St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-24


Twenty policemen were on hand.
Mounted policemen enclosed the car
and the signal was given to start. The
motorman made the pace Il hot one and
the ran to Fulton ferry was made i'll
thirty minutes Not single stone was
thrown during the trip. At the paper
factory of Robert Graves, at Thirty
fifth street, a girl dropped a piece of
| paper from an upper window, but the
presentation of a rifle oy a militiaman
Oh the sidewalk accompanied by the
| order: "Close every window or Pll
fire." caused every window to be at
once shut.
The doors and windows along the
| route were all closed. and the workmen
on row Of flats in the course OF erection
at Fifty-siXth street were compelled to
knock off. The building was infested
| by soldiers to prevent the use OF the
building as ammunition 10y the strikers.
The twelve cars continued running
during the day. but no passengers were
carried uulil after o'clock. At the
| strikers headquarters the men were
still confident. and said that if it took
800 men to run one car the company
would not continue to do SO long. They
also averred that the number of "Scabs"
secured for employment was far below
that required.
A Large Mob
of 300 strikers was driven into Odd Fell
lows hall during charge this morning.
When the trouble was over the men de-
maIded to be released, but the doors
of the building were kept locked, and
the men were kept in confinement for
several hours.
A writ of habeas corpus was secured
| from Judge Gaynor. Before the time
arrived when Gen. McLeer was to make
on answer TO the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings for the release the men had
| been released and the writ was rem
! dered imperative. When the case was
called at o'clock statement
was read on behalf Of Gen.
McLeer in which denial was
made of the allegation that lie had
locked up the 300 men or had ordered
| that they be locked up; further it was
said that upon learning of thelimprlSon-
ment of the men he had ordered their
| immediate release, which order had
been complied with, and that the men
had thereupon departed to their several
| homes. Upon this explanation Judge
| Gaynor dismissed the proceedings.
! Jacob Quinlan. aged twenty seven, is
| locked up for throwing Jumps Of coal at
Private w. Cole, of Company l. Thir-
teenth regiment, who was on picket
duty. John Aims, the New \ York man
who was shot in the jaw by the militia
at Halsey street last night, died at St.
| Mary's hospital at II o'clock this morn
ing. Aims wife called at the hospital
at half past IL only to find her husband
dead. John Meade was arrested this
| afternoon for pointing loaded revolver
from the window of his home.
AS company Of the Twenty-third
regiment was escorting Hicks street
| car. Thomas Kearney is said 10 have
thrown a number Of bricks at it from
roof. Some OF the soldiers were hit by
the missiles, and one of their number
| took deliberate aim and
Shot Aearney in tHae side.
! The man was so seriously injured that
! the chances of his recovery are but
slight. kearney was at work on the
roof at the time and was attracted to
the edge by the excitement of the
crowd below in consequences Of the
| passing OF the first car through Hicks
| street. The feeling in the nelghbor-
! hood is very hard against the railroad
| com panieS. The police and military
officers found Kearney on the roof, ly-
ing unconscious in large pool Of blood.
| \ doctor, who made an examination,
said the wound was fatal.
In statement to the coroner, kear-
ney said: Il was at work on the house
corner Hicks street and Harrison ave-
nue. with man named Terrance
0'Neal. l was on the cornice, and saw
the soldiers on Hicks street below me.
| back | started to go back: i'll fact |
started to run back and l heard gum
shots and l was hit in the hip. l had
not thrown anything from the roof at
the soldiers, nor did anyone who was
working in the middle of the roof. We
had been at work ON this roof for
Michael Healy since morning."
John Hagman, aged fifteen, has been
| arrested for throwing stones at motor
man on the Fifth avenue line. Charles
Gelfid, twenty-seven years old, is
locked up for having assaulted the con-
| ductor OIL Sumner avenue car. At 6
o'clock this evening Gates av-
enue car colIided with car
! At z o'clock tonight Corporal Doyle
of Company Ii, Seventh regiment. while
on duty at the knickeIbocker avenue
station OF the Union avenue elevated
| line, told a crowd OH the steps 10 move.
| They refused. Doyle struck one man
on the shoulder with his dubbed mus
| ket, smashing the musket and knocking
| the man down. He also
gabbed His Rayonet
into another man deep enough to draw
blood. Both men we've taken away by
| their friends.
Fifty-nine cars in all have been run
out of the East New York depot today,
thirty on The Fulton street and twenty
nine on the Broadway routes. AT 6
o'clock this evening, as the cars began
| to come in, they were held in the de-
partment for the night.
QuietneSs prevailed at RIdgewood at
O'Clock this evening. The cars had
at that time stopped running.
The militia was then withdrawn from
| the streets in the immediate vicinity OF
| the stables, having been relieved by
detachment of police. The guards will
| endeavor to sleep in the housed cars.
| The majority of the new men are
sleeping in the car sheds tonight. Some
of them would be glad TO quit, but pre-
fer to remain rather than run the
gauntlet in getting away.
! u. A. Hagen. Of Rochester, n. Y,
| who came here TO act as a conductor on
the Myrtle avenue line, started in today.
| While housing his ear tonight and
standing behind it to pull down tie
| pole, another car coming by ran him