Show LABOR TROUBLES AT RIGA twenty thousand workmen have gone out on strike st petersburg the rumors of seri serl ous trouble at riga were officially con firmed on wednesday twenty thou sand men are on strike many M any of the strikers are desirous ot of working but the socialists deter them with threats ot of murder it is declared that there is a but number ot of soldiers at riga to handle any disturbance arising from the strike A regiment of cavalry la is patrolling the streets and keeping or der more or less successfully wednesday night numbers of shop keepers had to stop work under corn com the agitators sacked a meat market because the owner refused to join the strikers two million dollars worth of per ashable merchandise is loading or un loading and the merchants have ap plied tor soldiers to 0 act as stevedores in order to save this property |