The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-14
RIOT BREWING;
QUEEN is DYING
Situation at Brussels Is Critical
and BloOdshed Is Feared.
GUARDS ARE MOelLIzED
ONE THOUSAND MEN ARE PRE-
PARED FOR DUTY.


/ = ton of Queen Marie Henrietta is >
? reported to be serious. She is SUI y
= fering from heart disease, which =
= Is entering upon the dropsical y
= stage. Three doctors have been y
? summoned TO Spain, the province y
> of Liege, to hold a consultation. =
u RUSSELs, April 1S.-From the gay
d aspect Of the city today nobody
would suspect the bloody scenes
which were enacted yesterday. The in
habitants Of Brussels took advantage
Of the beautiful weather to promenade
along the spacious bOUlevards and ter
races. The cafes were crowded with
holiday makers and a considerable
crowd visited the quarter where the
riots occurred. But except for a furled
red Tag, tied with crepe over the Mai
son du Peuple, nothing was visible to
recall the events of yesterday evening.
In the same square where cavalry
charged yesterday, today q dozen work
men in their shirt sleeves were playing
a flemish game Of ball.
No Tevisionists' demonstrations have
occurred. and in order to avoid colIi-
sions between the strikers and the DO
lice the Socialist committee has eoun-
fernandez the orders for the monster
meeting which it was intended to hold
tomorrow in the industrial suburb of
Molenbek, St. Joan. The authorities
are anticipating tomorrow with anxiety
as the Socialist committee has definite
" decided to proclaim a majority OF
the metal workers and factory hands
are expected to come out, though it Is
doubtful if the better class of wOrkmen
viii participate in the movement.
A proclamation by the burgomaster.
written In French and Flemish. has
been posted on the walls. It appeals to
citizens not to encourage the disorderly
elements by forming in groups upon
the streets.
A thousand civic guards were mobil-
lied at 1 o'clock this afternoon and
quartered in the bOurse and other pub
nc buildings. There was no show of
military or police upon the streets. how
ever, until late this evening. when
BODY OF police and gendarmes assem-
Dled in the vicinity of the Maison du
Peuple and prevented gatherings. An
extensive ambulance service has been
organized, TO be in readiness FOL. emer-
gencies.
There was considerable effervascence
around the Maison du PeupIe after 8
O'Clock this evening and the gendarmes.
who insisted that all windows in pri-
Vate houses be kept shut, were con
stantly occupied in dispensing groups.
several persons were arrested for re
slstng the police. AS NJ Van der Velde
leIt the Maison he was followed by a
crowd Of Socialists, but ne exhorted
them to remain calm.
The Socialist deputies have decided to
close the Maison du Peuple in the f1f-
ure at Z O'Clock in the evening to con-
vert the evening demonstration into a
day demonstration, and TO issue a man
ltesto urging the people to avoid vio-
lence.
The threatening aspect Of mob near
the Maison du Peuple at IL o'clock to-
night caused the police and gendarmes
to charge il. Five of the demonstrators
were wounded. One of the injured men
viii die. He received a bayonet thrust
IN the back. Sixteen arrests were made.
Ihls big casualty list for a COMPARE
lively insignificant encounter is taken
as evidence that the gendarmes who in
nlcted the injuries are disposed to han
die the groups without mercy.
The burgomaster adopted most vigor-
= utti ms tiG evening. me
whole civic guard was modified and
the squares and streets in the vicinity
OF the Maison du Peuple were occupied
by $500 Of the corps elite" The dis
orderly element appeared cowed to-
night as a result Of the repression of
saturday evening and there were only
a rev trliiing demonstrations These
were Immediately suppressed by
charges Of the gendarmes. None Of the
latter were injured.
Late this evening a group Of rioters
lnsulted and jeered at a Gordon of the
civic guard in the Rue Rollebek. where /
upon body Of gendarmes was sent out
and caught the disturbers in the rear
and Ladl- mauled them. But that this
disturbance was not serious is shown
but the circumstance that none of the /
men arrested carried weapons.