Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
APPEAL TO THE DEPUTIES
To Have Them Censure NJ. COnstans
for Allowing the Slaughter.
TRADE CENTERS MUCH AGITATED.
Steps to Isolate France Commercially
Alarming That Country.
RECEPTION OF THE GRANTS In PARIS.

trouble at Fourmies immensely heightened
the political importance of the incident.
The fact that six women, several children
and eight men were killed on the spot, while
20 were seriously wounded, several fatally,
gives the affair the character of massacre.
The soldiers were merely exposed to stone
throwing, but they replied with successive
yolleys from their new Lebel rifles, iGf1ict-
ing frightful wounds on their victims The
houses exposed to the fire were riddled, and
there is every sign that reckless and wanton
inhumanity was shown by the troops.
The local popular commotion is intense,
and it finds response in the growing e1-
ciiement in every working center Four
mics tonight is practically in a state of
siege. Cavalry patrol the streets, and are
everywhere greeted with yells of reproba-
tion from excited mobs of men and women.
The tension of feeling may be judged from
the fact that the military are hailed with
cries of "Vive Prussia" The funeral of
the victims was fixed !or to-day, but the
enormous number OF workmen arriving from
other industrial centers caused the govern
ment to send for reinforcements and to order
the postponement of the funeral until To-
morrow.
COnStans blame0 1Or tne SlauEnter.
The prefect to-day refused to receive
deputation asking for the removal of the
regiment that fred upon the crowd. A
section of the Left, and the Socialist and
Boulangist deputies join in demanding a
vote of censure against NJ. Constans, Min
lister of the Interior, as responsible for the
slaughter. A motion to that effect will be
made in the Chamber OF Deputies to-mor-
row. A majority of the Right and Left
approves generally the measures OF repres-
sion taken by NJ. Constans throughout the
country, but will advocate an inquiry into
the conduct of the troops at Fourmies. Par
liamentary circles view the affair as shaking
the position of the ministry. Labor eenters
throughout France are profoundly moved,
and public meetings here and at Marseilles,
Lyons and elsewhere are being organized to
protest against the precipitate action of the
authorities.
The movement of the German and Aus
trian Governments to isolate France COM
mercially begins to alarm the French min
listers more seriously. Dispatches from the
French embassy at Vienna state that Ger
many has opened negotiations with Russia
with the view OF arranging for Russian CO.
operation in the projected commercial union.
Concert with Russia. at first sight, appears
improbable, but under the German-Austria
treaty, provision is made to treat other
powers reciprocallv. Both countries can
offer Russia the benefits of dIfferential
tariff. Switzerland and SerVia will send
delegates TO the Vienns s>6ommercia Con-
ference. Russia has><6een invited, but has
not vet replied.
Honors to Colonel Fred Gram.
Colonel Fred Grant, the United States
Minister 10 Austria, and Mrs. Grant have
returned to Vienna after weeks visit here.
After Minister Reid presented Colonel
Grant to President Carnot, Mrs. Reid took
Colonel and Mrs. Grant to a reception given
by Nine Carnot. NJ. Carnot had a long
talk with Colonel Grant He spoke ad-
mirlugIy OF General Grants career, which
he said was well known in France, and his
methods largely studied by the army. Mr..
Reid gave his guests several entertainments
and took them TO the opera, NJ. Carnot's box
being placed at their disposal
Among the notable persons whom the |
Grants met were the English, Austrian and !
Italian amb ,ssadors, Lady Lytton, Count |
esS hergorlay, Countess DIvonne, Count |
Zichv, Senator Mcmillan and Mrs. Bradley |
Martin. Referring to their residence in |
Vienna, MIR. and Mrs. Grant expressed |
themselves as highly pleased with their |
official and social reception.
Henry Bacon, the Boston artist, is here in |
behalf Of the American Committee which |
VIII present 10 the CITY oil ParlS bronze |
copy of Houdih's statue of Washington, |
now standing in the Capitol at Richmond. |
NJ. Thiebaud, a weli-known bronze founder. |
says, touching the objection of the Governor |
o. Virginia that bronze copy might dam |
age the marble original, that there is no |
danger if the work be carefully done. NJ. |
Thiebaud will send workmen 10 Richmond |
TO make plaster cast of the statue.
The Art Exhibit at Chicago.
NJ. Ballu, the leading official of the Ex-
position of 1889, will probably be charged |
with the French art exhibit at Chicago,
though Benjamin Constant will urge the |
Government to put the control of the exhibit
in the hands o! two artists, one to be ap-
pointed by the Champs Elysees Society and
the other by the Champs De Mars Society.
NJ. Nieuile roy, Secretary of the Champs
Elysees Society, favors collective exhibit |.
by the two societies. He desires that the
Chicago Board Of Managers give France a
separate art building for the combined ex-
hibit. and saws if this done a magnificent
French art display is assured.
Carolus Durand is about to start for
America. He will send exhibits to the Chi
cago Fair, mainly works now in the United |
States. Arthur Stevens and Henri Gervex,
the joint authors Of the panorama "Tuil-
liers, propose to send the panorama to the
fair.
Joseph Pulitzer has arrived here from a
yachting expedition. His eyes are still so
weak that he cannot read.