Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-01-31
RAIDED THEIR HALL.
SQUAD Of Police Invades Readquar-
tiers and Drive 400 trolley
Men Into the Street.

Brooklyn. n. Y. Jan. 26.-Police Ser
geant Conklin with a squad of forty
men. raided Odd Follows hall, the head
quarters of the strikers, near the hldse-
wood station, during the night. -Four hun
dred 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. At IA meeting OF the
strikers committee of seven was ap
pointed to secure Il lawyer ana take the
matter of raids upon their headquarters
in charge.
Judge Gaynor has issued an alternate
writ in the application of Joseph Loader
for mandamus to compel the brookl!h
Heights Railroad company to run cars
on its lines for the accommodation Oh tlie
travelling public. An alternative writ
gives the railroad company the option TO
run ears according to demands OF the
complainant or showing cause for not 40
ing So He also gives the defendant
twenty days to file an answer TO the VIII
At 8 o'clock this morning there had not
been a single Green Point or Myrtle ave
nue. car run through. The cross-to"n
cars are also laid up The wires were cut
in every direction and have not yet peeh
repaired.
Violence and Disorder.
Violence and disorder continue TO-DAY.
1t is impossible for the soldiers to cover
every place where there is danger OF an
uprising, and the strikers ana sympa
thizing mobs are carrying on guerllla
warfare. The hope that all the soldiers;
or at least some of them, would spend
Sunday with their families has been dls-
PEELED, for the attitude of the strikers
indicates that as soon as the soldlers
are relieved from duty there VIII be fur-
Their scenes of violence. About 200 OF the
men who went out on strike nave gone
back to work at the old rate of wages
The strike on the surface roads has
had the effect to increase the receipts or
the Brooklyn elevated lines from S9S;-
100 the first two days of January, 1871;
to $12S, 7S5 for the corresponding perlod
this year. The increase the third week
of the current month was 50 per cent,
The police captured eleven men shorty
after midnight who were at work cutting
wires on the cross town railroads at the
corner of Bedford avenue and North Ihlrd
street. They will be arraigned in court
today. Two wire cutters were caught
while at work at Ralph avenue ana
Monroe street. ~,
Long Island City, L. T., Jan. 26.-Thc
strikers at Naspeth, late last night, way
laid a non-unon man who was on ms
way home from the stables and knocked
him down and gagged him. They then
carried him to a vacant barn, where they
put a rope around ms neck ana suSpeiiu-
ed him from a beam. Fortunately he
was rescued before he had been stran-
glcd to death. He was conveyed iii an
unconscious condition to the car stables
at Ridgewood. where he now lies uncon-
scious. His recovery is doubtful. The
mans name has not been learned. There
have been no arrests.
Sheriff Don't has investigated the re-
port that the strikers of Maspeth had
hanged a non-union man in an old barn
at Palmetto. At noon the sheriff had
been unable to find any trace of the men
as alleged to have been maltreated. The
doctor who was alleged to have attended
the man stated t. a representative of the
Associated Pres slat he had attended a
number of perr.1as who had been in
jured during the trouble, but had not
been called to treat anyone for serious in
Jury.