Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1911 — RUMOR ALMOST STIRS REVOLT [ARTICLE]

RUMOR ALMOST STIRS REVOLT

Meb Gathers in Portuguese Capital and Troops Are Called Out to Suppress It Lisbon, Portugal.—A mere suspicion of a harem eldrt here almost precipitated a revolution, a thing which in the present frame of the public mind. Is expected any hour. A woman appeared in the Chlado wearing an unusually tight hobble skirt and the people who saw her mistook it for the latest feminine fashion—the trousers skirt In a few moments a great crowd gathered about her and their rudeness quickly developed into an approach to a riot Greatly frightened the woman took refuge in a house, but the crowd continued to grow and be demonstrative. A rumor flew through the city that the monarchists bad begun their long

threatened revolution. Excitement grew to such a pitch that the garrison had to be called out to disperse the mob, which it finally did with drawn swords. > This occurrence shows not only the nervous state of the public mind, but also the lawless disposition of the people and their readiness to seize any pretext for making a disturbance.