The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-17
SUNDAY RIOTS In BELGIUM
Mayor Bulls, of Brussels, Felled to the
Ground by Cowardly Socialists.
Several Encounters Between the Police and
Mobs in Which the Former We're Forced to
Use Their Swords-English D0ckmen.


Brussels Police K-pr Busy Dispensing Rioters
-Cowardiy Attack on the Msvor.
B~RUssELs. April 16-This has been a day
of extreme watchfulness and anxiety on
the part of the authorities throughout
tha the strike is spreading steadily. and
that the temper of the strikers is growing
worse. In this city the morning passed
without disturbances. Several suffrage
meetings were held. but they were orderly,
and the speeches were not violent. This
afternoon. however. thousands of working
men held o turbulent meeting on the road
TO the race course, outside the city limits.
The advertised object of the meeting was
to denounce the proclamation of Mayor
Bulls prohibiting public demonstrations
In favor OF universal suffrage. Noiders.
the extreme Socialist leader. who was ar
rested and released on April IL. made an In
oendiary speech. In which he applied the
most obnoxious epithefs to NJ. Bulls. Inc
crowd became uproarious, shouted Tor re-
yenge upon the Mayor. and encouraged
Nolders to still more lntemperate language.
The police ordered the crowd TO disperse.
The workIDgmen answered with Jeers.
toward the platform. Some OF the crowd
fired revolvers and q few threw stones. but
the rest retreated without show OF hghr
toward the city. Nobody was injured.
Mayor Bulls was walking home ON the
Avenue Louise. about an hour later. when
some two hundred Socialists. returning
from the meeting, came down the street.
They hooted and jostled him, but allowed
HIM 10 pass. After he had left the mob
about three PAGES behind him three men
ran out and one of them struck him a
heavy blow with a stick OH the head. As
Buis turned he received another blow on
the back OF the neck. He fell bleeding and
unconscious to the pavement. A resident
OF the Avenue Louise. who had seen the
first Of the encounter. and had run for the
police. returned with help just as the May
or Was struck down. The police charged
the Socialists. and, alter q hight OF ten
minutes. dispersed them. Two of the
crowd were arrested. but 10 has not been
ascertained whether or not they are of the
three who attacked NJ. Bulls. The Mayor
Will recover.
This evening turbulent crowds have
fought the police in several districts of the
city. In the Rue De In Bavier. near the
Mals0n du Peuple, the mob became so
threatening that mounted police CHARGED
them with drawn swords, The rioters
threw jars of greek fire and repeated vol.
the mob were cnt or rampled upon.
Twelve were arrested. Several policemen
were burned and bruised. The city is as
If in q state OF siege. All places of amuse-
ment are deserten. Inc ponce anu INC
rioters have the streets to themselves. A
dispatch from Mons says that the rioters
have had possession of many streets there
since early in the afternoon. Reinforce
ments of soldiers have been sent from this
city.
. Despite the increasing r~iotousness of the
people. KING leopold opened to-day. before
an immense crowd. the new park conserva-
tories at Laeken. The people were perfect
w orderly and received the King enthusi-
nstically. The respect shown bv them was
due not only to their appreciation of his
confidence in them. but also to the knowl-
edge that he favors modification of the
suffrage.