A DRUNKEN MOB.
St. Petersburg, May 27
A mob of drunken strikers at Riga, a seaport on the Baltic Sea, attacked the police and set fire with petroleum to a number of houses in the low quarters of the town. Several women wore burned to death, and during the disturbances 1G persons were killed and 50 injured.
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Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 52, 29 May 1899, Page 3
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