The Indianapolis journal., 1886-03-31
The Disturbances Now Confined to the Central
Coal-Mining District, and the Demonstra-
tiOns Not Alarming in Character.
Chamberlain and Tresvlyan Begin Open
Warfare Against Mr.. Gladstone.
Consideration of the Anti Socialist Law in the
German Reichstag-The Emperor Desires
that the Measure Be Continued.
THE BELGIAN RIOTS.

Quiet Restored at Charleroi and Liege--
Strikers Returning to Work.
BRUSSELS. March 30.-The situation created
by the strikers remains threatening at Tournay;
elsewhere throughout Belgium comparative
Quiet prevails. Quiet has not only been restored
at Charlero but the strikers are generally return
ing to work. The only locality where the dis
turbances have increased is the central coal
mining district The principal quarry owner in
the Tournay district has consented to increase
the wages of the men if the master miners, st
their meeting tonight, shall acquiesce. A mob
of strikers entered Tournay this morning, MAX
ing noisy demonstrations, but they withdrew
when they found the town thoroughly guarded
by gen-darmes. The latter have the streets SO
well patrollec that is practically impossible for
rioters to assemble at any place in the town.
In the Liege district the strikers are less vio-
lent.
AT Verviers, fourteen miles east OF Lege the
police have seized the Office and papers of the
secretary of the Workmen's Universal Union.
Advices from Lieee say that quiet has been
restored there. The troops which have been
stationed at Charleroi and Liege are leaving
those places for Tournay and Mones. The gov
ernor Of Liege has promised the striking miners
that he will intercede ~for them with their en-
ployers with the object of securing for the
workmen an increase of wages.
The strike in the Charleroi district ended this
evening. The civic guard has been aishanded
NJ. Beernaert, the Minister of Finance, made
speech in the Chamber of Deputies, to-day, on
the subject of the prevailing labor troubles. He
referred to the depression that has existed in all
branches of business for the past eight years.
and said that capital invested in colieries was
yielding only per cent interest The riot
ing of the last few days, he said. was chiefly
the work of convicted felons and the dfegs Of
the population. and this fact justified the stern
military measures which had been adopted for
the repression OF the outbreaks. The govern
ment, he said, would do it's utmost to assist un-
employed workmen, and, with this object in
view, would soon ask for credit Of 43, 900, 900
francs, which was intended 10 be used in the ex-
tension of railways.
Three hundred workmen employed at the
merino factories at Binant and a like number
of quarrymen at Ecaussnes went out on a
strike to day.
NJ. Goulle, of the Paris Socialist paper Cri du
Peuple, was arrested upon his arrival at Charlie
roi to day, and conducted back to the frontier.
The quarry owners in the Eournay district
have decided to restore the scale of wages in Of
feet last September, hoping thereby to settle the
present troubles
A number of Belgian women have been ar
rested on the German frontier They were en-
gagged in smuggling Anarchist prints into Bel
gium.
The strikers at ALtoing to-day attacked the
house of NJ Brosart, the proprietor of the quar-
ries near that town. The inmates barricadsd
the doors and fred upon the mob, wounding sew
eral persons
A German named Botenkamp has been ar
rested at Liege, where number of important
letters from German Socialists were found on
his person.