The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-02

ner OF Grand and ESSEX streets, where be
succeeded II dislodging a portion of the
| horse-car tracks: but he could not be con
nected with the other explosion.
The bomb or cartridge used at last nights
| explosion, must have been placed immedi-
ately underneath the frame work of the win
| dow OF Garrv.Brothers store The window
| casing and sash were entirely demolished.
The snock was felt for several hundred feet.
| A lamp on shelf in an Eldridge street
house, 800 feet away, was throEn 20 the
| 4, or. Dishes IL tenement houses in the
| neighboIho rsttled, and the iron sts1ch-
| ions OF the elevated railroad near the store,
| Looked as though they had received violent
blows There is 10 evidence that a cartridge
| WIS applied to Ridley's store.
bad It not been for the heavy elevated
| railroad structure, which runs up Allen
street. between the two stores, however, the
probability is that a good part of the west
side OF Il cley's building would have sQf-
fereo. Many OF Ridley's employees came TO
the spot TO guard the premises. The dam.
eye to both buildings is 81 500. The police
sre satisfied the explosion was the outcome
of strike by the Garry Bros employees
Burke former clerk of the firm, and who
caused the strike, was dismissed for failing
one night to proper y secure the doors of the
e tsblishment The Dry Goods Clerks
Union, OF which he is a member. tried many
q ethods to secure his reinstatement. They
eeDt so far as to station men in the vicinity
he store and asK intending purchasers to
hoy colt the hrm. A strike was ordered by
the union and & frm was left without
clerk. Non-union men were fna " secured.
The Gerry Brothers have also received
threatening letters. Committees from sew
eral trades unions called upon the firm, but
the brothers assured them they intended TO
run their Own business. The persecution of
the firm became so persistent that steps for
protection were taken. and to this end a
private NEE ting OF dry goods dealers was re-
Gently held. What action was taken has not
been divulged. bat it is thought that the or
ganlzation If the dealers made the union
en- more desperate and impelled them to
use dynamite. The union or Equity Asso-
citation" was organized 3 year ago, when the
employee OF Grand street houses e1dsavored
to induce the pfopri@'- 10 close at 8
elcCk Ridley & SJII among the houses
tIst refused to close al mat hour. For ONE
time they we're prosecuted, and last T1ne
a huge stone shattered one OF their III ate
g ass show windows. The perpe,rator was
uever discovered
Thomas Garry, OF Gsrry Bros, said: "Of
courte The Equality Association is at the
lotion Of the outrage. What surprises me
IL that they have done nothing worse they
made threats of all kinds, but we were in.
clined TO look for their execution upon our
clerks rather than upon our premises"
I. J. Naughton, delegate of the Equal.
ity Association, denied all knowledge
of the affair and claimed that the
outrage was not caused by member Of the
association, although he said it might
have been done on individual responsibility.
n thought the Garrys' own agents caused
The explosion. The men arrested on sus-
picion of completely in the explosion
stoutly deny all knowledge of it. Joseph
Lamb is a printer. and works for the
American BankNote Company, where he has
been employed for years; William
Britton is waiter, and works at 135 Broad
Wsy. He and James Daily, who
IS bOokkeeper in his unUles plumbing es.
Enlistment, board in the same house.
BIiiton says when he and DAILY were 90.
ing home on Sunday morning they saw a
fuse burnirg, and before thew knew it bad
exploded. Police Captain Alaire had long
COL ference with Inspectors Byrne and Muir
roy to-day in relation to the affair. IDspsc
tor Byrne refused to talk, bat intimates that
more arrests Will soon follow.