Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — Starvation in Spain. [ARTICLE]

Starvation in Spain.

London Standard. The distress among the laboring population of Andalusia is growing s more acute every day. At San Lucar, near Cadiz, where riots occurred last week, bands of famishing workpeople, yesterday, pillaged the bakeshops, and their demeanor was so threatening that the few available police gave way before them. At the old town of Ecija, on the river Genii, in the province of Seville, there was rioting in the streets, and the munipality had to distribute 3,000 bread tickets in order to calm the mob. At Tarifa, near Gibraltar, 2,000 workpeople went to the Town Hall to demand work. At a Cabinet council ft was decided that public works should be carried out in the provinces of Cadiz and Granada with the view of providing for the unemployed. Great precautions have been taken to protect Parliament from anarchist outrages.