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Show ONE MAN IS HURT IN RIOT AT STRIKE WORCESTER. Mass., Aug. 7. One man was injured so seriously that ho died ! and several others were wounded during a riot at the mills of the Barre "Wool Combing company and the Norway Wors-j Wors-j ted company this afternoon, when special : officers w ho were guarding the plants fired upon a mob of strikers and sympa-! sympa-! thlzers. The riot developed when an attempt at-tempt was made to reopen the mills, where there has been trouble with the Polish employees for three weeks, with Portuguese strike-breakers. It was reported re-ported that half a dozen persons were shot, four of them being seriously wounded. Cue victim of the shooting died as ho was being taken to a. hospital. Early in tho afternoon the rioters were still beyond be-yond control. |