Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-24
ANOTHER MAN SHOT
Militia Respond When Attacked
With Brickbats.
WOUNDED MAN PROTESTS INNOCENCE
Efforts of the Strikers to Secure
Peace.
AR6ITRATORS ARE ENUBBED


AS a company of the twenty-third regi-
ment was escorting Hicks street car
through Brooklyn yesterday afternoon
Thomas Kearney is said to have thrown a
number of bricks at it from the roof and
the soldiers as it was passing No. "A
Hicks street. Some of the soldiers were
hit by the missiles, and one of their num-
Der took aim and shot Kearney in the
side.
Kearney was at work on the roof at the
time and was attracted to the edge by
the excitement of the crowd below in con-
sequence of the first car through Hicks
street. The feeling in the neighborhood
is very hard against the railroad compa-
MES The police and military officers pro-
ceeded to the room by means Of a ladder.
They found Kearney lying unconscious in
a large pool Of blood. He lay there until
he could be removed to the Long Island
College Hospital. A doctor. who made
an examination, said the wound was fatal.
The coroner was notified.
In statement to Coroner Kene, Kear-
ney said
II was at work on the roof Of the house
with a man named Terrence O'Neil. 1
was on the cornice and 1 saw the soldiers
on Hicks street below me. Some CT hem
yelled at me to get back I started to go
back. In fact, 1 started to run back, and
1 heard gun shots, and 1 was hit in the hip
had not thrown anything from the 1oof
at the soldiers. nor did O'Neil, who was
working in the middle of the roof. We
had been at work on this roof for Michael
Healy since morning..
At o'clock last night Corporal Doyle
of company B, seventh regiment, while
on duty at the Knickerbocker avenue sta
ton OF the Union avenue elevated railway,
told some men who came down the eleVat-
ed steps to move on. They refused. Doyle
struck one man on the shoulder with his
dubbed musket, smashing his musket, and
knocked the man down. He also jabbed
his bayonet into another man deep enough
to draw blood. Both men were taken away
by their friends.
Ouietness prevailed at Ridgewood last
evening The cars stopped running at
O'Clock, all being safely secure in the sta
bleS at that hour. The militia was then
withdrawn from the streets in the imme-
date vicinity of the stables, having been
relieved by detachment of police
Efforts for Peace.
Another attempt was made on the part
of the strikers to make trolley officials sub
init differences to arbitration. The propo-
sition, which was submitted to President
Norton of the Atlantic Avenue Company,
was fatty refused by him.
The person selected by the strikers as ar
bitter was William Richardson, secretary
and treasurer of the American and New
York Street Railway Association. They
had the idea that he would be
agreeable to the trolley company on ac
count of his position. The refusal indicates
that the companies feel no abatement of
confidence that they will win the fight.
The success which the Atlantic Avenue
Company has met with in it's efforts to OPP
crate its lines undoubtedly had its in
fiuence upon President Norton in this mat
ter.
That the strikers made the overture after
having been several times repulsed in the
same quarter may be regarded as lndi-
eating that they have lost some confidence,
and are anxious for peace. Indeed, it is al
legged that. for several days. their highest
hope has been that they might be able to
extort from the companies the concession
that those who abandoned their cars ten
days ago should be reinstated, and the new
hands brought to take their places dis
charged.
The Board of Arbitration.
Commissioner Feeney of the state board
of arbitration and mediation called at the
headquarters of District Assembly IS,
knights of Labor, yesterday for the pur-
pose of obtaining from Master Workman
Connolly a statement of affairs regarding
the strike at the present time. He said,
in response to some questions: brooklyn
has become an armed camp. Soldiers stop
you at every corner, and all this because of
the stubbCrnness of some men.
$50 far as our board is concerned we are
helpless to alter the situation. We have
done all we can.
II do not think the strike is over by
any means, nor do I see that there is any
change in affairs today. 1 have seen Mr..
Lewis, and asked him if he was ready to
recede in any way from the position of last
He said he was not. Their po-
sition, he said, had not changed.
president Norton we have long since
ceased to deal with. not because we are not
willing and ready to do so, but because he
port of this strike was sent to the 1egisla
ture last Monday. We will mediate If we
can, and, if that Is impossible, investigate
and report. Now we are simply waiting"
Strikers Locked Up.
A lot CT strikers were again locked up
in their headquarters yesterday. The cpl
sode was ALMOST exactly similar to that of
Tuesday which so Infatuated Master Work
man Connolly, and which caused him to
venture his second order to the linemen to
quit work. The men were on the street
yesterday when the militia made their ap-
pearance, and the strikers, about 300 of
them, took refuge in Odd Fellows Hall,
near by, which was their headquarters.
The key was turned upon them and the
picket lines thrown about the building.
District Assembly No. Is, when they
learned of the matter, employed a lawyer
to apply for a writ of habeas corpus. Be-
fore the time set for the hearing the i'm
prisoned men had been released.
An explanation to this effect was made
on behalf of Gen. McLeer when the case
came to a hearing at o'clock, and Justice
Gaynor thereupon dismissed the writ.