The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-02
The City of Prague in a De-
|irium of Riot.
THE VIOLENT CZECHS
PEOPLE DARE NOT TO SPEAK
IN GERMAN.
VALUABLE ARCHIVES DESTROYED
A Pandemonium in Which Even Women on the
Streets Are Obliged to Wear the Slay
Tri- Color Two Hund'ed
Arrests Made,


Tri- Color Two Hundted
Arrests Made.
Prague. Dec. 1.-As result Of the
riots and disorders of the last twenty
four hours, the authorities have pro-
claimed the city under martial law. The
chief of police, who is Czech, was
discovered encouraging rioters, and has
been suspended from office. 1t is now
known that the number of injured Ger
mans reaches 800. They are being
cared for at the various hospitals.
The disturbances to-day amounted al
most to rebellion. Thousands of
Czech miners streamed into Prague to-
night from the surrounding villages to
assist the rioters. The scientific instru-
ments in tie German University and
high school have been destroyed and
valuable archives preserved for long
time at the kinsky Palace, the larsess
In the Altsadt, have been burned.
1t has been dangerous for Germans
to venture into the streets, as any use
Of the German language meant certain
assault. A melting of a German society
In honor of the eightieth birthday OF
Prof. Theodore AIommsen was prohi-
bited by the authorities, who feared ii
might provoke collision with the
Czechs.
To-day,s riots would have been less
serious. but that the troops available
early in the day were insufficient to
cope with the rioting over so extended
an area. Already resenting the German
jubilations and iIluminations 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, represen-
tatiye of the German land owners in
the Reichsrath, and Count Won Salm.
Baron Won Aehrenthafs palace is on
the Wenzels-Plaiz. The mob smashed
the widows and tore out the window
frames on the ground floor last night.
Similar outrages were committed at
Count Won Salm's palace, which is the
editorial office of the German 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 furnish
ed rooms, smashing valuable objects of
art and costly furniture. Damage to
the amount of many thousand OF tlorins
has been done to German firms, clubs
and other institutions having German
proprietors or patrons. No performance
was given at the German theatre to-
night.
The constant cry of the rioters was:
''Down with the Germans" Down
with the jews"
Ladies yenturing on the streets were
obliged to wear the slav tri-color, in or
der to avoid being attacked. German
sign-boards are being hastily removed
by their owners, and replaced with
Czech inscriptions. Nobody dares to
utter word in German.
The Kinsky palace was plundered Of
its furniture, which was thrown through
the windows, heaped in the street and
set on fire, the mob preventing the fire
brigades from approaching.
The Wenzels-Platz, where the revolu-
ton of 1S48 began, has been the chief
centre of excitement. 1t is about sixty
yards in width and seven hundred and
thousand people.
two hundred arrests and it is reported
tonight that altogether eight persons
have been injured.
GERMAN RESIDENTS GUARDED.
Pilsen, Bohemia, Dec. las result
of the threatening mob gathering yes
terday the houses Of German residents
are specially guarded by the police.
To-day 5000 people assembled in front
Of the town hall, and after singing ma
tional songs, proceeded to the German
gymnasium, where they broke the win
dows. The police dispersed the crowd,
wounding one. The rioters then re-
turned to the town hall, where failing
to obtain the liberation of some of the
ring leaders, who had been arrested,
they broke the windows of the hall and
Of several buildings adjacent.
AMERIAN FLAG HOISTED.
Prague, Dec. 1.-At the United States
Consulate the American flag was hoisted.
1t is said that he riots were organized
by a sect society animated by hatred
of Germans and Jews.
Shortly before midnight there were
fresh disorders, and two shops in the
p:nmangasse were broken open and pill
iaged. The military patrol was dis
persed by the punderers. Disorders are
reported in various other suburbs. At
Weinberg the rioters sprinkled a shop
with petroleum and set it on fire. At
Lieben. u armed rioters were arrested.
Another gang piundered liquor saloon
and shortly afterward the patrol found
On pereous living DRINK In the street