The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-12
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Mob of $4,000 Socialists Hold Full
Sway in the Streets of London for SID
Hours The authorities PowerIess to
Quell the Uprising-D and shops !
Looted-Battle Between the Mob and
Militia at Seattle, ". T.-Five Persons |
Wounded-Martial Law DecIared-Seri- |
sus Affair in the Coke Regions.
LONDON, Feb. 9.-The starving mechan-
leo OF London yesterday held a mass
meeting in Trafalgar Square, around the
Nelson monument, and it resulted in a riot |
Ihe proceedings were opened with an as
semblage OF ten thousand men. The police
wore present in large numbers. They at
once saw that the Socialistic element
greatly predominated in the crowd
which was also managed by well
known Socialists, and extraordina-
~ vigilance was ordered to pre-
serve the peace at all hazards. Conspic-
uDus among the leaders of the multitude
was man by the name of Burns, who ran
as the Socialist candidate in Nottingham
in the recent election. He sneered at the
police, and acted generally as if he wished
to bring about a conflict between them and
the people. Finally, he assembled the pedes-
tai OF the Nelson column for the purpose
OF delivering an harangue. He was
wellaware that this act would not be toll
Grated, and the police politely ordered him
to get down. This he refused to do, APP
pealing to the crowd to resist interference
with the exercise Unpopular rights. The Of
ficers, however, were determined, and they
pushed their way through the excited and
resisting mass of humanity and by force
removed Mr.. Burns from the pedestal.
BY this time the crowd had vastly
augmented and the streets adjacent were
packed with surging mobs. The stir in the
elevated place where the Burns incident
took place was easily perceptible over al
most the entire area covered bv the con-
course, and the sight of the helmets and
uniforms in the struggle was accepted as
visible proof of the commencement of the
fight against the law" The intelligence
was responded to with general
and fearful howl, and an at
tempted rush from all directions
to the point of interest. Burns had now
been removed some distance from the posi-
ton he had attempted to occupy. He be-
came embroidered by the cries of the throng
and made desperate effort to recover his
lost ground. He was so effectively helped
by the mob that the officers on the spot
were brushed aside and the orator was
soon pressed up against the monu-
ment. He quickly reascended the pedestal,
accompanied by anumber of other Socialist
leaders. Burns bore red flag, and he
waved it to the assembage as signal OF
his triumph over the authorities. He was
greeted with deafening shouts, repeated
again and again. Burns now leisurely
finished his address. He then read Sc
ries of friendly-worded resolutions. These
denounced " the authors of the pres
eat distress in England demanded
that Parliament start public works to
give employment and bread to the tens of
thousands of deserving men who were out
OF work through no fault of their own, but
because of bad government; declared that
it was the duty of the Government to af-
ford every facility for the employment of
British capital at home for the British peo-
pie, and to give British enterprise preference
over foreign, and asserted that the time
had arrived for Parliament to earn
estly legisate for the relief of the depres-
sion in the English agricultural industry.
The resolutions also demanded an immedi-
ate appointment of Minister of Commerce
and Minister of Agriculture and con-
cluded with the resolve that copies should
be forwarded to Mr.. Gladstone, Lord Sails
bury, Mr.. Parnell and the Board OF Public
Works.
The reading of the resolutions was ac-
companied BY fierce comment and short
explanatory speeches by the various ora
tors who stood with Burns.
All this so aggravated the excitement of
the huge mob that the police reformed
with increased force and made another as
sault. They succeeded in forcing their way
up to the PEDESTAL. They reached this point
just as the resolutions, which had already
been offered and seconded, were about to be
submitted to the mob for approval. The
officers at once ordered the proceedings to
be discontinued on the pedestal and COM
manded Burns and his colleagues to come
down. This they refused to do, and
the officers thereupon dragged them down
| by force and drove them from the pedestal.
After their election neither Mr.. Burns nor
| any of his colleagues made any further at
tempt to get back. They at once left the
scene and proceeded to the Reform Club
building. They mounted the stops,
| pointed to the doors and windows,
and bitterly denounced the in.
mates. The mob was excited, but not
up to the point OF violence. Burns and his
| colleagues, seeing this, vacated the Reform
| SluO oICPo. tuC JIOCeeilCu W DltG GdElUIu
| Club, where they repeated their tactics.
| BY this time the mob had swelled to
| enormous proportions and the excitement
was raised to higher pitch than ever by
exaggerated stories OF the proceedings in
| Trafalgar square. As the mob pressed ON
ward to the club-houses it was split up in
| many divisions by being forced down va
| rious streets. The different divisions poured
| along the streets, each a bowling, hooting
| mass of people who vented their il-will
| against wellhoused people and against the
clubs by stoning the dwellings, and club
houses along the way.
| The Devonshire Club house in st. James
street was attacked at the beginning of the
/ riot very savagely. Hatchett's Hotel,
| large well-known hostery at 81 and 6S
Piccadilly was invaded and sacked of
food and drink The building was
wrecked. As the men were leaving
| the hotel carriage was pressed up
against the curb by the passing procession
and abandoned by its frightened occu-
! pants. 1t was seized and instantly broken
| up, and the wheel spokes. shafts and other
| good pieces were carried away to be used
| as clubs. All the windows and the front
doors OF the Turf Clubs house in Piccadilly
were smashed by stones. All along Regent
| dtlu OAIOFu SbTtetb, DetWeeH IltcdUlly anu
| Hyde Park, houses were attacked indis-
criminately and their windows smashed in.
/ When the mob had collected at Hyde
Park Burns again addressed it. Tins
speech was even more violent than the
Others he made Burns was followed by
several other socialistic speakers, all OF
whom did all in their power to stir up
strife. When the speaking was over
| the mob broke up into sections. The main
/ body went back east along Oxford
| street again. The affrighted resi-
dents along the thoroughfare had not yet
recovered from the panic, and the mob had
the street to itself. Tie rioters smashed
every sound window they noticed. Wine
shops were broken into and their CON
tents distributed freely to whomso-
ever wished to drink Beer sa-
looms were similarly treated. Tailor
| shops were broken into and clothes
/ and rolls OF cloth thrown out into the
streets, to be taken by victors in the fights
| over them which resulted. Every person
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