The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-02-01
MORE BRUTAL WORK
Telegraph Pole SaWn
Through by Strikers and
Thrown on a Car.
BOY CRUSHED BY A MOTOR
All Sorts of Legal Proceedings
Against Morton and the
Traction Companies.

BROOKLYN, Feb. 1. 1895.-The rum
ming of cars in Brooklyn last night was
attended by no misconduct on the part
of the strikers, and was such a signal
success that hereafter approximately full :
schedules will be run on the systems
that had trouble with the employees day
| and night.
Wires were cut in three places during
the night and three arrests were made
for the cutting About three O'Clock,
James Dunn and George Robinson cut
the wires on the corner OF Franklin ave-
nue. and India street. A policeman saw
the act. and after chasing the men i've
blocks, and calling on them to halt he
! drew his revolver and fired three shots
at the fleeing men. When the third shot
was fred Dunn suddenly stopped run
| ming and exclaimed, 81 am shot" Robin
son also stopped, and both men were
| captured. 1t was found that Dunn had
been shot in the thigh, and ne was taken
| TO the Eastern District Hospital, while
his companion was taken to the police
station and locked up.
At six o'clock this morning a gang of
strikers caught an unprotected car No.
| 303, OF the Third avenue line, at Fifty
second street, ana gave the non-union
| conductor and motorman q severe beat
ing. The conductor was Daniel R-skie,
1 d&GQ twenty-five years, CT NO. 04U GOlQ
street, and the motorman, John Banks,
| aged twenty-six years, of No. S6 Morton
street, this city. The mob broke all the
windows in the car and hammered the
| heads of the two men with the sharp
| edges of stones.
| Banks was SO seriously injured that he
| was taken to the Seney Hospital. His
| injuries, the surgeons say, are only scalp
wounds, but they fear his spine has
| been injured from the kicking he got,
| and from being caught by the throat
| IL ,os.FC lfr1fr
! The men at the Fifty-eighth street
! depot, seeing something was wrong, ran
out car with five policemen. The. police
! men rescued the non-union men, but did
not arrest their assailants.
| BRUTAL OUTRAGE.
| Word was received at the Brooklyn
| ten o'clock this morning that a big pole,
| holding 20 feed wires, had been cut down
| at Third avenue and Twenty-n-nth street,
| blocking traffic on the road. The pole,
which was sawed off, in falling threw
| all the strain of the heavy wires on the
| iron posts, causing them to sway. A
| gang of men were sent to repair the
| damage. Thomas Cassidy, John Muir
/ ply and Thomas Brennan, strikers, were
| arrested, charged with cutting the pole.
| The proceedings before Justice Gaynor
| to mardamus the Atlantic Avenue Rail-
| road Company were adjourned at ten
O'Clock this morning. until this after
SHOULD TRY SUICIDE.
Master Workman Connolly is tired. He
said this morning: Anybody who wants
| my job as master workman can have it;
I never wanted it. l didn't want It
when it was thrust upon me, but was
so popular it was thrust upon me.
4 expect Debs to be here today.
Conne1ly's wife gave birth to a son this
BOY UNDER THE MOTOR.
| Samuel Bleachy, twelve years old, while
on his way to school thtis morning, was
crushed to death by a trolley car on
! Nostrand avenue, near Butler street.
The car became unmanageeble and run
the boy down. Motorrnan Orlando WORTH
inton, of Syracuse, N. Y, and Conductor
| Fielding, of Pennsylvania, were arrested.
a crowd gathered and tried to lynch the
~ - FEWER TROOPS OUT.
Only two companies of each regiment
of the Second Brigade are now doing
duty in Brooklyn,
County Elevated Railway, who surprised
most of his employees when the late
trolley strike began by raising the
wages OF all men getting S1.50 day or
over 10 per cent, surprised them again
today by reducing their salaries to the
old figure. He said
During the strike our receipts jumped
up, and more money was made for the
men. We raised their wages. Now the
strike being over, we are carrying only
8 per cent. more than we did before the
strike. So we had to take of the 10 per
cent. again. In a few days that 8 per
| cent. OF passengers will have left us.
| IH2y are pE4uCtpdlly llit4lu PeISOuS. All
the trolley lines are running and have
practically got back all their patron
age"
President Norton of the Atlantic Ave-
nue. Railroad, accompanied by his coun-
sci, ex-Judge Norris; came into the
! United States PoStoffice Building this
morning, to answer charge of violating
the United States laws in having signs
placed on his cars labelled United States
Mall when no mail was carried in them:
! The hearing took place IN the office of
United States District Attorney Ben
nett, who acted as prosecutor; Lawyer
| Towns represented the complainant Mo-
| tonlan Weber.
Counsel for Mr. Norton admitted that
the cars Of the company have had mail
SIGNS placed on them in cases where mail
was not carried. He said the company 5
contract with the government called for
nineteen mali cars and this number Of
cars had the signs placed on them, and
these cars made trips sometimes without
| carrying the mail.
ary u last, cars 81 and 64 had the U. S.
mail signs on them while they did not
Mctor,nan Weber was called as the first
"-si'S@ GRAND JURY SHOT.
The Grand Jury of Kings County hand
ed in a presen tnlent against the trolley
lines this morning in the Court of Ses-
: The alarming increase of accidents
since trolley cars took the place of horse
( cars IS noted and the following recon-
CleNU3tlGNS are I1SQe.-
That the times chedule be changed 50
that the cars viii be run at legal speed;
! that they go no faster than e.sht miles
, an hour: that passengers. be prohibited
from riding on the front platform; thet
, speed Indicators be placed on every troll
ley car and kept in plain view; that the
executive officer of the road be con-
del,aued fer violating the speed law; that
a Board be appointed to examine and
J license motormen. and that tenders be
! put on all trolley cars.
Legislation looking to these ends is
recommended
NINE DEATHS FROM GRIP.