The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-29

the lines Of roads where stone throwing
and interference has prevailed, and the
troops did police duty on street corners
and even on the cars in some sections.
II has been learned by experience that
with a policeman az either end of a
car windows have been broken by stones
and brick bats and the safety OF pas
sengers endangered. But few arrests
have been made. The stone throwers do
not hit policemen, except in rare cases.
and then by accident, and the policemen do
not arrest stone throwers except in rare
instances. The presence of a militiaman
with a gun on the front platform invari-
ably saves the car and passengers from
damage.
How long the troops are to remain and
DO police duty is not decided. Police Com
missioner WeHes has sworn in 700 special
policemen. About 100 of these have re-
signed. The special policemen are the
largest for stones and abuse and seldom
make an arrest.
Wire cutting during the night was re-
ported on the Grand street line. the Nos
trand avenue line, the Flatbush avenue
line, the Flushing avenue line and the
Tompl1ins avenue line
The electric light wires leading into
the depot of the cross town line at
Erie basin were cut during the night,
leaving the depot In darkness. This re-
ion Is one OF the toughest in Brooklyn,
and no cars have penetrated it in two
weeks. Cars were run to-day on Sec
ond avenue line to Fort Hamilton. The
line was opened yesterday.
The Lorimer street line resumed opera
tions for the first time this morning. Ten
cars were In operation at noon.
The Union avenue line from the city
line to the Twenty-third street ferry was
also opened this morning, and ten cars
were put on.
Two men were shot by policemen in
different encounters with mobs to-day.
one man is dying in the hospital The
other is less seriously wounded. dozen
other rioters have been injured by po-
licemen's night-sticks and the butt ends
of revolvers in hand-to-hand encounters.
Non-union motormen have been assaulted
and severely beaten.
Car tracks have been bockaded, car
windows shattered and trolley wires
cut. These occurrences have been less
| frequent than during the days Of last
week, but they indicate that the safety
of the public is far from being estab-
lished.
The man who was fatally shot was
Michael Madigan, a striking motorman.
| The shooting occurred within two blocks
of the Nostrand avenue barns and was
precipitated by a riotous mob. A car of
the Nostrand avenue line, with Notorman
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of Officer Roberts. was attacked by the
mob on Nostrand avenue just back Of
the Kings county penitentary. Seeing
only one policeman on the platform, the
mob became very bold, and ordered the
conductor and motoTman TO desert. When
they refused, the mob stoned
the car and had pretty near
ly finished the solitary police
man and the conductor and motorman
when the police reserves-ten men-ar-
rived. The mob gave the policemen
pitched battle. Shooting oser their heads
did no good, and at last the officers shot to
kill Then the mob ran. leaving Madigan
on the ground and half a dozen of his
friends prisoners.
President Norton OF the Atlantic avenue
road when he received the letter from
Master Workman Connolly, published
elsewhere pitched into the waste basket.
The presidents of the Brooklyn Hights
Company and of the Queens County
Company replied by offering to employ
as individuals such of the strikers as
they could find places for. None of the
presidents treated the letter as of any
| consequence.