People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — RIOTS IN PARIS. [ARTICLE]

RIOTS IN PARIS.

Stndeat* Create Trouble » Row with Getvlerme* Owe at 4*o Beathi Result, While a Number of ’^felteons Are Wounded—The Prefect of Police Forced to Resign. ‘ t , Paris, July 4. — On Saturday last an affray occurred between the police and a number of students in the Latin quarter. The trouble commenced when the students, having freely dis-'. cussed in the cases the. Condemnation of; the organisers of Le Bal des Quatre Arts, determined to make a demonstration against Senator Berenger, the Anthony Comstock 'of France, who instigated the prosecution. They formed a great. procession and started for the Rue de Anjou, the senator’s residence an the other side of the water. A row with" the police occurred in which jl young man was killed. Sunday evening they marched to the house of M. Loze, prefect of police. Their tune was now changed to “Assassin, assassin, fgsassin, conspuz Loze, conspuz Loze, conspuz.’’ They made several assaults on some persons, attempted to interfere with the procession, but the police made no move against them. Monday afternoon they proceeded to the chamber of deputies, where they renewed their expressions of hatred for Loze Camille Dreyfus, a'radical deputy, came out and addressed them from the steps of the palais bourbon. He proposed they should send five representatives into the chamber, which they did. The students have the advantage over the workingmen who make demonstrations, as they have fathers who are senators,, deputies, prefects and so on. Finally Dreyfus returned and announced that Loze had resigned. Th}j students then marched proudly away. At 9:30 o’clock Monday-2,000 students surrounded the prefecture of police, jeered - the officials and threw stones through the windows. Several were wounded in the fight which followed at 10:15 p.m. The cavalry was called out to drive the students from the neighborhood of the Palais de Justice and the prefecture de police returned to thfir barracks after the mob had retreated to the Boulevard St. Germain. The mob then hurried back along the Boulevard St. Michel and across the bridge to the Boulevard du Palais, between the , arms of the river. The students smashed with their clubs and a heavy piece of timber the massive doors of the Palais de J ustice and knocked the glass out of all the windows within reach. The police hastened to the spot and charged, with drawn swords. The rioters overcame them, tore their swords from their hands and drove them back to Dieu. Several policemen were cut severely with the swords which the students had taken from them. Paris, July s.— Riotous demonstrations continued Tuesday by students at St. Germain des Pres and in the Rue Jacobnear the Hospital de la Charite. The police were unable to disperse the mobs. Eventually a large detachment pf cavalry charged and scattered the students. Omnibuses and tram cars were stopped by the mobs, the passengers were turned out and the vehicles upset. One man was killed instantly in the Rue de la Ilarpe, a narrow street leading off che Boulevard St. Germain. On the Boulevard St. Germain, Quai Voltaire and the Rue St. Peres traffic has been suspended. The Rue St. Peres has been barricaded. Pedestrians are stopped and maltreated. The Charity hospital has been surrounded with cuirassiers to keep off the students who threatened to attack the building. The ministry of public works, the marine department and the Ecole des Beaux arts are guarded by military. Skirmishing is reported intermittently from the Rue St. Jacob, the Quai Voltaire and the Place St. Germain. At 10:30 the students had possession of a dozen streets between the Boulevard St. Germain and the Seine. All shops, banks, and even many cases were closed. People barricaded their front doors and put up the shutters of the lower windows. In the crowd of women the etudiantes of the Latin quarter were conspicuous in new spring dresses and did not keep out of the most dangerous places. A mob assembled at the Palace St. Michel and tried to rush over the bridge to the Boulevard du Palais, which runs between the two buildings. They were met and driven back by a body of cavalry. They retreated fightingdown the Boulevard St. Michel. Many students were trampled or cut, and several cavalrymen were wounded by flying stones. At 11:30 the whole district between Rue St. Peres and the College de France, two blocks east of the Boulevard St. Michel, was In full riot. Troops of cavalry and squads of police were stationed in every street. The students , held their ground, stopping and upsetting all vehicles. Scores of carts and carriages were set on fire. The keenest anxiety is everywhere apparent. Gen. Saussier, military governor of Paris, has prepared the garri—rison for the worst. The names of twenty men severely injured in the riots of the night have been reported. At 1 o’clock the reports from the Latin quarter said that most of . the windows were broken, the lamp posts were lying across the streets and broken furniture and half-smashed vehicles lay strewn over the pavements.