The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-20
DYNAMITeRS ARRESTED
A SUSPICION THAT ANARCHISTS
HAD 4 HAND.
NUMBER OF CARS tPlRATED FELL OFF
Attempts of Strikers 10 Block the Lies and
Disable Cars Continue. Polio Pow r.
I.ss 10 Handle Rioters. Pop
Mar sympa'hy Divided.
ular Sympa'hy Divided.

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New York. July 19.-Tne strike order
ed this morning on the lines of the Me-
trnpoltan Street Railway in New York.
infused new blood into the strike in
Brooklyn and did not tend to improve
matters.
The arrest of twenty one men charged
with conspiracy to destroy the Elevated
Railroad this morning at Fifth avenue
and Thirty sixth street had little effect
on the public, although it was expected
that qmblic sympathy would turn against
the strikers.
The car service was very poor. In
the earlier part of the day 80 per cent.
of the cars of the Brooklyn Heights sys-
tenn were operated, but this was lessen
ed to a considerable extent later in the
day. On the Nassau lines cars work
ed on half Roadway all day.
. The twenty-one men who were ar
rested We're arra'igned in the afternoon
at the Adams street police court be-
fore Magistrate Brenner. They were
represented by counsel. who pleaded mot
guilty in their behalf. and demanded an
immediate hearing. The charge of va
grancy on which the men had been
held was dismissed, and they answered
to a charge of conspiracy slrbstantlated
by the affidavit of William Ashby. an
investigator. who deposed that on
Monday evening he mad attended a
there was talk of buying dynamite. the
use of the dynamite to be contingent
or the action of the engineers of tine
Elevated Railroad concerning the propo-
sitiOn to strike. If the Elevated en-
plOyes refused to go out, somebody sng-
gested dynamite should be used to
blow them up. Such remarks, said
Ashby were followed by I'VE WILL
I'VE will" Ashby further stated that
he saw O'Hara and three others leave
the hall saying they had the stuff with
them, and that they had in their pockets
packages rolled UP in brown paper look
ing like dynamite.
Magistrate Brenner held the prisoners
in bonds of $3.50.
O'Hara, the man who AshDy said car
ried dynamite, stated .last night that he
and his companions had nothing what
ever to do with the dynamite explosion
While the people looked upon the ex-
plosion us dismal failure in so far as it
failed to accomplish its evident purpose,
they are not overlooking the possibility
Df anarchists being concerned in last
nights plot, and the neGghborlood sup
posed to he frequented by men of anar-
chistic tendencies are being closely
watched.
If the strikers wanted to make plenty
Of work for the police and at the same
time get into a district where they
could depend on popular sympathy. they
made wise selection in taking the
Second Avenue line for tine principal
fight of the strike.
Several times during the afternoon the
police were called upon to quell riots in
Second avenue, hut none was Of
serious import. The real trouble did
not begin until the thousands of work
ing people who live along that great
thorOughfare came home from work
BY Z O'Clock Second avenue from
Tenth street to the stables at Ninety
fifth street and even as far as One Hun
bred and Tenth street was filled. and
ON both walks were dense masses OF
people all eager for trouble. Captain
DOnahue. Of the Sixty-first street sta
ton earlier in the evening had sent out
squad of men to keep people ont of
the middle of the street so that no tam
peIang with the slot might occur. Bht
his mem We're like so many chips on a
river when the tide is strong and they
We're tossed hither and thitller. They
used their clubs with all their power.
and the only result was 70 anger the
crowd, so that little discrimination was
shown between the police and the car
men when bricks were thrown,
AZ about O'Clock great crowd
gathered between Forty-second and
F0rty-fifth streets and attempted to
overthrow the cars that came along
about thirty minutes apart.
Policeman Owen Connovan. who was
on car bound south. was hit on the
head with brick and knocked off his
seat to the pavement His left eye was
almost knocked out
Louis Minkus, 9-year-old boy, got in
front of a policeman's club and in the
excitement the blue coat made no dis
tinctions. The boy was knocked over
and was carried home with bad scalp
wound.
Mike Sheridan strike sympathiZer of
East Forty-second street, was taken
home with a fractured skull. A sergeant
and forty reserves We're got out ON the
double quick and dispersed the crowd,
making number of arrests.
Another crowd got together in a
minute or two at Fifty-fifth street and
Second Avenue, and when car bound
down came along it was met with a
perfect shower of bricks. stones and
other missiles thrown from the street,
the windows Of the flats and the roof.
The women We're perfect furies. While
a car was passing Seventy-second street
with Policeman Gallagher as an escort.
q score or more of the mob tried to
board it to take off the conductor and
motorman. Gallagher got Off drawing