Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-02-01
NO END TO THE RIOTS.
BrvokIyn's strike Is More serious Than
Officers Care to Admit.

BrvokIyn's strike Is More SERIOUS Than
Officers Care t. Admit.
Brooklyn. Jan 2S.-John Aliens. the
New York man who was shot i'm the
jaw by the militia at Halsey street last
night. died today.
| John Meade was arrested this after
noon for pointing a revolver from his
window at Corporal Place. Thirteenth
regiment.
As IA company of the Twenty-third
regiment was escorting Hicks street
car, Thomas Karney is said to have
thrown number of bricks from the
| one of them took deliberate aim and
shot Karney inside. The man was
so seriously injured that the chances of
| his recovery are slight
At o'clock tonight Corporal Doyle
of Company II, Seventh regiment. while
on duty at the Knickerbocker avenue
| station of the Union avenue elevated
| road, told the crowd on the stairs to
move on.-They refused. Doyle struck
| one man on the shoulder with his mus
ket, knocking the mai down. He also
| jabbed his bayonet into another man
| deep enough to draw blood. Both men
We're taken away by their friends.
| Fifty-nine cars in all have been run
| out of the east New York depot today.
| At o'clock this evening. as the cars
| began to come in, they We're held in the
| depot for the night Quiet prevailed
| at Ridgewood this evening. The cars
had at that time stopped running. The
militia was then removed from the
| streets in the immediate vicinity of the
| stables. having been relieved by "A de-
| tachment of police.
| Superintendent Harris of the Sub
urban railroad was arrested by Lieuten-
| ants Clayton and Mcleod of Company
f, Seventh regiment, this afternoon for
persisting in moving cars in which
| members of the regiment were sleeping.
About o'clock this evening the mem
brs of the First regiment had a brush
with a mob of $50 men, who had
| smashed the windows of the cars of
the Ralph avenue line. Twenty men
hurried to the scene and dispersed the
| crowd and the ears resumed their trip.
accompanied by troops.
| AN EXCITING DAY.
From early morning until noon. there
| was more excitement in the vicinity of
Third avenue and the railroad depot
than there has been since the strike
| commenced. The barns at Third av-
enue and Fifty-eighth street presented
a busy scene at IL o'clock, when the
| Court street car reached the depot filled
| with fifty non-union men, who We're at
once lodged in the depot. Each corner
on the east side of the avenue was
thronged by the strikers and their SYM
pathizers, while in front of the stables
were drawn up 100 men of the Twenty
third regiment. The strikers contented
themselves with hooting and jeerine
the militia. At the strikers headouar-
tiers the men are still confident and said
that If 1t took 500 men to run one car.
the company would not continue long.
During last night pickets at Twenty
fourth street and Fifth avenue were
fired on by rioters. None of the soldiers
We're injured. They fired in the direc-
ton whence the shots came. but prob
ably without effect. At sis today a
crowd gathered in front of the Bush
wick Cottage hotel and jeered at the
non-union men, At Ridgewood depot
Companies G and d of the Seventh reg
iment charged on the mob and succeed
ed in dispensing it. No shots were
fired.
CAR LINES IN HOT WATER.
This is the 10th day of the big strike
and still the result hangs in the balance.
The railroad companies can operate
lines as far as the mechanical arrange
ment goes, but up to the present they
have secured only about 400 new men.
Despite the assurances of Mayor SHE
rem that the military force in Brooklyn
is sufficient to do all that is required of
IT, 1t is believed he has made request
for additional troops, to be held in read
mess for an emergency. In every quar-
ter of the city wires We're cut during the
night and stable and power houses were
subject to a desultory bombardment of
stones "A few of the malefactors were
arrested. ON many of the lines the line
men have stopped work. but as far as
can be learned they were not called out
as an organization. 1t is probable that
the electricians and expert mechanics
may also refuse to continue work
The excitement began today about
9'2o, when "A wagon load of about a
dozen non-union men arrived in charge
of Troop of New York. At Fifty-first
street and Third avenue. the strikers
headquarters. a lot of stones were
) thrown at the troops and the wagon.
The troops charged the mob and drove
them back into their headquarters and
down the side streets.
MANY DISTURBANCES.
Until 9:nS O'Clock the number of cars
that were in operation was about half
that of yesterday. The Fulton street
and Flatbush avenue lines succeeded in
getting only one or two cars through
To the bridge. The reason was that the
wires had been cut and the men re-
| fused to repair them. The companies
are also short of motormen. The line
! men say they did not strike in a body
as the motormen refused to help them
a year ago when they had difficulty
with the company.
! Five hundred rioters had a fight with
the militia at Fifth avenue and Twenty
| fourth street. One soldier got a black
| eye. being hit with brass knuckles. Red