The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-07-14

Old Men and helpless Children Beaten.
stores and Dvella.g~ Broken Open
ana Robbed.
From the special correspondence Of the
Nsse FREQ fSesse, Of Vienna, hearing date
June 4, We translate the following statement
concerning the true nature Of the riots at Be-
tuschany, in Roumania, which have aru,,seti
such intense feeling among the Jewish COM
munities in Europe and America
For considerable time past the hatred
against the Jews resident in this place, which
has long been entertained by the common
people of Botlschany, has been eliminating
in petty outbreaks, and revealing all the
symptoms Of an approaching storm. The
gentlemen students" here, particularly,
are the class who seem emulOus of winning
laurcls by maltreating everybody and every
thing that is Jewish, no matter what.
ION Saturday, the 18th of May, about half.
past nine, p. NJ, these gentry assembled in
tumultuous throng, and, with the aid Of
the rabble, began their Sew Hunt" as they
call it, BY attacking and insulting some
harl. less passers by. They next rushed, like
pack Of mad dogs let loose, into the streets
mostly inhabited by Jews and committed
wild excuses. Not window was leA
whole. They forced their way into many Of
the houses and abused everything that came
in their way.
One scene bordering en- utter barbarisni
WAS witnessed by the writer of these lines.
II took place in small dwelling where the
business manager, s. T., lives with his nu-
DerOus family. He was sitting there quietly
and peaceably when furious crowd came
along and heat in his windows. In vain
did the poor man besecch the rabble to spare
him, reminding them that he was the father
of five little children, and, moreover, had
his aged parents living with him. They
replied to his entreaties only with curses and
derisive laughter, shouting to him:
'Come out here, Jew, and we'll drag you,
through the streets by the beard"
They then broke in his door with axes and
that the poor wretch and his wife 80 fcarfully
heat the latter lies in a hopeless condition.
Nor did they spare the father ian aged man
of seventy or the poor old bcdridden mother.
And where, in the meantime, were the
police? At safe distance from the scene,
saying, probably, to themselves, "What
don't burn rs We needn't trouble ourselves to
put out" Indeed, there are many who
affirm that the police were hand in glove with
the rioters.
In anaher street were some fifty or sixty
Jewish young men awaiting the moment when
they, too, should he attacked, and determined
to defend themselves and their kindred.
Several If 1.-THE letter class Of gentlemen
residents, whom | shall MT name, for they
are we'll known here rs instigatcs of disor-
der, denounced the little party, exclaiming:-
What, yW, rasCals, are YOU going 10 show
fight? Do vcu think that Won arc in yo',r
own country
And, ut signal whistle from these gentle
men, the brave little band was surrounded by
thrcng n about one hundred students and
,treet rcwdies. Yet there was no hand to
hand ailray, very likely l.,Cshe it was easier
to deal with single individuals
The students had hardly gone away ere the
young men retired to their dwellings, think
ing no further i'll.
In fifteen Minutes afterwards the same MA
n9uvIe was repeated that had taken place in
the other street. .
Mr.. Pclitzers synagogue wa, iulely ADVISED,
and smaller house Of worship almost de-
niclished.
Not even the schools were spared.
At last a heavy rain storm, occurring about
half an hour after midnight, put an end to
the uproar.
But, at eight o'clock on Sunday morning,
the dance recommended, and it was only with
the greatest difficulty that quiet could be re-
stored BY seven o'clock in the evening.
Many Isrselites were severely wounded,
and it IL alleged that some fell victims to the
fury Of the Populace.
Aged men and women and little children
were pitifully cuHed and kicked in the streets
and alleys, and even stoned. ..-
The damage by robbery is not ~ large a.
was at first believed bnt there was consider
able robbing done and a great amount Of
breakage.
In the public houses the sririt,,~,s liquors,
&c, were poured out.
business is completely suspended, and the
Jewish shops will remain closed until rein
f,rcement Of military can have time to arrive
from Jassv.
Botuschany is not unimpOrtant town in
Moldavia, not very far from the BnkOwina
Austrian boundary line. 1t counts from
freauented market Of the region. u
From the Neue Ficic P,eSse Of June 9 We
translate some fresh details rent by other
correspondents: "A
For weeks past Jew hunting has been the
order of the day. The students stroll through
the public gardens by hundreds, armed with
clubs, and when they meet Jew maltreat
him. When Jewish family sits down at
anv Of the tables to take some refreshments,
a shower Of stones is rained upon them. All
this takes place, too, under the very noses Of
the police. Should the Jews complain to
the latter magistrates, whose zeal for the ser
vice goes sOfar sometimes that they whistle
their signals vigorously, and their rounds
men hasten away, the Jews are told that they
hsd better stay in their houses, and they obey
this seemingly we'll meant advice. But should
any Of them 60 into the gardens, relying
on the protection Ofthe police, who are there
in numbers, they are at once set upon and
ins,llted By that self-Same police and driven
out. Should one of the maltreated Israelites
dare to defend himself, this serves at once n
an excuse for the guardians Of the peae to
drag him out by the hair Of the head, amid
the hurrahs Of the Students; and thus it has
been ever since the pleasant season Of the
year set in. .t r--
On the I'D of May, at the coronation fete
Of the Prince, there was to have been uni
versal uprising againrt tlseyews. Asis usual
on such occasions, the city Vas brilliantly
illuminated On the main square, known d
the Ringplatz, where the portraits Of the |
princely couple were <et in an arch VI leaves
and flowers, the hand Il the city fire COM
tany played festive music. tar barrels were
burned and fireworks let d. Guards,
gendarmes and fiien,en we're posae,l in all the |
slrsets, On foat and on Aorsehack; the Pre-
feet and the Commir<aries Of Police rode
about rapidly from point 10 point, and The |
sharp sighaed lOoker-n could plainly see
thai something IVES expected.
The Jewish resideats, alsfned By tn
Eumors that they heard whispered frUm lip |
TO liz. came firth only oae By one At fira, |
but n later hour, counting upon the pre- |
cau,ionsv6 tie military sxsfthe police, they,
too, mingled freely among the spectatoR
Scarcely had they thus l,own themselves ere
a hand Of more than hundred students /
went shouting through the city. At their /
head were iwO noted ringleaders, one If
whom Is the son Of . grocer, and nOw .
pupil of the seventh class in the gymnasium.
The other is coachmaker's ssD, and i alsO
a gymnasium pupil
About twenty store clerks, who were look
ing at the i2l~lsisnsics, 90 together and also
through the town, but without any l
noise. Yet such thing ~ that could mt Be
permitted BY the police. Whist were they
here for, and how dared the Jews make any