The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05

bombardment of the city has com
menced and that on Tuesday night
King Manuel was still in the royal
palace, resisting the revolutionists."
Portugal since yesterday has been
isolated from the rest of the world
and circuitous reports declare that the
country is in the throes of violent
revolution. All of the Portuguese
navy and a part of the army are re-
ported to have deserted the monarchy
and to have caet their lot with the
revolutionists.
The Portuguese warships shelled
the royal palace, while land forces
after desperate fighting in the streets
dragged down the royal standard and
raised the banner of the republic.
King Is Prisoner.
King Manuel is said to be a prisoner
in the palace.
Though a revolution. peaceful or
accomplished with violence. was not
expected, it is generally believed the
immediate cause was the assassina-
ton in the capital of eX-Professor
Bonn barda, the republican deputy and
chief of the Liberal league, by a lieu
tenant of the army.
So intense was the feeling against
the throne that this incident, compar-
atively trivial in itself, was sufficient
to start the outbreak.
Portugal, following the example of
Spain, has been imbued in recent
years with a strong anti-clerical SEN
timent and the governmental program
included revision of the status of
the religious orders.
President elect Fonseca. of Brazil, re-
Gently arrived at Lisbon and last night
a grand banquet was to have been Civ
en- him by King Manuel. Accordingly
the Brazilian president must have been
A witness of scenes similar to those of
1889 in Brazil when the Portuguese en-
pire was overthrown-
Evidences of the activity of those who
aimed at the throne have been found
frequently of late. On September 20 the
police raided a bomb factory and ar
rested ten persons.
This action was said to have follow
ed the discovery of a widespread anti
monarchial plot with ramifcations
throughout the kingdom.
Ell impartial, an official organ, at that
time declared the government was pre-
pared to mercilessly crush the revolt.
Daily Arrests.
Following the discovery of the bomb
factory there have been arrests made
daily among medical students who were
members of a secret revolutionary soci-
ety with branches in the Lisbon medi-
cal school and the University of Coim-
bra.
clericals also complicated the situation.
Following the expulsion of the Jesuits
from the monastery Aldea Ponte, Span
ish priests known as "Mariannos' who
had settled in various parts of the coun-
fry establishing converts and monaS-
+eries were ordered out of the kingdom
and their esta bHshments destroyed. The
Portuguese unrest which had gradually
increased since the discovery of plots
10 overthrow the monarchy and set up
a military dictatorship or republic
was aggravated by serious strike
among the cork cutters and coopers.
More than 10000 men stopped work at
Rarreiro, and rioting followed.
The strikers seized railroad trains AMI
threw out of the freight cars and burn
I'D thousands of bales of cork.
Municipal guards, regiments of in
fantry and cavalry were dispatched to
Rarrerio and a collision between the
strikers and the soldiers ensued. Fifty
strikers were injured. The grievance