LATER PARTICULARS.
j 55 MEN KILLED. . . Received May 6, 11.45 a.m. - .Nkw Yobk, May 5. The labor riots in Chicago have) now. assumed, a very serious Jabase. ■ • A \ meeting of . Socialists, numbering fully 15,000 men, was held yesterdays in that City. The, police authorities ordered the crowd to disperse, 'but the Socialists offered »' £^bora .resistance, throwing explosive . bombs, amongst the p<&oe. killing five and wounding many others. The police then fired upon the rioters, fifty 6| whom were shot dead and a large ¥ number wounded. The greatest eon* sternation prevails in the City, business being to a large extent at a >: standstill.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 140, 6 May 1886, Page 2
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102LATER PARTICULARS. Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 140, 6 May 1886, Page 2
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