Connecticut western news., 1895-01-24

Brooklyn. Thus ;hc various carhouSes ana power stations are w,d dely apart, and troops detailed to guard one of these are not i'm media, ,efy avai. able for rvioe at another should the occasion arise
 The new levy numbered not far from f. 900 men. They were moved across the great bridge ,arly in the day. The various companies went by elevated trains, wher- ever that was possible to tho points to which they had been ordered Generally speaking. the greetings they met with on the streets were far from friendly. Boys guyed and men ieered them as they passed through the sections inhabited by laboring g people. The clements. which cary in the day were suspicious soon took on an un- friendly aspect
 A Scotch mist settled down on all the city. increasing in density as evening ap- proach, d, and added 10 the difficulties which at ended the carrying out of the announced intention O: the street car com panies to attempt ihe running of cars in the evening upon lines nos operated since tho strike was declared Such attempts in this direction as were made were futile.
 Police Fire Into the Crowd.
 The Halsey Street line also was the scene of several lively encounters In one of them Private Ennis of the Seventh regi- ment was knocked senseless with stone thrown by rioter. Several shots were fired into the crowd, but no one was hurt 1t is believed
 At the Halse7 street depot a car was pelted with stones and sticks, the win dows broken and the woodwork smashed. The two police guards fired their pistols Into the crowd. which dispersed Whether or not any one was struck by the police mems bullets is not known.
 Under such conditions AS are indicated by the incidents narrated it was deemed advisable to abandon for the night the at tempt to run cars on any of the tied up lines, and by S:30 o'clock all the cars were housed.
 Men to take the places of strikers are being engaged in other cities and from among the unemployed of Brooklyn. Ono hundred new men were received at the Ridgewood carhouse of the Brookly D Heights company. and smaller numbers of men were received at other depots The hiring of inexperienced men has given the strikers and their s. mpathizers an argu- ment which Is being used to influence pub lic opinion, as is shown b. the proceedings In the board of aldermen and board of SUI. pervisors
 hlbu LII COHlpanleS bshNS Dccu to do. only a small fraction of the lines. perhaps not more than enc in six, have been operated at all, and on those which have been nominally in operation the last few days not more than half the usual number of cars have been run.
 Policemen Stoned From Housetops-
 A car started from the Ridgewood sta tion of ,hs Brooklyn Heights company was assailed with volleys of stones and bricks from windows and vacant los be- fore it had proceeded far on its way down town. A private soldier in command or dered his men to shoot and two volleys were fired in the direction of the rioters, who. however, were ohscursd by the nst fog. About 250 bullets were sent sbriek- ing in search of victims, but how many, if any. of them found human targets can not at present be det, rmined.
 The mi!itiamen's orders were that when they shot it should be to kill Policemen also did some shooting at this point. with what effect is as uncertain as in the case