The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14
SPAIN MAY PLUNGE
INTO CIVIL WAR
Trouble Between the King and
the People Will Be the
Cause.
BY CLEMENT J.. BARRETT.

Special Gable 10 The Tribune.
ROME. Aug. 13.-There Is no intention
on the part OF the vatican to rccede from
the position IL has taken In Spain. Car
dinal Merry del Val IS firmly convinced
people stand with the church In the con-
troversy. The Spanish clergy almost
without exception have SO informed him.
He Is therefore convinced that the Ca
nalejo government Will be compelled TO
recede or go out OF office, In the judg
ment of some Of the high churchmen, II
listers In the crusade against the church
II is not at all improbable that the coun-
try will be plunged into civil war. with
will see Don Jaime on the throne and Al
fonso in exile. While Of course the vati-
can will take no action In a Carlist up
tha the church w nI tse feS o
prevent such q movement. Merry del Val
realizes that his future position In the
church depends upon the outcome Of this
Spanish affair, II he should win he would
be all-powerful In the Curia. with good
chance of succeeding to the papacy In
time.
Exciting Trial Had.
An exciting Camorra trial has been pro-
ceedlng for many days past at the Bu-
ccra. An enormous iron cage. in appear
ance something like a chicken run. has
been specially constructed In court In or
der TO stock scventy-six prisoners at
once. All OF them are Camorrists. be-
longing TO the local secret criminal So
cities Of San Severe. They were de-
Tended by ten lawyers. and there were
over ten witnesses. Many. of the charges
could not be proved, owing TO the in
timidation of witnesses, who in cases OF
this kind ere always fearful OF a ruff
condemned several rlngleaders to ten
years confinement. Such scenes Of saw
agery broke out among the condemned
and their relatives and following In the
sentence that three companies OF soldiery
and 100 carabinieH. who had been drafted
into the town for the occasion to rein
force the local police. proved none too
many for preserving order Special
measures were also taken against a gen
eral outbreak. which had been plotted at
the gaol-
Suicides in italy.
nell, has published a statistical state
ment OF the number Of suicides In Italy
from the year 1871 down to the beginning
9s aIf bsrs Ths sas shoS 'hbs
men and 152 women. In 1891 there were
1897. 1881 being men and the balance
women; In 1908 there were 26s2. 1076 be-
Ing men and $40 women.
Awful Tragedy Reported
a terrible tragedy has taken place a;
Eugenie Ricciardi. He was a married
man. and his only child, n young fellow
Of %. was a consumptive patient. who
eonned e to Ps hs ped ew Sns TSe eReer aeH 0een
appears. was addicted to drink. and on
several occasions when intoxicated would
brutally illtreat his wife, beating her un-
mercifully on his returning home after
a prolonged drinking bout. Reaching his
house one evening In q state Of extreme
intoXication Rlcciardi, In a drunken pas
sion. attacked his wife with savage vio-
lence. The unhappy woman fled to the
bedroom of her invalid son. and during
the night drank a soothing draueht and
fell into deep sleep. The son wakening
NJ believed his mother to be seriously
wounded in Quarrel with his father,
and. without attempting TO ascertain
precisely what had transpired. took Up
a revolver and went TO his fathers room,
shooting the man as he lay In bed. Re-
turning to his own room the young fe-
low glanced at his mother, and believ-
ing her TO be dead, blew out his own
brains with the same weapon which he
had employed TO murder his father.