People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — BATTLE WITH RIOTERS. [ARTICLE]

BATTLE WITH RIOTERS.

Desperate Mob of Hungarians Come Into Collision with Austrian Troops. Buda Pesth, April 24.—Sunday 808 workmen marched to the town hall of Hold-Mezo with the intention of recovering a number of pamphlets, belonging to socialist leaders, which had been seized by the police. The spokesmen of the mob asked for the return of the pamphlets, claiming that they had been illegally seized. The authorities ordered the workmen to disperse. The mob refused and the gend’armes were ordered to charge. The police were met by a shower of stones and driven back. The municipal authorities called for a detachment of troops, and upon the arrival of the soldiers the gend’armes made another attempt to disperse the mob, but were again repulsed. Then the mob began stoning the military. The soldiers fired blank cartridges at the rioters. The latter, seeing that nobody was killed or wounded, continued stonfng the troops, and a second volley, this time in real earnest, was fired into the mob, wounding six of them severely and slightly wounding a number of others. A detachment of huzzars then charged the mob with drawn swords, driving them away from the town hall. The huzzars also rounded in sixty prisoners, who were lodged in jail, the prison being strongly guarded by troops. The streets are still patrolled by huzzars and gend’armes.