The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-29
BADENI is OUT.
Austrian Cabinet Gives Up and
Resigns.
Emperor Francis Joseph Dis
solves the Reichsrath.
STOPS THE TROUBLE
People Settle Down on Receiv-
ing the News.
school Superintendent Will
Form a New Cabinet.

Vienna, Nov. 29.-The Austrian ministry
have rendered their designations to EN-
per Francis Joseph. who accepted them
and entrusted Baron Gautsch. who holds
the portfolio of public instruction of the
fetirlng ministry, with the task of form
ing new cabinet
emperor Francis Joseph addressed an
autograph letter Count Badeni, decreeing
the adjournment of the reichsrath until
further orders
During the assembling of the reichsrath
dense masses of people. for the most part
workmen, thronged the Ringstrasse from
the university to the outer gate of Hof-
burg. charge by the mounted police.
with drawn swords, failing to dispense
them, a body of hussars cleared the
streets at this point, many persons being
wounded The ambulance society imme>
dlately sent two vans to attend the in
jured.
At least ten thousand people gathered
about the same time in front of the town
nail and the provincial criminal court to
demonstrate in favor of Herr Wolff, who
was to be arraigned there on a charge
OF public violence committed when being
removed from the unterhaus by the police
acting under the orders of President
Won Abrahamovics. The police, with
drawn swords, dispersed them. one mans
skull being fractured and two others be-
ing severely injured. A third ambulance
was sent to that point.
simultaneously, meetings of workmen
were held in various parts of the city;
but the police dissolved these, making
twelve arrests. The streets became more
quiet during the afternoon, but at sunset
thousands reassembled in the Frangesey-
sing and the Rathhaus park, where they
INDUCED in stormy protests against the
government, the passengers in the street
cars and omnibuses Whe went by joining
in the cries of Down with Badeni"'
Suddenly a change came over the scene.
The report spread like wildfire that Count
Badeni had resigned. The demonstra-
lions ceased almost instantly, when the
news was confirmed by the police author
tiles and their subordinates, who an
nounced to the people at various points
that they were instructed to inform them
of the cabinets resignation.
DR.. Lueger the burgomaster of Vienna,
driving through the crowds, announced
the resignation from his carriage, re-
peating it little later from the windows
of the town hall, with the addition that
Herr Gautsch had bee. appointed to form
a cabinet. He appealed to the people to
return quietly to their homes. His an
nouncement was greeted with thunders of
applause, and an extra edition of the
Wiener Zeitung, with an official state
ment of the resignation, still further re-
assured the people.
Upwards of 5000 people tried to organ
ize a demonstration in the early evening
in front of the foreign office building. but
this was prevented by closing the APP
proaches to the palace. After o'clock
the city was quiet. The judge of the pro-
vincial criminal court discharged Herr
Wolff from CUSTODY.
There were demonstrations also at
Gratz, Prague and Asch, in Bohemia, but
they were not of a serious character.