Important Mail News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1721, 31 May 1886, Page 3

Important Mail News.

. — ♦ THE CHICAGO EIOTS. FULLER DETAILS. A SANGUINARY CONFLICT. THE PANAMA CANAL. A CRISIS IMPENDING. VAST INDEBTEDNESS. LABOUR RIOTS ON THE OONTI- ' NENT. Further trouble brewing. (united press association .) (Per Mail Steamer.) A terrible Socialist fight took place at Heyinarket, Chicago, between the police *nd Anarchists on May 4th. Bombs ,w»re thrown among the police killing «?ix and wounding others. A f usilade of re.Tolver shots followed between the parties. The police fought gallantly and at last dispersed the Socialists. It is impossible to get at the number of lives lost among the mobs. Many fell, and as they dropped were at once carried to the rear into many dark alleys and ways by their friends. The police think that fifty were wounded. The drug stores m the Ticinity were crowded with persons who were hurt, and surgeons were telephoned to m all directions. At eleven o'clock m the evening twenty' policemen lay on the floor of Desplaine's-street station all disabled, while others were reported to be lying m the open square, either dead or wounded. One was found m a doorway .to which be had dragged himself riddled with pistol balls. The station house where tlie dead and wounded lay presented a shocking sight, The latest information about the Panama Canal undertaking is from Dr Walford Newson, formerly a member of the Board of Health at Panama, who arrived m New York from the Isthmus on May Ist He says if M. de Lesseps is reported correctly m his statement that one half of the work on the canal is completed, he misleads. A fearful crisis has arisen m the Canal Company's affairs. The indebtedness now amounts to 160,000,000 dollars on which they are paying an annual interest of 6,000,000 dollars. Labour troubles are again assuming a threatening aspect m Belgium, and a eerious revolutionary outbreak is feared at Liege. Strike riots are likely to be renewed with redoubled violence. The real terror of the situation is m the utter absence ot any organised union, there being no tangible controlling power •which the authorities can reach.