The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-08-25
RIOTS IN PARIS.


of extremely serious disturbances to-day
and to night, recalling some aspect of the
Commune
The Project of Police gives the follow
ing statistics of the riots:
Three hundred and eighty persons We're
injured.
Three hundred and sixty persons were
taken to hospitals.
Fifty-nine police agents were wounded;
also Commissaries Coulter and Domsi-
none.
One hundred and fifty persons were ar
rested of whom so are detained in Gus
toby
At Il late hour mobs were still parading.
The immediate origin of the riots was
in an appeal by the Journal Du Peuple
and La Petite Republiquc, in response to
which groups of anarchists and socialists
gathered at 2 o'clock III the afternoon in
the Place de la Republiquc. Sebastian
Faure and Faberot, well-known revolu-
tionary anarchists, were ringleaders.
Faure, standing on the pedestal of the
statue which rises in the centre Of the
Place de Ia Rcpublique, addressed the
crowd Among other things he said that
the anarchists should be masters of the
streets.
The police then interfered and ii>.odgcd
Faure and Faberot, making three arrests.
The crowd moved away, but a column of
demonstrators, headed by Faure and Henri
d'Horr, made for the Place de Ia Nation
The police broke through this column,
aud struggle for the mastery followed.
Shots were fired and NJ Coulter, commits
sary of police, was twice stabbed with a
knife
This threw the police into momcntary
confusion. The mob rcassemblcd and ran
toward the Place de la Nation.
The police, reinforced by Il squad that
had been held in reserve, made another
fierce fighting occurred, three constables
being wounded.
Faure and d'1iorr jumped into a passin"
street car that was going to the Place de
la Republique. The car driver o. arriving
there gave signal to the police, who ar
rested them both, together with two other
anarchists, Joseph Terrier and Jean Per
rim.
All the prisoners were taken to the
Chateau d'Eau Barracks. D'Horr was
found to have firearms
In the meantime the anarchist mob re-
traced its course to the Place de la Re
publique and, aroused to tierccncss,
smashed the windows of reli giouS edticcs
on the way. Suddenly, either at the word
of command or in obedience to impulse
the column made a loop and curved to-
ward the Church of st. Ambrose, where
the rioters smashed the windows.
Proceeding thence toward the Eau
bourg du Temple, which they reached
they formed up into a compact body
Hatchcts were suddenly produced, with
long knives stolen from the counters OF
shops, and a concerted rush was made
upon the Church of St. Joseph.
The aged sacristan, seeing the mob
hastily closed the outer gates, but these
were soon forced with hatchetS and bars
of iron. The massive oaken doors were
then attacked.
The wild horde burst into the church
which became a scene Of pillagc and sacri
lege. Affairs and statues were hurled tt
the floor and smashed; pictures were rent
candlesticks, ornaments and the sacra
ment from the high altar were thrown
down and trampled under foot. The
crucifix above was made target fol
missiles and the figure of the Savior was
fractured in several places
Then, while many voices sang the Car
magnole," the CHRIS belonging to the
church were carried outside piled up and
set on fire in the centre of the square
fronting the edifice.
When this stage was reached the cruel
fix was pulled down and thrown into the
flames. Suddenly the cry was raised that
the statue of the Virgin had been for
gotten and the crowd returned and tore
this down also.
Meanwhile the sacrstan escape! anG
called the police and Republican Guards
who arrived with many constables. They
were compelled to fall back in order tc
form into line of defense, rs anarchists
attacked them tiercely with knives.
At length the police began to gain the
mastery. A score of anarchists took ref
uge in an adjacent house. Others in
trenched themselves in the church belfry
and tiercely defended themselves by show
ering missiles on the Republican Guards
but finally these were dislodgcd
Many anarchists were arrested, taken
to the police station, searched and found
to be carrying pistols, 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 complete
wreck. Several valuable old pictures that
cannot be replaced were ruined,
An attempt was made to fire the loft
of St. Joseph's Church with petroleum
and the tiremen were called in to quencli
the flames.
Several parishioncrs were severely
maulcd in their efforts to defend the
church from sacrilege.
The church is situated in the poorest
quarter Of the city. No disorders of any
kind occurred in the fashionable districts
After the mob had been driven away,
Able Lacour, rector of the church, col
lected the fragments of the sacrament
and replaced them in the ciborum A.
he did SO he was heard bitterly lamentin"
The people living in the houses near by
extinguished the bonfire that had been
kindled.
A body of rioters who took refuge at
night in the courtyard of the Care dc
rEst was expelled by the police who
made % arrests there
About 10 p. m. disorders occurred Oh
the Boulevard de Magenta and Boulevard
de Strasbourg. Pistol shots were fired
but nobody was injured.
Two newspaper stands were burned