DISTRESS IN SPAIN-

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7794, 13 April 1894, Page 1

DISTRESS IN SPAIN-

reigns this winter among the lower classes all over Spain. In; the subnrbs of Madrid, says a corns* pondent, about four thousand unemployed workmen, most of them with families, assembled on a recent Faturday and sent deputations to fheniayor' and govenor, who did their beat to prom« iae relief 'lliey were only in a posi« lioD, however, to employ a few hun"drei of these.men on State apd mnni« cipal.public works. Hundreds of un-. employed flock every Saturday to the square before the Town Hall in Madrid in hopes of getting either a little money or a licket promising one week's employment.on municipal works, The authorities and the Press at Cadjz and in other parts of Andalusia attribute ihe spread of'brigandage 'chiefly to the; i spread of distre?B'amongthe.rural pop- ■ ujation. Tin Ciyal Guard'"' has dis* played such ■ac ivity that they have - captured almost all the alleged authors ot the crimes; at Benoacaiz, los Arco andJd-razelinai:'The peasantry are so much terrorised that they do not as- : ; si3t\the: police. The chief of the brigands escaped from the Los Arcos prison in br.>ad daylight on the very; any his victim died of his wounds.