory will be
won.
Rioters Were Shot.
BARCELONA, July 31.-Two hun
dred rioters were summarily tried.
convicted by court martial and execut
| ed at five o'clock this morning. They
We're lined up against stone wall
land shot. There is still much rioting
| and bloodshed in the city: The troops
| are nominally in control and command
/ all of the principal streets where they
have mounted field rapid fire guns
| to prevent crowds. The insurgents
still possess hundreds of houses and
are continuing firing from the bar
red windows. Unless this ceases, the
'authorities declare they will set fire
! to every house containing revolution
! lists The suburbs are subdued and
! connecting bridges blown up with bar
ricades of barbed wire erected Pc
! lice and soldiers now have the upper
| hand and seeking revenge are fear
fully maltreating their helpless vic
l,tims. Relatives of wounded rioters
are arrested when they attempt tc
| minister to the injured. There is
! scarcely house in the city but what
4 is damaged
There is a slightly reassuring tone
1 in today's dispatches from Barcelona
(, and other riot spots in Catalonia a!
4 we'll as from Melilla. which has givel
the king and cabinet the first meas
4 ure of relief enjoyed since the Bar
coleman outbreak. In Barcelona, or
I der is being established according t.
4 Commander Brangos who said he has
sufficient military strength to pre-
!! serve order. The government feel
that if it can further reinforce Gen
4 Marine. by the first OF the week TIN
:, crisis there will be passed. The mos
disturbing t.ling is the prospects o
\ the general strike on Monday Sc
4 icalists and labor leaders are urgin
strike like the strike which is OIL
dered for Bilboa in the PROVING
Viscaya. The revolutionary spokes
men today issued statement declai
& ing the attack on the priests, in Bal
! celina and upon church property there
land elsewhere. was not blow at tn
Catholic church, but protest agains
: the inseparable character of clurc
and state in Spain, and the supper
the church is giving the government
during the present crisis. The tent
ency of the church in Spain is decla
ed by the revolutionists to be who'll
monarchial.