Prospects Of A Bloody Race War

1 vo colorea women, refugees from Spring Valley, UI., from wheuce they were driven by the Italian miners, have reached Chicago and the reports they g-ive of the treatraent of the colored people at that place have infla .ned the Negroes to the highest pitch. Over 50ü excited Negroes in a mass meeting at Chicago passed resolutions demanding that Gov. Altgeld protect the colored people at Spring Valley, and asserting their determination to leave for tliat place with arms should the governor refuse to talte action. The men were excited and the speeches were violent and determined. The sentiment so alarmed the Italian consul that he held a conference with Mayor Swift and Chief of Pólice Badenoch and it was decided to prevent the colorea men from assembling1 an armed raob in Chicago