The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-22

CQG was pldCGu unQer arrest.
The greater number of new employees of
the Brooklyn City Railroad Company
which was taken to the Ridgewood-avenue
Joined the strikers and tonight there is
not single man in the stables who can
operate the cars. which the railroad COM
pany announce they will send out in the
morning. The strikers succeeded in win
ming the men over this evening, and are
taking care OF them for the n4gnt.
The taxpayers of Kings county Will have
to meet the burden of the strike, So far as
of the troops well the cost of their
maintenance. will fall on the taxpayers OF
the county, and the longer it lasts the more
that the expense of having the soldiery
here will foot up between $4,000 and $4,000
per day. About six thousand National
guardsmen are in Brooklyn. of which about
1,50O officers who receive an average
Of $3.50 per day. the privates getting I.2o
This creates a pay roll of $12,075. 1t costs
about 40 cents per $500 for food.
Then comes the question of transportation.
10 cents per head or 5000 more Then every
trooper is allowed 81 a day for his horse.
There being about one hundred troopers
on duty makes AN extra $500, or grand
total of $3.50
At a meeting of the board of aldermen
held to-day Alderman Leech proposed the
following resolution, which was adopted:
Every motorman employed in this city
must be tWenty,ons years old i or over sIaaa
one year in the State and four months in
the county. Each violation to be punishable
Mayor Schieren sign this it will become
law and will discharge every new man en-
ployed by the railroad companies to re-
place the strikers.
LIST OF INJURED.
Following is a list of injured to-day as
far as obtainabe:
DENNIS BUSHE policeman, confused
wounds about the face, caused by stone.
COLLINS, private, Company H, Seventh.
head cut open with brick, not seriously
hurt.
PATRICK. CooLIHAN. policeman. nose
PATRICK CALLIGAN, policeman, of the
Second precinct, shot. in the arm.
CAMPEN, mounted policeman, head cut
JAMES DEGAN, policeman of the Sec
ond precinct, shot in the head.
JOSEPH DONNELLY. conductor. of the
trolley car, knocked senseless while run
ming car on Gates avenue
ENNIS, private Company H, Seventh
Regiment, head cut open by stone; sent
to his home; seriously injured
WILLIAM GOLDENBURG, a motorman
assaulted by strikers and badly cut about
VALENTINE KUssLER, of sixty-ninth
street, Brooklyn, hurt in a collision at Bath
Junction.
KIPP, major of the Seventh Regiment
struck by a stone thrown from ambush;
received 4 2 severe re- wound IN the leg
ton, ankle sprained in the Gates-avenue
RYAN, private in the Seventh Regiment
Company F. struck in temple with missile
in Gates-avenue riot.
FRANK RYAN, Brooklyn, hurt in col
GEORGE SHACKLETON, policeman, con-
fused wounds about the face. caused by
stones.
ELMER E. vANDYKE. private in
Twelfth Regiment compound fracture Of
skull, broken jaw and fractured leg caused
by a fall resulting, from an attempt to
escape from a guard room at Seney Hos
pital, and will probably die.
WILSON, policeman, Cedar-street sta
ton, hurt in chest by flower pot thrown
JOSEPHINE ZEIGER, Brooklyn, struck
by car at Broadway and Haywood street,
taken to the Eastern District Hospital in
UNKNOWN MAN, fell from an elevated
station on Myrtle avenue Brooklyn; taken
TWO UNKNOWN MEN, suffering from
slight gun shot wounds treated at St.
GATHERINGS Hospital and sent home.
Legislature May Investigate.
ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 21.-In the House,
tonight, the principal topic of discussion
was the Brooklyn strike, precipitated by
the introduction of resolutions by Assem-
blyman Friday and report from the
board of arbitration on the matter recon-
mending that the Legislature frame law
making the term ten hours for a day s
work." more definite so that trouble be-
tween capital and labor might. be averted.
Assemblyman Fridays resolution, after a
long preamble reciting the inconvenience
and expenses reverting to the county and
State, reads as follows:
Resolved For a better protection of the
lives and property of our citizens, this
Legislature appoint a special committee
of five of it's members to examine into the
basis Of responsibility therefor, and report
to this Legislature at the earliest possible
concentrations as will prevent recurrence
of the same"