Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-03-10
TROUBLE ABROAD.
Hungry Men Looting Bakers Shops
In Dantzlc, Germany.
An UNKEPT PROMISE The CAUSE.
Before Much Damage Was Done the En-
ragged Horde Was Dispersed-
Great Distress Reported
In Vienna.

BERLIN, March 3 Since the disturb
ances of last week in this city the UNI
employed men throughout Germany
have been in n state of ferment that
would require but little t. cause an
open outbreak.
A few days ago the unemployed
workingmen Of Dantzic called upon the
authorities to furnish them with labor,
no matter what IL was, 70 keep them
selves AMI their families from starving
When the dep tation OF unemployed
recently waited upon tue authorities
they received a pr mise that some thing
would be done for them, aud to-day, in
obedience to notice, 800 men pro-
ceeded 10 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 22O men to be taken
e. the farms Those who were refused
employment were bitter in their de-
nuncati n Of the tri k, as they termed
it, that had been p aged upon them
The suggestion that food was plenty
in the shops was seized upon with
avidity. The mob left the vicinity OF
the landin! age in con pact mass,
rushed through the street hurting i'm
prccat ons at the authorities and
declaring that they woild steal
before they would starve. Every
baker. shop they came acr IS
they looted, and some of the gaunt,
pale faced men could be seen devour-
ing the spoils in n manner which
showed that they had not tasted food
in long time. theirs placed the
bread they hal seized under their coats
With the intention of carrying IL 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.
The mob was constantly gaining
fresh acce'sions and the riots were as
suming formidable proportions before
dctachmrnts of police were sent TO that
part Of the city in which the rioting
and pillnging was going on. After
struggle with tho rioters, who, in
famed with their successes, resisted
the police, the latter made deter
mined charge and succeeded in dispers.
ing them
The news from Dantzic has hal
very III qnieting effect here and the af-
fair Is cagcr.y discussed by the official
circle and b. the worlSiigmen. 1t is
taken 20 give further proof, IL any
were needed, Of the bad state of fairs
I at exists throughout the country.
A later dispatch fr m Dantzic how
ever, places n somewhat better aspect
up the disturbance at least so far rs
the lnoting of shops and wagons is con-
ccrned. Ihi dispatcr says that after
the speakers hal addressed the dissap-
pointed worSingmen n majority of
the latter, without needing the APP
peals to right their own wrongs, turned
TO their homes. Those who did the
rioting and pillaging were, as in the
case a. Berlin, not genuine working
men. but dock rats and other lonfers.
They took advantage Of the excitement
to give their thievi,h propensities full
play, and the worlSingmen were cred
tied by the police with the ir crimes
DISTRESS IN VIENNA.
LONDON, March 3 "A special agent
OF Reuters telegram company, who is
inquiring into the distress in Vienna,
paints a terrible picture OF the distress
that prevails in that city. There are
many houses, he says whose splendid
oxteriors give no suspicion OF their
IN SCRABBLE interiors Cellars in such
houses, he allirms, are found crowded
with starving persons who are out OF
work AMI Others who are earning only
n mere rittlncc. lIHndreds are unable
to pay rent and exist in daily fear of
eviction, But in spit OF all this misery
there is n total absence OF vice among
tho euHara-s