The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-01-25
MORE TROOPS READY.
An Hours Notice Will Throw
Them Into Brooklyn.
A RIOTER SHOT BY THE SOLDIERS.
Isads' Connolly Orders Iinemeu. Out
Again After Sending Them Back to
Work Policemen and Soldiers Now
Doing Good Work Against the Rioters

BROOKLYN. Ian 23.-AdJutant Gen.
eral McAlpin. who Is here as the mill
tary and personal representative OF
Governor Morton. has had a conference
with Mayor Schieren, Police Commits
sloner Welles and Corporation Counsel
Mcdonald The adjutant general
offered to call out the Third brigade. \. .
S N G-, to aid in the restoration of
order He was assured by the mayor
that at present there is no occasion for
calling ont more troops General Nc
Alpin promised to have the Third bri-
gade ready TO come TO Brooklyn Oh an
hours notice should its presence here
be required
The first fatal encounter of the great
strike took place when in an encounter
with "A few boys at the Halsey street
station of the Brooklyn City Rail
way company volley was fired by
the militia Henry Aims of New York
city was fatal shot. musket ball ell
tering at his mouth and passing through
his head Another man, whose name
Is Williams. WAS wounded in the arm
dispensing the mob
ordered the linemen out He SAYS thai
this action has been necessitated by the
soldiers. when a company of the Sew
enth regiment surrounded the hall al
the corner of Myrtle avenue and Pa!
mettO street 4 squad entered the hall
seized the books and papers of the local
assembly, which has its headquarters
there. This is denied by national guard
and police officers
Master Workman Connolly says this
Is the reason for the strike of the line
men. Mr. Connolly says that he was
the one who sent the linemen back afte-
they frst struck He has now counter
manded the order. Mr.. Connolly thinks
the men in charge of the assembly hall
have been arrested by the police,
There have been many rumOrs flying
around RidgewOOd, but no really ex-
citing incidents occurred until car
were started on the Gates avenue line
of the BROOKLYN City railroad.
Car No. 524 of the Gates avenue line
arrived from downtown with about
30 new men on board Sergeant Shel
don with four patrolmen carrying drawn
pistols We're on the front platform Cap
tain KitzeT and four men made simi
lar display on the rear. When the cal
stopped the captain noticed four or five
men on the elevated railroad track
Pointing his revolver at them he shouted
Come, get off there, quick; we are
through mOnkeying- Get off, or We'll
show you we mean business - The mil
itary also ordered them away, and nc
more We're allowed ON the structure
The platform and stairs were also cleard
As the second company of the Seventh
swung around into Palmetto street the
great crowd of strikers in front of their
headquarters, Odd Fellows hall. scarce
half block away, suddenly melted, d
large number running around into Ir
wing avenue. but about 200 crowded into
the hall
Then, at a signal, the line of men in
blue stretched across the street, ad
vanced at the double-quick past the
hall doors, which We're at once closed
and locked by the police, and the men
were like rats in trap, secured until
all of the cars We're sent out and brought
back to the depot. a space of little over
two hours
When the troops reported "All ready
car No 524. which had been brought up
with men as stated, was started down
the line with two motormen, two con
ductOrs, two policemen and three DO
hcemen on board.
just dS Jlc start was made q membe
of the Seventh regiment noticed several
persons at an open window on the sec
Ond story of the hotel opposite the depot
and ordered it closed The order was
not instantly Obeyed. so he fired shot
in the air, and the window was not
only closed, but all the faces disap
peared.
During the passage of the car down
the avenue there was considerable jeer-
ing, but one shot from pOliceman's s re-
vOlver fired i'll the air closed the open
windows, and only one missile was fired
at the first car and none at the others
as they proceeded on what at first
promised To be perilous journey All
the cars returned, without damage, upon
schedule time. The cars taken out Oh
Monday We're also brought back.
On the return trip of car No. 524, and
when crossing Central avenue, a woman
stopped with a tin dish in her hand,
from which she threw something in the
air 1t was cayenne papper, and the
wind blew 1t III the faces of the motor
man and policemen They Were nearly
blinded, but did not lessen their speed.
and when they reached the depot were
attended 10 by the surgeon of the