The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

T-arue. Bohemia, Dec. There was
q renewal Of the rioting here last even
ing. The windows Of the German the
asre, German schools. restaurants, res
licences and newspaper offices were
broken. The troops cleared the streets.
Man~ people were injured and a num-
? Der OF arrests were made.
The university buildings are threat
ened by the rioters and have to be pro-
tected by large bodies of police. Troops
have been drafted to Judenstadt, owing
to the mob threatening to riot there.
DISTURBANCE INCREASES.
During the afternoon the riots in
creased. the synagogue windows were
smashed and the windows of the houses
of Jews displaying German trade signs
in several streets Of the Jewish quar-
ter. Since s o'clock this evening the
streets have been held by i battallons
OF infantry and q squadron OF Hus-
sars AZ traffic is suspended ana the
Shops ana business houses are closed.
PLUMBER GERMANS.
In spite OF the military, a large Czech
mob made q descent during the even
ing upon the German quarter and plum
Gered houses and shops in several
streets. The furniture of well known
German cafe was piled up in the street
and set on fire. When a detachment
of troops approached to dispense the
rioters. the soldiers were greeted with
showers of stones, broken glass and
other missiles. The officer in command
ordered his troops to prepare to hre
but at the urgent request OF the po-
lice official the order was not carried
into effect
FIRED INTO A CROWD.
Shortly after o'clock a mob at
tempted to attack a cartridge factory
at Zischow, q suburb of Prague on
the other side of AIoldau. The troops
stationed at the factory poured vol
lev into the crowd. 1t is known that
at least two persons We're killed out
= right and it is feared that others were
killed or wounded. The same body of
rioters set fire to a house at ZischoW,
but the flames We're soon quenched. In
various other parts of the city and the
suburbs windows were smashed and
German sign boards demolished. 1t is
said that the mob was melted by arti-
cles in the Czech newspapers and by
q false report that the German stu
dents had organized an attack upon
The Czech National theatre here.
AT late hour threatening crowds
maze IeDPdlCu IuSIGS anu al dllEIIyl
to storm the German newspaper offices
were made, but by II o'clock the town
was quiet and the troops had been
withdrawn. except patrols at threat
ened points.
MOB DISPERSED.
In smichow, the southwest suburb of
Prague, and thickly populated indus
trial quarter, at = late hour in the
evening. 4 riotOus mob attacked and
plundered the German national school
The rioters fired shots at the police
detachment which arrived on the scene
20 dispense them, whereupon the COM
manding officer, acting with great
promptitude, drew his revolver and
fred al one of the ring leaders, the
bullet piercing his arm. He then ar
rested the man and the result of this
energetic action was the dispersal of
the mob without much further diff
Guilty.
The German gymnasium in the Alt
staedter- Ring, in the center Of the city,
was plundered by 4 mob which was
finally dispersed by a combined charge
p, of soldiers and police.
WHAT INCITED CzECHS.
Already resenting the German jubila.
tons and Nominations of clubs anC
beer halls over the fall of Count Bad.
eni, the Czech population was still fur
Their melted by the speech Of the Czecf
burgonaster. delivered Monday night tt
the town council.
Two special sufferers from the riots
are Baron Won Aerenthal. the represen-
tative OF the German land owners il
the reichsrath. and Count Won Salm
Baron Aerenthals place is on the Wen.
zels Piatz. The mob smashed the win
do9s and tore out the window frames
on the ground floor last night. Some
outrages were committed on Count
Salm's place, which is the editoria
Office of the German paper, Bohemia