A dispatch from Rome says:
A crowd of workmen assembled in
the Tran ver quarter and marched to tho
center of Rome bearing two red flags
and shouting “Long Live Socialism,”
“Long Live the Sicilian Martyrs.”
The police were on guard at the
passage of the Garibaldi bridge and
ordered the crowd to disperse, but the
latter opened fire upon the police with
revolvers, and during the riot which
followed a policeman was stabbed with
a dagger. Finally the police suc
ceeded in dispersing the crowd and in
capturing the two red flags and two
anarchists.
Saturday evening a mob attacked
and disarmed a corporal who refused
to join in their seditious cries, and,
after brutally beating him with cud
gels, some gensdarmes interfered. A
sharp conflict followed between the
police and the rioters, ending in the
dispersal of the mob.
A manifesto, signed by several So
cialist deputies, has been circulated
at Modena. It says that the deputies
are going to Sicily in order to force
the government to take proper and
beneficent measures to restore peace.
In the meantime, the manifesto con
-1 tinues, the Socialist deputies call up
on the people to organize popular
meetings throughout Italy in order to
* protest against the “designed violence
of the government, and vain resistance
of our oppressed brothers," and ex
■ horting them to harbor strength for
future needs.
Etprmlvs Warship*.
The English admiralty has resolved
to build four first-class battleships of
similar design to the Magnificent and
Majestic, at a cost of £1,000,000 each.
A new type of gunboat similar to the
Torch and Al art will be introduced by
the admiralty, and it is probable that
four of them will be built at a cost of
£60,000 each.
