The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-01-21
Excitement in Berlin Over a
Recent Riot.
Wanton Brutality Practiced by
Minions of the Law.
Workmen Trapped Into an Unlawful
Assemblage.
Inoffensive Men and Women Beaten
With Eabers and Clubs-The Affair
to Be Brought Before the
Reichstag.

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BERLIN, Jan. 20.-A comparatively
insignificant riot near Friedrichsmain
Thursday morning has been magnided.
owing to the brutality of the police,
into an important affair which will
probably be brought before the reich
stag and lead to a very bitter debate.
The Socialists. even the better class OF
workmen, are greatly excited at the ap-
parent cruel manner in which meet
ing at Lips brewery WAS dispersed by
the police, who were accused of per6dy
in ruse said to have bean employed in
order to convert what was originally
legal into an illegal meeting. Accord
ing to the law, people intending to hold
public meeting must notify the poll ce
"a hours previous to the time fixed for
assembly a written permit to hold
must be shown the policeman in charge
OF the meet ng. In this case due notice
was given and permit issued, but Rod
rian, an anarchist metal worker, to
whom it was given, was arrested on his
way to the meeting with the permit in
his pocket. AS no permit could be
shown at the meeting, the unemployed
gathered there were ordered to dis
perses
wANToN BRUTALITY.
The people began to leave the hall
quietly, but the police pressed on them
without warrant, and stubborn resist
ance coon resulted. Police, mounted
and on foot, beat the crowd with the fiat
OF their sabers and clubs, aud the work
men finally broke and fed, followed by
the police, clubbing them furiously and
attacking innocent pedestrians and
spectators, continuing the onslaught un-
reasonably long, actually following peo-
nle into their houses and beating them.
The people finally barricaded the houses
ard fled to the cellars to eAcape the
| Police brutality. Men and women, old
and young, were equally subject to the
fierce onslaughts of the police. Many
were beaten until they sunk helpless to
the ground. Socialist organs are now
making capital out OF the affair, and
demand strict inquiry into the police
savagery, as they call it. The Socialists
claim it was for the express purpose OF
ageravating the workmen. The police
say they had information that dangerous
anarchist proceedings were contem-
plated at the meeting. The matter has
been laid before the reichstag for in
quiry, and five large meetings of work.
men and others have been called to dis
cuss the matter, and the results will be
used in interpellating the government in
the demand for the punishment of the
police concerned in the affair. The an
archists are jubilsnt over the situation,
laaIo rix,r, hot ~ II 0roaflv amobl THAR
ranks.
PAsADowsKY's BAD BREAK.
Count Pasadowsky, secretary of the
treasury, committed clear clunder in
the introduction of the wine tax bill in
the Reichstag, its provisions being un-
acceptable on account of party debates
upon it. The result was that the debate
was quite languid and the benches were
almost empty in view of the certainty of
the ultimate rejection of the bill. Baron
Bulach on behalf of the wine growers OF
of reichsland energeticallv protested
against the measure. declaring the regu-
lations would control the growers. He
said vineyards employing 800, 900 per-
sons would be affected by the new tax
and feeling of violent discomfort was
already aroused. A sensation was caused
by the flat declaration OF Baron Nit
tenacht, premier OF Wurtemburg, that
the government of Wurtemburg could
not accept the bill. The premier added
that his government would not object to
a tax on sparkling and artificial wines,
but refused to support the measure in
its present form. After further debate
the bill was referred to the committee,
in spite of the opposition OF the Radical
party.
A SOCIAL SENSATION.
Some stir has been created in Berlin
society by the marriage Of member OF
the oldest and most aristocratic families
of Prussia, Elmer Won Sanchen to
C!otilde Msgen, riding mistress and
granddaughter of well-known circus
proprietor, Ernest REM. Clotilde ia
one of the foremost OF her profession
and is a millionaire, having inherited
Renz's fortune. The affair is a love
match. AS Clotilde bears spotless
reputation society ia favorably disposed
towards her.