Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-02-20

purpose of breaking 81 I'D, and driving SIG
fragments from trafalgar square.
Both efforts proved absolutely futile. Tire
mob would yield little at the point 81 as
tack but bulge cut in some other place -t1e
ponce could not surround lt or break II uFe
Each failure of the police was greeted tT the
vast assemblage with cheers and yells. Sc
inns nOur the rioters axe getting euEaEel ~
I the frequent repiEtions Of the police The
temper OF the mob is rising. Thousands Cf
"a en- are pouring down to the scene and ell
me pavement ia the vicinity Of Trafalgar
square Is lined with excited men.
THE MOB DISPERSED
me increasing gravity of the situation
finally alarmed the authorities. and thev nut
IorIn 4 1I, energies to suppress the incipient
not Inc ponce on duty at Irafal gar sQulr8
were enormously increased, and are well
prepared for well defined and exhaustive
attack.
This morning the long struggle resulted
IN pushing the mob into side streets erf
thus splitting it up. The police followed ~
the work, and drove each fragment OF the
broken mob until the elements were driven
into the aleyways and byWays of the town.
Every precauUOn has been taken to prevent
the re-assemblage. Many rioters have been
arrested. Some of these have been fined
ana discharged, and others remanded foE
trlal; while number were sentenced to i'm
prlsonment for various terms, RANGING from
ten 70 sixteen months.
THEIR WISHES EXPLAINED.
Burns, Champion, Hyndman and YVif
hams. the four socialists who inspired YES
terday's riots, called this afternoon moon
ar. Joseph Chamberlain, president of the
local government board. at his Office Mr.
chamberlain declined to receive the social
lists personally, but expressed his WILLINGNESS
70 give attention to anything they might
nave to say. provided they placed it before
him IN writing.
Burns and his colleagues thereupon draft
ed a statement of their wishes They said
they had called to obtain from Mr. Cham
he -
tentlOns with regard to providing work for
the several hundred thousand unemployed
people who We're at present starving in the
city of London and elsewhere in England.
Mr.. Chamberlain replied in writing that
he did not think any of the remedies pro
posed by the social democratic federation
would prove ehectual to relieve the prevalent
misery e1lsLng among the unemployed ia
England BE was on this account unable t.
support the proposed measures.
THE MOB IN POSSESSION ANOTHER DAY.
Wednesday the mob continued its reign ira
London. The mob sacked several small
shops along the way. They stopped at the
mammoth establishment of VIM. Torn 81 Co.
The establishment includes Nos B to 81 on
the New Kent road and 165 to I73 on New
England cau6eWay- 1t Is devoted to trade
IN linen, silks, men and wOmen's clothes
boots, shoes, carpets, irOnware, bedding,
furniture etc. The building is under police
protection, but the mob Overran the officers
and sacked the store, and when they retired
they left the building badly wrecked.
AID FOR THE STARVING.
At a meeting of the Mansion house com
mittee for the relief of wOrkingmen out of
employment, the lord mayor announced that
subscriptions had been received to the
amount of =, 300, including Ct, 600 each from
Baron ROthschild and Mr.. Barring, the bank
er, and 600 from Lord Salisbury.
The Danville, Olney & Ohio River railway
was sold at Springfield, H., by the master
of the United States circuit court. 1t was
purchased by c. w. Fairbanks as council for
the bOndhOldcrs, for $4,000.
John l.. Sullivan has issued a challenge.
which he says in mis- last to Paddy Ryan.
He says he viii fight with Ryan with kid
gloves anywhere in the United States for
$780, and If Ryan refuses to accept he viii
brand him as a coward. Later Ryan ac-
cepted the challenge and the two win meet
in private.
/ The Hampstead Club stables at Hunters
/ Point, N. Y, were destroyed by fire. Twenty
/ four valuable horses stabbed in it, were burn
! ed. The greatest loss was in horse flesh
/ Stephen A. Walker, has been appointed
| district attorney for the southern district OF
/ New York, to succeed ex-Iieut. Gov. Dor1
| sheimer,W who resigned.