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Show JEW IS APPOINTED PREMIFJOF ITALY First Continental Power of the First Class to Honor Hebrew Race. BY CLEMENT J. BARRETT. Special Cablo to Thc Tribune. ROME, April 23. To Italy belongs thc credit of being the first continental power pow-er of tho first class to appoint a Jew as Its prime minister. Outside of Benjamin Ben-jamin D. Israeli, Lord Bcaconsllcld, prime minister of England, Signor L.ulgi Luzzaltl, the new Italian premlor. Is thc first Hebrew Into whoso hands has been placed the guidance of a great nation. Curiously enough, the o::-promlor. Baron Ba-ron Sonulno, wus also a Jew emigrant from Leghorn: but his mother was an English Protestant, and he himself was not brought up In the Jewish faith. About the origin of Signor Uuzzatli. there Is no positive doubt, lie comes of a famous fa-mous family that has given Jewish rabbis, rab-bis, phvslclans, poets and scholars lo Italy for generations, and he has never been other than proud of his membership of thc Jewish race. Last year, when described de-scribed by a Socialist paper as "the Jew Lulgl Luzzattl." he wrote to thc Journal Jour-nal declaring that, although bo had freed himself from dogmatic religion, he Invariably In-variably turned baclc to the Jews when he was" taunted with being one of them. In contradistinction to those Jews who sneaked away like cowards whenever they were described as Jews. Signor Luzzat-tl's Luzzat-tl's career has been consistently brilliant. bril-liant. Ho first entered parliament forty vcars ago, and In 181) 1 received his llrst cabinet appointment aB minister of the trcasurv: ho has also won high academic distinction In the fields of political economy econ-omy and law. It Is significant testimony to the position of thc Jews In Italy that, while Signor Luzzattl Is premier, the mayor of Rome. Signor Ernesto Nathan, Is a member of the. Jewish faith. Serious Religious RlotB. Serious religious riots occurred in tlic cltv of Andrln. In thc province of Apulia. In consequence of tho non-accomplishment or thc traditional Good Friday miracle at tho cathedral. When public prayers had been prolonged Tor two nights without with-out avail, thc feeling grew terribly Intense, In-tense, and as thc ll.-usco was supposed to be due to the ridicule- cast upon the af-ralr af-ralr by local Socialists, sacred processions proces-sions of expiation In the public streets wore ordered. Thc moro fanatical, aftor beating and stoning their adversaries, mercilessly, mnged themselves in opposite oppo-site camps and poured volleys of revolver shots Into each other. Many were wounded, and numcroiiH arrests have been made.. Thc troops, who wore called out. had to charge down the streets repeatedly re-peatedly with flNed bayonets before the fanatics could bo dispersed. Outrage Upon Americans. American Consul AVood at .Vonico Is determined to put a stop to the attempted attempt-ed fleecing of his fellow countrymen by ii certain class of merchants after the sllc attempted on a young Amcricuu couple recently. Thc v.ifo bought a necklace for SO francs, which, she asserts, she paid for with three English sovereigns nnd a r.-franc piece, other goods were shown to her and pressed upon her. which she. however, did not. wish to purchji.se. Later the salesman called at the hotel and asked her if she would not take the goods thnt had been shown her Again she refused. Then he said that she had not ,paid for the necklace. I ho woman wus amazed, and told him she had made payment on purchase. The salesman found out that she and her husband were leaving Venice that evening. What was the astonishment of the Americans to find that the salesman, sales-man, with some othnr yoling men. were at the station, where again payment for the pecklacc was demanded, ami angry words used. A crowd gathered and finally a policeman came up and arrested the Americans. Meantime Mr. Wood, the American consul, was communicated with, and appeared In court in thc morning, when tho Americans were at once sot free, the consul undertaking to answer for them. The magistrate was glvon the necklace in the meantime, so that he might probe the affair to the bottom. The moral to be drawn from It Is this, that Americans would do well to demand a written receipt in every case when they pay for goods. |