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Show TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS. Portuguese Peasants Shooting Down Lunatics Like Wolves In Forest. Lisbon. With 12,000 montnlly deranged de-ranged men and women, many of thorn of mnrked homicidal tendencies, tenden-cies, wnnderlng the rurnl sections of Portugnl, and with no protection ngalnst their depredations, bands of citizens nro now engaged In one of the most brutal nnd revolting crusades cru-sades ever known In n civilized country coun-try tho shooting down of the lunatics luna-tics like wolves. Orders have been sent out from Lisbon to stop tho slaughter Immediately, Imme-diately, hut tho situation Is so des-prrate des-prrate that local authorities aro disregarding dis-regarding their Instructions nnd tho butchery continues. There nro 11,000 maniacs In Portugal, yet there aro no asylums for their care except those supported by volnntnry contributions. contri-butions. Owing to the frightful flnan-clnl flnan-clnl stringency, several of these asylums asy-lums hnvo been closed recently nnd their Inmates turned looso upon tho public. |