Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-05-19
REVOLT IN LISBON;
MANY ARE KILLED
Rebels Take WarShipS and Fire
on Capital.
FORMER PREMIER is SLAIN
President of Republic Reported Miss
ing-Commander of Fleet Muir
dered-3,ooo Troops Ready
to BombaFd City.

Paris, May 1.-THE latest news
from Portugal, coming by way of
Badajos, Spain, says that a revolu-
tionary general with 5000 troops is
outside of Lisbon, preparing to attack
the city.
Armed revolt broke out in Portugal
when a rebel naval squadron bonn
barded Lisbon from the River Tagus.
Reports received from Madrid an
nounced that many people had been
killed and wounded by the lombard
ment and that Dr. Alfonso Costa, for
mer premier, had been assassinated
in Lisbon.
1t was declared that the garrison
in Lisbon remained loyal and a wire
] less dispatch received from Lisbon
saying the instruction had been
crushed. Another message from Ma
drid announced the revolt was under
control.
/ Spain Is on Alert.
| 1t was said that Captain Martins
Lima has assumed command of the
Republican troops in Lisbon. Madrid
reports rumors that the leave of Span
| ish naval officers has been suspended
and that the battleships Espana and
Carlos Quinto have been ordered to
| Lisbon.
Fearing further outbreaks, it also
is stated that two regiments of in
fantry have been sent to Badajos,
Spain, on the frontier.
Reports from Madrid stated that the
president of Portugal Manuel de Ar
riaga, had disappeared. Another dis
patch from Paris said the president
had abandoned the palace of Balem
and had gone to Lisbon under the
escort of the Republican guard.
Battle Entire Day.
Fighting at Lisbon was continuous
during the day. Considerable dam
age was done to property by the she'll
| ing of the city. 1t was said the re-
volt originated with the navy and was
exclusively Republican in character,
with its object to defend and con-
solidate the republic by the formation
of new ministry.
A revolutionary committee attempt
ed to gain control in Lisbon and was
said to have met On board the battle
ship Vasco da Cana, whose comman-
der was murdered.
This committee issued a proclama-
ton stating that the object of the
movement was to restore a real re-
public. They desired a national gov
eminent, it was announced, and there
fore would hoist no party flag. The
public was counseled not to indulge in
, reprisals, but to trust the national gov
eminent, which will act vigorously,
but generously, toward the van
pushed"
broken out in Ciombra, Oporto and
Santarem.
: Fugitives reaching Badajose ue-
i scribed the situation as extremely
menacing. Telegraph and telephone
communication had been severed and
troops appeared to be powerless to
control the people.
President of Old Family.
Manuel de Arriaga, the Portuguese
president, belongs to the old and noble
! family Gf the Azores and was born in
the Island of Fayal seventy-four years
ago. There is a strain of French blood
in him, one of his ancestors having
married Basque woman. He was
elected first chief executive of the re-
public August %, 1911, and succeeded
King Manuel Although of one of the
most aristocratic families, some even
saying that he is of the line of Hugh
Capet IL, he has been a poor man all
his life. While seventy-rOur years OLD,
he is a man of great vigor, mentally
and bodily.