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Show CHICAGO POLICE MONUMENT ' Stands In Memory of Those Killed In Haymarket Riot Twenty- Five Years Ago. Chicago. Mopt readers probably have read of tie Haymarket riot which occurred In Chicago twcnty-Ove t years axo. Iuirlng this trouble the j first bomb was thtown in Chicago. Seven pollcen.cn were killed and J many persons Injured. T!.e death sen- J tenre was given to four men and three were sent to prison. Shortly j after a monument of a policeman was ( erected In memory of those who lost j their lives. Tbe Inscription carved on the side of the monument reads: ! t A li 0K v pl'" slI T-Tn ' jl Chicago Haymarket Memorial. "In the name of the people of Illinois , I command taie " That this senterce Is not taken ; m very seriously by the prc-tent day i bomb throwers can readily be seen ' from the fset that lr the past five rears more than 100 bombs have been t xploded In ChlmKo. cnutlng thou- j lands of dollars in dsmege and no one ! ss been convicted for these out-ages out-ages The police attribute some of he bombs to rlv4l g.nr.b'lng organlz.v Ions, others to labor troubles and the renter portion to the "Mack Hand." |