St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-29
Though the Sabbath Was an
Unusually Quiet, I'm
eventful One.
Large Crowds Continue to
Collect Before the I'M
perial Palace.
One Hundred Arrests Made
Several Policemen Re-
ported Injured.
1t Is Said That One Of the
Wounded Rioters Has
Died.

BERLIN, Feb. %, $50 p. m.-The stu
alton appears to have greatly improved.
The police have completely regained the
upper hand. Although large crowds
continue to collect before the imperial
palace, the police have little difficulty in
keeping them in motion. Strong de-
tachments of mounted police patrol the
disturbed quarters. In view of the more
extensive measures taken to repress dis
order the alarm of the general public has
abated. About 100 arrests were made
here today. An official report states
that dozen policemen were injured.
During the changing of the guard at the
imperial castle the drawbridge connect
ing the Inter den Linden with the cas-
tie gardens is closed to traffic till the
soldiers have passed. A similar spirit
of precaution is likewise observ-
able regarding the appearance
of soldiers in many of the
main arteries of traffic lead
ing from the center of the suburbs Of
the city. The Bersen Courier COM
plains of the inconvenience result
ing from the official control of tele-
phones, deprecating the regulation
under which at the moment any refer
ence is made by telephone to the riot
The Circuit Is Cut.
1t Is reported that one man who was
wounded in the riots has died. At
$3.50 o'clock this afternoon the streets
presented highly animated appear
ance. This was especially the case
with the Inter den Linden and the
approaches to the Thiergarten. which
were filled with people, for the most
part wOuld-be signtseers OF mere
promenaders. The groups of rowdies
and roughs which have constituted
such painfully conspicuous feature in
the streets during the past few days for
peace-loving Berliners were absent.
No disorderly crowd followed the sol
dierS as they were relieving guard. The
police state that the few mobs which
gathered last night, but which were so
quickly dispersed that comparative quiet
settled down over the city by o'clock,
were led by several men carry
ing naked swords. While the police
were engaged in suppressing these
disturbances mounted policeman had
his skull fractured owing to his being
struck on the head by a petroleum bot
| tie thrown from a house. OF the many
persons arrested yesterday on charges
in connection with the riots, only TWEEN
ty-three have been detained in custody.
| The most significant feature of the
morning was the silence of most of the
| pastors On the subject that was in every
| body's mind.
The Usual Prayers
were offered up for the kaiser and the
| fatherland, but not word of admOn-
| ifiOn yoafifint, hoorinor
break or disorder such as Berlin had
not seen in forty-four years. The ex-
| PLANTATION of this is that the Protestant
| churches are generally extremely dis
| satisfied with the new educational bill,
which places Catholics virtually OIL a
| par with LutheraDs, and is regarded
as establishing, substantially, a Catho-
lie state church. This displeas.
ure is SO great and general that a large
number, both of the Protestant clergy
and laymen, have their loyalty some
what impaired. and, while they do not
| SympathiZe with disorder, they do not
of the possible dangers of the situation.
| The church-going crowds went and
came in the most orderly man
ner. and, in Difference to the
commands understood to have been
| given to the police, there was no
| gathering of groups in the public
| streets. In the quarters of the city
mostly inhabited by workingmen a
| double force of police was on duty, and
| wherever three or four persons were
seen together they were ordered
to dispense. The order was gen.
orally obeyed, although in one
a wOrkingman, carpenter by trade,
| asked the police to arrest him, and said
| he would do violence If they did not.
| On being questioned as to his reason, he
| said that he had
Nothing to Eat
and that he wished to be imprisoned, as
he could not bear the sight of his wife
| and children starving. His story was
| Investigated, and proved to be true. In
| a wretched department a woman and
three children were found almost
without clothing, and weak from
want OF food. The husband
had come to Berlin when
building was active and lost work when
the times grew hard. His story is that
| of thousands of workingmen ill Berlin,
some of them old residents of the city,
but the greater number attracted to the
metropolis of the empire by the
boom that preceded depression. Thou
sands of the families of these
men are either absolutely starv-
ing or dependent for subsistence on
charity. A touching spectacle was wit
| messed at the prison this morning. The
wives of several of those taken captive
in the riots of Thursday night were per.
mitted to see them. In nearly every
| instance the men handed to their wives
part of the prison ration 10 carry home.
In one case a prisoner mad actually
| gone without his bread ratiOnS since
Friday morning, concealing it so as to
be able to give it to his family. He gave
the whole of it to his wife for her and
the children. One of the turn
keys, although accustomed to pitiful
sights, was SO touched by
this that he gave the man
extra food and gave the women some
money. These incidents explain the
heart and origin of the outbreak. Mis-
cry among the poor this winter has
been greater than at any time
for years past. The municipal au-
thorities, following the burgomaster
acts, have trusted to repres-
sion. rather than palliation, for
dealing with the desperate and poverty
| stricken. Relief, when asked for, has
been given grudgingly, and the men
have been told that if they persisted in
| applying for public aid they would be
sent to the so-called tramp colonies and
| made to work as prisoners. This meant
| separation from wives and children
| and the breaking of associations and
| times as dear to the poor as to the rich.