The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-27

wires on the cross town railroads at the
corner OF Bedford avenue and North Third
street. Two wire cutters were caught while
at work at Ralph avenue and Monroe street.
Police Sergeant Conklin, with a squad OF
forty men. raided odd Fellows Hall, the
headquarters of the strikers. near the
Ridgewood station, during the night Four
hundred 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. Az a meeting of the strikers
committee Of seven was appointed to Sc
cure lawyer and take the matter of raids
upon their headquarters into court
General McAieer. who is in command of
the troops in Brooklyn, Colonel Austin,
Major Cochran and several members OF
the Thirteenth Regiment have been sub
poenaed to testify at the inquest on Thos.
house top In Hicks street The inquest
will be held on next Thursday
1t was reported this morning that the
strikers at Maspeth last night waylaid
nonunion man who was on his way home
from the stables, knocked him down,
gagged him. carried him to vacant barn,
where they put rope around his neck
and suspended him from a beam. He was
fore he had been strangled and conveyed
IN unconscious condition to the sta
bles at Ridgewood; Sheriff Don't investi,
gated the report. but was unable. to find
any trace of the man who is alleged to
have been maltreated. The doctor who was
said to have attended the man stated to
reporter that he had attended a number
of persons who had been injured during
the trouble, but had not been called to
The strike on the surface roads has had
the effect to increase the receipts of the
first twenty-one days of January. 1894, to
$l2S,7S the corresponding period this year.
The increase the third week of the current
month So per cent.
About 4 O'Clock this afternoon, Captain
Kitzer, with his mounted men were called
from Ridgewood to the locality on Myrtle
avenue known as the "Rope Walk, where
cars were being riddled with stones. The
crowd was charged and dispersed In short
orda M. mo "a MXrta-
avenue line into the station with
shattered windows and were set aside for
nate days for the railroad companies prop
Sisons
The city of Brooklyn to-day presented
70 the Seventh Regiment four hundred pairs
OF Arctic overshoes. When Major Abrams.
OF the Second Battalion at Hollywood, heard
of 1T he politely declined to accept the
The trolley companies, Notwithstanding the
ample protection afforded by the police and
military, were to-day unable to send more
than one-third the regular number of cars
over the lines. OF course, the companies are
laboring under great difficulties, for scores
of the men they have brought here to take
places of the strikers have been persuaded
to abandon their new posts, accepting re-
turn tickets from District Assembly No. 10
and departing for whence they came.
The uprising that has occurred at Flush
ing, IL. T.. in connection with the strike, has
resulted in the putting under orders of an
ether COMPANY Eariy r TINS EVENING f Fsb inc
ordered to the third gattling battery
armory. under Captain Bell to await furth-
err Instructions This is believed by the men
to be largely a means of precautions and
they are inclined that they will be ordered
home in day or two. In.that section wire
cutting has prevailed to considerable ex-
tent and throughout the day there has been
a great deal of wire cutting in the city of
conditions were ideal for that occupation and
1t was INDUCED in to such extent that a
great number of arrests were made Line
men have been secured by the companies to
repair the breaks, and although the cutting
OF the wires tyt-casioned much delay in the
running of cars no serious results followed