The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-06
RIOTS AND BLOODSHED.
A Day Of Lawlessness in
Europe.
The French Strikers Grow
Very Violent.
Troops Called Into Action and
Many People Hurt.
Serious Riots in Rome and
Florence.
All Quiet I'm Germany and Aus
tria.
Serious Riots in Rome and
Florence.
All Quiet in Germany and Aus
tria.

ceived up to midnight show that while
there was general ferment the working
men nowhere showed q disposition of
themselves to cause trouble or loss of
the sympathy of the public by illegal
manifestations. Neither have the pre-
dictions OF a universal strike been full
! filed. On the contrary numbers of
workmen took a holiday, even on the
pain of dismissal, in order to join pro
cessions and were mainly confined to
miners, the natural leaders in the eight
hour movement Monday will see most
of them resuming their vocations with but
few lockouts.
The anarchists eagerly seized the chance
TO air their doctrines with the added Zest
of possible scuffle with the authorities, and
| the outbreaks recorded were invariably
due to their efforts and doubtless would
have been more effectual but for the adj
mirable police and military preparations.
| The fact that the first meeting of the
labor commission was held on May day is
merely coincidence. The English work
ers are waiting for Sunday The London
carpenters and joiners commenced strike
tonight
| Germany has been almost equally quiet
| Meetings were sparsely attended. Those
men who remained at work were given a
| days pay from the general strike fund.
| In Austria and Hungary the day was
taken up with merely holiday diversions.
| At Bekes the military was called upon TO
| quell a socialist riot and several persons
were wounded. The demonstration held
on the Prater in Vienna was smaller than
that OF 1890.
In Holland there was no cessation of
4 work. In Brussels at o'clock in the
evening 10000 men marched in procession
| from the Bourse through the town to the
strains of the Marseil aise, with banners,
transparences and devices asking free
suffrage. The pavements were thronged
with orderly on-lookers.
Paris today was even freer for traffic
than on last MAY day. The paraders APP
peared to take delight in goading the po-
lice to charge them. After the Place de
Ia COncorde was cleared at o'clock in the
| evening no further incident was reported.
The rumor that Cunningham Graham
was arrested is unfounded. The total
number of arrests is l20.
A number of very exciting scenes were
| witnessed in Lyons today. The first dis
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workmen, followed by large numbers of
women and children and bearing banners
| containing various sentiments in refer
ence 10 the rights claimed by the laboring
| people, attempted to hold procession.
The authorities had decided to prevent
any marching, and as the men refused to
| disperse when ordered, the police were
| directed to make an attack on the ranks of
| the paraders. The men made a desperate
resistance and general melee followed,
in which a policeman was seriously
wounded. The noise of the conflict at
tracted great crowd and the workmen
were soon reinforced by sympathizing
companions
The authorities finding the police were
unable to cope unaided with the in
creased force OF the workmen, called upon
| the military Tor assistance, and body of
cavalry was dispatched to the place. The
hOrsemen charged upon the excited and
determined workmen, who assailed them
with volleys of stones. The woIkmen
were unable to withstand the combined
attack of the cavalry aud police and were
| finally compelled to retreat suilenly and
| with defiant shouts. A number of arrests
were made, and several of the prisoners
were found TO be heavily armed.
| Subsequently the mob marched to the
cemetery, headed by number of men
carrying black and red flags. The visit 70
the cemetery was made for the purpose of
! holding demonstration over the graves
| OF those who had lost their lives in former
riots. The authorities were again COM
PEELED to appeal to The military for aid in
| dispensing the crowd. A force of cava ry-
men were hurried to the cemetery, and
again were their horses ridden down upon
the people. The mob obstinately resisted
the repeated charges made on them by
the cavalry, and desperately disputed
| every inch of the ground. Showers OF
stones and other missiles were hurled at
| the soldiers, several of whom were seri-
ously injured before they at last sue
ceeded in clearing the burying ground Of
the mob.
Upen being driven from the cemetery,
the crowd again formed in procession and
marched back to the city, defantly de-
nouncing the authorities and singing La
Garmagnole in grand chorus. The riot
ers, nothing daunted by their two defeats,
made an attack upon their earlier antag-
onists, the police. and so savage was their
assault that they overcame the officers and
broke through the Gordon which they had
established. Again was il found neces-
sary to call upon the cavalrymen to dis
perse the rioters, who, flushed with their
victory over the police, were prepared TO
| engage in more riotous demonstrations,
and again did the soldiers charge upon
the shouting mob and thunder down upon
their ranks. As in the previous conflicts
with the military, tue crowd was forced to
beat a retreat.
The fighting which was taking place be-
tween the rioters and the police and mill
tary has caused the greatest alarm among
the people of this city and the excitement
intensifes as each hour passes. The police
are utterly powerless 10 control the howl
ing mob, who, emboldenied by this fact, have
become more defiant than ever and the
authorities have been compelled to sum-
mon additional reinforcements of soldiers
| for the protection of the city.
The rioters have cut the telephone and
telegraph wires and are holding uproari-
Gus meetings at their working headquar-
tiers. where anarchistic speakers are wildly
haranguing their hearing and melting
the already maddened men to commit
further acts of violence. A dense crowd
| surrounds the Labor exchange, which
building the soldiers have cleared of all
persons ut the point OF the bayonet The
military are taking every precaution to
subdue the mob and have brought a can
non to the place for the purpose Of in
| timidating them.