The Portland daily press., 1892-02-27

Hands.
BERLIN, February 26.-The authorities
have concluded that the Socialist out
break has spent it's force and have with
drawn the extra police. The rioting
was kept up all night and for much of
today.
In Weissenburg Strasse during the
night small bodies of worlSingmen took
possession of that thoroughfare. Many
of them carried red flags, the emblems
of the social democracy, and they rushed
hither and thither with no idea of any
thing save to defy the authorities. Final
ly their enthusiasm, if it may be so
termed, took another form. They broke
into beer saloon and looted it of its
contents. Then they amused them
selves by breaking windows. A body OF
200 men took possession OF Lands burg
Strasse and forming an irregular process
sion. marched to Gruenenweg, shouting,
yelling and smashing the windows of
Stores and dwellings along their route.
At the same time a mob numbering 1000
men marched from the Frankfurter
quarter to and along Schilling Strasse.
They, too, acted in most disorderly
manner, jostling the passers by,
Smashing Windows and Yelling
at the top of their voices. Similar scenes
were enacted in the Koenigsthor district.
The police were utterly unable to cope
with so many disturbances in so many
different localities, and for some little
time the rioters had things all their own
way. When the police did meet a mob,
however, they had little difficulty in dis
persing it.
Inhamed by their excesses of yester-
day and last night, the riotous crowds,
MANY of the members of which had
passed the whole night on the streets,
began to renew their disturbances this
morning. The law-abiding residents OF
the CITY have taken alarm and many of
| them did not dare, to leave their dwell
ings.
| At an early hour menacing crowds OF
workingmen began to assemble in the
Unter den Linden. There was strong
| force of police present, however, and
| they kept the crowd of idlers continual
| ly moving. They would not allow the
| slightest attempt at speech-making, and
! even muttered reference to lawless acts
| if it fell upon the ears of policeman,
| was
Signal for the Arrest
of the man who made it. By noon the
crowds had been augmented to such an
extent that the police felt it would be
dangerous to allow them to remain in
the streets, especially as threats Of loot
ing shops were being made. They, there
| fore. charged the crowds, but were met
| with a determined resistance, and re-
peated charges were necessary before the
| crowds were dispersed.
| Crowds gathered throughout the after
noon in the central parts of the city.
They were soon dispersed by the police,
| and for the most part with little resist
ance, but, in a few instances, serious en-
| counters occurred and q number of per-
sons were injured. At a quarter past
three O'Clock, Prince Henry, brother of
| the Emperor, drove in an open carriage
through the Unter-den-Linden. The
Emperor had previously appeared on
| horse back with small escort and been
loudly applauded. The damage done
Yesterday amounts to- thousands OF
marks. Ambulances were kept busy all
the afternoon and evening taking the
wounded to the hospitals.
The newspapers warn the people
against over-estimating the importance
Of the disturbances, which, they say, are
due to the roughs always ready to COM
nit outrages. The socialist paper, the
Vorwarts, disclaims on behalf of the
socialist leaders, any connection with
the rioters. The paper declares the
members of the mob belong to the dregs
| of the city'S DopulatiOn