LABOUR RIOTS IN CHICAGO.
GKEAT MEETING OF SOCIALISTS, 15,000 PRESENT. FIFTY OF THE BIOTERS KILLEE BY THE POLICE. FIVM OF THE POLICE SHOT DEAD. (KEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) New York, May 5. The labour riots in Chicago have nov assumed a very serious phase- A meet ing of Socialists, numbering full] fifteen thousand men, was held yester day in that oity, Thd polioe authorise ordered the crowd to disperse, but thi Socialists offered a Btubborn resistance throwing explosive bombs among th police, Mliing five, and wounding man,^ others. The police then fired upon th rioters, fifty of whom were shot dead and a large number wounded. Th greatest consternation prevails in th oity, business being to a large extant a v standstill.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11188, 7 May 1886, Page 2
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120LABOUR RIOTS IN CHICAGO. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11188, 7 May 1886, Page 2
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