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Show Riot of Women In Bologna. Bologna was in an nproar a short time ago in consequence of the violent street demonstrations of tho 2,000 women employed em-ployed in the arsenal there. The government gov-ernment had just ordered 21,000,000 cartridges, car-tridges, and in the midst of the resulting ' hurry and bustle several women threw about explosives with the greatest carelessness. care-lessness. A young woman superintendent superintend-ent reported this, and the careless women were discharged. The superintendent '. had already earned the hatred of the women under her by her pretty face and popularity with the officers. 1 The discharge of the woman she had ' reported for disciplin brought this hatred to a white heat, iind a conspiracy ' was formed to lynch ber. The officers ' in charge of the arsenal discovered the ' .plot and gave tho pretty superintendent ; a guard of ten policemen, who watched ' over her night and day All the women 1 In the arsenal then went on a strike and ' marched up and down the streets, shouting, shout-ing, stoning every ono they met, and usually bringing up before the prtty superintendent's house. Whenever the superintendent appeared in the street tho women were after her with clubs and stones, and were fought back in hand-to-hand tussles with her escort of policemen. At night the women painted the town till the last Bolognaite was aroused and brought to his window with loud demands de-mands for peace. The government finally listened to these demands, and had the streets kept clear at night by a company of soldiers. Although most of the women havo since returned to work, the plot against the fascinating superintendent superin-tendent is still on, and she attends to her duties only under the guard of her ten policemen. |