Show BATTLE BETWEEN SPANISH TROOPS AND STRIKERS A dispatch from barcelona spain says A fierce battle has been fought between the troops and the rioters in the suburb of barcelona known as bano before the engagement the cavalry and infantry had been posted in the most dangerous points and a field battery had been located on the plaza from which vantage po nt the guns could sweep the surrounding streets when the final clash with the troops occurred the artillery was brought into action and raked street after street the rioters engaged the batteries at close range but were finally driven off the heavy rain which fell during the day helped to disperse the rioters and the authorities are taking severe measures A proclamation has been issued ordering all private individuals to surrender any weapons they may possess under pain of severe penal ties the sale of arms has also been prohibited forty workmen s associations have been dissolved and the members of their committees arrested the dwell ings of the strike leaders and of anarchists ts are being registered and put under guard the battleship pelayo has been ordered to barcelona the mil tary engineers have assumed control of the street car service and a few cars half filled with soldiers are running alven the funeral coached have to be protected by the soldiers no letters have been delivered in bar cedono in three days and in some dis tant parts of the town business is corn plemely paralyzed |