The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-03-29

sons out of employment. at Roux, two
miles from Charleroi, in conflict between
the troops and the rioters, iye OF the latter
were shot dead. The strikers are armed
with bludgeons and axes where they cannot
obtain firearms, and stubbornly resist the
troops.
The Chateau Outremont at Presles has
been destroyed by fire by the strikers: Inc
glass works at Pont, two
miles from Charleroi, were burned by rioters
today. The coal mine proprietors at her
stal, three and half miles from Llege, nave
refused to accede to the demands for 70 per
cent. increase in the wages OF their men, anu
the miners will undoubtedly quit WORK ana
become disorderly. The rolling mills at
Montceau have been sacked by strikers.
Gangs of strikers are everywhere in the
mining countries forcing men to stop work,
and are going about pillaging the factories.
less before the daily increasing strength of
the rioters. 1t will now require very large
reinforcements of troops to quell the riots.
At Villette the danger from the riots be-
came so great today that detachment of
the civic guard, with artillery, was sent in
response to an appeal fer help, and the SOL
diers reached the scene just in time to save
from destruction the Lambert works, which
the rioters were about to burn down. Many
of the rioters engaged in this incendiary
attempt were taken prisoners.
[LATER.]
CHARLERoI, March 2S.-The situation is
assuming serious aspects, and appeals for
troops have been received from Chatelet,
Chatelinean, La Louvier, Gelly and Couillet,
where several factories and mines have been
wrecked, and where many persons have been
killed and wounded in collisions with local
troops. Only the civil guards remain here
and they are now exhausted from their in
cessant vigilance. The burgomaster has
compelled to call for volunteers to defend
the streets
There was a sharp encounter last evening
at SebastopOl Trench with crowd of rioters
who were trying to enter Charleroi. Two OF
the rioters were killed and several wounded.
The strikers defy the troops at Chalelet,
Couillet and Chatelineau.
BRUSSELS, March pa circular signed by
the Governor of Hainault has been placar-
ded throughout Charlerai, proclaiming a
state of seige throughout the district of the
strikes and ordering the troops to fire on and
cut down all rioters that refuse to disperse.
Prince Bismarck Angered.
BERLIN, March 28.-Prince Bismarck IS
speech in the Reichstag yesterday absorbs
| the attention of the public. His encounter
with Herr Richter was marked with unusual
bitterness. Herr Richter's papers, despite
the denial of the North German Gazette,
| continue to charge Prince Bismarck with
| seeking means to alter the electoral system
| in order to subvert universal suffrage. When
| Herr Richter in the course OF the debate yes
terday sneeringly thanked Prince Bismarck
| for having spared the country coup d. etdt,
| the Chancellor jumped to his feet, and with
| voice broken by excitement declared that
he had no design upon coup d etdt, and
| at the same time he said the federal SOW
| ereigns, like the Kings of Prussia and Ba-
| varia,
Failure Of Efforts to Reconcile Cham
berlain and Treveivan.
NEW YORK, March 27.-Mr. Smalley cables
| to the Tribune from London as follows: The
Cabinet meeting held yesterday, after nearly
| fortnight's interval, leaves the situation
essentially unchanged. The interval has
been employed in strenuous efforts to miti-
| gate the opposition of Mr.. Chamberlain and
| Mr. Treyelyan to Mr.. Gladstone's Irish
| scheme. These efforts resulted in tOtal
failure. Liberal party organs. abandoning
| the attempt to deny or to conceal the division
| in the party, admit that there is no hope OF
bringing round either of the retiring minis
tiers or of preventing either's resignation.
LONDON, March 27.-Rt Hon. James
| Stansfeld, Radical member Of Parliament
| for Halifax, has been appointed president
| of the local government board, In the place
| of Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain. Mr.. Stansfeld
| occupied the same Office once before, but
| without seat in the Cabinet, resigning In
1874.
| The Earl of Dalhousie has been appointed
/ to succeed Mr.. G. 0. Trevelyan as Secretary
| for Scotland Lord Dalhousie will not, how
| ever, have seat in the Cabinet, as Mr.. Ire
| velyan had.
Foreign Notes.
| The death is announced in London of the
Most Rev. Richard Chenvix French, ID. ID.
| formerly archbishop of the Dublin diocese Of
| the church of Ireland.
| Sir Henry Taylor, the English dramatist
| IS dead, aged 86.