The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-30
THE BELGIAN RIOTS.
Troops Called Out and the
Mob Awed.
DESPERATE ARMED BEGGARS.
The Sick misunderstanding from
Observation-Disclosures by Mexi-
cans-Obituary-Et
ARMED BEGGARS.
The Belgium Riots.

BRUSSELS, March 2S.-Dispatches from
Charleroi say that there has been fur
ther rioting IN that town, resulting in
the killing of several persons and the
wounding of many others. The rioters
at Zumet, upon the approach OF troops
sent to disperse them, placed 200 women
in the front ranks. The troops opened
fire and many women were wounded.
The strike is extending to Namur.
Additional troops have been called
from Brussels to quell the disorder.
Later advices from Charleroi report
that the towns calmer and that there
will probably be no further riotous DEM
onstrarions by the strikers. As body
the strikers are destitute and are COM
PEELED to beg for bread. The men are
desperate and threaten violence If
their wants are not supplied. A num-
Der of men will go to work tomorrow.
They Will be armed with revolvers with
which TO defend themselves in case OF
an attack by the strikers.
The authorities have probibi ed the
sale OF the newspaper People, OF this
city.
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out for service.
The city of Leige was quiet to-day. 1t
is expected that work will be resumed
there tomorrow.
A circular signed by Governor Hahn
cult has been placarded throughout
Charleroi, proclaiming state of siege
throughout the district and authoriz-
ing troops to cut down and fire upon all
rioters that refuse tn disDarSa
Strikes are threatened at Flencia and
Quaragenon, and troops have been sent
to those places. 1t is asserted that
Germans organized the present labor
movements.
CHARLERoI, March 2S.-Appeals for
troops have been received from Cho-
telet, Chateline Lalouviere, Cilly and
Couillet, where several factories and
mines have been wrecked and where
many persons have been killed or
wounded in collisions with the local
troops. Only1 the civil guards remain
here, and they are now exhausted from
their incessant vigilance. The 6urgo-
master has been compelled to call for
volunteers to defend the streets. News
of disorder comes from all directions.
There was sharp encounter last even
ing at Sebastopol trench with crowd of
rioters, who were trying to enter Char
lerol. Two of the rioters were killed
and several wounded and the others
fled. The strikers defy the troops, and
serious fighting is expected. Detach
ments of cavalry are securing the coun-
try to suppress armed beggars, who have
been terroriZing and extorting money
from the villagers. 1t is announced
that meeting of colliery managers
will be held at Lalouviere, and the
strikers are f1ocking to that town.
The workingmen here are greatly in
censed because of the introduction in
Parliament of bill proposing a tax on
impOrtations of corn and cattle. They
also complain of the failure of govern
ment to introduce an insurance bill for
the benefit of workingmen.
The strikers have carefully avoided
damaging the property of small trades
men. The radical press declares that
to extend the suffrage is one OF the
principal causes of the prevailing dis
content.
CHARLERoI, March 29.-This CITY to-
day is a vast military camp from which
flying columns are operating in all
directions. 1t is believed now that the
worst is over. The government has
authorized peaceable inhabitants of the
city to arm themselves and to use every
means in their power to defend their
domiciles. There is more confident
feeling. Civilian patrols and troops are
overmastering the rioters. The miners
in Flenn and Borinage districts have
gone out or a strike and have DESTROYED
the residence of the mine manager by
dynamite. In these districts there have
already been several conflicts between
the strikers and troops and many have
been sent to the scenes from Mons.
BRUSSELS, March 29.-The rieters last
night attacked and burned a pottery
mandatory at Povderere near Mons.
They succeed in resisting the gems
d'armes who, however, shot and killed
three of the rioters. The citizens of
Fleures, seven miles northeast of
Charleroi, have armed themselves with
pitchforks, clubs and guns, and have
thus far succeeded in defending their
town from pillage. They drove the
army of rioters away Ivy main force,
dispensing it utterly. Vigilance com
mittees are being formed by citizens in
other places threatened by the strikers.