Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-24
IN BELGIUM
MODS PeIt The Police Officers
with Stones and Are
Fired Upon.
FIVE SAID TO HAVE BEEN KILLED
Others Are Wounded, Including PO-
Iicemen-GOvernme Defeats
the Desired Revision.

Brussels, April ia serious riot
sells. The Socialists held a demonstra-
ton in front of the residence of Nj.
Schollaert, the president of the cham
Der of representatives. The police III
attempting to dispense them were re-
ceiyed with a shower of stones. The
civic guard then fired ON the mob. A
similar riot occurred in another part OF
Louvain, and altogether five perOsns
were killed and twelve were wounded.
Some of the mob carried the dead ana
wounded to the MaiSOn DIES PrOletarlOS.
Another riot is reported to have oc-
Cured at BrugeS, in Flanders. Here
the police charged the Socialists with
drawn swords and ten of the latter
were wounded.
Rioters Smash Windows.
The rioting at Louvain began at
about half past last evening. A band
Of Socialists paraded the streets of the
town smashing windows with bolts and
rivets. They broke through the police
Gordon in the Rue Tirlemont. The civ
ic guards stationed in the Place Saint
Anton ultimately became hard pressed
by the rioters and fired a vOlley. The
guard fired a second volley in front of
the Catholic club. 1t is reported that
twelve policemen were wounded. In
some quarters the number of wounded
policemen is placed at twenty, and sew
eral are said to have been mOrtally
injured All the streets of LOuvain are
barred and the maintenance of order
has been assumed by the military.
Chamber Rejects Revision.
Brussels, April 19.-The chamber OF
representatives here yesterday, by 81
to GA votes, rejected the proposal to
revise the Belgian constitution SO as
to provide for universal suffrage.
NJ. Woeste, the leader of the Right
party in the chamber when summing
UP the debate for the government,
pointed out that vote hostile to re-
vision of the constitution did not inn
ply hostility to reform if this was dis
clissed in peaceful times. The govern
lnent supporters are prepared" said
WOeSte, ito consider proposals for re-
form in plural voting, although they
could not go as far as universal suf-
frage. pure and simple" This speech
is regarded as showing the willing
ness Of the government to grant par
tial reform in the future.
Has Hopes Of the King.
Great excitement followed the vote
in the chamber. The Socialists held
meeting in the Maison du Peuple at
which NJ. Van der Velde, the leader Of
the Socialist movement in Belgium,
urged his hearers to be calm, and said
he hoped King Leopold would still in
tervene His speech took cOncilia-
tory form. He indicated the dangers
attending the insurrectiOn of an almost
weaponless people against organized
forces of police and military, and said
a struggle by methods of violence was
quite hopeless. The people could only
adopt pacific means. The speaker said
he trusted the king would arbitrate in
the difficulty.
Brussels, April 21.-At general
council of the Labor party held here
yesterday it was resolved that work
by the strikers in all sections should
be resumed. The council issued man
ifesto to this effect to the wOrkingmen
yesterday The anticipated announce
ment by the crown Of the dissolution
of parliament has not yet been made.