Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1890 — FATAL CURIOSITY OF WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

FATAL CURIOSITY OF WOMEN.

Exhibition of a Bride’s Trousnean Results in a Riot anil the Death of Nine Persons. Though it contained tragic elements, the town is laughing at a singular riot which happened at Buda Pesth Thursday. It was the result of a free exhibition of the trousseau belonging to the Princess Thun Taxis. Before the doors of the building where the exhibit was to be given- a crowd of over six hundred women assembled. They demanded admittance in a body, and when the officers declined to tax the capacity of the apartments the entire force of females attacked the police, the ushers, the messengers in fact everything male within sight, with parasols, finger-nails and vehe' ment execrations, utterly routing the force placed there and putting the uniformed officers to ignominious flight. The crowd then surged into the exhibition rooms and sated their curiosity to its fullest extent. Meanwhile the mounted police had been called, and their clattering down the street struck terror to the weaker sex, who made another rush for the opening, trampling to death in their haste and fright two women and seven children. The police remained in possession of the field, together with several cart-loads of parasols, hats,bustles, blonde switches and miscellaneous spoil.