The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26

Secretary Bogardus, of the Brooklyn
applications from strikers to be reinstated
He says his company will refuse TO dls-
charge nonunion men who perform their
Wires were cut at Fulton street and Sar-
atoga avenue in the afternoon The militia
was called out to protect the linemen sent
to repair the damage. AT $50 this after-
noon the wires were repaired and the
for four hours proceeded on their trips.
Guards of the Seventy first Regiment pre-
served order while the repairers were at
work.
John Story, aged twenty-seven, was ar
rested while trying to force an entrance
into the building- No. 81 Grand avenue
Three dynamite cartridges eight inches long
were found in his pockets. Story IS a
striker, and the house he was breaking
into was occupied by a nonunion man.
What is supposed to be a dynamite cart
ridge was picked up this morning oy a
man who brought 1t to the First precinct
station house. The man said he found IL
at the corner of Fiatbush avenue and Ful-
ton street, one of the busiest stations OF
the city. and where several car lines pass.
The object was found on the car track.
1t is covered with a coating or tar, mas
a fuse at one end and is about nve lncheS
long. The police Immediately brought II 10
Police Superintendent Campbell, who de-
eded to send nd it vi tH the tn ad navy yard' whefe
Traffic on the Hanailton-avcnue line was
resumed this afternoon after twelve days
operated with scarcely any interruption
and little show of hostility.
STRIKERS ENCOURAGED.
''This is the most encouraging day we
have had during the strike said Master
Workman Murphy to a reporter this after
noon, as he entered the strikers head
quarters. 'If you will sit down here for
a while I will show You why we are so
much encouraged. We are getting the new
men away from the railroads fast as
they arrive. From o'clock this morning
hi i,H,r {rr-oy
men to leave their posts at Ridgewood, and
SO far to-day we have rescued thirty men
at the other end of the line. to say nothing
of the number We stopped before they
reached this side of the river. We have
done all this, remember, without any vio-
lence or fntimidation; and the new comers,
in every case. have yielded willingly. We
bring them to our headquarters, warm and
feed them and furnish a ticket to return
home, no matter how far away they may
live. They have been deceived in coming
here. They claim they knew nothing of
the strike. but after getting to Brooklyn
they We're compelled to earn enough to get
back. Some of them forfeit what money
the company owes them, and are glad to
get off as easily as that
master workman a number of nonunion
men were brought in by the strikers scouts.
One of these was motorman named
Squires, from Baltimore. He said he was
an expert motorman but, coming from a
warm climate so thinly Clad and being
compelled to feed on ''red horse and punk
and sleep on the floor he didn't want the
job, bad enough to stay any longer He
SAID the company owed him S.
many conductors handing in their envelopes
on .IT,uT return trips without With money nc n, ,
the railroad officials
Yes; didn't have a passenger on the
trip" was the conductors retort.
do you look out for passengers on the
sidewalks?" was the next question.
Me? I did not dare to look out for
anything but my head" said the conductor.
The blockade at the corner of Greenpoint
and Franklin avenues was raised at $50
| p; m. by a crowd of men sent down from
avenue line Quiet has been restored in
| Greenpoint, but it is doubtful if the rail-
road viii run cars tomorrow without the
protection of the militia. Every that
went out to-day returned in a badly dam
aged condition.
Thirty-five property owners residing on
Hicks and Sackett streets sent petition
the Killing f
| petition denounces Major Cochran as a
| "cold-blooded murderer and demands an
investigation into the circumstances attend
ing the shooting. Police Commissioner
Wells has made investigation into the
pnbd the of S the HE to
| believed in police circles that he has ar
| rived at the. conclusion that the killing was
| Officers Frank Connolly and Earnest
Wright. while trying to disperse crowd
| at Manhattan avenue and Java street
/ shortly after noon were struck by stones
| and severely injured.
| car on the Flushing avenue line was
! nue. and badlys wrecked.
| STATE ARBITRATION COMMITTEE.
| Messrs. Feeny, Robinson and Purcell, COM
| prising the State Arbitration Committee
| which left Albany last night for Brooklyn
| We're in secret session at the Hotel St
| George this afternoon, and subpoenaed
Messrs Lewis and Norton, whom they ex-
anined as to the cause and status of the
| strike. The committee also sent note to
Mayor Schieren, requesting the presence OF
| that official at the examination but the
| Mayor positively declined to attend.
| The following notices to former employees
| of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad have beer
dent Lewis:
Notice is hereby given that the Brooklyn
Heights Railroad Company is ready ant
former employees motormen and conduc
tors as are needed to fill existing vacancies
| paying them the market rate of wages fol-
their service, provided such employees will
| accept the regulations of the company as tt
| the frequency with which cars shall be ru1
run"
All the non.union men who were. held il
the military in order that they might no
join the ranks of the strikers have been re
leased.
Master Workman Connolly, WIN ha
charge of the present strike was angry th
morning. He said carly to-day to severa
reporters that the strike might be called off
| Later, Wnen asked Tor particulars, ne re
piled that the strike would not be called of
| in any event. and that instead of five thou
sand men being out there would be ten thou
sand soon. He denied that any strikers hai
returned to work. John Gibson, secretar,
of the strikers. said that under no consid
Grafton would there be a surrender
The Brooklyn Queens county and Su
burban system opened it's Second-stree
line to-day. In the return trip this after
noon several cars were assailed with show
ers of stones and other missiles. Thre
shots were also fired from the windows O
houses and one of the bullets knocked of
two fingers from motorman Schaeser's lef
hand. The officers entered the house from
which the shots came and arrested tw'
men and woman.
The troubles at Mespeth were temporaril,
| settled by the strikers winning over tn
| nonunion men. All of the nonunion mel
subscribed to an oath that they would no
again enter the company's service while tn
| strike lasted.
THE RIDGEWOOD RIOT.
| A little after 5 O'Clock a car bound TO
Ridgewood was stopped at Gates avenu
and Hamburg street by Instructions on tn
track. The trolley rope was cut an
the bell pulled as a signal t
| start. The motorman obeyed the bell an
away went the car. The two policemen Of
| the car were powerless to cope with tn