The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-02
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STRIKERS STILL SAVAGE.
TWO NON-UNION MEN BRUTALLY
BEATEN N BROOi1LYN.

Policemen Finally Rescue Them,
hut FHiI TO Arrest Any of Their
Assniiaats-A Wire Cutter shot by
Policeman While Running 20
Avoid Arrest--A SchooIbOy Crush-
ed to Death Under Car-Presi-
dent Norton on Trial.
Brooklyn. n. Y. Feb. 1.-At 6 o'clock this
morning a gang OF strikers caught an un-
protected car Of the Third Avenue line ag
Fifty-second street and gave the nom
union conductor and motorman sewers
beating. The conductor was Daniel Rislsie
and the motorman John Banks. The motS
broke all the windows In the car ana
hammered the heads of the men with the
sharp edges or stones. Banks was so badly
injured that he was taken to the Seney
hospital. His Injuries, the surgeons say.
are only compounds, but they fear his
spine has been injured from the kicking he
got and by being caught by the throat
and bent back on the railing. The men at
the Eighth street depot, seeing that some-
thing was wrong, ran out a car with five
policemen. The policemen rescued tha
non-union men, but did not arrest their
assailants
This morning big pole. holding twenty1
nine feed wires, was cut down at Third
avenue and Twenty-ninth street, block
ing traffic on the road. The pole, which
was sawed Off, In falling, threw all the
strain of the heavy wires on the irons
posts, causing them 10 sway. Thomas
Cassidy John Murphy and Thomas Bren~
ma, strikers. were arrested, charged with
cutting the pole. =
Samuel B. Lcachy, u years old while on
his way to school this morning. was
crushed TO death by a trolley car on Nos-
trand avenue, near Butler street. Tha
car became unmanageable, and run the
boy down. Motorman Orlando Workings
ton OF Syracuse, ". Y, and Conductors
Fielding OF Pennsylvania, we're arrested
a crowd gathered and tried to lynch the
motorman.
The trial of President Norton of the ATT
lantic Avenue line, on the charge OF
wrongfully using the sign United States
mail'' on his cars, began to-day. The
counsel for Mr.. Norton admitted that the
cars Of the company have had the mail
signs placed on them in cases where mail
was not carried. He said the companys
contract with the government called for
nineteen mail cars, and this number of
cars had the signs placed on them and
these cars made trips sometimes without
carrying the mail one car was used ex-
clusively for carrying the mails; was built
for that purpose. The others carried the
mail whenever occasion required. The
mail signs were put on the cars at the
suggestion OF the Washington postal au~
thorities.
Postmaster Sullivan testified that the
Adams street line OF the Atlantic Ave-
nue. Company, on which the mail signs
are used, is a mail route, under contracts
and that men were sent with mail mats
ter upon any Of the cars on the line. The
case was not concluded.
The application Of James O'Connell for
an order calling upon the Atlantic Ave-
Dot a 70 akn
why they do not run the usual number
of cars Of their road, was argued before
Justice Gaynor In Brooklyn this after~
noon. Lawyer Whtehouse for the CONS
pany said that every car that was In cons,
dition was being run. The other carst
he said, have been disabled by the strikS
ers and were In the repair shops. Deci@
sion was reserved.
General Manager Goundie of the Kings
County Elevated Railroad, who sur>
prlsed most Of his employees when the late
trolley strike began, by raising the wages
OF all the men getting s1.50 a day, or over
10 per cent, surprised them again to-day
by reducing their salaries to the old
figure.
The running Of cars last night was att
tended by no misconduct on the part o1
the strikers, and was such signal suc-
cess that hereafter approximately fuH
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 cutting. This morning about o'clock
James Dunn and George Robinson cut
wires on the corner of Franklin avenue
and Indian street policeman saw the
act. and after chasing the men five blocks.
calling on them to halt, drew his revolver
and fired three shots at them. When
the third shot was fired Dunn suddenly
stopped running and exclaimed: II ann
shot" Robinson also stopped, and both
men were captured. IL was found thae
Dunn had been shot In the thigh. and he
was taken to the Eastern District hospl-
tai, while his companion was taken to the
police station and locked up
The grand jury Of Kings county handed
in a presentment against the trolley lines
this morning in the court of sessions.
The alarming increase Of accidents since
the trolley cars took the place of horse
cars Is noted, and the following recom-
mendations are made "That the tima
schedule be changed; that the cars will be
run at legal speed; that they go no faster
than eight miles an hour; passengers
shall be prohibited from riding on the
front platform and that speed indicators
be placed every trolley car, and that
the executive officers Of the roads be cons
demned for violating the speed law