Trouble At The World's Fair Site

Chicago, Feb. 14. - The contractors for grading Jacksoa park for the uses of the Columbia fair were forced to suspend work yesterday owing to the fears of their Italian workmen that the crowd of laborers assembled in the vicinity of the park would assault them. Their fears appeared to be well founded, too. The hundreds of idle men assembled uttered threats and kept up a constant jeering at the Italiaas in the alleged interests of organized labor. The contractors pay the men 15 cents per hour, and say they are not worried, as the work is hardly begun yet. When they get a full forcé at work, tney say, they will demand protectiou of the authorities. They also say that they are making no discrimination as to the laborera em doved.