Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — PARIS MOBS BATTLE. [ARTICLE]

PARIS MOBS BATTLE.

Opponents and Friends of Lonbet in Combat. France is in an uproar over the election of President Loubct and the demonstrations of the anti-Dreyfus party in Paris are carried on with great Vigor. Fighting Is continually going on between the friend* and enemies of the new president, and the police force has been more than doubled. and is making arrests wholesale. Although Loubct is not kuowu to evet have expressed an opinion in the matter, it is generally understood that he is ■ friend of Dreyfus, and the purpose of the demonstrations agaiust him is to force him to resign, as was done in the case ot Cassimir Perier. The anti-revisionists threw rocks through the windows of the Rothschilds' office, and the friends ot Dreyfus retaliated by wrecking the office of the Petit Journal. Once in a while detachments of the opposing factions came together, and broken heads resulted. In the midst of all the excitement the fears for the safety of the repnblic are subsiding somewhat. The Duke of Orleans has given up hope of anything favorable happening to him and left Turin for Milan, where be expects to meet a delegation from St. Gartland. Agents of the French police are watching him. In receiving a committee from France at Turin, the duke delivered a violent speech, in which be declared that Loubct would lie the last president of the republic and predicted the early restoration of a monarchy.