Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-08-11 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ANARCHISTS IN AUSTRIA.  A painful impression has been caused in Vienna, and indeed throughout Austria, by the publication in the official Gazette of an Imperial Decree, signed by the entire Cabinet, for the suspension of 15 judicial districts of trial by jury in cases of charges against Anarchists. By the exceptional measures decreed on the 30th January, 1884, juries were suspended in the districts of Vienna, Korn - Neuberg, and Wiener Neustadt, all in Lower Austria, but this Decree applies to districts in five more provinces, namely, Weis, in Upper Austria; five towns, including Prague and Reichenberg, in Bohemia,; Briinn, Olmutz, and Neu Titschein, in Moravia: Gratz and Leoben, in Styria ; and, finally, to Klagenfurt, the capital of Carinthia. The offences under it are 16 in number, and include publication of seditious pamphlets, high treason, disturbance of public order, false coining, disturbance of public worship, murder, theft, incendiarism, slander, and dangerous use of explosives. This Decree is to remain in forcs for one year. Some four months ago the Austrian Government introduced into Parliament a bill asking for an extension during a period of three years of the laws against Anarchists, passed in June, 1886; but, owing to the strong opposition of the German and Democratic Czech Parties, it was withdrawn. This Decree is of a far wider scope. It will, of course, have to be submitted to Parliament on the opening of the session in the autumn, and should a majority of one of the Houses be opposed to it, the Government would have to give way. In order fully to appreciate its significance, it must be remembered that the new Decree will give the Government power in the districts named, without judicial order or warrant, to arrest and imprison or expel not only suspected persons, but all who shelter them; to forbid the manufacture, sale, or possession of arms and ammunition; to prohibit not only public meetings, but also the assembling of crowds, and to make most stringent regulations concerning passports and arrivals and departures of foreigners. The police will be at liberty to make domiciliary visits, and also to search newspaper offices, and take summary proctedings against publishers and editors. Arbitrary en may appear the powers which the Deer, e would confer, it is not to be forgotten that the analogous decree of 1884, on which it is based, was in some measure justffied by what followed. In October, 1886, for instance, disciples of Herr Most, who had come over from Amend a, instigated their associates here to burn down the whole of Vienna, and it was discovered that the most extensive preparations to that end had been made. Lately no Anarchist attempts of any importance have been heard of in Austria, but the publication of this Decree would indicate that the Government have again received alarming information. The Austrian Socialists are, as is well known, in constant intercourse with the Socialists of Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, France, England, and America. It is positively known that the recent strikes at Briinn, in Moravia, at Letnberg, in Galicia, and at Leobesdorf, in Lower Austria, had a Socialistic origin.  THE total export of wheat (and flour as wheat) in the United States for the year ended June 30, 1888, is officially returned at 116,703,330 bushels. With, # crop of 430,000,000 bushels it is estimated that there will be 11%000,000 bushels available for export during the twelve months ending July 1, 1889, against 116,000,000 bushels during the past year. The Dominion authorities estimate the grain crop of Manitoba and the North• West Territories at 20,000,000 bushels, which will allow an export of 15,000,000 bushel., or 25 per cent, more than last year. The Canadian Pacific Railway is increasing its rolling stock, in anticipation of an increased t-affic.