Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-24
LATEST FROM BROOKLYN STRIKE
A Proposition to Arbitrsts Made ny
the knights of Labor Was Re-
ieoted-Enorts to Move Cars ON the
Trolley Lines.


Halsey street last night. died at st.
Mary's hospital at IL O'clock this morn
ing. Aliens wife called at The hos
Iital at 1880 only to iiud her husband
dead.
John Meade was arrested this after
noon for pointing a loaded revolver
from the window of his home at
Corporal Plat. of the Thirteenth regi-
ment. AS a company of the Twenty-third
regiment was escorting a Hicks street
car, Thomas Kearney is said to have
thrown a number of bricks at it from
a roof. Some OF the soldiers were hit
by the missiles and one of their num-
her took deliberate aim and shot
Kearney in the side. The man was
so seriously injured that the chances
of his recovery are but slight. Kearncy
was at work on the roof at the time
and was attracted to the edge by the
excitement of the crowd below. in con-
sequence OF the passage of the frat car
through Hicks street The feeling in
the neighborhood is very hard against
the railroad companies.
The police and militia officers found
Kearney on the roof. lying uncon-
scious in large pool OF blood. A
doctor who made an examination said
the wound was fatal. In statement
to the coroner, Bearney said: II was
at work on the roof of the house, cor
ner Hicks street and Harrison avenue,
with a man named Terrence o'Neill.
1 was on the cornice and saw the sol
! diers on Hicks street below me. Some
one OF them yelled at me "Get back"
l started to go back-in fact, started
to run back, and / heard gun shots
and was hit in the hip. had not
thrown anything from the roof at the
soldiers. nor did o'Neill. who was
working in the middle OF the roof. We
had been at work on this roof for
Michael Healy since morning"
John Hagman, aged fifteen, has been
arrested for throwing stones at a mo-
torman on the Fifth avenue line.
Charles Colneld. "a years old, is lock-
ed UP for having assaulted the con-
ductor on a Summer avenue car.
At 9 o'clock this evening Gates
avenue car collided with car on the
| DeKalb avenue line.
At Z o'clock tonight Corporal Doyle
of company II. seventh regiment
while on duty at the KnickerbocEer
avenue station Of the Union avenue
elevated road, told crowd on the
stairs to move on. They refused
Doyle struck one man on the shoulder
with his dubbed musket, smashing
the musket and knocking the man
down. He also jSbbed his bayonet into
| another man deep enough to draw
blood. Both men We're taken away by
their friends.
Fifty-nine cars in all have been gun
out Of the East New York depot today
thirty on Fulton street and 20 on
Broadway routes
AT o'clock this evening, as the cars
] DHkun 10 Nbllt III lllE4 MtAt AANAI ia hhN
depot for the night,
Quietness prevailed at Ridgewood al
Z o'clock this evening. The ears at thai
time stopped running. The militia was
then withdrawn from the immediate
vicinity OF the stables, having been re-
lieved by a detachment Of police. The
guards will endeavor to sleep in the
housed cars.
c. A. Hagen of Rochester. N. Y,
who came here to act as conductor on
the Myrtle avenue line. started In to-
day While housing his car tonight
and standing behind It to pull down
the pole, another car coming behind
ran him down, breaking his ankle and
smashing the lights on the car.
At Ridgewood, at s o'clock this even
ing, william Vending, y. j. Mackey
j. Martin and Fred Kreig, special po'
licemen, walked into the Bushwicli
avenue company's office and surrender
ed their shields and refused TO work
any longer.
From early morning until past moon
there was more excitement in the To-
callty of Third avenue and the depot
than there had been since the strik,
commenced. No attempt was made
until this morning to run cars over thu
line and the announcement that th'
road was to be opened reused the strik
crs and their friends from the state oi
/ UuleSeeDCe into winch llty nave lpl
the past ten days lapsed. The barns
at Third avenue and Fifty-eighth stree
presented a busy scene at IL o'clock
when a Court street and Halsey stree
car reached the depot, filled with o
, non-union men, who We're at once LODGED
In the depot.
Every corner OF the east side OF thu
avenue was thronged by the striker
and their sympathizers. while in from
of the stables were drawn up 100 mel
OF the Twenty-third regiment unde
4 Captain Thorne. The strikers content
: ed themselves with hooting and jeer
ing the militia, but comnJfted no ac
a which warranted their dispersal. Som
= hours previous to the running of tn
4 first car the repair wagon Of the Brook
r lyn Heights company went down Thlrl
avenue to clear the track between
Fifty-hrst and Flfty-second streets
Between these two streets was file
: with bricks and trunks OF trees. whicl
= had been cut In the Vicinity, so as I
I render the running Of cars an impossl
o blllty The repair wagon was name
II by twelve men and escorted by Troo
i. A. When they reached the Pequo
club-the strikers headquarters a
Fifty-flfth street--some 300 men WI
had assembled there ieered and de
nounced the escort and hurled severa
= volleys OF stones at the men who wcf
= removing the obstacles
|. Lieut.. Bagley. who is in charge {
: tbo from called on them TO dispers
/ 'rbe strlkers replied by another ava