Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-02

renewal of the rioting here last even
ing. The windows of the German the
atre, German schools, restaurants,
residences and newspaper offices were
broken. The troops cleared the streets.
Many people were injured and num-
Der of arrests were made.
Already resenting the German jubi.
lations and Examinations 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 Aehrenthal, repre-
sentative of the German land owners,
in the Reichsrath, and Count Won
Salm. Baron Won Aeranthals palace
is on the Wensels-Platz. The mob
smashed the windows and tore out the
window frames on the ground floor
last night. Similar outrages were COM
mitted at Count Won Salm's palace,
which is the editorial Office of the Ger
man paper Bohemia.
During the night the Aehrenthal
palace was boarded up, but the rioters
soon removed the planks and threw
large stones into the luxuriously fur
nished rooms, smashing valuable OBJ
jects of art and costly furniture. DAM
age to the amount of many thousands
of forms has been done to German
firms, clubs and other institutions
having German proprietors or patrons.
German theatre tonight.
The constant cry of the rioters was
clown with the Germans" down
with the Jews" Ladies venturnng on
the streets were obliged 10 wear the
Slav tricolor in order to avoid BENG
attacked.
German sign-boafd5 are being has
tily removed by their owners and re
placed with Czech Inscriptions. NO.
body dares to utter word IN German
The Kinsky place was plundered or
its furniture, which was thrown
through the windows, heaped IN the
street and set on fire, the mob prevent
ing the fire brigade from Approaching
The WonZels-PlatZ, where the reVo-
luton of 1S4S began, has been the cen
ter of excitement. 1t is about 60 yards
in width and $50 yards In length, and
will hold a hundred thousand people.
The police and the military nave
made two hundred arrests and 1t IS re-
ported tonight that, altogether, elghty
persons have been injured
During this afternoon the riots IN
creased The synagogue windows were
smashed, as were the windows OF the
houses of Jews displaying German
co1roro1 ctrQpfa Of the
Jewish quarter.
Since 6 o'clock this evening the
streets have been held by twelve bat
talions Of infantry and a squadron of
Hussars. All traffic is suspended and
the shops and business houses are
closed.
In spite of the military, a large Czech
mob made a descent during the even
ing upon the German quarter and plum
dered houses and shops in several
streets.
The furniture of a wellknown Ger
man cafe was piled high in the street
and set on fire. When detachment of
troops approached to disperse 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 fire, but
at the urgent request of the police the
order was not carried into effect.
Shortly after nine O'Clock a mob at
tempted to storm a cartridge factory at
Zishkow, a suburb of Prague, on the other
side of the Moidau. The troops stationed
at the factory poured a volley into the
crowd 1t is known that at least two
persons were killed outright, and it is
feared that others were killed or wounded.
The same body of rioters set fire to a
house at Zizhkow, but the flames were
econ quenched.
In various parts of the city and suburbs
windows were smashed and German sign
boards demolished. 1t is said that the
mob were melted by articles in the Czech
newspapers and by a false report that the
German students had organized an attack
upon the Czech national theatre.
At late hour threatening crowds made
repeated rushes and attempted to storm
the German newspaper Offices. but by II
clock the town was quiet and the troops
had been withdrawn except as patrols at
threatened points.
In Smichow the southeast suburb of
Prague and a thickly populated industrial
quarter, at a late hour in the evening a
riotous mob attacked and plundered the
German national school. The rioters fired
shots at the police detachment which ar
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