The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-08-26
BLOODY RIOTS IN PARIS.
One Thousand Anarchists Gather
and Fight the Gendarmes.
RED FLAG FLAUNTED.
Gendarmes and Police Have Collie
ions with the Mob-Churches
Desecrated.

Paris, Aug 21.-Serious riots occurred
here yesterday afternoon. The trouble
originated in an attack made by anarch-
lists on ant-Semites.
A thousand anarchists under Sebastian
Faure assembled in the Place de la Re
publique and resisted the police who at
tempted to dispense them. The latter
fought bravely, but were finally over
powered.
A police commissary and an inspector
attempted to arrest some rioters who
were carrying a red flag, but they were
trampled upon and beaten with blud-
ge0ns. A number of shots were fired by
the mob.
the clubs, and the commissary was hit
by bullet. receiving serious wound.
Four other policemen were stabbed.
Notwithstanding their defeat, the po-
lice made a number of arrests, among
their prisoners being Faure.
Subsequent to the rioting in the flace
de la Republque the mob marched to the
Rue st. Maur, where they stormed the
churches of st. Maur and ST. Joseph.
They entered the buildings and while
some of them tore down the affairs and
pulpits, others seized the sacred pictures,
holy vessels, and the monstrances con
tanning consecratcd waters, all of which
We're thrown into the street.
The affairs and pulpits furnished wood
for Il bonfire. and all the seized church
property was burned.
a similar disgraceful scene was en-
acted at St. Nicholas church; The mob
tried to burn the churches, but in this
dastardly attempt they failed.
While the rioters were storming st.
Nicholas church they were charged by
police and cavalry, but they succeeded in
carrying out their plan despite the eff
forts to dispense them.
On Saturday night number of revo-
lutionary Socialists, angered by Guerins
continued defiance of the government,
held a meeting and resolved to make
demonstration against the anti-Semites
today.
Copies of the resolution were circu-
lated by the revolutionary organ. the
Journal du Peuple, the populace being
called upon to move against the priests
and Jesuits.
1t was a fine afternoon, and the demon
stration attracted thousands of Sunday
idlers. Soon the crowds were carried
away by the harangucs of the leaders,
and many and frequent were the cries
of Down with Rochefort, Drumont and
Guerin."
1t was at this point that the police in
terfered. whereupon the crowd turned
upon them.
During the fighting that has occurred
nifty ponce were wounded. There were
fifty arrests mp to midnight.
The sacking of the churches recalls to
mind the excuses committed by the COM
munistS in 1871.
A vast crowd. estimated to number 90
600 persons. assembled last night in the
Boulevard de Magenta, which intersects
the Rue de Chabrol, in which street is
located the headquarters of the anti
Semitic league.
There was also a large crowd in Rue
Reaumur. around the Offices of the Petite
Rcpubique.
The anti-Semte leader, Guerin, and his
friends, who are barricaded in the head
quarters of the anti-Semite league, defy
ing the authorities to arrest them. are
running short of bread. Some of their
friends on the outside attempted to
smuggle supplies to them, but were pre-
vented by the police.
There are rumOrS that further arrests
of plotters against the government will
be made. but they cannot be confirmed
1t was stated that the arrest of NJ Mile
voye, an anti Dreyfus leader. was inn
minent and he went to Project of Police
Iepine to ask if the report was true.
The latter said that the government had
no intention of arresting him.