The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-28
The VIENNA CALATHUMP
FLUTES, TIN TRUMPETS AND
SHOUTING ON THE SIDE.
Or. WOLFF GAGGED AND PUT IN JAA
Fifty. One Persons Arrested During the Street
Demonstration Members to be Advised by
Letter as to Time of Next Sitting
Demonstration by Students
Demonstration by Students.


Demonstration by Students.
Vienna, Nov. 27.-The beer garden
scenes in the lower house of the
Reichsrath were continued to-day When
the president of the house, DIR. Abra-
hamovics, appeared, there was chorus
/ Of "shame upon YOU from the Leftists,
accompanied by a deafening noise OF
whistles and slamming of desk lids.
| Many of the Leftists gathered in front
of the Presidents platform, shouting and
! blowing tin trumpets and flutes, while
| the President was ringing his bell for
/ order. This scene lasted about IA quar-
ter of an hour, during which time the
| President quietly remained seated. Then
| he suspended the sitting.
As President Abrahamovics was leav-
! ing the house a number Of Leftsts pelted
| him with paper balls. Thereupon the
| President returned and stood unmoved.
| The house was filled with the noise
caused by the trumpet blowing and hand
| clapping, upon the part of the Rightists,
| and other disturbances. After waiting
| ten minutes and the uproaT continuing,
/ the President left the platform Dur
! ing his absence the noise was not abat-
! ed. DIR. Wolf, the German Nationalist
| leader, ard cne of the suspended menu
! hers of the house, entered about that
| time but was forcibly elected by the
police to which he offered a violent re-
/ s;stance. According to one account, DE-.
/ Wolff had to be gagged and was after
ward bundled into a cab and taken to the
/ police station.
I At about 1910 the vice-president ap-
! peared and declared the sitting closed,
(adding that the date of the next session
would be communicated TO the members
! of he house by letter.
OF the 81 persons arrested during the
street demonstration here yesterday, 13
/ have been sent before the provincial
/ tribunal charged with causing an illegal
assemblage and with holding up the aU-
! thorities to contempt. One was charged
with public violence: ten were denounced
| to the public prosecutor for trespaSSing;
/ i've will be tried for interfering with
official acts: fifteen have been fined and
/ one person has been acquitted. The
f. cases of the rest have not yet been de-
cided.
Later in the day Or. Wolf was released
on bail. His case will be referred to
( the provincial court before which body
he will be charged with public violence.
A delegation of the opposition leaders
! of all sexes waited upon Count Badeni,
the Premier, before to-day'S session or
the lower house and urged him TO put an
: end to the embroglio. Count Badenl
: told the leaders that there would be no
t sitting of the house on Monday If to-
days session was quiet.
l DIR. Leuger, the anti-Semite Burge~
master of Vienna, also visited the Pre-
{ mier and represented to him the dam
gerous temper of the populace, saying
that the people were becoming more and
more excited and that something must
be done if serious trouble was to be
- avoided.
After to-day's session the majorfties
parliamentary committee met, ana re-
solved to defer planning its course untn
, the government communicated ltS hte3-
tions to the house.
. A crowd of students during the atter.
neon assembled on the Reichsstrasses
> and INDUCED in demonstrations until they
were dispersed by the police.
: MOB CHARGED WITH BAY0NETs
Throughout the evening the police
!: were obliged repeatedly to disperse the
political crowds which gathered in the
: Ring-Strasse between the Parliament
houses and the University buildings. In
front of the former a crowd numbering
two thousand, principally students, as
] sembled and hOoted and groaned at the
police, finally attacking the officers With
4 stones. Eventually the police were Or
dered to clear the streets, which they did
with drawn swords.
At Gratz, the capital of Syria, band
of students and other young men started
/ to parade the streets, but were prevented
! by the police from carrying out their
intention and compelled to disperse.
! Later in the evening a riotOus crowd OF
workingmen assembled in the business
quarter of the town and began to break
windows and commit other excesses.
| Four companies OF infantry and a squa-
dron of cavalry were summoned to the
scene of the disturbances. Upon ar.
rival, the infantry were assailed with a
shower Of stones and were compelled to
fire upon the mob. killing one and
woundiug five of the rioters. OF The
injured four are suffering from bayonet
thrusts. Several police officers also were
hurt. The disorder continued until short.
ly before midnight when the streets
were cleared and II military patrol Of the
towAwwas established.
Later reports from Gratz saw that two
civilians We're killed and two Others SER
inusly wounded in the encounter between
the soldiers and the mob in which the
infantry charged the mob with fixed
bayonets.