Serious Riots in Chicago.
CONFLICT BETWEEN SOCIALISTS AND TME POLICE SEVERAL SHOT DEAD AND OTHERS WOUNDED. Ni# Yon, May -V The labor nets in Chicago have now assumed a very serious phase. A meeting ef Socialists, numbering fully 16,000 men, was held yesterday in that city. The police authorities ordered Ihe crowd to disperse, hat the Socialists offered a stubborn resistance, throwing explosive bombs esaong the police, killing five and bounding many others. The |Hilice then fired upon the rioters, 60 of whom were shot deed end a large number wounded. The greatest consternation previue in the city, business being to a large extent at • standstill
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1829, 7 May 1886, Page 2
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106Serious Riots in Chicago. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1829, 7 May 1886, Page 2
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