The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-02-23
RIOTS IN PARIS.
Demonstrations in Different Parts Ct
the French Capital on Sunday.
Several Persons Were Injured In the Me-
ice Fartisans OF the New President
were Worstcd in the Connict-One
Hundred Arrests Were Made.

PARIS, Feb. 20. Police measures 70
the maintenance Of order have bee,
taken on an extensive scale. and Tn,
, city IS now quiet. NJ. Loubet did no
quit his residence at the Luxembourg
until o'clock sunday evening.
Toward : o'clock demonstrations oc
Cured in front Of the Office of Sebas
tan Fanre's anarchist paper the Jour
ma du Peup'e on the Boulevard Mont
martre. lor and against Loubet. There
was a collision between the rival fac
uons and several persons were in.
Jurcd. The partisans of the newly
elected president were vorsted in the
conflict, and moved off to the Cafe
bfoba' whore they were again attack
cd and dispersed by their opponents.
Many arrests were made. Similar en-
counters occurred at about o'clock at
the offices of the Librc Parole, and
more serious disorders at the Brasserie
MaXcville on the Boulevard Mont
martre, where several women were
tramplcd upon and injured.
A fracas also took place at the Cafe
Des Panoramas, where blows were
freely exchanged. In both cases the
police intcrvencd encrgetically, arrest
ing many.
At II O'Clock an enormous crowd was
demonstrating in favor Of VI. lola.
Toward midnight crowds broke the
windows Of the Rothschild's offices in
the Rue Laiitte and another group
wrecked the Offices of the anti-Juif.
Minor disturbances took place in
various parts of the city, but the
crowds gradually dispersed, and at
midnight quiet had been almost re-
stored
Monday NJ. Dupuy, premier, will ask
the chamber of deputies to vote &C. 400
for the obscquies to NJ Faure. This
was the amount voted for President
Carnots funeral. President Loubet,
following the precedent set by Presi-
dent Casimer-Perier, will attend the
obsequieS.
VI. Loubct will preside at the first
cabinet council of the new admins /
tration on Tuesday.
Altogether lCO arrests have been
made in connection with Sundays dis
turbances There is every sign of
against President Loubet
similar TO That which drove VI. Cast
mcr-Pericr TO resign. Clearly La Pat
ric Frcncais will leave no stone un-
turned to achieve this object, its chief
ground C objection being that the
president j. 4 Dreyfusard. The street
demonstrations which have occurred
have not been spontaneous but were
evidently organized and 50 far thcy
nave been easily suppressed
1t is affirmed that the Dupuy cabinet
Will act energetically to maintain pub
ic order
The keynote of NJ. Loubet's policy 5
nay probably be found in the follow +
ng conversation with NJ. Bourgeois, ,,
cader Of the moderate radicals, who ]
ame to offer to the new president the c
upport of his party. Before accepting
t, NJ. Loubet said: You are doubtless $
ware that one of the first enactments !
f any ministry of mine t
viii be a stringent law to stem t
he current of insult, infamy and de- i
which now bcfouls Franco. p
fear that perhaps legislation of this u
ind will scarcely tally with the rad u
'al ideas" p
NJ. Bourgeois answer was a cheerful -
cquiescencc. p
Her Frischauer. the correspondent d
ere of the Neuc Free Prcssc, has been
lpciled from the country. 81
LONDON, Feb. 9O.-The Paris CORES u, ~
ondent of the Daily Mail described u
le scenes at the Versailles election as -"
"Donnybrooll fair with touch Of tC
agedy thercin-the tragedy of a VI
ewly chosen ruler attempting to ig- ~ ~
IRE his own unpopularity and smil- ca
gly returning thanks for congratula- Il
Ons." -
Il believe says the correspondent, at
hat the riotous scenes in Paris are up
ly forecast of what is coming. Sat tu
day night the boulevards were bat I'M
Fields and nowhere was a voice to re
orify the new president Sunday the th'
ess was uncommonly rancorous. wa wa
IRE are some of the titles of honor sn
Inferred upon Loubet: 'Imbecile, A
analhaist, Wretch Lizard Per p" pa
rcr' and 'Avowed Protector of the sh
eyfusards.'" !
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