Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — VIOLENT SCENES IN VIENNA. [ARTICLE]

VIOLENT SCENES IN VIENNA.

Great Mobs Dispersed by the Unssars and Mounted Police. The members of the Austrian ministry Sunday tendered their resignation to Emperor Francis Joseph, who accepted them and intrusted Baron Gautsch, who holds the portfolio of public instruction of the retiring ministry, with the task of forming a new cabinet. The Emperor addressed an autograph letter to Count Badeni decreeing the adjournment of the Reichsrath until further orders. During the assembling of the Reichsrath dense masses of people, for the most part workmen, thronged the Ringstrasse from the university to the outer gate of Hofburg. A charge by the mounted police with drawn swords failing to disperse them, a body of hussars cleared the streets at the saber’s point, many persons being wounded. The ambulance of the city immediately sent two vans to attend the injured. At least 10,000 people gathered about the same time in front of the town hall and the Provincial Criminal Court to make a demonstration in favor of Herr Wolff, who was to be arrested there on a charge of public violence committed when being removed from the unterhaus by the police, acting under the orders of President von Abrahamovics. The police, with drawn swords, dispersed them. Simultaneously meetings of workmen were held in various quarters of the city, but the police dissolved these. .■*' Upward of 3,000 people tried to organize a demonstration in the early evening in front of the foreign office budding, but thia was prevented by closing the approaches to the palace. After 8 o’clock the city was quiet. The judge of the Provincial Criminal Conrt discharged Herr Wolff from custody. There were demonstrations also at Gratz, Prague and. Asch, in Bohemia, but they were not of a serious character. The riotous obstructionists won another victory Saturday in the unterhaus at Vienna. Thomsit ting had to be postponed, the President announcing that members would be notified by mail of the date of future sittings.

Herr Wolff was further humiliated by being dragged to a police station and there locked up for a time. Police charges were made on mobs in Vienna and in TJratz. the capital of Styria. In the latter place the military took a hand, and two rioters were reported killed and many wounded. The performances in the lower house of the Reiehsrath have developed each day new features of astounding interest. Deputies have exhausted the vocabulary of abuse and the engineery of obstruction. There is nothing in the history of parliamentary government in Europe that can compare with the proceedings which culminated in riots on the public streets and in demands that Count Badeni be sent to the guillotine.