Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-03
RENEWAL OF RIoTIXG At PRAGUE



Preserve order.
PRAGUE, Dec 2.-Rloting was resumed
here at o'clock this morning when stores
and houses in two streets of tho old town
were pillaged. Seven battalions Of infantry
and two squadrons Of cavaliy were called
out to dlsperso the mob. Two additional bat
taions of infantry from Koenigsgrat2 and
three battaions of infantry from The esien-
stad. have arrived here,
The burgomaster and the municipal coun-
cllors today submitted to the governor com
plants against the German STU
dents in connection with the re-
cent disturbances. The governor re-
Piled that while he well understood recent
events had caused great excitement he was
compelled to poin out that there was not
justification fcr the excesses in this city and
he further declareI that the utmost rigor
would be exercised in order to re-es;ablish
order and protect the property Of Germans.
The Poltik declaring that the present
agitation was started by persons to whom
tho fatherland and nationality are matters
OF Indifference appeals today to all parties
to restrain movement which might be
fatal not only to the fatherland and to its
chief city, but to the political aspirations Of
the Bohemian nation
Martal law has been proclaimed here as
well 'ss in the judicial districts OF Karolone-
methll. Srkow, Weinberg and Smoclow, as
q result of recent riots.
Some OF the persons arrested nt Smichow
will be court martiaed for receiving with
jesrs and grccns the proclamation deC!a ing
the city under marital law.
The military patrol fired on a body OF
rioters who were trying to dem0ish q Jcwis1
synagogue at Smichow, Nobody was hi.
and The mob fed iri confusion. During the
day eighteen persons have been wounded
Including two soldiers.
At the time this dispatch was sent. ~
O'Clock p. M. the suburbs were peaceful Cn7
the most of the tlocos are being with
drawn.
Tho factory employees took no part in tins
doys disorders and thsra has been no a.
rests in their districts.
There We're fursher eXcessss in Weinberg.
The police were Obliged to use their re-
volvere. A house in Altst1dter ring YVES
wrecked and the mob was dispersed by a
mounted patrol. There we Other acts Of
pil9ge at Seskhout. The mobs everywhere
wero quickly dispersed. The town is tran
gull this evening and is being patrclled by
troops
There have been eer.ous collisions between
tho police and large mObs tonight in the
Smithow and Zlzhow suburbs of the city.
Ejgh. persons were wounded. The police
mad, ninety arress.
The ambulance association has issued &
report showing that within the last twenty
fcrf hours twenty persons have been killed
$50 dangerously w.urGCl and 500 more G.
been burned out As further indication o
the gravity OF the situation tro ps to the
Number OF 10000, equipped with ammunition
and other parsphGralis as for q campaign
have been engaged in suprrossng the riots
1t Is not exactly martial Jaw that hes bstH
proclaimed but rather the Institution a
summary civil procedure called standrecht
Eho.ohy special tribunal cf seven iudgeo
Is empowered to impose capital and other
sovers sentences for ofensCs ordinarily
.bf.T ic 1rr1iO O,t
q death sentence by the tribunal, which
must be put into execution within two hours
b. the military II the hangm9n is not avail
able.
The intimate knowledge the mob has dis
played of the eXaC. position Of all t1e wealth
iess German houses and CT valuable stores
snow that the riots were organized in ad'
vance. The young C2cchS nave paraded the
streets wearing punlered jewelry, and com
panatively few German houses have eGclpel
attack Further troops are being drafted into
Prague from Vienna and elsewhere, and to-
morrow there will bo AT least u 900 sol
diors in the city and in its immediate
suburbs
VIENNA. Dec. 2.-The parliamentary dead
dock continues RarOn GautsCh, The new pre-
mier, has made NJ progress toward a ccm
promise satisfactory to t1e rival factions anc
1t begins to be feared that lhe pTesea
Relcfsrath will never reassemble. Certain
II Is that If the Rechsrlth meets with DR.
Won Abrahomovics in the chair the same
dlsorderly scenes will occur as before.
Riots more or less serious. are reported
from Innsbruk, Brunn, Linz and Saaz. II
some cases II is alleged that the disturbance!
have been encouraged by the municipal au
taorties. Generally the Bohem.n jews
have suffered most A report is current to-
night, as yet unconfrmed, that a mob a
Prague attackel the soldiers and a san
culinary encounter ensued, According to this
rulror che troops fired four vOlloys kilins
twenty-five rioters outright and woundini