The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-20
EXCITING
Times at the French
Capital.
RIVAL FACTIONS
Create Many Vexatious
Street Disturbances.

Paris, Feb. 19.-Police measures for
taken on an extensive scale, and the
city is quiet. NJ. Loubet did not quit
his residence at the Luxembourg until
6 o'clock this evening. Toward seven
o'clock demonstrations occurred in
front of the office of Sebastian Faure's
anarchist paper, the Journal du Peuple,
on the boulevard Montmartre, for and
against Loubet.
There was a collision between the
rival factions, and several persons were
injured. The partisans of the newly
elected president were Worsted in the
conflict and moved off to the cafe Bre-
bant, where they We're again attacked
and dispersed by their opponents. Many
arrests were made. Similar encounters
offices of the Libre Parole
Paris, Feb. 13.-Offices of the Libre
Parole, and more serious disorders later
at the Brasserie MaXeville, On the bou-
levard Montmartre, where several wo-
men were trampled and injured A fra
cas- also took place at the Cafe DIES
Panoramas, where blows were eX-
changed. In both cases the police in
At eleven o'clock an enormous crowd
was demonstrating in favor of M. 70
la. Toward midnight crowds broke the
windows of the Rothschlds offices, in
the rue Laffitte, and another group
wrecked the offices of the Anti-Juif.
Minor disturbances took place in va
rious parts of the city; but the crowds
gradually dispersed, and at midnight
quietude had been almost restored. To-
he iats mill
ask the chamber of deputies to vote
6 640O ($32,O00) for the obsequies to M.
Faure. This was the amount voted
for President Carrots funeral. Presi-
dent Loubet, following the precedent
set by President Casimir- Perier, will
attend the obsequies. M. Loubet will
preside at the first cabinet council of
the new administration on Tuesday.
Paris, Feb 19-In the midst of the
demonstrations. the Dreyfusards at
tempted to invade the offices of the
Petit Journal. Finding the doors
barred against them. they smashed the
windows. At the hall of a thousand
columns. seven hundred Bonapartists
met to protest against the election of
M. Lobet. Speeches We're made by
Baron LegouX, NJ. LASTS and M. Ounce
D'Ornano. Several persons who in
terrupted the proceedings were elected.
When the meeting broke up, there were
some slight disorders, and several ar
rests were made.
Paris, Feb. BON the advice of the
medical attendants, the remains of M
Faure were placed in the coffin this
morning in the presence of M. Dupuy.
Great crowds defiled past the bier Nine.
Faure continues to receive kilograms
of coincidence from rulers and all parts
of the world. M. Loubet is receiving
host of congratulatory kilograms. The
| Temps rejoices in his election as "the
best possible choice
Paris, Feb. 19.-Altogether 100 arrests
have been made in connection with TO-
days disturbances. There is every
sign of campaign against President
Loubet similar to that which drove M.
Casimir Perier to resign. Clearly, La
Patrie Franchise will leave no stone
unturned to achieve this object its
chief ground Of objection being that the
president is a Dreyfusard. The street
demonstrations which have occurred,
have not been spontaneous but We're
evidently organized, and, so far, they
have been easily suppressed.
1t is affirmed that the Dupuy cabi-
net will act theoretically to maintain
public order. The keynHe of M. Lou
bets policy may probably be found in
the following conversation with M
Bourgeois, leader of the moderate radi-
calls who came to offer to the new pres
ident the support of his party.
Before accepting it, M. Loubet said:
you are doubtless aware the one
first enactment of any ministry of
mine will be a stringent law to stem the
current of insult, infamy and defama-
ton which now befouls France. fear
that perhaps the legislation of this kind
will scarcely tally with the radical
idea"
NJ. Bourgeois answer was a cheer
full acquiescence.
Herr Hau Frischauer, correspondent
of the Neeuie Free Presse, has been ex-
PEELED from the country.