Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-10
BREAD RIOTS.

BREAD RIOTS.
Reports of Continued Rioting I'm Germany
LawIessness, However, Committed
Mostly BY Dock Rats and Loafers.
BERLIN, March 5-Since the disturb
ances of last week in this city the I'M
employed men throughout Germany
would require but little to cause an
open outbreak.
A few days ago the unemployed
authorities to furnish them with labor,
no matter what it was, to keep them
selves and their families from starving.
When the deputation of unemployed
recently waited upon the authorities
they received promise that something
would be done for them, and to-day, in
obedience to notice, 800 men pro-
ceeded to the landing stage in the ex-
pectation that they would be carried to
the municipal sewage farms and put to
work When they arrived there the
officials picked out 220 men to be taken
| to the farms Those who were refused
| employment were bitter in their de-
! nunciation of the trick, as they termed
| it, that had been played upon them
The suggestion that food was plenty
! in the shops was seized upon with
avidity. The mob left the vicinity of
| the landing stage in a compact mass,
| rushed through the streets, hurting inn
| precautions at the authorities and
declaring that they would steal
before they would starve. Every
| bakers shop they came across
| they looted, and some of the gaunt,
| pale faced men could be seen devour-
| ing the spoils in a manner which
showed that they had not tasted food
in a long time. Others placed the
bread they had seized under their coats
with the intention of carrying it to
their wives and children.
! Loaded butchers carts passing along
| the streets were seized upon, their
| drivers hustled away and their con-
tents hastily divided among the crowd.
| A later dispatch from Dantzic, how
| ever, places a somewhat better aspect
upon the disturbance, at least so far as
| the looting of shops and wagons is con-
cerned This dispatch says that after
the speakers had addressed the dissap-
pointed workingmen a majority of
the latter without needing the ap-
peals to right their own wrongs, turned
| to their homes Those who did the
rioting and pillaging were, as in the
case at Berlin, not genuine working
men, but dock rats and other loafers.
| They took advantage of the excitement
, to give their thievish propensities full
play, and the workingmen were cred
tied by the police with the ir crimes
IMPROVING.
-Dun's Review Shows an Improvement in
| the Weekly Trade Report.
New YORK. March AIN the weekly
review Of trade R. G. Dun & Co. say:
Domestic trade gradually improves,
even at the South, where much Of the
trouble seems to have been due to the
unwillingness OF holders to sell cotton
at low prices rather than to actual loss
on such sales Supplies of money are
everywhere ample at the present 1t
is still the fact that the two dark spots
are directly caused by over production.
Cotton receipts this week have been
light. Efforts to curtail the production
this year appear to meet with some
success. The only possible remedy for
troubles in the iron trade is to be ap-
piled according to dispatches. by the
| closing of some furnaces. Current
prices are called about the lowest on
| record. The rail com bination still
waits for buyers The trouble in this
! industry was that too great and sudden
expansion was expect ed. Copper is
unchanged, tin weak and lead moder-
ately active. The coal market con-
tinues uncertain, as the com bination is
not ready to act, but agents recon-
mend an output of only 2, 500. 600 tons
| in March.
ga better situation appears in textile
manufactures, for cotton mills are we'll
improves all over the country, even al
the South. In wooden mills and in
sales of wool decided Improvement is
seen. Wool is lower, as holders grow
anxious to sell before new clip comes.
Speculation has not been at all &C
tive and it may be fortunate that golG
, exports checked the rising fever in sea
son Wheat has declined i cent with
small sales, the receipts for half the
week being over 1000. 900 bushels,
against only SIS. 900 exported Corr
comes forward freely, receipts being
, 800, 900 bushels in three days, but ex
ports are heavy, 1889. 900 bushels in the
same time, and the price hence higher
oil quarter and coffee lower.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the pas
seven days numbered $40. as compared
with go last week and 265 for the sam,
week last year"
II ORIGINAL PACKAGE LAW.
The Committee on Agriculture Repor