"By Independent."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 March 1913, Page 2

"By Independent."

Cabled News From Abroad. (Sydney Sun Special.) GARMENT WOIUvEKS' RIOT. NEW }ORK. February 22. There were fourteen arrests at Boston yesterday as a consequence of a street encounter between (sympathisers with the garment ■workers who are on strike iand a crowd of young men who were escorting blackleg women operatives from the factories to their homos.

Sticks, stones and 'bottles figui as weapons in the battle, and ma injuries wore inflicted before the i lice succeeded in quelling the rio

IK)CKEFELLFR AXI) TillSHOPS.

-Hr .J. J). l ioclvciollt>i" ]KIS pi;i 000 to block tlit? building i ;itu] oilier business |)i*o!iii.s< on a corner of Fifth-avenue adjaeei to his residence.

SKVKX CHILDIiEX BURNED

An awful tragedy .recurred at Ha limbing, Pennsylvania, vestwda a hen a house was burned down ai seven little children roasted to doat

1 he victims ranged from one v t-'» 12 years of age. While f] '""'her and father. Mr and :

George Smith, had gone out shop; it is believed that one of tl hihlien upset a kerosene lamp. When the parents came back th. ' n "nd the house in ruins, while tl charred bodies of their babies we. almost 11 nrecognis able.