Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-03


are banded together FOR the purpose of |
bringing about q fulfilment OF their
hopes by revolutionary means, and all |
their plans are under the direction of |
some secret club. On this account the |
government has felt compelled to treat
as enemies OF the stdte men who seek to |
change the condition of affairs by vio- |
ience, and strong Expressive measures
have been adopted.
transportation at the arrest Of MANY of
tneir party is believed to have caused
Socialists to take advantage of yester-
days trouble TO bring to the govern
ments notice the strength of their party.
All last night the streets of the suburbs
were filled with rioters. Beyond the
waving of red flags and footing of sew
eral beer saloons, they did no damage.
Whenever party of police met rioters
the latter quickly disappeared.
RIoTISe RENEWED THIS MORNING,
Inflamed by their excuses of yester-
day and last night, they began TO renew
their disturbance this morning. The
law-abiding residents of the city have
taken alarm and many of them did not
dare to leave their dwellings. At an
early hour menacing crowds of work.
ingmen began to assemble in the Inter
den Linden. There was strong force
OF police present, however, and they
kept the crowd of oilers continually
moving. They would allow not the
slightest attempt at speech making, and
even a muttered reference TO lawless
acts, if it fell upon the ears of police
man, was signal for the arrest of the
man who made it.
POLICE CHARGE THE CROWDS.
BY noon the crowds had been aug
mented to such an extent that the police
felt 1t would be dangerous to allow them
to remain in the streets, especially as
threats of looting shops were being
made. They therefore charged the
crowds, but were met with determined
resistance and, repeated, charges were
necessary before the crowds were dis
persed.
The mob that had gathered in Kaiser
Wilhelmstrasse was speciality deter
mined to hold their ground. The first
charge of the police upon them had no
effect whatever, and the police were
compelled to Withdraw, some of them
having been quite seriously hurt by the
sticks and stones of the mob. The police
then drew their swords and again
charged the crowd, slashing right and
left. The mob still held their ground
and returned blow for blow, but finally
they began TO slowly give way to the
onslaught, contesting every inch of the
ground.
The police, enraged at the resistance
of the crowd, rallied and made another
determined charge, and after sharp
scutfie the mob broke and ran in every
direction, abject fear taking the place
of the brute courage that had sustained
them such short time before. Quite
number of the mob were seriously hurt
and all the leaders fell into the hands of
the police. In several other parts of the
city the same scenes We're repeated.
BERLIN, Feb. 2e-The disorders on the
outskirts of Berlin. to-day, were far more
serious than those that had taken place in
the centre of the city. In Weissenburg
Strasse during the night small bodies Of
workingmen took possession of that
thoroughfare.. Many of them carried red
flags, the emblem of the Social Democ-
racy, and they rushed hither and thither,
with no idea of anything save to defy the
authorities. Finally their enthusiasm, if
it may be so termed, took another form.
They broke into beer saloon and looted
il of its contents. Then they amused them
= selves bv breaking windows.
A body of 200 men took possession of
Iandsburg Strasse, and, forming an
irregular procession marched to Gruenen-
veg, shouting, yelling and smashing the
windows Of the stores and dwellings along
their route.
TIE RED FLAG PROMINENT.
At the same time q mob numbering
thousand men marched from the Frank
furter quarter to and along the Schilling
Strasse. They, too, acted in the most dis
orderly rnanner, jostling the passers-by,
smashing windows, and yelling at the top
of their voices. Similar scenes were en-
acted in the Koenigsthor district. Here
also COULD the red flag Of socialism be seen
fiuttering defiantly to the breeze.
The police were utterly unable to cone
with SO many disturbances in so many diff
ferent localities, and for some little time
the rioters had things all their own way
When the police did meet mob, however,
they had little difficulty in dispensing iii
for, despite the lawless spirit prevailing,
the sight of police uniforms seemed in
.many cases to impress the rioters with the
.majesG, of the law. In one instance a
force Of IL mounted men, with about 100
on foot easily dispersed u crowd of over
1900 tjeering, cursing, drink-inilamed
At Raiedrichshain, suburb Of the city,
beer hop was demolished by the rioters
for thd,purpose of furnishing the proprie-
tor forgnot subscribing to the Eoroarts, the
Socialist organ.
DISPERSED WITH DRAWN SWORDS.
During the course of the morning dis
satisfied and disorderly workingmen as
sembled at several other points in the city
notably in the vicinity of the Branden-
burg (iate, the Museum, and the square in
front Of the Opera House. but when
ordered to dispense by the police they did
so, mhttering threats but Offering no re-
sistance.
Ar noon another large crowd collected
in the Opera House Square. The mob
was exceedingly unrUly, and refused to
obey the police orders TO move on. With
out banteEing words to secure a compliance
with their orders, the police charged the
mob with drawn swords and dispersed
them, with but little resistance. Seven of
the rfngleaders of this mob were seized by
ths police and hustled off to Jail.
srERYER MEASURES RECOMMENDED.
At2 p. M, it was evident that the SOL
diery would be used against the riotous Gle
ment only as last resort to establish
order. 1t is believed by many people that,
owihg to the inadequacy of the police force
to Handle the disturbances, the govern
merpt should adopt sterner measures to put
down the trouble once for ALL The more
tinid residents of the city claim, and with
good reason, that once the rioters gain a
victory over the police they will become so
emboldened that only the most copious
shedding of blood will suffice TO end the
trouble. They believe that now is the time
to use the military arm of the government.
no illustrate the forbcarance Of the en-
peIor and the military authorities case
can be cited. At O'Clock this afternoon a
relief detachment of soldiers headed by a
ba1ld, was marching toward the castle To