The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-24

been working on the Ioof all day. He did
not throw anything from the roof. He heard
the order ''stand back there and started
| to run back. The wound is pronounced
| mortal. Officer Seward, who was on the
| rear platform of the first said he saw
| the militia shoot at Il man on the roof. He
saw no stones or missiles thrown at the
militia. H did see people throw stones and
| other objects from the windows.
A PROMPT MILITIAMAN.
A stone was thrown from the elevated
railroad structure on Broadway, near
Aberdeen, at tonight. (which struck a
car on the way to east New York, and
passed completely through the bonnet
OF the car, and narrowly missed the mo-
torman. Att, Corporal Dolye, of the
Company B, 7th regiment, while on du-
ty at Knickerbocker avenue station OF
the Union elevated railroad, told some
men who came down the elevated steps
to move on. They refused. Doyle struck
one OH the shoulder with his 'clubbed
| musket. He smashed the musket and
knocked the man down. He jabbed the
bayonet into another man deep enough
to draw blood. Both men were taken
away by their friends. Superintendent
Harris of the Suburban railroad was
arrested BY Lieutenants Clayton and
Mcleod. of Co. F fist regiment, this az
ternoon, for persisting in moving cars
in which members of the regiment were
sleeping. Charles Gelhard WAS arrested
for assaulting the conductor of car on
the Sumner avenue line. John Hagman,
aged Is, was arrested, charged with
throwing a stone at a mOtorman of car
of the Fifth avenue line, while it was
passing the corner of Nassau and Wash
ington streets. The last car on the
Third avenue line left the depot at 4. 80.
Several cars were subjected to bonn
bardnlent Of bricks during the afternoon
form the roofs of houses, windows and
sidewalks. A big chunk of lead was
hurled through window of a car at
the corner of Hackett street, but no
one was hurt and no arrest was made.
All the lines concluded to close opera
tions early in the evening. The Atlantic
avenue system gave orders to have all
cars housed by 10 O'Clock. Other lines
stopped sending out cars from to 8:
The trolley wire at Halsey street and
Putnam avenue lines were cut at 8
O'Clock tonight, and the cars of the lins
were stalled at Franklin avenue. The
breaks were afterwards repeired.
There were rumors OF extensive inter-
ference with wires in other sections. and
plant follow up the order for general
strike of linemen with Wholesale cut
ting. The Myrtle avenue cars stopped
running at I p. M. The troops guarding
the approaches to the car houses were
called in ats7.45 p. NJ, and only few
pickets were left out. In all, 25 cars
ran on the Myrtle avenue line during
the day and 20 on the Gates avenue
line.
At 10 p. m., all is quiet in the vicinity
of.the depots of these lines, and all is
quiet at Ridgewood.
AT p. 'm., the troops of the 9TH regi-.
ment noticed people moving about and
lights burning brightly in the upper
rooms OF a residence on Halsey street,
opposite the depot of the Putnam avenue
aud HaIsey lines. This is the locality
in which the firing took place last night,
and in which Aims lost his life. The
troops ordered the shutters closed and
the lights extinguished, and that fail
ure to observe the order would be fol-
lowed by bullets. The order was obeyed.
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