The Irish standard., 1893-04-22
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me Universal suffrage Riots Daily Grow
Ing Worse--A Pitched Battle ut Mons
IN Which Four Strikers Are Killed
/ Troops Called Ont.
BRUSSELS, April 49,. The industrial
revolution against the chamber Of dep
uties is in full progress The govern
ment has issued decree calling out
all the militia for the defense Of the
state This means the mobilization OF
some $4,000 troops against the working
men.
The feeling Of unrest continues to
spread. There is no denying the fact
that the crisis is acute. Excited meet
ings in favor of universal suffrage are
being held throughout the country.
Everywhere impassioned appeals are
made to those who live by toll to join
the great demonstration now in prog
resS.
/ The strikers at Mons have resorted to
the use of dynamite to enforce their de-
mands. A bomb exploded close to the
Petit Washes church with great vio-
lence, shattering the stained glass win
dow of the church and doing other
damage. There is no clew to the per
petrators, but the act is generally as
cribed to the socialists.
The strikers INDUCED in all manner
of threats against the government. and
as the day wore on they became en-
boldened and determined to take poses
sion of the town for labor procession.
When the mob attempted to march
through the streets it was met by
strong detachment OF the civic
guard. No attention was paid to
the order TO dispense. Hooting and
yelling they attempted to march
on, and defed the guards to fire upon
them. The guard fred upon the crowd,
but this did not effect their dispersal
On the contrary it only Infatuated them,
and charge en- masse was made upon
the guard. A desperate hand-to-hand
conflict ensued. The main body
of the strikers was broken up,
but groups Of struggling men could
be seen in the side streets leading from
the main thoroughfare. The battle was
long and bitterly contested, but finally
the guards were victorious. 1t is known
that four OF the miners were killed.
Many of the rioters were wounded and
a number were taken to the hospital.
The killing Of the four strikers
has added greatly to the ex-
element in the town and there is
danger of more serious outbreak.
Men and women from the adjacent
mining villages are focking into Mons
and the authorities are anxiously await
ing the events of the night. Mons is
the center of the great Borinage coal
mining district. Three fourths of all
the miners in Belgium are employed in
this district.
In the Gght between the workingmen
and civic guard in the streets of Mons
fourteen soldiers were, wounded. Three
will not recover. They were removed
to the hospital. where their anti-1nor
tenn statements were taken for the pub
lie prosecutor.
Many of the men employed at Ant
werp in loading and discharging YES
sells and other work about the wharves
did not quit work in obedience to the
order of the men engineering the
strike This inflanled the strikers,
who made an attack on the workers.
The gendarmes took hand in the af
FRAY The strikers were armed with
revolvers and used them. The gend-
armes were quick to respond, and it is
thought that several of the strikers
were wounded. A number of the ring
leaders among the strikers were
wounded
l. Some of the more enthusiastic and
hot-b]ooded strikers at Grammont held
an impronptu meeting at which fiery
speeches were made. The gendarmes at
tempted to break up the meeting, but
met with stout resistance. The fight
was transferred to the street, and
though the gendarmes had the advan
tage of arms and discipline the strikers
struggled desperately and were only dis
persed after long contest and after
two of the gendarmes and a large num-
Der of the rioters were serisusly
wounded.
In the Charlerol district, where 3d.
900 miners are employed, work in the
mines may be.said to be at a standstill,
for 20, 1000 of the miners have quit work
and are riotous. Most of these miners
are miserably poor and they and their
families are bound to suffer.
WRECKS ON THE ANN ARBOR.
Two Killed and Several Hurt In q Col
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