The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-22
MILITIA WILL SHOOT.
Officer in Command Issues Or
'derS to That Effect.
Strikers Continue to Cut Wires
All Over the City.
LINEMEN STRIKE.
W. C m -. 4
LINEMEN STRIKE.
Wires Cannot be Repaired
Where Severed.
Police Refuse to Make Arrests
in MANY Cases.

III mdUy OdSCSs
BROOKLYN, Jan. 22.-There was an un-
usual calm about Brooklyn this morning
after the excitement of last night.
At the Alabama avenue station of the
Fulton avenue line of the Brooklyn
Heights railroad, the soldiers were treat
ed to volley of bricks and stones, but
the men who threw them kept out
of sight. Each stable is crowded to its
almost with tired soldiers. Privates and
officers, who are accustomed to every
luxury, slept in cars and on straw placed
on the hoor of the stables.
Outside in the fog where they could
see only three PAGES before them
were the pickets who halted every
passer-by to know his business
They were in no humor for nonsense
and it was with an i'll grace that they
stand the fusilade of missiles which are
hurled from an impenetrable darkness.
While they did not make an open
manifestation, the mobs busted them
selves in cutting wires. They could do this
work without fear of discovery and
at the intersection of Gates aud
MyrUle avenue, they cut the wires for
about two blocks At Gates avenue be-
tween Knickerbocker and Central ave-
nue. they also cut the wires and carried
them away.
Every precaution is being taken to
prevent any stranger entering the power
house, as there have been threats that
the stables and power houses will be
| blown up and every man in them killed.
a Sympathetic Strike Probable.
| 1t is said that during the day delegates
from New York city, Newark, N. j., and
| Jersey City will come to Brooklyn 10
confer with the strike leaders to consider
thea INSTABILITY of ordering a strikeamong
the motormen and conductors of the
trolley lines in those cities. The execu-
! tive committee will advise the delegation
not to do SO unless they have lndepend-
ent grievances as they fear that sym
pathetic strike will deprive them of the
public confidence which they 5claim they
now have. The executive committee
also deprecates any attempt of other
workers to strike out of sympathy.
After midnight non union motorman
named O'Neil, who came from Newark,
was seized by gang of strikers friends
with pistol at his head. He was or
working in the place of a striker.
He refused to do so and was
! knocked down with the butt end of the
| pistol and kicked until almost uncon-
scious. He was then bound hand and
foot with wire and carried into the mid
die of some empty lots and kept there
until daylight
His fetters were then released and he
was escorted to the Broadway ferry by
the strikers. His fare was paid to New
York and he was told not to return under
penalty of verse treatment next time.
The saloons in the neighborhood of the
car stables are crowded with strikers and
their friends. They are threatening in
their attitude, and are fast becoming in
toxicated
strikers Have the Best of 1t.
The strikers seem to have the best of
the situation despite the strong military
and police guards.
The companies are still unable to se-
cure new men to run all their cars and it
is not expected that any more cars Will
be running today than there we're yes
terday. The employers are still further
hampered by the refusal of their line
men to repair cut wires. This is prac-
tically strike of the linemen-.
A car was started out from Halsey
street depot of the Putnam avenue line,
at $40 this morning. By 6 o'clock the
company found dozen cars running.
The company's line men before day
light found that the strikers had
been getting revenge during the night by
cutting the wires in many places. On
Myrtle avenue near Broadway two sec
JlOQS OF WIE0 udQ U6Gfl COI Oub III Ou TIC
Gates avenue line fourteen sections were
cut out
A nonunion motorman was attacked al
! ! the Halsey street station ABOUT o'clock
! this morning and severely beaten. A po-
! liceman who stood near by refused to in
terfere.
Linemen Strike.
In pursuance of the agreement arrived
at yesterday afternoon by the line
men, that they would refuse
: 10 execute any repairs on the
roads still tied up Twelve men struck
= this morning. They were to bs
sent to replace wires which haC
, been cut during the nigh
between Gates and Knickerbockel
/ avenues. On reaching the spo
3 where the wires we're down the
men refused to have anything to dC
: with repairing them and left the wagon.
The wagon was then taken back to the
5 depot by the motorman and conductor.