Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-18
FALL OF THE BASTILE.
Centennial Observance of This
Event.
Disturbances in Paris on the Prohibition
of BoulangIst Neeting-Bou-
Iangists Threaten a Revo-
luton.

! luton.
PARIS, July 15.-M. Deroulede N. Ge-
risse and other Boulangist members of the
Chamber Of Deputies met in the Place de
la Concorde before the statue of Strasburg
! yesterday, intending TO hold a meeting.
A crowd of several thousand persons
| gathered and NJ Deroulede was about to
begin a speech when police commissary
named Cement forced his way through
the crowd and approaching Deroulede
| forbade him to speak. Deroulede protest
ed. but the police official was obdurate.
Deroulede then began afixing floral
wreaths to the railing around the statue,
at the same time leading the crowd in
shouts of 1--WE Boulanger." Clement
| tried to arrest Deroulede, but the latter
stoutE 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 thereupcn seized him, but the
crowd came to Deroulede's rescue and
took him away from the officer who was
being roughly handled by the mob, when
large body of police suddenly app cared
upon the scene and charged the crowd,
driving them in all directions and rescu-
ing the unfortunate commIssary. A large
number of persons were arrested.
Laguerre and Deroulede during the
scrimmage jumped into a cab and were
driven to the Office of La Presse, where a
mob gathered and INDUCED in noisy
demonstrations. The police cleared the
streets and made many more arrests.
inn
throughout the city and dangerous devel-
opments are feared.
band of roughs yesterday in the
neighborhood of Mayors cafe. in the Rue
Royal. attacked an Italian flag. The moi
was so enraged that they tore it down
and trampled it in the mud. They then
made an attack on the cafe and complete
ly wrecked the place.
BOULANGIST SCHEME.
LONDON, July 15-The adherents of
BOUlanger who came over from France to
take part with their chief in the London
celebration of the fall of the Bastile, for
the most part, express confidence in the
peaceful solutions of the problems which
the French people have before them. They
dsride the speech of NJ. Brisson, in which
he declares that the people of France often
selves, instancing the feet that they once
allowed the Republic to be destroyed and
succumbed to the E npire and in which
ne concluded that the majority should de-
fend the liberties of Frenchmen by force
of arms.
Notwithstanding their disclaimer of
warlike intentions, however, these Bou-
langiSts do not pretend to deny that in the
event of their own success at the coming
elections they propose to remove Presi-
dent Garnet from his position at the head
of the French republic and that this will
be done at the point of the bay onet if
necessary, unless he yields to the
wishes of Boulanger and bows to the ex-
pressed will of the people 1t can be very
easily surmised that in view of these and
similar expressions on the part of the
Boulangists aud the equally determined
tone of their enemies the outlook for Oc-
tober is ominous. Boulanger's assertion
in his speech Yesterday that his aim was
to work for the strengthening of the Re-
public IS generally accepted as a ruse tc
divert the threatened alliance between
the republicans and the supporters of the
Count de Paris, an alliance which if con-
summa;ed must prove a death blow &c
Boulanglst amblt onS.
BASTILE CENTENNIAL OBSERVANCE.
PARIS. July 15.-The one hundredth an
niversary of the fall of the Bastile was
celebrated by the public meetings and
fetes in Paris and throughout the prov
inces yesterday. Transparencies bearing
representations of General Boulanger
were displayed in the windows of the
League of Patriots and other Bou|angiSt
resorts. These devices called forth a few
hootings from passers-by. but, with the
exception of the disorders in the Place de
Concorde and at the office of La Presse,
the day passed off W tn out disturbances of
any kind.
The fireworks at the fetes last evening
were somewhat married by rain, but the
Place de la COncorde, the Champs Elysee,
the Bots de Bouiogne, the Eiffel tower
and the Trocadero palace were blaze of
light At midnight thousands of persons
thronged the Bots de Boulogne and there
was no sign of anv abatement of the fun.
NJ. wADDINGTON ON BOULANGER.
LONDON July I'm. Washington, the
French Ambassador here, gave banquet
last evening to prominent members of
the French colony. In a speech after the
banquet he declared against Boulangism.
He asserted that the Boulangist pro-
gramme had no parallel in America,
because in America the Presi-
dent was protected, not by uni
versal suffrage, but by delegates of tie
State. Moreover. in America there was no
standing army and a coup d'etat was
therefore imposs bic. The triumph of
Boulanger would end in disaster for
France. He himself did not believe that
Boulanger would succeed, but neverthe-
less he considered it necessary for his
to rally around President
Carnot in defense of the Republic.