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Show oo ICE KIOTS IN" . NEW.JORIUGITY If New, YprkS July 12. Ice riots broke out on 'lho4West Side today among the' poor.' Prices have risen from 200 to 300 per cent in the course of the hot spell and the increased demand has been so heavy that the Knlckor-. Knlckor-. hockey Ice company refuses to sell .to uuy. but Its own retailers, The Indo- pendent dealers sell, but only at ad-1 vanced rateB. One hundred men and women stormed storm-ed tho offices of Che Foster Scott company com-pany this aftefnoou, yelling, "Ice; give us ice." Many had sick children, dying for lack o'f Ice "Smash the windows," yelled the crowd. Buckets of "wStor frord the windows greeted the crod, but the assailants, growing angrier, the manngou decided to quiet it by distributing tickets which could. be; exchanged for ico at the company's pier. Tho district attorney said today that a delegation of dealers who cannot can-not got Ice from the Knickerbocker had asked to wait on him oo |