NEW YORK UNEMPLOYED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9108, 30 March 1908, Page 5

NEW YORK UNEMPLOYED.

A GREAT DEMONSTRATION. MAN KILLED BY HIS OV7N BOMB. Press Association—Copyright. Received March 30, 8.15 a.m. New York, March 29. During a great unemployed demonstration in Union Square, New York, on Saturday afternoon, an Anarchist hurled a bomb, killing one person and mortally Injuring himself. Mounted police rode down the mob creating a panic. A crowd of 20,000, mostly women, carrying Anarchist banners and wearing red caps had assembled despite the official refusal to 'permit them to enter Union Square. Mhen 180 Mounted Police sought to disperse the crowd Selig Silverstein, a young Russian Jew, attempted to hurl a bomb at a group of 20 policemen, but the Tfnse was too short and the bomb exploded, tearing off Silverstein’s right arm and killing a man named Becconian, who, it is believed, was an accomplice.