Budapest on 19 September, 1886 - "News of the World"
Terrible Scenes in a Cholera-stricken District -- The Austro-Hungarian monarchy
The cholera is slowly but firmly taking its seat in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Energetic measures have been taken in Pola to prevent its spreading further. In Buda Pesth one man died half an hour after being taken ill, but it is worst in Lic, a village near Argram. Out of 900 inhabitants 90 were taken ill, 28 having died almost immediately. The uncultivated people distrust all doctors, and conceal their sick brethren as long as they can. When the great number of cases made concealment impossible, the doctor who came to look after them was received with volleys of stones.The people refuse to help each other. Wherever cholera appears the house is immediately isolated. A commission goes from house to house to ascertain the number of cases and to procure help. In one house they discovered a mother and daughter half naked on the bare floor, both writhing in agonies. A little boy stood near crying but not attempting to seek help. After opening another door in the same house the commission found the father, who had died of cholera, on the cold hearth with the dead body of his 20 year-old son dung over him. It is almost impossible to make the people believe that the doctors are not the originators of the epidemic. The entire population is deep in misery, because the traffic with Fiume, their only resource, has been interrupted.
Budapest in 1851
Austro-Hungary - Riot at a Suspected Anti-Magyar Demonstration
There were some rather noisy Nationalist riots at Buda-Pesth on the 22nd. Some Austrian officers of the 21st regiment deposited wreaths on the pedestal of the monument erected to the memory of General Hertzl and the 418 Austrian soldiers who fell in 1849 while bravely defending the fortress of Buda against General Görgey's Honveds. Some Hungarian students, indignant at what they chose to consider an anti-Magyar demonstration, assembled and broke the windows of General Jansky, the commander of the garrison. A large body of police was called out to disperse the rioters, and several students were arrested. The Deputy Ugron harangued the students from the window of his home, and subsequently lodged an interpellation to the Government in Parliament. The excitement caused in Pesth by this affair is very great, and many people are to be heard clamoring that the monument raised to General Hertzl may be removed.Military Service in Austro-Hungary. - A very significant bill will shortly be introduced into the Parliaments of Vienna and Pesth providing for the extension of the time of beginning military service from 20th to the 21st year. This is rendered necessary by the bad physique of the recruits who have presented themselves during the last few years. The worst cases were in Galicia and Bukovina, but in the German Provinces the physique of the young men has also deteriorated.
On the 28th of last month an agent of Kossuth, who had been some months in prison, was hanged at Pesth.
Marshal Haynau. - A letter from Pesth, of the 16th, says: - "Field-Marshal Haynau, who is at present residing on the estate he possesses in Hungary, is accustomed to sleep in a little room on the ground floor, in a detached building in the garden of his chateau. In the night of Monday last he was awoke by a thick smoke, which filled the chamber. He immediately jumped out of the bed, and leaped out of the window into the garden. Some moments after all the building was in flames. A strong wind having arisen, the fire extended to three barns filled with the corn of the last harvest, and they and their contents, together with the building, were destroyed. No fire having been lighted in the day, it appears certain that the fire was caused by a criminal, in the hope, probably, of killing the general. It has not been possible thus far to discover him."
Budapest on 12 June, 1886 - "Manchester Guardian"
The Riots in Pesth
Pesth, Tuesday, 11 30 P.M.The demonstrations against General Jansky were continued to-day. A large crowd, composed chiefly of working men and the lower classes, assembled before the residence of M. Ugron, a deputy of the Extreme Left, who addressed the people, advising them to abstain from disturbing the public peace. The crowd, however, proceeded through the Anzecstrasse, and committed various excesses. On the appearance of a detachment of mounted police the mob took to flight, breaking the windows and street lamps as they went.
Pesth, Wednesday Evening.
In the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet to-day M. Tisza, the Premier, in reply to an interpellation of M. Csanady respecting the disturbances which occurred on the 6th instant, reminded the House of his declarations the day before yesterday, and vigorously protested against the reopening of the discussion as calculated to encourage the rioters and promote a continuance of disorders which had already lasted too long. The Premier's reply was received with loud applause by the House. Large crowds again collected in the streets this evening, but all the principal portions of the town are occupied.
Political Scandals in Hungary.
(From our correspondent.)
Vienna, Sunday.
In Pesth political scandals are the order of the day. Some time ago the population was roused to indignation because General Jansky, commanding the city, had a monument restored and decorated which twenty-seven years ago was erected over the remains of a general who fell while defending the Castle of Ofen against the revolutionists under Kossuth. Upon an interpellation in the Diet on this subject the Premier, Herr Tisza, declared that he disapproved of the restoration of the monument, and spoke words to the effect that even the very highest in the land were displeased. This seems to have been more than Herr Tisza was authorised to say; and the Archduke Albert, on his tour of inspection in Bosnia, in proposing a toast, expressed his mind upon the subject in strong terms. Then followed an article in the Pester Lloyd which commented on this toast, and used language with reference to the Archduke Albert which the Vienna papers did not dare to reprint. The Emperor, who highly esteems his uncle, the Commander-in-Chief of the army, was deeply hurt, and the editor of the Pester Lloyd had to withdraw his words and beg pardon of the Archduke. This humiliation was not to the taste of the high-spirited Hungarian youths, and yesterday a large number of students assembled before the editor's house and indulged in some rough music. The police interfered, but the students held their ground, and after burning the newspaper containing the incriminated letter, they marched to the station where General Jansky, who had got out of the way, was expected to arrive on his return. Fortunately he did not arrive, or it might have fared ill with him. After a great deal of noise and some window breaking the students withdrew. Tonight a worse scandal is apprehended. Lieutenant Menyhart has fought four duels successfully in this affair, and if he had not been wounded in the last, would have fought two more today.
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