Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18
JEWS IN DANGER.
Affairs Taking a Serious Turn in
Pari>- udants and Anarchists Vie
With Each Other in Creating Dis
order-.-Di eyius Case at the Do-lom
Of 1t All.

order---Di eyius Case at the Do-tom
of 1t All.
Paris, January 1.-THE events of
the past few days are beginning 70
produce a feeling Of panic IN Jewish
circles. Both the business and private
houses OF the Rothschllds ana other
wealthy Jews are guarded by special
detective and gendarmes for fear that
the Drumont crusade produce sud
den popular outbreak.
A neavy fog settled over the city this
afternoon and made it difficult to as
certain until late exactly what had
happened. 1t seems that fearing dis
orders, a large body Of police moved
IN the direction OF the Pantheon about
four O'Clock and barred the bridges
across The seine. Half an hour later
the students, issuing from their lee
ture rooms, filled the place du Pan
theon. An agltated crowd, shouting
"Conspuez lola and raising other
cries, moved in the direction Of the
bridges. Several attempts TO cross the
river were frustrated; but eventually
a large number reached the place de
la RepuBlique. In one case the crowd
stopped in front of a shop that bore
the name Levi" shouting Death to
the Jews. Let US pillage. Let US
pillage!"
The students at the rear, ignorant
at the cause of the delay, pushed on
and the mass continued its onward
course after attempts in various direc-
lions to reach the principal bOulevards
always frustrated by the police. Many
were arrested. The students were now
joined by the riff-raff of the city, but
finally desisted till the evening meet
ing.
There is no doubt that the policy of
the government is beginning to be
strongly assailed The Soir asserts
that NJ. lola will call Count Munster,
the German ambassador, and Count
Tornielli, the Italian ambassador, as
witnesses to the innocence of Dreyfus.
A great antiDreyfus and anti-Sem-
lite meeting tonight at the Aivoli hall
produced extraordinary scenes. The
neighborhood was paraded by police,
mounted and on foot, and the rapidly
growing crowd increased the excite
ment At 8 o'clock on the opening of
the meeting, the hall was seething
see of humanity, crowding every part,
gesticulating, shouting "a bas lola"
"Vive TArmee,' and 'Vive la Revo-
luton Sociale." The members Of the
anti-Semite committee displayed ban
ners bearing the inscription, Death
to the Jews" and other such inScr1p-
tiOns.
1t was soon seen that the 5000 pres
ent consisted largely OF anarchists
and of others bent on opposing the
students.
On NJ. Guerin, the president, propos-
ing that the honorary presidency De
conferred upon NJ. Rochefort and NJ.
Drumont, a great uproar eLsued, the
anarchists trying to wrench the bSh-
ners from the anti-Semites. SCuftles
took place, in which two Of the OIL
Gals were injured.
The scene now became saturnalla.
The anarchists removed the iron stair
case, giving access to the tribune, 50
that the committee was unable TO de-
scend. Free fights began around the
flags. Finally the students chased the
anarchists out of the hall.
Finally the students were vanquish-
ed and the anarchists invaded the
tribune, led by NJ Courtois, fiourishing
a red flag and all shouting "Conspuez
Rochefort' ("Spit upon Rochefort'D },
Long live lola" The disturbances
continued, the anarchists declaiming
from the tribune against the army and
acclaiming Dreyfus. Injured people
were carried out with their faces COW
cred with blood.
BY midnight those who had been
arrested were released and quiet had
been restored in the Place de lOpera.
There were only triiing manifesto
lions elsewhere. At this hour mid,
night NJ Blanc, the project of lolice,
has just personally taken the direction
of the men who are protecting The
military club through fear OF further
trouble.
kilograms from numerous provln-
cial towns report student manifesto
tions At Marseilles the windows Of
Jewish shops have been broken. At
Nantes there have been some attacks
upon shops and the synagogue. The
crowd rescued those who were al
rested.