The record-union., 1893-04-15
Strikers Again Come in Contact
With Police at Brussels.
SEVERAL SERIOUS CONFLICTS RE-
PORTED ELSEWHERE.
Armed Chinese Attack Two villages
and Surround n Detachment of
:, British Soldiers in Burmah-Cholera
Continues to Spread in Franco and
Austria-Many Deaths Reported.
Special to the REooRD-UN1oS.

hECORD-UNION.
BRUSSELS. April 1.-THE disorderly
demonstrations were renewed to-day.
Strikers paraded the streets and twice
came into conflict with the police. The
strikers threw stones and bottles at the
police and resisted orders to disperse.
Several persons were hurt. The strike is
gaining ground in the District of Mons,
IN the province of Hainaut, and more
trouble is fermenting there.
A battalion of infantry has been sent to
the town of Dour, nine miles from Mons.
where there is disposition to violence.
AT Quaregnon, four miles from Mons. the
strikers are again violent, and at Was
mes, six miles from Mons, and Paturages,
four miles from Mons, the situation has
already assumed dangerous aspect.
The strikers have been parading the
streets, armed with picks and spades, and
have attacked and plundered a number of
houses and wrecked the works of COL
liery. AS their numbers have increased
they have grown more violent and ag-
gressive.
AT the latest advices they were threat
ening to cut the telegraph wires, and thus
prevent the news of their depredations
and outrages from being carried at once
to the authorities. The greatest anxiety
prevails.
At meeting to-day of committee of
the Chamber of Repres ap-
! pointed to prepare revision of the Con-
stitution, Jansen and Feron announced
| that they and forty other members of the
Left would accede to the scheme of Nys-
sen, based on the principal of plural
voting.
This would give the Government, which
accepts Nyssen's scheme, requisite two
thirds majority for carrying the revision
of the Constitution in the House. thus
solving the electoral problem. 1t is hoped
this may result in calming the present
agitation.
The police made an attempt this even
ing to disperse an enormous crowd out
side the peoples hall. The crowd re-
sisted stubbornly, and many working
men were wounded. Great crowds after
ward gathered in various parts ofthe city.
The tradesmen became panlc-stricke and
closed their shops. Mounted gendarmes
made repeated charges on the crowds.
Many persons were seriously injured. A
! l1OD III rue NlOleltS eXIlngulSheQ the
street lamps and attacked the police in
the dark. Several shots were exchanged,
and some blood was shed. Several news
papers were compelled to suspend publi-
cation because the compositors joined the
strikers. Most OF the theaters closed their
doors. The entire civic guard was or
dered under arms, and regular troops
confined to the barracks are in readiness
for any emergency. A feeling of dread
prevails everywhere.
Reports Of disorders continue to come
in from the provinces. A veritable battle
was fought in Louvain to-day. The
gendarmes became powerless to cope
with the strikers, and the authorities had
to call on the troops to preserve order.
A dispatch received from Lege this
evening says the strike there is ended,
and all the mines are now fully manned.
a desperate encounter took place to-
day between strikers and police at Was
muel, near Mons. Twenty strikers
| were arrested,