The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-16
Mr.. Gladstone, Mr.. Chamberlain and Mr.
Broadhurst Subp@naed as Witnesses in
the Interest of the Defendants.
The Wealthy Glasses Warned to Prepare
for Their Inevitable Downfall.
The Long Struggle Between Bismarck and
the Pope Ends in Substantial Victory
for the Latter-Cable Notes.
SOCIALISM IN ENGLAND.
The Arrested Men Subpoena Mr.. GladstoT
as One of Their Witnesses.

The Arrested Men Subpoena Mr.. Gladstone
as One of Their Witnesses
LONDON, Feb. l5.-Many interesting features
are promised at the hearing, on Wednesday, be-
fore Justice Ingham, Of Hyndman, Burns,
Champion and Williams, who have been sum-
monsd to answer charges Of melting to riot, con-
tempt OF law etc., during the disorders in Lon
don last week Mr. Gladstone. Mr.. Chamberlain
and Mr.. Henry Broadhurst, have been subpe-
naed by the Socialists, and the examination of
these gentlemen will be watched by all parties
with interest
The Social Democratic Federation has issued
manifesto convening a meeting for Sunday, to
demand that the government begin work on pub
hc hclmprovements in order to give employment to
workingmen now idle. and that the wages paid be
sufficient to insure healthy subsistence. The
manifesto appeals to workingmen to assist in
maintaining order, and explains the object of the
federation. It concludes as follows: "Let the
gorsrnment classes face the inevitable downfall
of decaying civilization without hypocrisy or
panic. Upon them rest the responsibility for the
peaceful issues of the last great class struggle of
our times"
The genuineness of the laborers' demand for
land to cultivate is being put to practical test
in Kent. A number Of landlords in that county
are letting half-acre plots to laborers at nom-
nal rent The experiment will be watched with
interest by the friends and opponents of Mr.
/ Coliingss scheme for relieving the distress of
the poor.
The Queen has sent donation of f5O0 to the
Mansion House relief fund for the unemployed.
The fund now amounts to 100000.
The number of strikers at Leicester has ia
creased. Crowds are parading the streets. One
firm has armed its employees with revolvers to
protect its premises in case of attack by the
paraders.
The committee appointed by Mr.. Childers.
Home Secretary, to inquire into the causes of
thf recent riotous demonstrations in London,
~ es.a first meeting this morning. The delib-
e26Vsons Of the committee are conducted in
secret.
meeting of unemployed workingmen held
at Birmingham to-day was attended by eight
thousand persons. The addresses delivered
were of the most infammatory nature. and the
assemblage degenerated into a mob, which at
tempted to run riot in the streets and pillage the
shops The police, however, were prepared, and
succeeded in suppressing rioting and preventing
any acts Of pillage.
A dispatch from Yarmouth says the unem-
ployed workipgmen are making demonstrations
of q rotous character.
There were several free fights at Leicester
this evening between policemen and strikers,
and a number of constabes were roughly
handled.
OF three Socialist meetings announced to be
held at Birmingham, two have been abandoned,
Hyndman having telegraphed that he could not
come. The meeting held tonight was hastily
ended by the mob rushing for the platform. The
police, however. succeeded in preventing serious
results