Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-01-25
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Militia Fire Into a Crowd at
Brooklyn and One Boy
Is Killed..
NUMEROUS CLASHES OCCUR.
Ninth Day of the Strike Ends
With the Situation Un-
changed.

encounter Of the greet strike took plac
about IL p. H., when, in an encounter
with few boys at the Halsey stree t
station of the Brooklyn City Railwa
c' m)any, volley was fired by the mill
tia. Henry Aherns of New York city
was fatally shot, musket ball enterin .
at his mouth and passing through bus
head. Another man, whose name "
Williams, was wounded in the arm.
The shooting had the instant effect O.,
dispensing the mob.
The ninth day Of the tieup has closoo
without bringing material change in the
situation. It has been
A Day of Alarming Rumors,
which fortunately proved to have sligi>
or no foundation. There were, between
daybreak and nightfall, numerou
brushes between the police and milit:
on one side, and the strikers, or head,
strong, law-defying sympathizers witt
their cause, on the other The inemen' S
strike, which was to have tied up the
trolley lines more efectually than had
been done by the strike of motormen,
conductors and other employees, was
called off befo'~" it was fairly on, and
later in the day the mandate of Master
Workman Connolly was promulgated,
calling upon the inemen to
Abandon Their Situations.
What Influenced the strikers manager
to call the inemen's strike off thus
quickly and then to order on again can
not now be told. The reason assigned
for the latter act is palpably but a pre-
text. The effect Of this move, which
the strikers have compared to the play
ing of high trump card, remains to be
demonstrated. The developments Of
the day have not been reassuring as a
whole. In spite Of the fact that there
a under arms in this city 5000 Of the
safe soldiery, and 1900 policemen are
on duty, internural traffic is
Suffering Virtual Paralysis,
in which all the industries of the city
participate to a greater or lesser degree.
Lawlessness is rampant, and, altogether
conditions are such as may well excite
the gravest apprehension. The disor-
derby element in the city has been
largely recruited from New York and
other cities, and has, as usual in such
cases, arraigned itself with the strikers,
a selfish advocacy of whose cause af-
fords a pretext for the preparation Of
graver crimes than have yet marked the
progress Of the pending contest.
Several S FINISHES.
At 7:30 p. M, at the RidgeWood depot
of the Br oklyn City railway, Lieuten-
ant Schuyler, in command of Company
B of the Seventh regiment, was sent to
protect the powerhouse and it's ap-
proaches, with orders to use violence if
resistance was offered. The advance Of
Lieutenant Schuyler. dispersed the
crowd, though at first it was slow in
moving. At $40 large and noisy
crowd had gathered around the depot.
No guard was on the outside Of the
buildings. Suddenly a number Of
stones were
Hurled Into the Depot
by the crowd In moment Captain
Nesbitt of Company B, followed by Ad-
jutant Weaver and several privates,
rushed out, formed skirmish line and
drove the stone throwers back. Then
the police took up the pursuit and fired
four or five shots over their heads, ef-
fectually dispensing them. The soldiers
did not fire. At $50 the people who had
taken the elevated steps for vantage
ground from which to guy the police
and militia were driven up and into the
depot and made to buy tickets in order
to escape.