The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
Commune FORESHADON[D
of Former
Anarchy in Paris.
rHE PARIS MOB AROUSED

Fishting-A Dens Mob OF Anarchists
aud Socialists Take the streets-The
Police Unable TO Restrain Them-Ev.
cry Church In the Path Of the Des
stroyiug Horde Piliased and Dese-
Grated
Paris, August 20.-Paris vas today the
scene OF most serious disturbances, re-
calling some aspects OF the commune.
In response to an appeal Of the Jour
, mails, Lepueple and La Petite Repub-
Nque, crowds cf anarchists and social
! lists gathered about 3 O'Clock in the af-
| ternoon in the Place de Ia Repub-
lique. The police had aiken precau-
| tons and there seemed no danger OF
disorders
Sebastion Faure and Faberot, we'll
known revolutionary anarchists, were
! the ringleaders. Faure, standing on
the pedestal Of the statue which rises
in the centre of the Place de la Re
publique, addressed the crowd. Among
| other things he aid that the ana
chists should be masters of the streets.
! The police then interfered and dis
lodged Faure and Faberot, making
dispersed, but a column Of demonstra-
tors headed by Faure and Henri d'Horr
| made for the Place de la Nation.
The police broke through the column
and a struggle for the mastery fol-
lowed. Shots were fired and NJ. Goul-
lier, commiSsary of police, was twice
| stabbed with a knife.
This threw the nOlicp into mOmeQta-
| ry confusion. The mob reassembled and
ran toward the Place de la Nation.
The police, reinforced by a squad that
| had been held in reserve, made another
| attempt to stem the current, and fresh,
| fierce fighting occurred, three consta-
| bles being wounded. Faure and d'Horr
| jumped into a passing street a that
| was going to the Place de la Republique
n the car driver on arriving there,
gave a signal to the police, who imme-
| diately arrested them both, together
with two other anarchists, Joseph Fer
rier and Jean Perrin. All were con-
| veyed to the Chateau Eau barracks.
| Only d'Horr was found in possession OF
! firearms.
! In the meantime the anarchist mob
retraced its course to the Place de Ia
Republique, smashing windows of re-
! ligiOus ediices ON the way.
| Suddenly, either at the word of COM
mand or in obedience to impulse, the
column made a loop and curved
toward the church of st. Ambrose,
where the rioters smashed the win
dOws.
Proceeding thence toward the Fau-
| bourg du Temple, which they reached
the Rue st. Maur-Popincourt, they
formed up into a compact body.
{, Hatchets were suddenly produced with
long knives stolen from the counters
of shops, and a ~oncentrate rush was
| made on the church of ST. Joseph. The
aged sacristan, seeing the mob, hasti-
ly closed the outer gates, but these
were soon forced open with hatchets
| and bars of iron. The massive oaken
doors were then attacked.
According to the first accoun the
wild horde burst into the church.
; which instantly became a scene Of pill
! lage and sacrilege. Affairs and statues
were hurled to the floor and smashed:
/ pictures were rent, candlesticks, orna-
ments and posts from high affairs were
thrown down n trampled under foot.
The crucifiX above was made the tar
get for missiles and the figure of the
Saviour was fractured in several places.
Then while raucous voices sang the
| "C~armagnole," the chairs were carried
outside, piled up and set on fire in the
centre Of the square fronting the
| church.
When this stage was reached the
crucifix was pulled down n thrown
raised that the statue of the Virgin
had been forgotten, and the crowd re-
| turned and tore this down also.
, Meanwhile, h Sacristan, who a
been captured by the anarchists, es-
capped and called the police and Re-
publican guards, who promptly arrived
with many c~onstables. They were
compelled to fall back in order to form
up into line Of defense, as the anar-
chists attacked them fearfully with
knives.
At length the officers began . gain
the mastery. A score of anarchists
took refuge in an adjacent house.
Others entrenched themselves in the
belfry and fercely defended themselves
by showering missiles on the Republi-
can guards, but finally these were dis
lodged. Twenty anarchists were ar
rested, taken to the police station,
/ searched and found to be carrying re-
] %volvers, loaded sticks and knives.
When the police entered the church
the anarchists had just set fire to the
pulpit. The interior of the edifice was
a complete wreck. Several valuable
! old pictures that can never be replaced
were ruined.
After the mob had been driven away
Able Lacour, the incumbent, collected
the fragments of the sacrament and
replaced them in the ciborium. AS he
did SO he was heard bitterly lament
ing.
The people living in the houses near
by extinguished the bonfire.
( SITUATION AT MIDNIGHT.
Midnight.-Since s O'Clock the demon
%strators, so far as Care de rEste, have
been repeatedly driven back by police
charges, the crowd crying "Vive L Ar
NEE" and "Vive la RepubliQue."
The police also dispersed a crowd of
gamins who were burning bundles Of
newspapers.
About 10 o'clock disorders occurred
| on the Boulevard de Magenta and Bou-
levard de Strasbourg. Several revolv-
! er shots were fired. but nobody was in
jured.
Two newspaper kiosks were burnee
| n several arrests were made in con-
, nection Herewith.
There is no change in the situation
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