The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-08-11
PLOT IS
N|PPED IN SPAIN
TUG With 5000 Rifles Is Seized
by Authorities.
SAN SEBASTIAN TRANQUIL
Troops VIII Remain in Summer Cap
itaI Indefinitely - Portugal Is
on Eve of Rupture With
Vatican.

Bilbao, Spain, Aug Six thousand
rifles were seized by the authorities
on a tug which had been chartered
to go to San Sebastian, where the anti
government demonstration was pro-
posed to be held.
San Sebastian authorities had held
that the Carlists were planning to take
advantage of the Catholic manifesto
ton to start a movement against the
government. No statement, however,
is made as to which party to the con-
flict chartered the tug and loaded 1t
with arms.
San Sebastian Tranquil.
| San Sebastian, Spain, Aug. 9.-The
city continues tranquil, no further at
tempt at demonstrations having been
made since group of the more
headed clerical adherents yesterday
| gathered on the street with shouts of
Death to Spain! Long live the pope!"
| The troops, however, will remain In
the summer capital for several days.
The authorities express the great
est confidence that the fiasco of the
anti-gOvernment manifestation marks
the end of Carlism and of any attempt
at an instruction in favor of the pre-
tender. ..,
Priests and Monks Arrested.
The authorities are nervous and re-
alize the blind devotion of the peasant
population of the Basque provinces,
who had been told by the priests and
monks, with which the country swarms,
that it was their religious duty to
support the pope against the Spanish
government in the pending conflict
! Sixteen priests and monks were
among the persons arrested Saturday
on charges of attempting to provoke
disorder.
Express Loyalty to Pope.
Rome, Italy, Aug. 9.-The pope and
Cardinal Merry del Val. the papal sec
rotary of state, received from Spain
many kilograms expressing loyalty
to the Vatican i n the conflict with
that country. The messages sought
to encourage the Vatican to resist the
anticlerical movement in Spain.
Portugal in Clash With Pope.
| Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 9.-Portugal,
4 like Spain, is nearly on the verge of
an open rupture with the Vatican, due,
among other causes, to friction over
the governmental censure of the
Roman Catholic archbishop of Braga
for suppressing a Portuguese Fran
ciscan newspaper without first sub
hitting the order to the Portuguese
government. Since the issue of the
royal decree, July IL, multiplying the
action of the archbishop, the clerical
$orces, inspired, it is charged, by
Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal
secretary of state, have been con-
Quoting a bitter campaign against the
government on this account.
Vatican Raises Difficulties.
At the same time the Vatican has
been raising difficulties about filling
the diplomatic vacancy caused by the
death of Senior Martins d'Antas, the
Portuguese ambassador to the Vati-
can. The Portuguese government re-
taliated by deciding to allow the post
to remain vacant for the present and
the minister of justice has drafted a
bill providing for register of births,
deaths and marriages to be kept by
the civil authorities. AS this threat
ems a big source of income of the
clergy, a meeting of ecclesiastics was
held here today to protest.