St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-15
The Followers Of the Great
French Soldier in a Row
With the Police.
An Officers Unsuccessful At
tempt to Place Depoulede
Under Arrest.
Figures Going to Show That
Queen Victoria Is No Mill
ionaire.
The Italian Cardinals Would
Not Support an American
for Pope.

II PARIS, July I'm. Deroulede, NJ.
Laguerre and other Boulangist MEM
bers of the chamber of deputies assem-
bled in the Place de La Concorde. be-
fore the statue of Strasburg, to-day. in
tending to hold meeting. A crowd of
several thousand persons had gathered,
and Nj. Deroulede was about to begin
speech, when police commissary
named Clement forced his way through
the crowd. and, approaching DerOulede,
forbade him to speak. Der0ulede pro-
tested, but the police official was Obdu-
rate. Deroulede then began affixing
floral NreathS to the railing around the
statue, at the same time leading the
crowd in shout of ''Vive Boulanger."
Clement tried to arrest Deroulede, but
the latter stoutly resisted, saying that
he had not made speech and had
only cheered for Boulanger. He
refused to accompany the officer to
the police station. Clement thereupon
seized him, but the crowd came to
DerOulede's rescue and took him away
from the officer. Clement was being
roughly handled by the mob, when a
large body of police suddenly appeared
upon the scene and charged the crowd,
ollfluSo uilSiii III oil NillCOblOllO clilU IOS-
cuIng the unfortunate commissary. A
large number OF persons were arrested.
Laguerre and DerOulede, during the
scrimmage, jumped into cab and were
driven to the Office of La Presse, where
mob gathered and INDUCED in noisy
demonstrations. The police cleared the
streets and made many more arrests.
The incident has caused sensation
throughout the city. and dangerous de-
velOpments are feared. M. Belz, the
secretary of the Boulangist committee
at Marseilles, to-day killed in duel M.
Pierrotti, all opportunist, the editor of
LIE Petit Provencal. Marseille's jour
nal. A brilliant review of the troops
was held to-day at Long Champs. Presi-
dent Carnot was heartily greeted by the
great crowds that gathered to witness
the sight.
The one hundredth anniversary of the
fall of the Bastille was celebrated by the
public meetings and feteS in Paris and
throughout the provinces. Transparent
cies bearing representations of Gen.
Boulanger were displayed in the win
dows of the League of Patriots and at
other BOulangiSt resorts. These de-
vices called forth a few hootlngs from
paSserS-by, but, with the exception of
the disorders in the Place de La Con-
corde, and at the office of La Presse,
the day passed off without disturbances
Of any kind.
A band of roughs to- day gathered at
the Imodas cafe, on the Rue Royale,
and demanded that flag be hoiSted.
An Italian flag was displayed, which so
enraged the mob that they tore it down
and trampled it in the mud. They then
made an attack on the cafe and COM
pletely wrecked the place. The fire.
works at the fete this evening were
somewhat marred by rain, but the Place
de la Concorde, the Champs Elysee.
the Bots de Boulogne, the Eiffel tower
and the Trocadero palace were blaze
of light. At midnightthousands of per-
sons thronged the Bots de Boulogne, and
there was no sign of any abatement of
the fun.