The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-15
REICNS OF TERROR
Times During Which Law and Or
der Are Dethrcned.
WHEN CITIES GO STARK MAD.
This Has Happened Many Times In
Different Lands, the Moot Notable
Example Being Frenzied Paris In the
Revolution and In tho Commune.


Example Being Frenzied Paris In the
Revolution and In tho Commune.
During the instruction In Ireland,
which had Its center in the historic old
capital of that long troubled isle and
, which resulted in the execution of sew
eral of its leaders, including Sir Roger
Easement. Dublin went mad-stark,
raving mad. 1t is way cities have
sometimes. Then. just as single indi-
diduals do when smitten with insanity,
they pcrpetrate all sorts of horrible
deeds that I'm their saner moments they
would be the first to repudiate and con-
denim.
| Paris was attacked by just such a
violent fit of mental alteration during
/ the stormy and blood soaked days of
the revolution and again Immediately
after the last Franco-German war;
Her revolutionlsts in the latter event
called themselves Communists, and
these frenzied people did pretty much
as did the Dublin NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
/ is to say, they seized public buildings.
threw up street barbados and in
! trenched themselves in open strategic
spaces. The result in the end, too.
was the same. They We're overpowered
by the regular troops, and the bulk of
them were killed or made prisoners,
but not until fourth part of Paris
had been laid IN ruins, property worth
f32, 100000 being destroyed.
To find anything in London approx
mating to the Dublin madness we
must go back to the year 1880. when
Lord George GOrdon's armed rioters
held England's capital at their mercy
for several days. On this occasion
Newgate jail was stormed and set on
fire. after the prisoners had been re-
leased, the Bank Of England was be-
sieged and hundreds of houses,
churches. shops and other buildings
were set on fire and destroyed.
Bristors turn came fifty years later,
during the reform agitation of 1881.
The city, long seething with political
excitement, suddenly exploded like a
powder magazine TO which a lighted
match is applied, and in the course Of
q day and night 500 Of her citizens
were killed by the military or burnt
to death in the fires they themselves
J had kindled, and most of her princi-
pal buildings, including the mansion
house. the bishops palace and above
100 shops and private dwellings. were
heaps of blackened ruins.
In 1889, Newport, Monmouthshire,
underwent a similar experience, but
the mayor called out the troops with
. commendable promptitude, and after
, brief but bloody conflict in the mar
ket square the maddened rioters fed,
leaving the place q shambles. or
what a fiery Welsh mob is capable,
however, when it Is allowed to get out
of hand, was shown in 1882 at Trede-
: gar, in the same county, when the
miners there. Infatuated by an attack
made on Protestant religious meet
ing by some Irish Roman Catholics,
stOrmed the quarter of the town In
which the latter lived and literally
; wiped it off the face of the earth.
! In 1913 five white mechanics work
. ing underground at the New Kleinfon-
=.
asked to assent to an alteration of
; hours that would involve their work
, ing for the future on Saturday after
, Moons. They refused and were dis
missed, whereupon practically all the
white miners on the Rand came out on
strike.
That week saw Johannesburg given
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In Dublin. Bands of armed madmen
fought the soldiers with rifles, with re,
volvers. with dynamite bombs. The
railway station was set on fire and de-
stroyed. The Offices of the Star news.
paper We're blown to pieces with giant
powder. To venture into the streets
was to gamble with death. In the end
Of course, tine military got the upper
hand-they always debut net until
} some 200 of the strikers and their sym
) 1athizers had been killed and wounded
\ Hunger sometimes drives cities crazy
, The people suffer until they feel they
AN suffer no longer. Then the mad
ness mounts into their brains. and
hings-terrible things-happen. Milan,
Tor instance, went mad from this cause
!, in 1898 owing to the long continued
: scarcity and dearness of bread. Gaunt,
skeleton like women. stripped to the
waist, led the rioters and urged IL EN-
! ~ fanatic cries and gestures to try
'Onclusions with the soldiers.
Milan ran red with blood. In one
short afternoon eishty-two of the hun
GER maddened people were shot dead.
Iany hundreds We're wounded Not a
akers shop in the city escaped being
Dotted. and most of them were utterly
destroyed into the bargain. But In the
md the people got their way. The
Drice of bread was reduced.
Belfast has periodical crazy fits. One
# the worst occurred In 1885, when
; eleven people were killed outright and
more than 200 We're wounded.
New York city, too had fash of
i hfo Find 1urine, tho hra ~ ,tnts Of nj