Arizona republican., 1894-01-21
GER MAN GOSSIP.
Illegal Assembly Made
to Order.
Dispersed by the Police
With Brutality.
An Incident to Demand Public
Investigation.
The Scion of an Old Berlin Family
Marries a Riding Mistress Low
born but Wealthy.

Copyrighted 1894, by the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Jan. 2O.-The comparatively
insignificant riot near Friederichsmain
on Thursday morning has been magni-
fed owing to the brutality of the police,
into an important affair which will
probably be brought up in the reichstag
and will lead to a very bitter debate
by the socialists. Even the better class
of workmen are greatly excited at the
apparently cruel manner in which the
meeting at Lips brewery was dispersed
by the police who are accused of per-
fdy in ruse said to have been en-
ployed in order to convert what was
originally legal into an illegal meet
ing.
According to law people intending to
hold public meeting must notify the
police twentyfour hours previous to the
| time fixed for the assembly and writ
ten permit to hold it must be shown
the policemen in charge of the meeting.
In this case due notice was given and
the permit was issued but Rodrian, an
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 there were
ordered to disperse.
The people began to leave the hall
quietly but the police pressed on them
without warrant and a stubborn re-
sistance soon resulted. The police
mounted and on foot, beat the crowd
with the fat of their sabres and clubs
and the workmen finally broke and
fed, followed by the police clubbing
them furiously and attacking innocent
pedestrians and spectators. The police
continued the onslaught unreasonably
long actually following the people into
their houses, beating them. The peo-
pie finally barricaded their houses and
! fled to the cellars to escape the policies
brutality. Men and women, old and
young were eqally subject to the fierce
onslaught. Many were beaten until
they sank helpless to the ground.
Socialist organs are now making cap
ital out OF the af3ir and demand q strict
inquiry into the police savagery, as
they call it. Socialists claim it was for
the express purpose Of aggravating the
workmen. The police say they had
information tina; anarchist proceedings
were contemplated at this meeting.
The matter has even been laid before
the reichstag for inquiry and five large
meetings of workmen and others have
been called to discuss the matter aud
the results will be used in interpella-
ting the government in demand for the
punishment OF the police concerned in
the affair. The anarchists are iubilant
over the situation, declaring it will
greatly swell their ranks.
Count Pasadowsky, secretary Of the
treasury, committed clear blunder in
the Introduction of the wine tax bill in
the reichstag, the provisions being un-
acceptable on account of party debates
upon it. The result was that the de-
bate was quite languid and the benches
were almost empty in view of the GER
tainty of the ultimate rejection of the
bill. Baron Bulach, on behalf of the
wine growers of Reichsland, ener-
getically protested against the measure,
declaring its regulations would control
the growers. He SAID vineyards en-
ploying 100000 persons would be af-
fected by the new tax and feeling oi
violent discomfort has already been
aroused. A sensation was caused by
the fiat declaration of Baron Mittracht
premier of Wurtem burg, that the GOV.
ernment of Wurtem burg could not
accept the bill. The premier added
that his government would moi
object to tax on sparkling and artifi
cial wines, but he refused to support
the measure in it's present form. After
further debate the bill was referred tc
the committee in spite of the opposition
of the radical party.
Some stir has been created in Ber
lin society by the marriage OF a mem
Der of one of the Oldest and most aris
tocratic families of Prussia, Elimel
Won Sanchen and Clothilde Magen, {
riding mistress and granddaughter o
the well known circus proprietor, Ern
est REM. She is one of foremost of he
profession and is millionaire, hayinl
inherited REM fortune. The affair il
a love match. As Clothilde bears
spotless reputation society is favorably
disposed toward her.