Show RIOT IN PORTO RICO trivial Inch lent Fiel table nature of porto forto I 1 A serious riot occurred at san juan porto rico friday at 6 in the evening five fire artillerymen artilleryman artillery men and a corporal of artillery named left their guard post without orders and charged across the plaza into a treet street in which a mob ot of people had assembled the soldiers fired brad a volley tolley into the air dispersed the mob and rescued rebelled school superintendent arm strong who ho was as besieged by a mob in a house aliouse situated about a block from the city center for boons previous to the rescue of superintendent armstrong the city b 1 d been overrun by a riotous crowd of probably 1 lol persons who shouted down with the americans american and 0 tiler ether similar cries crie 1 I 1 he excitement originated in A trivial school incident ln involving superintendent armstrong and illustrating the nature of the porto ricans rhe superintendent lepri banded a girl ten years of age for disobedience and forel forcibly bIr bu but harm lamely marched her to the front from the rear of the schoolroom her dress dreen caught in a desk deik and was torn and the girl reported to her bar mother that she had beon kicked and abused this excited the girl a mother and sensational stories were circulated with the result that when the school children were dismissed a dumber of boys gathered together and paraded the streets street they were joined by many loafers and full grown mm men and it became necessary for the polac to escort armstrong from the schoolhouse to his home |