Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-14
BID RIOTS N FRANCE
Closing of Religious Schools
Causes Trouble and Troops
Are Called.
Entire District OF Finisterre in
an Uproar Fight at
Concarneau.
Expulsion OF the Sisters Starts
Battle Between Troops and
the Populace.

Paris, Aug. 14.-F'inisterre is in an
uproar over the closing of he religious
schools. Troops called out To protect
the police comnissaries have met with
determined opposition and half a dozen
serious clashes have occurred in the
vicinity of Brest.
For three days the entire district has
been i'll a state of riot. and crowds
threatened the comnissalies at every
move.
Thirteen schools belonging to the
White sisters remain Enclosed in lfin-
isterre. y battalion of infantry and a
strong body of mounted gendarmcs
We're dispatched to ST. Meen. Folgoet
and PloudalmeZcau 10 overaWe the eN-
cited population of those towns.
The inhabitants of t'olgoet erected a
Wall OF masonry behind the principal
door of the church school and declare
they will defy the troops
At st. Meen scouts on horses. bcy-
cles and automobiles are reconnoiter-
ing in order To give alarm of the COM
ing of the police. The peasants declare
they will throw beehives among the
gendarmes and will put bechives in the
bariicades.
The expulsion of the sisters at Con-
c:lrneau WAS undertaken Yesterday.
Scouts on automobiles reached the
town at O'clock in the morning from
Quimper and reported that troops were
on the way. The tocsin was rung. bu-
giles We're blown and boys ran thru the
streets ringing handbclls. Large crowds
gathered around the railroad station
and around the school.
Several bodies of gendarmes and two
companies of infantry arrived by Il spe-
scial train. The commissary ordered the
school evacuated. at which the crowd
shouted, Long live the sisters" The
gendaimes advanced toward the school.
but they We're repused and a general
scrimmage followed. Later the troops
reached the building. and the police
tried to break down the doorway with
axes. but the resistance of the people
continued.
The commissary finally forced an en-
trance to the school When this had
been accomplished the sisters. amid the
vehement protests of the crowd, left the
building.
Entrance to the school in the village
of Benzec was also forced. Here the
sisters, when they emerged from the
school building, Mere conducted TO the
church by the mayor and procession
of people, headed by the national nag.
draped in crepe.
Capt. Douince. who Joined Col. de
saint Remy i'll his protest against the
closing of the schools of the religious
associations, has been arrested and
placed in confinement in fortress at
Belle Isle.
The court of appeals at Lyons has
declared illegal the atliXing of seals to
certain nuns schools, and has ordered
their removal on the ground that the
buildings belonged to private owners
and not to the congregations. a num-
Der of cases similar to the foregoing are
at present before the courts in various
places in the provinces.
Count Miribel has been sentenced to
six days imprisonment for breaking
the seals which had been affixed to the
nuns school at Grenoble. Two sons of
the count We're fined 90 francs each for
insulting the commissary of police.