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girl students ; Workingmen's Free Schools at San Andres, 600 

 workingwomen scholars, free ; Boys' College at San Jose, 250 

 students ; Workingmen's Institute at Pueblo Nuevo, 200 

 pupils ; Catholic Club at Pekin, 80 fishermen's children, free ; 

 Manual Training School, 100 boys, free; Asylum in Aldeva 

 Street, 800 children of workingmen, educated free ; Dominican 

 Nuns, 150 girl students; College of San Antonio, 500, part of 

 them free ; and others which dispensed education along with 

 other forms of charitable relief. This leaves out entirely the 

 destruction of the hospitals, homes, etc., unconnected with 

 education. Altogether the rioters burned and wrecked the 

 following buildings : churches and chapels, 22 ; convents, 14 ; 

 schools and colleges, 20; asylums, homes, and charitable insti- 

 tutions, 22 ; official buildings and private houses, 19 ; making 

 a total of 97. In doing so, they killed 102 persons and seri- 

 ously wounded and maimed 312. There is nothing since the 

 Reign of Terror or the Commune in Paris to equal it in feroc- 

 ity and destruction. 



It was for his connection with this outbreak of revolution 

 and civil war that Ferrer was tried and condemned. One of 

 his closest friends, Emiliano Iglesias, said lately in the Span- 

 ish Cortes that Serior Maura should be killed for his death, 

 and when Seiior Maura passed through Barcelona, shortly 

 thereafter, he was fired upon as he alighted at the railway 

 station. Thus they object to an execution according to law, 

 but are willing to pass sentence of death and have it immedi- 

 ately executed without even the formality of notifying the 

 victim. The press of the United States made no adverse 

 comments upon this turn of affairs. As the city of Barcelona 

 remained under martial law for some four months after the 

 outbreak, and the civil courts were suspended, Ferrer was tried 

 by court-martial. 



Although there were four trials and executions of ring-lead- 

 ers in the revolt, no outcry was made about any of them ex- 

 cept Francisco Ferrer y Guardia. When Miguel Paro was 

 shot over a month before Ferrer, nothing was said in the 

 press. There have been executions since, and several sen- 

 tences to long terms in prison, for the participants in that 

 awful week, but the press of the world has been mute. The 

 competency and integrity of the court-martial that tried him 

 have never been assailed. All the venom has been reserved 



