The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-07
THE AUSTRIAN RIOTS
SPREADING TO OTHER TOWNS IN
THE EMPIRE

n Houses OF German and Jewsin Various
Iowns Attacked-The Germans Making
Rsprisals-A number Of Persons lojured.
The Military court ut Prague In Session,
With the HangmaD and = Priest In At
tendance for summary Execution Of Con.
- nned Rioters
Prague, December 2-The city authori-
ties, the Bohemian National and the
students associations, and the workmens
societies met today and appointed a vigil
tancs committee. The stadtha!ter was
then waited upon and informed that the
object Of the committee was to secure
0rder and safety Of life and porperty.
Ths s~tadthalter was requested to with
draw the troops, but this he refused to
DO. declaring that he was responsible
for the maintenance OF order. The stadt-
halter. however. invited the deputation
krom the vigilance committee to request
tho committee to use its influence to pre-
vent further disturbances.
Another regiment OF infantry and q
squadron Of Dragons have arrived to re-
inforce the garrison here.
At Pilsen last evening the troops were
called upon to dispense a riotous mob of
several thousand youths. Some of the
latter were wounded and many arrests
were made. subsequently the military
forces were withdrawn. The town has
since been quiet. |
Owing to an attempt to wreck tho b.
hsmian schools at Badenboch, military
assistance has been asked for to quell
the disturbances.
At Beraum the windows OF the houses
occupied by Germans and military Off
Sers were broken yesterday evening. The
troops subsequently occupied the streets
and dispersed the rioters.
Although the streets Of Prague are still
patrolled by the military, business IN
being gradually resumed. A military
court has been established at the court
house, and the local ihangman, his as
sistants and a priest, will remain there
until further orders, in readiness to carry
out death sentences, should such steps be
necessary. The troops now here number
twenty-six battalions of ~infantry and two
-squadrons of cavalry.
Serious excuses are reported to have
been ommitte at ~KOeniggraetZ, where
the FTaenkel hotel has been partly de-
molished. Troops have been dispatched
there.
Reports from various places IN Bohe-
mia. including New Bidschow, Melnik
and Kralup, tell Of disturbances during
the last few days, the houses of Germans
and Jews being attacked by the CZechs.
The Germans of Bodenbach made repris-
als in the ~neighboring Bohemian village
OF KrOeglitZ, where a school,, two inns
and a shop were attacked. A number of
people were badly injured, despite the in
PREVENTION Of the police and b~urgomaster.
The Germans also fomented riots at
Gablonz, stoning a Bohemian school. 1t
was necessary to call out the troops to
4uen the disturbance.
Vienna, December "a d%eputation Of
Germans from Prague that waited upon
Baron Won Gautsch Won ~Frankenthurn.
new Austrian premier. today were as
be taken to preserve order and protect
property.
Herr kramarsh, vice president Of the
reichsrath, declares that neither he nor
DR.. Won AbrahamOvics, its president, will
resign in the face of mob intimaditiOn
He considers, however, that it will be
impossible to carry the Austro-Hunga-
rian compromise bill in the reichsrath.
and that the present arrangement with
imperial decree, without the assent of the
refchsrath. This probably means the
Indefinite ~.proroguation Of that body and
the reign of something like absolute gov
eminent.
The enforcement of the system Of sum-
mary trial without appeal at Prague
speedily quoted the disturbances there.
Four rioters who were arrested yesterday
were tried last night and sentenced to
twenty years penal servitude within
three hours of the time of their arrest.
There seems little to choose between the
Germans and the CZechS. In towns
where the former predominant they have
committed serious excuses against the
latter.