Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-02
The CRIME.
a Fashionable Dry Goods House At
tackled by Dynamiters.

a Fashionable Dry Goods House At
tackled by Dynamiters.
NEw YORK, February The first crime
inal use of dynamite in this city has greatly
excited the people. An explosion took
place at very late hour last night One
or two morning papers made second edi-
ton giving the news Of the explosion. 1t
was at Garry Brothers dry goods store,
Grand and Allen streets, and that section
Of the city was to day crowded with people.
At the time of the explosion q number of
persons were passing the spot, but none Of
them were injured. To-day, Captain Al
laire and squad Of officers guarded the
premises of Garry Brothers, and Of Ridley
Brothers, the windows of whose establish
ment were also shattered by the explosion.
Shortly after the explosion four men were
found in the shadow of the Rivington street
station of the elevated road. One Of them,
Charles Henry, a laborer, who said he lived
at Williamsburg, was severely cut on the
head and face. The others, William Brit
ton, waiter; James DAILY, clerk, and Jos.
Lamb, a painter, were binding Heurys
wounds.
All Were Arrested.
To-day q lad was arrested charged with
experimenting with dynamite at the corner
of Grand and Essex streets, where he sue
ceeded in dislodging portion Of the street
car track. He could not be connected
with the other explosion. The bomb or
cartridge used in last nights ex.
plosion must have been placed
Immediately under the window
frame of Garry Brothers store. The win
dow casing and sash were entirely de-
molished. The shock was felt several hun
dred feet. A lamp on a shelf in store
three hundred feet away was thrown to the
floor. Dishes in the tenement houses IN
the neighborhood ratified, and the iron STAN
| chions of the elevated road near the store
look as though they had received violent
/ blow. There is no evidence that cartridge
was applied to Ridley's store. Had it not
been tor the heavy elevated railroad struct-
| ure which runs up Allen street between the
two stores however, good part of the west
| side of Ridley's building would have suffer
ed. Many of Ridleys employees came to
the spot
To Guard the Premises.
The damages amount to $4,000. The
police are satisfied the explosion is the out
| come Of the strike of Garry Brothers EN-
gloves. Burk, q former clerk Of the hrm,
end who caused the strike, was dismissed
! fer falling one night to properly secure the
| doors of the establishment. The Dry Goods
| Clerks Union, of which he is a member,
tried many methods to secure his reinstste-
ment They went so far as to station men
| in the vicinity and ask intending purchasers
10 boycot them. When a strike was ordered
by the union the 6rm was left without q
clerk.
The non.upion men employed have been
threatened in various ways. Garry Broth
ers also received threatening letters. Com,
mittees from several trades unions called
ppon the firm but the brothers assured them
that thew intended to run their own buS-
ness. The prosecutions IF the firm became
so persistent that steps Tor protection were
taken aud to this end
A Private Meeting
of the dry goods dealers Of the city was held.
What action WIS taken is not divulged,
but it is thought the organization OF the
dealers made the union men more desperate
and impelled them TO use dynamite.
/ A"Cniou or Equality Association was
formed a year ago, when the employees. OF
the Grand street houses endesyored to IN
duce the proprietors to close At six o'clock
Ridley Sons, among other houses, refused to
close At that hour. For some time they
were prosecuted, and last June huge stoae
shattered one Of their plate glass show WIN
dows. The perpetrstor was never diseoV
cred.
Thomas Garry. of Garry Brothers, said
"Of course the Equality is at the bottom o
the outrage. What surprises me Is tina
theg have done nothing worse. They mad
threats Of all kinds, but We were inclined Il
look for their execution upon our clerks,
t T. ]. Naughton, delegate of the Equaht'
, Association. denies all knowledge of tn
affair, and clsimeq the outrage was no
caused by member Of the organization
although he said it might have been don
on individual responsibility. He though
Garry's own agents caused the explosion
The men arrested on suspicion of comphelt
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