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Show SERIOUS RIOTS IN BELGIUM.' Strikers m Smjolsatj Encounteis With tho Police. lleToliilloii l llnili,ra.-1l, tin wallm, Itiireu I aveeta le lis ! Iiialaledby Illonnl. HiiUMEis April 10. This has been 0 day of extreme watchfulness am anxiety on the put cf the authorities throughout llslgliiru. Iteports from all points Indlcaiu that tho itrlko Is ipreadlngsleJlly and tho leiiiir of tho ttrlkeis Is growing worse-. In this city the mornlnit lasted without dlr-luriiances. dlr-luriiances. Beeral rullrage meetings w re held but Ihey were orderly and the sivecheiwere not, vl leut. This a'lermioii, howuvsr, tliousinds uf w ralugmeii held n turbulent mistliiK ouisidool the oily llmllr. Thu oljecl 01 the meeting was lu denounce Iho prni'Umutloii uf Ihe mayor prohibiting puul edinionstratlotiaiu favor uf mil-ussl mil-ussl iu(iiue. The croud tecaine uj rosrlou and shouted far revenge up .n tlii. may r. The jnlloj urdered Ihuemwd ti dlspeiM-. 'Hi working. Iieuumuiiedwith Iters. Tnn llni diew swords nud ldvaueed. Boioeuf the irowd fire I rovelvers and u U thnw stout.., but Hie nil letreated without show of o light towards thu city. Mayor Iluls was walking home un hour latir when soinu SuO 9clalltl returning Inm Ihoiuiellugciimedowii Ihe. ten. Ihey hooted nud Jostled him, nudono of them struck lilm n heavy blow Willi a ell jk on thu head. Ho leil bleeding una unconscious to thu pavinieut. Hio police coming up charged thu socialists, end niter u light of ten minutes dispersed tlnm. This evening turbulent ciowds fought the police In suv.r.l districts In tlieo ty, I u one Instance the mob be-cauio be-cauio to t ilealeiilLi; that mounted pullce ihurgeJ Hum with drawn word. Tho rioters thiew u or of greek lire uud slonis umuug tho police. Many uf Ihe mob were i ut or tiumpled upou. Twelve men weru arrested. Beversl pollceincu wire burned and bruised, lherltyls us If lu a slate of siege. All tie places uf nmuninout wero dossited toulglil. Thu pullce and rletars huvo thu streets to theic-selvta. theic-selvta. A dlifutch from Mous says the rlutirs have had n.estlon ui many streets there since tally lu the afternoon, after-noon, lteluforcemei.ie of soldiers havu been sent from this city. Despite Ihe Increasing rlotouiness of the peoj le King Leopold O tisl today bif.reau Imnioime crowd the new park cunservatorles at I,ieken. Thu people wero perfectly ordirly uud received the king enthusiastically. The rispect shovtubythem was due not only to thilr uppriclatlou of Ills confidence lu them but also to Iho knowledgu Hiat ho favors tbo umpllllcatlou uf sulTrage, Tu riti.Mulni.te tolses. Ban Amunio, Tex., April 111. J. IX. Campbell, the most extensive Iheep rnlsir In wiaiern Texas, liss lost St! I er cent uf his Hock during the past twelve months by wolvcr, Cnmptoll hit upon a. novel plan to exterminate them. He entrapped twelve wolves u month tg) and put Hum up with a dog whli h was badly allected with insnge. The wolves soon caught Ihe dlseusenlid are now thoroughly oovered with the purutltts which produce It. f hey will bo turned looso on tho range In u few days uud Camt hell expecta the illstase will spread among thu uolves sj riipidly that there will not bu one of them loll In Texas In twu years. A llxslsrrllenrnlll, FiiEeMu, C'al., April 10. Tho my. lory surrounding the brutal murder uf Wltlard Hood, ueting pestmsater nt Tarpey, a smsll slstlon seven miles from tills city, last Octubir, haa been solved, and William B. Jsmes nnd Thomas Jonss, alias "Jack" Jones, are under urn it for tho crime. Hood came out from Bt. All uus, W, Va., In IbUl, and Joined his brother ut Tarpey. Joues and Jnmes, men of unsavory re uord, attempted to rob the postolllce, and Jones stabbed (loud to deatn In thu commission of the crime. There wire no witnesses, but Joins fled aud James stsyed In I'resuo, where he win re ueutly arrested for stealing hay, t'rnlrlellrra. Tut'lICA, April 15. Itsrorts coil, tlnue toouio In of ulssstrous pralrlu lint in the western part of Ihe slate. Tho moat destructive one yet reiuricd occurred lu Hodgeman couuly vu Thursday. It swept over the southern half of the county destroying everything every-thing that lay In Its path. Muny houses and barns were burned and n large number of libreca stud cattle wire lost by farmers. |
