Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-21

GATHERED IN THE PLACE DE
LA REPUBLQUE, AND AFTER
BEING HAGANGUED, FOUGHT
WITH THE POLICE-A NUMBER
OF PEOPLE WOUNDED-QUIET
FINALLY RESTORED.
PARIS, August 20.-Paris was to-day
the scene of most serious disturbances,
| recalling some aspects of the Com
mune. In response to an appeal of the
journals Du Peuple and LIE Petite Re
publique. groups of Anarchists and So
ciahsts gathered about three O'Clock in
| the afternoon in the Place de la Re-
! publique. The police had taken pre-
cautions and there seemed no danger Of
disorders.
| Sebastian Faure and Faberot, well
| known revolutionary anarchists, were
the ring-leaders. Faure, standing on
! the pedestal of the statue which rises
in the centre of the Place de la Repub-
! lque, addressed the crowd. Among
other things, he said that the anarch-
lists should be
MASTERS OF THE STREETS.
The police then interfered and dis
lodged FNaure and Faberot, making
three arrests.
The crowd at this point dispersed, but
column of demonstrators, headed by
Faure and Henry d'Horr, made for the
! Place de la Nation.
The police broke through the column
and a struggle for the mastery follow
ed. Shots were fired and NJ Coulter,
commissary of police, was twice stab
bed with knife.
This threw the police into momen-
tary 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 constables being
wounded.
Faure and d'Horr jumped into pass
| ing street car that was going to the
Place de la Republique and the car
driver, on arriving there. gave a signal
to the police, who Immediately arrested
them both, together with two other an
archists, Joseph Terrier and Jean Per-
rim. ALI were conveyed to the Chateau
found in possession of firearms.
In the meantime the anarchist mob
retraced it's course to the Place de la
Republique, smashing the windows Of
religious edifices on the way.
Suddenly, either at the word of COM
mand, or in obedience to impulse, the
column made a loop and curved to-
ward the church of St. Ambrose,
where the rioters smashed the win
dows.
Proceeding thence toward the Eau
borg du Temple, which they reached at
the corner of Rue Dorboy and 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
concerted rush was made upon the
church of st. Joseph. The aged sa-
cristan, 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.
According to the first account the
wild horde burst into the church, which
| instantly became scene of pillage and
sacrilege. Affairs and statues were
hurled to the floor and smashed; pic
lures were rent. candle sticks. orna-
ments and hosts from high affairs were
| thrown down and 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 rancous voices sang the
''Carmagnole" 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 crucifx was pulled down and
thrown into the flames. Suddenly
the cry was raised that the statue OF
the Virgin had been forgotten and the
crowd returned and tore this down al
so. Meanwhile the sacristan, VINO had
been captured by the anarchists. es-
capped and called the police and Repub-
lican Guards, who promptly arrived
with many constables. They were COM
PEELED to fall back in order to form up
| into line of defense. as the anarchists
attacked them fearfully with knives.
| At length the officers began to
| GAIN THE MASTERY.
a score of anarchists book refuge in
an adjacent house. Others entrenched
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