Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-30
RAIDED THEIR HALL.
Squad of Police Invades Hea 6ot1ar-
ters and Drive 400 Trolley
Men Into the Street.

Brooklyn, N. Y, Jan. 26.-Police Ser.
geant Conklin, with a squad of forty
men, raided Odd Fellows hall, the head,
quarters of the strikers, near the Ridge
wood station, during the night -Four hun
dred men were in the place at the time
The strikers scattered in all directions
All the saloons in the vicinity were
closed by the police. At a meeting of the
strikers a committee of seven was aD-
pointed to secure a lawyer and take the
matter of raids upon their headquarters
In charge.
Judge Gaynor has issued an alternate
writ in the application of Joseph Loader
for mandamus to compel the Brooklyn
Heights Railroad company to run cars
on it's lines for the accommodation of the
travelling public. An alternative writ
gives the railroad company the option tc
run cars according to demands of the
complainant or showing cause for not do
ing So lie also gives the defendant
twenty days to file an answer to the writ
At 9 o'clock this morning there had no;
been single Green Point or Myrtle ave
nue. car run through. The cross-town
cars are also laid up. The wires were cut
in every direction and have not yet been
repaired.
Violence and Disorder.
Violence and disorder continue today.
1t is impossible for the soldiers to cover
every place where there is danger of an
uprising, and the strikers and sympa-
thizing mobs are carrying on a guerilla
warfare. The hope that all the soldiers,
or at least some of them, would spend
Sunday with their families has been dis
PEELED, for the attitude of the strikers
indicates that as soon as the soldiers
are relieved from duty there will be fur
Their scenes of violence. About 200 Of the
men who went out on strike have gone
back to work at the old rate of wages.
The strike on the surface roads has
had the effect to increase the receipts of
the Brooklyn elevated lines from $685.
100 the first two days of January, 1894,
to S12S, 7S5 for the corresponding period
this year. The increase the third week
of the current month was SS per cent.
The police captured eleven men shortly
after midnight who were at work cutting
wires on the cross town railroads at the
corner of Bedford avenue and North Third
street. They will be arraigned in court
today. Two wire cutters were caught
while at work at Ralph avenue and
Monroe street.
Long Island City, L. l., Jan. 2G.-The
strikers at Naspeth, late last night, way
laid nOn-union man who was on his
way home from the stables and knocked
him down and gagged him. They then
carried him TO vacant barn, where they
put rope around his neck and suspend
ed him from beam. Fortunately he
was rescued before he had been stran-
gled to death. He was conveyed in an
unconscious condition to the car stables
at Ridgewood, where he now lies uncon-
scious. His recovery is doubtful. The
mans name has not been learned. There
have been no arrests.
Sheriff Don't has investigated the re-
port that the strikers of Maspeth had
hanged non-union man in an old barn
at Palmetto. At noon the sheriff had
been unable to find any trace of the men
as alleged to have been maltreated. The
doctor who was alleged to have attended
the man stated &c a representative of the
Associated Pres tIat he had attended Il
number of peT1a&S who had been in
jured during the trouble but had not
been called to treat anyone for serious in
Jury.