STREET FIGHTING IN GEORGIA.
STRIKERS SHOT BY TROOPS. (Received September 29th, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 28. At Augusta, Georgia, after serious rioting in which two men had been killed, martini law was proclaimed. A strike led to tho disorders, including attacks on tho street railway cars. Soldiers established a dead lino, forbidding the strikers to cross it, iv consequonco of a report that tho electric power works were in danger of boing dynamited. A number of strikers crossed tho lino and tho soldiers riddled thorn with bullets. Great excitement prevails.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14473, 30 September 1912, Page 7
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