The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-02
Prague the Scene of the
Most Serious Dis
order.
OUTLOOK OMINOUS.
New Cabinet Takes Office
Under Very Trying
Conditions.

PRAGUE, Bohemia, Dec. 1.-There
was a renewal Of the rioting here to-
day. The windows of the German the
ater, German schools, restaurants, resi-
dences and newspaper offices We're bro
ken, The troops cleared the streets.
Many people were injured, and a num-
Der Of arrests were made. During the
afternoon the riots increased. The syna-
gogue windows were smashed, apd the
windows of the houses of Jews display
ing German trade signs in several
streets in the Jewish quarter. Since
6 o'clock this evening the streets have
been held by twelve battallons of in
fantry and a squadron Of hussars. All
traffic is suspended, and the shops and
business houses are closed.
In spite of the troops 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 q we'll known
German cafe was piled up in the street
and set on fire. When detachment of
troops approached to dispense the riot
ers 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 a police
official the order was not carried into
effect
Shortly after o'clock mob attempt
ed to storm a cartridge factory at
Ziszchow, suburb of Prague on the
other side Of Moldau. The troops sta
toned 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 house at Ziszchow, but the
flames were soon quenched.
In various other parts of the city and
the suburbs windows were smashed
and German signboards demolished. 1t
is said that the mob was excited by
articles in the Czech newspapers, and
by false report that the German stu
dents had organized an attack upon
the Czech national theater.
At late hour threatening crowds
made repeated rushes and attempts to
storm the German newspaper offices,
but by II o'clock the town was quiet
and the troops had been withdrawn
except patrols at threatened points.
In Smichow, the southwest suburb Of
Prague, and a thickly populated indus
trial quarter, at late hour in the
x,
plundered the German national school.
The rioters fired shots at the police de-
tachment which arrived on the scene
to disperse them, whereupon the COM
manding officer, acting with great
promptitude drew his revolver and
fired at one of the ringleaders, the bull
let piercing his arm. He then arrested
the man, and the result Of this ener-
getic action was the dispersal of the
mob without much further difficulty.
The German gymnasium I'm the Alt
staedter ring, in the center of the city,
was plundered by a mob. which was
finally dispersed by a combined charge
of soldiers and police.
Already resenting the German Ju
bilations and illuminations 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 Mon
day night to the town council.
Two special sufferers from the riots
are Baron Won Aehrenthal, q repre-
sentative of the German land owners
in the reichsrath and Count Won Salm.
Baron Won AehrenthaPs place 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 committed at
Count Won Salm's place, which is the
editorial office of the German paper
Bohemia.
During the night the Aehrenthal
place was boarded up but the rioters
soon removed the pIanks and threw
large stones into the luxuriously fur
nished rooms, smashing valuable OBJ
jects Of art and costly furniture.
Damage to the amount of many thou
sands of forms has been done to Ger
man firms clubs and other institu-
tions having German proprietors or
patrons. No performance was given
at the German theater tonight
The constant cry Of the rioters was:
Down with the Jews" Ladies Ven-
turing on the street were obliged to
wear the Slav tri-color in order to
avoid being attacked German sign
boards are being hastily removed by
their owners and replaced with Czech
inscriptions. Nobody dares TO utter
a word in German.
The Kinsky palace was plundered
of it's furniture, which was thrown
through the windows. heaped in the
street and set on fire, the mob pre-
venting the fire brigade from ap-
preaching.
The WenseIs Platz, where the revo-
luton of 1S4S began, has been the
chief center of excitement. 1t IS about
sixty yards in width and 750 yards
in length. and will hold 100 people.
The police and the military have
made 200 arrests, and 1t Is reported
tonight that altogether eighty per-
sons have been injured
1t Is said that the riots were organ
lied by a secret society, animated by
hatred of Germans and Jews. Shortly
before midnight there were fresh dis
orders and two shops in the Ping
mangasse were broken open and pill
laged The military patrol was dis
persed by the plunderers Disorders
are reported in various other suburbs.
At Weinberg the rioters sprinkled a
shop with petroleum and set il on fire.
At Lieben twenty-one armed rioters
were arrested. Another gang plumber
ed a liquor saloon and shortly after
ward the patrol found twenty persons
lying drunk in the street