Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10
NEW YORK.
War Inaugurated Between Gas Strik'
ers and Police.
ManeuVring and Counter Maneu'
wiring.
Attack, Repulse, Rally, Defeat.
No Firearms Used-BloOdy Heads and
Broken Bones.

the police came into conflict last evening
and after short and sharp tussle, the
policemen were victorious The strikers
made demonstration on the Manhattan
Gas Works on the Tenth avenue side, but
the attacking party was repulsed with little
damage. A rsllying rush was made for
the Seventeenth street entrance, but the
police quickly appearing there, the strikers
were overswed and retreated to safe dis
lance, where they had consultation, and
the police say obtained arms. Subsequent
ly the whole force of strikers were masssd
and rush made, that the police might be
taken by surprise and an entrance gained.
The police were on the alert however, and
routed the gas men, many of whom had
bloody heads and well belabored bodies.
No pistols were used on either side. The
attacks were made that the valve room
might be gained and the gas shut of, so
that the citizens generally might be ineon-
venienced and made to sympathize with
the strikers.
During the conflicts outside the works
there was great excitement inside. The
men were armed, and expressed determi-
nation 20 protect themselves. The strikers
now number nearly four hundred, and have
sent delegation to Albany to ask the Leg
islature to appoint a commission to assess
the value of the property of the different
companies, preparatory to their purchase by
the city, and the enforcement of the eight
hour law. .r
The Jersey City painters struck yester-
day for an advance of fifty cents day.
Only three employers resisted the demand,
and their men remain out. The others
resumed work at the new rates.
Somewhat Reasonable.
Brooklyn painters are going for a reduc.
| 81 on of the hours of labor and wages. Ten
hours and 50 so day are the present time
and pay. Eight hours and So will be de-
manded.
The Italians Strike.
LATER-The Italians employed by the
New York Gas Company have all left
and Germans have supplied their places.
| Everything has been quiet to day around
the gasworks. The strikers have given up
all hopes that the employees of the Man
hatton Company viii join them.
The car drivers on the Belt line will
strike tomorrow for S2.75 per day. At pre-
sent they only get 81.
LATEST No new Developments in the
gas mems strike. The strikers are holding
a secret meeting tonight. The result is
not ascertsined. The supply of gas to-
night in the lower part of the city is as
| usual.
The Goodrich Case.
Judge Tappan decided to-day that Mrs
| Myers, witness in the Goodrich case, should
be discharged on her own recognizance and
surety of 81 900.
Religions Pressure for Temperance
Laws.
The East Methodist Conference yester-
day adopted resolution fsYoring the pas
sage by the Legislature of local option
law, and demanding the enactment OF a
civil damages bill similar to the one now in
Illinois.
The local option bill passed the Assem-
bly, tonight.
The Governor has signed the civil rights
bill.
iEsg An English Colony.
One hundred English farmers bound for
Minnesota arrived here yesterday. Geo.
| Rodgers, of Somerse, shire, is President OF
the colony, which will settle on tract OF
twenty-four by twelve miles, and situated,
| according to the President, twelve miles
east of Glyndon; twenty east of Morehesd;
| eighty west of Brainard, and two hundred
and thirty from Duluth. Two thousand
farmers are expected the present year in the
same section.
The Bulls Head,
The grand jury have found four indics-
ments against VIM. Fl. Merritt, assistant
cashier, and three against James j. Peck,
late receiving teller of the Bulls Head Bank
The former are for forgery and embezzle-
ment, and the latter for grand larceny and
ENLIGHTENMENT. Both fled bonds for trial
The defalcation is said to be three hundred
and forty thousand dollars.
The Produce Exchange will adjourn over
Good Friday. v.tr
Fatal Underground Explosion.
!. A Mr.. Dupins was killed this morning
and David Geary fatally injured by pre-
mature explosion in the underground rail
rail at Ninty-Second street.
The Hero of Camp jackson and VIII
SON Creek.
A statue of Gen. Lyons intended for st
Louis is now on exhibition in this city.
The Postal Cars.
The United States Senate COMMITTEE
heard to-day Continuation of the argu
in reference 10 the postal car question
President Hinekley, of the Philadelphia
Boston road, read extracts from annual re
/ ports showing the small profits resulting /
the company from the earnings of carryil
4 the mails.
President Harris, of the Connecticut
;. Valley road, stated that his company re
ceiyed SIC, 700 from the Express per veal
4 and If they were paid accordingly for tn
, mails, they would get $45 $50 yearly, a
r II is. they only get $40 for the round trip b.
4 a twenty-one feet car with two messengers
!. If the latter paid their fare, it wou Id Coz
s them 81. --
r Hickey, resuming, read documents t
) show the Inequality of postal remuneration
v His own company received slxty-two cent
per mile for 80 feet car on the Baltimor
Central branch, while on the Delawal
branch they only received II cents per mi
i for thirty feet cars. The mails were carrie
: In the same class Of cars on both branche
Ne The committee then adjourned till tt
b, morrow when Davis will make argumel
for tho noatnffica denartmeEt.