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...doors, and the fun began. Civil Guards were called out, four people were killed, three wounded. Mobs wrecked a Catholic newspaper, hurled gasoline on the doors of a Jesuit monastery and attempted to burn it down. Inside the monastery somebody fired on the mob. As another crowd stormed the jail and attempted to lynch the 70 Tradicionalistas who had taken refuge there, 30 artillerymen saved their lives. Police searched the convents and monasteries of Bilbao for hidden arms. Socialists held a public funeral for the victims of the riot, and declared a general strike...
...mightily: "Por Dios! I am sick of this business! I'm going to give them back as good as they send. The anarchist movement started outside Spain but I am going to finish it here. We have rounded up about fifty of their leaders, tonight they are in jail, tomorrow they will be on their way to the colonies to cool their heels...
...excited Fitchburg was tractable. Mrs. Jessica Henderson of Boston had appeared to represent the Citizens Committee Against Vaccination. Go to jail, she cried, rather than be vaccinated. Pay the $5 State fine and keep your blood uncontaminated. Rev. Max A. Kapp of the Universalist Church invited her to use his platform for rostrum. Mayor Carriere and Dr. Burns talked to the proper members of the congregation, and Mr. Kapp withdrew his invitation. Dr. Marion H. Wilder, osteopath, could not be influenced. Mrs. Henderson spoke at his house, remembered that the day was Daniel Webster's 150th birth anniversary, quoted...
...Papavert is the name of a mellow old bookbinder who suddenly finds himself in jail. Released by Communists, he becomes for them a symbol of the oppressed workingman. But Mr. Papavert does not like to be a symbol, at one point tries to commit suicide. The whole affair woefully tries for satirical effect, elements of which must have been lost long ago with constant revision. The play was recalled after two performances last month. At that time it was called Papavert. Its present title resulted from a general impression that papaversion was a mental disease...
...Carbondale, Ill., a judge sentenced Mrs. Lee Jordan to 15 days in jail for swearing. Mrs. Lee Jordan swore. The judge sentenced Mrs. Lee Jordan to 15 more days for swearing. Mrs. Lee Jordan swore more, got 60 days. When she had sworn enough to be sentenced for six months, officers took Mrs. Lee Jordan off to jail, still swearing...