The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-23
SOLDIERS USE RIFLES.
A Charge Was Made by the Military on the Crowd
 on HaISey Street.
ONE MAN SHOT; HE WILL DIE
SHOOTING VAS DONE BY MEN ON
 THE PICKET LINE.

 In the Afternoon General McAlpin Had an
 Interview With Mayor Schieren-He Ex-
 pressed Himself as Satisfied With the
 Situation and Then Left for Albany-Cars
 Were Stoned-The Presence of the Cav
 airy Prevented Bloodshed-Police Were
 Compelled to Draw RevOlvers-Conductor
 and Motorman YanISed From Their Car
 by Their NecIrs and Were Then Kicked
 and Punched-PoIice and Cavalry to the
 Scene-Women With Babes in Their Arms
 in the Mob Stone the Cars.
 Brooklyn, Jan. 22.-A charge was made by the military at Broadway and Halsey streets at ii o'clock tonight. Some small boys had been ieering the soldiers and there were but few men about. A drunken man from New York started from a saloon to cross Halsey street. He was fired upon and hit in the face, sustaining a compound frac- ture of the jaw. His name was Thomas Aims. He will die. Richard Mitchell, a starter of the Brooklyn City railroad, WdS SIlOl III JllV oil Alls I WO Ol 'iAN SNAAA~N' from the guns of the militia went through the large plate glass window of a candy store on Broadway, narrow Iy missing the clerks. pr, T. p. Wilson attended the wounded and was an eye witness of the shooting. He says there were few people about and much less excuse for shooting than last night, when a large crowd at the same place created quite a disturbance. An am- bulance took the New Yorker to the hos pital.
 At 11:4O the neighborhood was almost deserted, but the few men about were excited over the occurrence. There were less than twenty men present when the shooting occurred.
 The shooting was done by five of the men of the picket line which the Sev- enth regiment had established along Halsey street to guard the car house. A dozen people on the street had mar row escapes. The men in front of the saloon were ordered by the guard to move on. Instead of doing so they are said to have stood their ground and hooted at and jeered the troops. The sol diers waited moment and then an- swered with a volley. Colonel Appleton of the Seventh was in command of the +roope u,hich did fine firing
 A crowd which interfered with the movement of Gates avenue car this afternoon at Knickerbocker and Pal metto streets, was charged by the mili- tia and police. Captain Kitzer, of the police, fired shot as did also one of the militiamen.
 The police clubbed several men, who were taken to neighboring houses. on Gates avenue the police ordered all windows closed. While car was pass ing one man hissed the miiitiamen, and would not take his head in, and the trooper fired. The shot hit the window sash and the man retreated. The first car to-day on the Gates avenue line had its windows smashed. Others were hit with stones and bricks. This evening two policemen had red pepper thrown in their faces.
 At S:3O o'clock squad of policemen dispersed a crowd and fired several shots in the air at Palmetto street and Myrtle avenue.
 to East New York until o'clock, on the Flatbush avenue until g p. m., on the Gates avenue line until D. m., on the Fulton street 1lne until p. Am., and on the Court street line until 9:30 D. m. The companies did not attempt to run until midnight. They accomplished con- siderable by running at all after dark. Some of the last cars in had rough experiences.
 There were but few arrests to-day for disorder in connection with the strike.
 Mayor Schieren this afternoon said that the situation was unchanged from yesterday. He intimated that no inn mediate action toward calling out more troops would be taken, but that if dis order was not stopped the entire militia of the state would be summoned. The mayor said he hoped the firing of the militia over the heads of the people last night would have salutary effect and that the trouble would cease
 The mayor was in communication to- day with Governor Morton and Adju- tant General McAlpin He advised them fully as to the occurrences of last night and the situation to-day. Two men were arrested this afternoon for assault- ing Conductor Mallon of the Fulton street line at High street. A delega- tion of tradesmen along the line of the Third avenue road called on the mayor to-day and complained of the failure of the Third avenue line to run cars! The mayor replied that establishing and or
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