Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-02
MOB MAKES PRAGUE HOWL
Smashes Windows and Makes Things
Generally Unpleasant,
TWO PERSONS KILLED AND MANY INJURED
Streets Held by Twelve Bnttnlions OF
Infantry and Squadron of Hus-
sars-Czech Newspapers
Responsible.

| IhhGOb, BOneUlld, Dec, -luCTe
was renewal of the rioting here
last evening. The windows Of the
| German theater, German schools, res
taurants, residences and newspaper Offices
were broken. The troops cleared the streets
Many people were injured and number of
arrests were made.
During the afternoon the riots increased.
The synagogue windows were smashed, and
the windows of houses displaying German
trade signs in several streets Of the Jewish
quarter Since o'clock this evening the
streets have been held by twelve battaliuns
OF infantry and a squadron of Hussars. All
traffic is suspended and the shops and bust
ness houses are closed.
In spite Of the military large Czech mob
made descent on the German quarter and
plundered houses and stores in several
streets The furniture OF we'll known Ge--
man cafe was piled up in the street and set
on fire. When a detachment OF troops ap-
preached to disperse the rioters, the soldiers
were greeted with showers of stones. broken
glass, and other missiles. The officer in COM
nand ordered his troops to prepare to fire,
but at the urgent request of police official
the order was not carried into effect.
TWO KILLED.
Shortly after 8 o'clock a mob attempted
to storm cartridge factory at Ziszhchow a
suburb of Prague on the other side of Mol
dau. The troops stationed at the factory
poured volley into the crowd. It is known
that at least two persons were killed out
right and it is feared others were killed or
wounded. The same body of rioters set fire
to house at Ziszhchow, but the flames
were soon quenched. At various other parts
| Of the city and suburbs windows were
smashed, and German sign boards demol-
ished. 1t is said the mob was incited by
articles in the Czech newspapers and By
false report that tho German students had
organized an attack on the Czech National
| theater.
Later crowds made repeated rushes and at
| tempts to storm the German newspaper
offices were made, but by II o'clock the town
was quiet and the troops had been with
drawn except patrols at threatened points.
In Smichow, the southwest suburb of
Prague, and a thickly populated industrial
quarter, at late hour a riotous mob at
tackled ard plundered the German National
school. The rioters fired shots at the police
detachment which arrived on the scene to
disperse them whereupon the commanding
| SihSSF, uStlhS Win great pIOHlplIluuG, uFtN
his revolver and fired at one of the ring
| leaders, the bullet piercing his arm. He
then arrested the man and the result of this
energetic action was the dispersal OF the
mob without much further difficulty
| The German gymnasium in the Altstadter-
ring, in the center of the city, was plum
dered by mob which was finally dispersed
by combined charge of soldiers and police
FANF E,--T a f,T,-,r
Already resenting the German jubilations
and ilIuminations of clubs and beer halls
over the fall of Count Badeni, the Czech
population was still further melted by the
speech OF the Czech burgomaster delivered
Monday night to the town council.
Two special sufferers from the riots are
| Baron Won Athrenthal, a representative OF
the German landowners in the Reichsrath,
and Count Won Salm. Baron Won Athren-
thal's place is on the Wenzel's Platz. The
mob smashed the windows and tore out the
window frames on the ground floor last
| night. Similar outrages were committed at
| Count Won Salm's place. which is the ed-
torial Office of the German paper Bohemia.
During the night the Athrenthal place was
| closed up, but the rioters removed the
| planks and threw large stones into the lux
| uriantly furni2hed rooms, smashing valuable
objects of art and costly furniture. Damage
to the amount of many thousand forms has
! been done to German firms, clubs and other
| Institutions having German patrons No
performance was given at the German theater
| tonight. The constant cry Of the rioters was
| Down with the Germans" Down with the
Jews"
TRI COLORS FOR PROTECTION
| Women yenturing en- the streets were
obliged to wear the Slav tri-color in order
to avoid being attacked. German sign boards
are being hastily removed by their owners
and replaced with Czech inscriptions No
body dares to utter a word in German.
| The Klnsky palace was plunlared OF its
furniture which was thrown through the
windows, heaped in the street, and set on
fire, the mob preventing the fire brigade
from approaching.
The Wenzels Platz, where the revolution
of lS48 began, has been the chief center of
excitement. 1t is about sixty yards in width
and seventy yards in length, and will hold
| 100 600 people.
Tho police and military have made 200
arrests and it is reported tonight that alto.
gethe. eighty persons have been injured
AA-'i-''i A9bt-SlII4af JtG. las II result il
the threatening mob gatherings yesterday
the houses OF German residents are specially
guarded by the police Today 5000 people
gathered in front of the town hall and after
singing national songs, proceeded to the Ger
man gymnasium where they broke the win
dows, The police dispersed the crowd, wound
ing one. The rioters then returned to the
town hall, where, failing TO obtain the lib
Grafton of some of the rlngleaders who had
been arrested, they broke the windows of the
hall and OF several buildings adjacent.
At the United States consulate the Ameri-
can tag was hoisted.
1t is said that the riots were organized by
secret society animated by hatred Of Ger
mans and Jews Shortly before midnight
there were fresh disorders and two shops
in the Pingmangakse we're broken open and
! pilaged. Disorders are reported in various
other suburbs.
At Weinberg the rioters sprinkled shop
with petroleum and set it on fire At Lieben
| twenty-one armed rioters were arrested. An
ether plundered a llquor saloon and shortly
afterward the patrol found tweRty persons
lying drunk in the street
schroeder Case settled.