Illustration of crowds fighting police labeled "Chartist Riots"
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Latest Intelligence From The Disturbed Districts

MANCHESTER, Friday Morning.

By five o’clock the people again assembled in large masses in the Granby-row-fields, St. George’s-fields, New-cross, and other parts of the town, and crowds of from 200 to 400 paraded the town in a menacing attitude, soliciting alms, which were freely given to them by the shopkeepers. The magistrates commenced their sittings between five and six o’clock, and continued to be occupied until a late hour in swearing in special constables. Up to the present time of writing there are few short of 2500 specials appointed.

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Girls To Leave Their Bosses Flat

Professional Women to Hold State Meeting in Yakima—Ten Go from Here

A lot of business men will be forced to care for their own business about Friday of this week, because a lot of business girls who have been doing a lot of business for their bosses in the local business world, are going to Yakima to attend the state meeting of the Business and Professional Woman’s club.

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London Dazed By Big Strike; Hikes To Work

LONDON —The largest city in the world awoke today to find itself as helpless as any little roadside hamlet.

Confident yesterday that there would be an 11th hour settlement of the general strike, London seemed really amazed today to find its transportation facilities at a standstill.

starting at 4 and 5 a. m., workers of all ages and walks of life began trudging toward their daily tasks in the city.

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British Strike May Affect Big Tourist Service On Atlantic

New York, May 3.—(AP)—Disruption of what promises to be a record trans-Atlantic tourist service may result if the general strike in England, scheduled to go into effect at midnight, extends through the month of May, shipping line officials and representatives of British seamen said here tonight.

Estimates of the number of tourists going to Europe this summer based on advance bookings, reach as high as a half million persons.

Bookings have been so heavy that several of the larger lines are already sailing ships on an average of one a day.

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Fatal Colliery Explosion

An explosion of fire-damp took place in a colliery at Pemberton, near Wigan, on Friday evening last, by which no less than ten lives have been sacrificed, and six other colliers have been placed on beds of suffering, with scarcely a possibility of recovery.

The colliery is that called Norley-hall, and is worked by the executors of the late Mr. Danglish, of Pemberton. The coal-bed is one of considerable extent, and belongs partly to Reece Bevan, Esq., and partly to the estate of the late Duke of Bridgwater; but Mr. Daglish had power only to take the coal to the boundaries of Mr. Bevan’s estate.

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Over 175 Women And Children Are Burned To Death At New York Fire

Hurl Themselves From Upper Floors of 10-Story Down Town Fire Trap

Bodies Piled By The Score In The Street

Blaze Started in Triangle Shirt Waist Co.’s Plant

Worst In The City’s History

Chief Croker Blames Municipal Building Department

New YorkYork, March 25.—A fire that spread like a spark in a powder train, trapped 2,000 employes of the Triangle Shirt Waist company, on the eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the 10-story loft building at Waverly place and Greene street, at 5 o’clock this after noon.

More than 175 lives were lost. The police figures at midnight were 150 dead and 75 injured. One hundred and fifty had been taken to the morgue up to midnight. There were at that hour still 12 bodies on the ninth floor, according to Chief Croker, who was directing the work of removal. Three victims had died in St. Vincent’s hospital; three in Bellevue and one in the New York hospital. There were still a number of bodies in the basement and sub-basement of the structure, but it was said by the chief that it would be impossible to tell before morning just how many as the sub-cellar was completely filled with water and the cellar was waist deep. The water was being pumped out but this was an all night task.