STRIKE BLOODSHED.
IN PHILADELPHIA. : A THOUSAND CASUALTIES, SOME I , FATALITIES. _~ EEPUBLICAN COEETTPTION. By Telegraph-FressJtjssosiatioii-Cop)TiiU,> London, February Si. The Washington conespcaident of *T3m Times" states that the Phfladalphiafitiila is attributable to political corruption by the Republican machine;.
"The city (he writee) ia a byword, be-/ cause of dishonesty, particularly in v connection with tb.o tramwaye."
Seven hundred and fifty can have been destroyed. One car depot has been dyna- * mi ted!
9?he total casualties ttmrilwr a tium« sand; the dead and dying 12, and serioosly injured 91 (nwlndmg 51 policemen). The posting of the miliba at twentyyard intervals proved a farce. Women stack tins on the bayonets, and cat off the milibamen'e buttons as souvenirs. , Trials of the prisoners have > begun. , Sentences ranging from two to six yean , imprisonment have been imposed in some of'the cases. , "* ' The gaols are overcrowded, and ban, ness w paralysed. > ,
, RIOTERS OVERAWEtJ, V N BY MOUNTED CONSTABULABy. (Eeo. February 25, 10.45 pjn.) New York, February 25. One haadt«d and fifty mounted State Constabulary, accustomed to deal with turbulent miners, overawed the Philadelphia strikers. i More cam ore running, but & general stake is threatened. l
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 752, 26 February 1910, Page 6
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