Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-29

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 MASTER WORKMAN MARTIN CoNNELLY. Ing that not one of his old employees will be taken back, and President Lewis says he will give work to such of the strikers as he has places for.
 Grand Master Workman Connolly in- sists that tho strike is not over, and that the men will yet win. He bases this on his hopes that the courts will at once force the trolley companies to resume their complete schedule. This, he says, they cannot do without the old men.
 Some of the strikers have returned to work. The companies say that many have applied for work. The strike leaders claim that only a few have deserted. The gen eral opinion is that the strike is lost cause.
 A Serious Riot.
 A serious riot. in which a number of shots were fired by policemen and in which one man was probably fatally occurred on Nostrand avenue and the Boulevard. Car No. 3105 of the Nostrand Avenue line was held up by n crowd of about 200 strikers and their sym pathizers. The crowd dragged the mo- torman and conductor from the car and were beating them when RoundSman Far rell and ten patrolmen came to tho rescue.
 The police charged, using their clubs with good effect and succeeded in scatter ing the crowd. A few seconds later the mob returned to the fight, and Officer Forbes, who was on duty on the car, drew his revolver and fired n shot at the strik- CTS. Several other policemen also drew their guns and opened fro on the mob.
 Stones, bricks and other missiles fell in showers. Several of the police were hit n -N-.N B years of age residing on Malone street, received bullet wound in the left side He was removed to the hospital, where he now lies in precarious condition. Sev- eral members of the mob were arrested
 Notwithstanding the withdrawal of tn First brigade and the reports that the strike had been declared of, there were very lively times in tho vicinity of Ridge wood. Two cars which were started on the Union Avenue line that runs to Green point were attacked by a mob at the june tion of Knickerbocker and Myrtle avenues, The stones flew thick and fast, and both crews jumped from the cars and sought safety in flight. Only three of the four men returned after the police had dispers- ed the crowd. and the fourth mana con ductor-has not been heard of since.
 BIoodshed at Ridgewood.
 Captain kitzer and a mounted squad of police dashed into the crowd, but the mob appeared to be mado of stubborn ma terial. Captain Kit2or gave the word tc fire. and the police shot over tho heads oi the crowd, which fled in terror when tho revolverS rang out
 Earlier in the afternoon Sergeant Sut ton and half dozen policemen raided Odd Fellows hall. which is the headquar -F r,fN union men who were held prisoners there This Quieted down somewhat by night fall. but hostilities were renewed once more. A Gates avenue car was the scene of this conflict. As the car neared Ham burg street two men jumped on tho real platform and threw the conductor of. Thl strangers then lcaped of, and n crowC gathered. The police gave chase and firet over Q dozen shots at the fugitives.
 A man named Livermeyer an electri clan in the employ of the company, wa shot in the log during the fusillade anC was taken in an ambulance to St. Cath erine's hospital. He claims that he wa not hit by the police bullets, but wa wounded by shot fired from a window in the neignborhood. The police had hand to hand tussle with tho assemble, rioters and fought with clubbed revolvers
 Fully dozcn of the attacking party were injured. some of them receiving sev eral scalp wounds. Charles Darrow, striking motorman of 2SS Bleecker street New York. was carried into a nearby dru, store with his head badly cut
 Tho police then raided Odd Fellow $ hall again, and by a freo use of their nigh sticks, which they swung right and left quickly drove the strikers from their head quarters. One hundred and fifty men O the Forty seventh regiment were in tn depot during this melee but tho polio subdued the belligerents without callin on the military.
 Lewis and Norton Hung In Ehgy.
 Presidents Norton and Lewis were hun in effigy from the trolley wires of tn Union Avenue line at the crossing c Hamburg and Flushing avenues. Fror the high tenements on either side dea cats and dogs old clothing and boots an shoes were thrown across the wire. kept a gang of linemen busy clearing tn wire
 Notwithstanding the vigilance of tn police. a battered looking dummy, wit | Q label on its breast reading. "Old Won an Norton. was hung on the wire, Gn | shortly afterward dummy labele Lewis kept it company. After severG hours, accompanied by the jeers of hun dreds at the windows of the tenements gang of linemen removed the effigies- Little pitchers have great ears, but notl | ing to their mouths.
 Cherohez la femme, but there's genera | ly a man in the TOW also.
 | There's room at the top, but what use that if there is mono along the road upS | There's no use in crying for spille milk, but there is n lot of solid comfort i | it.
 He that by the blow doth thrive is tf man who's best at getting others to do a the work.
 Haste makes waste maybe. Yet som, how you seldom seq an ex-hustler in a almshouse.
 Intrigue or religion might have been tf only resources for old women in otht
 times, but now there's the ballot. s~
 When poverty enters at the door. lov may fly out of thechimuey, but he doesn always stay eontented in Fifth avenu
 palaces.
 Culture, having licked the whole worI into shape, has at last attacked the dev himself But the devil will stand Roc
 deal of licking. New York Recorder.