The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-22
ALL QUIET AT MIDNIGHT
DURING THE DAY THE STRIKERS
 MADE THINGS LIVELY.


 pany is to be Lined With soldiers-A Woman Shot in Riot-One Man Sent to the Penitentiary for Fifty Days.
 Brooklyn, Jan. 21.-Thomas Horan was arrested on Hamilton avenue this afternoon for jumping on a car to per suade the conductor to get off. Horan was arrested and taken to the police court, where he was sentenced to fifty days in the penitentiary for disorderly conduct. The grand jury of Kings county has become interested in the strike, and to-day summoned number of witnesses to get testimony about the trolley lines.
 A car on the Fulton avenue line was up by 800 people at the corner of Rocka- way avenue shortly after noon, The motorman and conductor fled It is said that the policemen stationed on the car did not interfere with the crowd. The car was thrown off the tracks and an attempt to overturn 1t was made. The police rushed from all directions and dispersed the mob. The line was blocked until the company sent out a gang of men to put the car on the tracks.
 It is reported that the 1inemen on all the affected roads are about to strike.
 A strike of linemen would be severe blow to the railroads, as double the usual force is required to keep the wires in repair.
 Patrolman George Kelley was sus- pended by Commissioner Welles to-day for refusing to execute orders. He had been assigned to a Fulton street car. He made one trip and then refused to go out again, saying that he was tired of such work. Two companies ot the Twenty-third Infantry arrived at the power house of the Second avenue line, corner of Second avenue and t1fty- second street, this afternoon, and It was announced that the line would be opened. Linemen were sent out to repair breaks in the wires, but the cars were not run this afternoon.
 A woman was run over and injured on the Sumner avenue line by an mex perienced motormRn this afternoon.
 Police officers Collins and Degan were accidentally shot, 1t Is supposed, by SeV- enth regiment men, at Gates and Stuy- vesant avenue this evening, Their wounds are not serious Elmer P. Van Dyke. a member of the Twelfth regi- ment fell from the roof of an armory this evening and sustained g. compound fracture of the skull,
 Policemen Shackelton, Coolison and Burke were seriously injured by stones thrown from the roofs of houses this evening. Shackebtons skull was frac- tured The first Broadway car was sent out at pm. The police took care that II was not iuterfered with. Flve others followed it when the officials of the road saw that there was no interference Ihe Gates avenue line, which has been tleo I'D for a. week, was opened by the senu' ing out of a car at p. m
 President Lewis of the Brookiyn EIeiehts company stated late this alter noon that about 145 cars were running an increase of tilirty-five over yester' day. ..,,,, ,
 The total number of cars usually op' erated by the President Lewis system is LAO.
 President Norton of the Atlantic ave. nue system stated tonight that ne Iiao operated sixty-three cars. Preslueil wicker of the Brooklyn, Queens county and suburban system had eighteen car running on the Sumner avenue me an. six on the Broadway line. In all apou 230 cars were moved in the clry to-uaS The number in operation before th' strike was l,9OO.
 Among the callers at the clty hai today was General Robert Avery Wh' lost a leg at Lockout Mountain, aH' who is prominent in G. A. R clrcles The general, with suppressed lhdlgna tion. said he desired to ask the mayo whether the people were to go arme' or whether they were to have protec ton. He deplored a situation whlci held the rights of 100000 people Wh' were accustomed to ride on the car of this city daily, as nothing agalns the demands of 5000 strikers. He hel' as responsible for the existing condition of things the pollce comHllsSlonol' "iioh he regarded as lacking stamina ant being Incompetent for his position '"The police of Brooklyn" said he, "ar either incompetent to handle the situa ton, or they are cowardly or they ar in sympathy with the strikers"
 'The other day car containing l policemen was attacked by the mob who dragged the motorman to tn street and brutally beat him. Behin' the car was police wagon with twelv men. Yet with these twenty-sevel officers present not one arrest wa made. An administration which canno meet a situation like this is not com petent administration" General Aver, did not see the mayor
 The common council took a hand il the trouble this afternoon They hay been asked to pass resolutions callint on the companies holding franchises fo the operation of the surface lines to ob serve the conditions of their charter and furnish the public with transporta lion and accommodation forthwith, o tell the public the reason why Tn counciImen began hearing on the sub