Show LABOR T1OUBLES AT RIGA Twenty Thousand Workmen Have Gone Out or Strike St Petersburg Tho rumors of serious seri-ous trouble at Riga were officially confirmed con-firmed on Wednesday Twenty thousand thou-sand men aro on strike Many of the strikers are desirous of working but the Socialists deter them with threats of murder It Is declared that there Is a sufficient suf-ficient number of soldiers at Riga to handlo any disturbance arising from tho strike A regiment of cavalry is patrolling tho streets and keeping order or-der moro or less successfully Wednesday night numbers of shopkeepers shop-keepers had to stop work under compulsion com-pulsion Tho agitators sacked a meat market because the owner refused to join tho strikers Two million dollars worth of perishable per-ishable merchandise Is loading or unloading un-loading and tho merchants have applied ap-plied for soldiers to act as stevedores In order to save this property |