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Show ITALIAN RELIGIOUS ' SEiCBDISniBBED Civic Disorders Mar Observances Observ-ances in Various Parts of Provinces. PAGAN SYMBOLS IN USE Attempt to Abolish Them Is Cause of Trouble for Archbishop. , Special Cable to The Tribune. MILAN, May 9. Recent religious observances ob-servances in various parts of Italy have been marred by a series of moat extraordinary extraor-dinary disorders, which the authorities are now Investigating. At Pagnano, province of Trevlso, a band shot at and wounded the parish priest and his acolytes while they were carrying a sacred image in a public procession. One of the religious canopies was struck by a dozen bullets. At Porto Ferrajo cathedral, where ; 300 worshfpers were present, a dispute between rival religious fraternities for precedence In a procession developed into a riot. Women and Children Hurt. According to the Corrlere della Sora, many women, children and old men were Injured during the panic-stricken rush for the doors of the cathedral. Similar disgraceful scenes occurred at . Santo tefano, near Messina. The peasantry peas-antry of two adjacent Sicilian villages fought for precedence in an open-air cortege. ticks, stones and hayrakes were freely free-ly used and the clergy and monks were put to flight. All the sacred Images were 6mashed to pieces and scores of people were injured. A reinforcement of soldiers sol-diers had to be summoned by telegraph. tele-graph. Resent Innovation. Catanzaro cathedral, In Calabria, was also the scene of amazing riots. The new archbishop had attempted to suppress certain popular local customs Involving the use of pagan symbols, and, owing to his instructions being openly disobeyed, had laid a neighboring church under a three days' interdict. "When the archbishop appeared in the cathedral to celebrate the high mass an infuriated throng created a tumult and shrieked curses at him. As It was feared that he would be assaulted, the clergy hurried him a was' by a prl va t e exit. Troops were sent for to drive the mob out of the cathedral. |