The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-07-14
PARIS DISORDERS.
A Series of Riots in the French Metrop
olis-nIobs and Soldiers in Collision.


olis-Mobs and Soldiers in Collision.
PARIS. July S.-Last evening opened
with the police apprehensive of riots in
many parts of the Latin quarter.
Traffic was stopped in the principal
| streets. Every open space had been
occupied by mounted police and all the
side streets were patrolled. The street
speakers were compelled to move on
| whenever they tried to call a crowd.
Most of the agitators retired to the
Seine, where they denounced the police
| and exhorted their hearers to clear the
streets of military. Round the Place
de Ia Republique, the signs of trouble
were especially numerous. All the
cafes in the boulevard du Temple and
the Boulevard Voltaire were filed at s
o'clock with workingmen and rowdies,
who were expected shortly to follow
the chief agitators into the streets and
begin the attack on police and mill
tary.
Shortly before o'clock the cafes
were empty and the mobs were again
in the streets In the Boulevard Vol
taire and the Boulevard du Temple the
rioters were armed with clubs and a
few revolvers They marched cheering
and singing toward the Place de la Re-
publique. At the corner of the Rue
d'Angouleme, the rioters in the Boule-
ward Voltaire were met by a body of
dragons and lancers. They were or
dered back, but pressed ahead. The
military charged. but although many
rioters were knocked down and
trampled upon. the mob did not
yield. The soldiers were received
with showers of stones and scattering
shots. Several were struck with clubs.
The charge was repeated and the mob
began retreating slowly. The men
backed off step by step. those in front
welding their clubs right and left and
those behind splitting up booths and
kiosls into weapons with which to
fight later IN the front. After six
charges the military had forced the
mob back to the Boulevard Richard
Lenoir, where the fighting was sus-
pended.
In their retreat the rioters had set
fire to the booths which they did not
split into clubs. For five blocks the
Boulevard Voltaire is strewn with brolS-
en- timbers. charred boards and torn
and bloody clothing. Most of the win
dows were smashed during the conflict.
Thirty or forty rioters are known to
have been seriously wounded. Many
others received slight injuries. Two
lancers are said to have been wound
ed by revolver shots. In the
Boulevard du Temple similar en-
counters took place. The mob was
driven back, but only after hard fight
ing. In the Avenue de Ia Republique
and or the Quai de Valmy, along the
Canal St. Martin, the fighting between
the rioters and the republican guards
was almost uninterrupted from $40 to
10 o'clock. Booths and carts were
dragged to the middle of the streets
and set afire. Brands were thrown
among the guards.
The radical deputies, who represent
Paris in the chamber and ma jority of
the members of the municipal council,
met yesterday afternoon in the editor
ial rooms of the Gcrminal and APP
proved the issuing of manifesto to the
people of Paris, protesting against the
closing by the government of the labor
exchange and urging the people to pre-
serve calmneSS.