Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-29
GREAT UNEASINESS IN PARIS
People Not Reassured by Elaborate Mill
tary Preparations to Preserve Order
BOMB EXPLODED UNDER RAILROAD BRIDGE
Attempt 20 Destroy structure Used
by Troops I'm Reaching Cap
itaI-strilxinE Jewellers
Dispersed.

PARIS. April 2.-The government has
completed preparations for dealing with the
May day situation and is confident that
the day will pass without serious disorder.
but at the same time the public, which
is not in the least treasured by the eIabor-
ate military concentration, Is showing great
uneasiBess
This has been accumulated by the ex-
plosion Of a bomb Friday night under the
Important railroad bridge at ArgenteuiI,
IN the suburbs OF Paris, which links the
capital with Havre and by an attempt
this evening of a band of 100 striking jew
elers to penetrate the populous center of
the Place De LOpera for the purpose of
making a demonstration before the great
jewelry establishments in the Rue De La
Paix. The activity OF the police in making
more searches and seizures although de-
signed to insure the public safety, also
has had the result Of increasing public
apprehension. many persons believing that
such extraordinary efforts Indicate the
seriousness OF the situation.
Many Leaving City.
Government. military and police officials
give the most positive assurances that or
der will be maintained and the calmer
heads accept these statements, but the
nervous element Of the city is hastily pre-
pairing for eventualities some persons
leaving town and taking their valuables
with them and others laying in stores for
an emergency. The scenes at the great
supply stores are unprecedented, hundreds
OF persons invading them and clamoring
for urgency supplies.
The Sensational press increases the I'M
rest by publishing alarming reports of
anarchist Designs while the serious press
gives prominence TO the military concen-
tration and the police plans. all OF which
leads the public to apprehend that some
thing is about to happen.
Attempt to Destroy Bridge.
The explosion of the bomb under the
Argenteuil bridge is the first evert act in
what the revolutionists term direct ac-
ton" The bridge is a massive structure
crossing the Seine, six miles outside the
st. Lazare station and hundreds OF trains
Cross It daily. The military achievements
that have been brought to Paris crossed
the river on this bridge.
The bomb used was cylindrical in shape
with a slow fuse. The deafening ex-
plosion was heard for FIVE miles. 1t shat
tered windows in Argenteuil and awakened
the sleeping town. The railroad was torn
up and the signal on the bridge was
smashed. but the solidity OF the structure
resisted the force OF the explosion. AL
though there is no clue to the perpetrator
OF the explosion, the police believed It to
be an anarchistic attack and connect 1t with
warnings that have been received OF other
similar attempts and accordingly rigorous
orders were Immediately issued for de-
tachments of military engineers TO guard
all the bridges and tunnels Of the Western
railroad system contiguous 10 Paris.
striking jewelers. Dispersed.
The appearance of the striking Jew
elers in the fashionable shopping center
this evening caused considerable excite
ment The strikers proceeded in a body
from the labor exchange to the Rue de la
Paix, the richest short street in the
world, the windows of the stores being
literally lined with diamonds. They
reached the Place de L'Opera where a
force of republican guards and police
barred their advance, and lively scuffie
ensued in which the strikers were sepa-
rated, turned back and dispersed, though
number of them were arrested
In the meantime the police had made
searches of the domiciles of six persons
suspected of having anarchist connections
and Of the offices of the infiammatory
newspapers.
The wholesale searches continue to
arouse excited discussion Some royalist
suspects disavow connection with plot,
while others assert that the wealthy
Count Durand de Beauregard is the tool
OF the visionary plotters.
The temporary military camps show
great activity. six military kitchens have
been installed in the Champs de Mars,
and extensive lighting and watering
plants have been perfected The cav
airy on duty includes the First, Fifth,
Eleventh and Twentieth chasseurs, the
First Sixth, Eighth, Twelfth, Eigh-
teenth and Twenty-ninth dragons and the
Seventh, Fourteenth and Twelfth hussars
with detachments of infantry regiments.
The military governor Of Paris this
morning began the requisitionipg or
quarters in the neighborhood of the mill
tary school and tomorrow the acquisitions
win extend to the neighborhood OF the
Labor exchange, as the regular barracks
are inadequate.
The actual state of the labor movement
is unchanged. An appeal issued by the
labor confederation today closes with a
suggestion that the soldiers conscience
should forbid them firing upon working
men.