The Portland daily press., 1892-02-26
"GIvE US BREAD"
Cry of the Unemployed Battling With the
Kaiser's Police.

unemployed working people in the SUI
burbs of Friedricksbain resulted in a
pitched battle today. The meeting was
held under socialistic auspices and was
attended by several thousand. Violent
speeches were made and the last speaker
called on the crowd to go to Berlin. The
excited crowd shouted in response 1--WE
will CO." and "the Kaiser must see us.
A procession was formed and marched
up the Koenigstrasse, past the town
hall, to the Schloss Platz, the square on
which stands the imperial castle. Here
the crowd shouted demands for bread,
and their attitude was so threatening
that the police present sent for reinforce
ments. Being strengthened by the az
rival of aid, the police drew their sabres
and tried to disperse the crowd. The
clamorous people resisted, making use of
the clubs they carried. Several persons
were injured on both sides but the square
was cleared. The persons arrested in
clude a number of women.
Another row occurred at about $50 p.
M, near the Brandenburg gate. About
800 men out of employment assembled
with the intention of holding q demon
stration. They quarreled among them
selves and free fight ensued. All were
finally dispersed by the police. During
the evening, hundreds of unemployed
persons carried by storm butchers and
bakers ships in the Koepenik and
Frankfurter quarters of the CITY, They
smashed the windows, looting the shops
of their contents. The police made re-
peated charges upon these disturbers AID
were engaged in conflicts with them
81 ho oh die
persed.
WANT A BI-METALIC AGREEMENT.
India Merchants Say the Silver Rupee is
becoming Worthless.
LONDON, February PA despatch to
the Times from Calcutta says an address
presented to the government today by
the Bengal Chamber of Commerce on,
the subject of exchange, says it is impos-
sible for men in business to have any
confidence in the future value of the ru-
pee. It adds that it is the belief of the
members of the chamber of commerce
that no complete remedy for the f1uctua-
ton in the rates of exchange can be
effected except by either the establish
ment, by international agreement, of q
system of free coinage of both gold and
silver at fixed rates, or the adoption OF
gold standard by India. Failing in these
remedies, they see nothing in the future
except the gradual demonstration Of
silver by one country after another with
violent and endless fiuctuation on the rel
atives values of gold and silver and fall
in the value of the rupee to an extent inn
possible to predict.
Cabinet Maker Burgeois.
PARIS February 25-The latest report
this evening is. that M. Bourgeois has un3
dertaken to organize a ministry, to in
clude M. Bourgeois, president of the
council and minister of the interior, M.
De Freycinet, minister of war, and NJ.
Ribot minister of foreign affairs.
Austrian Barbarism.
VIENNA, February 25 = The police
have stopped the distribution of bread,
on the ground that the assembling of
thousands of poor constitutes public
danger.
Victims Number Eleven.
LISBON, February 25. Eleven men
were killed, and five injured by the ex-
plosion yesterday at the quarry near the
royal palace at Ajuda.