Connecticut western news., 1895-01-31

MASTER WORKMAN MARTIN CoNNELLY. ing that not one of his old employees will be taken hack, and President Lewis says be will give work to such of the strikers as he has places for
 Grand Master Workman Connolly in. sists that the strike Is not over. and that the men will yet win. He bases this on his hopes that the courts will at once fore the trolley companies 10 resume their complete schedule. This, he says. they cannot do without the old men.
 Some of the strikers have returned to work. Tho companies say that many have applied for work. The strike leaders claim that only few have deserted The gem eral opinion is that the strike Is lost cause
 A Serious Riot
 A serious riot In which number of shots were fired by policemen and in which ore man was probably fatally wounded. occurred on Nostrand avenue and the Boulevard. Car No 3l05 of tho Nostrand Avenue line was held up by n crowd of about 500 strikers and their sym pathizers The crowd dragged tho mo- torman and conductor from the car and were beating them when Roundsman Far rel and ten patrolmen came to the rescue.
 The police charged. using their clubs with good effect and succeeded in soatter- ing the crowd. few seconds later the mob returned 10 the fight, and Officer Forhes, who was on duty on the car drew his revolver and fired a shot at the strik CTS Several other policemen also drew their guns and opened fire on the mob
 Stones. bricks and other missiles fell In showers Several of the police were hit and slightly injured Michael Madigan. ID If a 4fr,f AIalH Hnn received a bullet wound in tho left side He was removei to the hospital. where he now lies In a precarious condition. Sew eral members of the mob were arrested
 Notwithstanding the withdrawal of the First brigade and the reports that the strike had been declares of, thore were very lively times in the vicinity of Ridge. wood Two cars which were started on the Union Avenue lino that runs to Green point were nj tackled by mob at the juno tion of Knickerbooker and Myrtle avenues. The stones flow thick and fast, and both crews jumped from the cars and sought safety in flight Only three of tho four men returned after the police had dispers- cd tle crowd. and the fourth mana con duotor-has not beon heard of since
 Bioodshed at Ridgewood.
 Captain kitzer and a mounted squad of police dashed into the crowd. but the mob appeared to be made of stubborn ma terial Captain kitzer gave the word to fire. and the police shot over the heads of the crowd. which fed in terror when the revolvers rang out
 Earlier in the afternoon Sergeant Sut- ton and half dozen policemen rsidsd Odd Fellows hall which is the headquar- ters of the strikers. and rescued five non- .l- This quieted down somewhat by night fall. but hostilities were renewed once more. A Gates avenue car was the scene of this conflict As tho car noared Ham burg street two men Jumped on tho rear platform and threw the conductor on. The strangers then leaped off. and crowd gathered. The police gave chase and fired over dozen shots a. the fugitives
 A man named Live meyer, an eleotri- elan ii the employ of the company, was shot in the leg during the fusillado and was taken in an ambulance to St Cath erine hospital He claims that he was not hit by the police bullets, but was wounded by shot fired from window in the neiphborhood. The police had a hand to hand tussle with the assembled rioters and fought with clubbed revolvors.
 Fully dozen of the attacking party were injured. some of them receiving sew eral scalp wounds Charles Darrow, a striking motorman of 2SS Bleecker street New York. was carried into nearby drug store with his head badly cut
 The police then raided Odd Fellows hall again, and by free use of their night sticks, which they swung right and lett quickly drove the strikers from their head quarters. One hundred and fifty men of the Forty seventh regiment were in the depot during this melee. but the Iolice subdued the belligeronts without calling on the military.