The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-20


Ont With a Brick - Many Others
Struck by Missiles NOn-Unf0n
Men Roughly HandIed-BOy Bad
Iy Hurt by n Policeman Riot
Without Precedent in Brooklyn.
NEW YORK, July 19.-The strike Or
dered this morning on the lines of the
Metropolitan 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 people, although it was ex-
pected that public sympathy would turn
against the strikers The cal. service Is
very poor, During the afternoon IS per
cent OF the Brooklyn heights system was
operated, but this was Iessened to a con-
siderable extent later in the day. On the
Nassau line cars were worked on half
headway all day This embraced Fifth
ana Seventh avenues and Douglass and
Bergen streets. The scarcity of passen-
gers on the Nassau cars leaving the foot
of South Eighth street for Canarsie
Hamburg avenue and BrownvilIe, was
more noticeable than any day since the
strike began. The traffic on FIatbush
avenue, running as far as Vernon ave-
nue., was paralyzed. On the Greenpoint
and cross-town line hardly more than
half as many cars were run, compared to
the number operated yesterday. Along
Franklin and Manhattan avenues the
crowd was quite active and slight dis
turbances occurred. Only few Coney
Island and Bergen Beach cars were run
ming, and Brighton Beach was isolated
so that the Casino had to be closed and
the musicians dismissed
SPOTTER IN THE HALL.
The twenty-one men who were arrest
ed at Carberry's hall, at the corner of
Atlantic and Rockaway avenues, were
arralgned in the afternoon at the Adams
street police court, before MAGISTRATE
Bremen. They We're represented by coun-
sci, who pleaded not guilty in their be-
half' and demanded an immediate hear
ing The original charge of vagrancy.
on which the men had been held, was dis
missed, and they answered to a charge of
conspiracy, substantiated by the affida-
Wit Of William Ashby, an investigator"
who deposed that on Monday evening he
had attended a meeting at Carberrv han
and that there was talk of buying dyna-
mite, the use of the dynamite to be con-
tingent on the action of the engineers of
the elevated railroad concerning the prop
osition to strike. If the elevated en-
ployes refused to go out somebody sug-
gested dynamite should be used to blow
rlrc
followed by 1--WE 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
they had in their pockets packages rolled
in brown paper looking like dynamite.
The prisoners counsel caused a sensa-
sion when he said:
Your honor. 1 admit conspiracy. but
1t Is a conspiracy by politicians and the
police to deprive these men of their lib
erty"
Magistrate Brenner overruled him and
held the prisoners in bonks of $780,
PRISONERS DENY GUILT.
O'Hara, the man, who as 1t has been
stated, carried dynamite stated last
night that he and his companions had
nothing whatever to do with the dvna-
mite explosion, and that thev had fallen
-'NOOR
the returns from the sympathetic meet
ing at Cooper Union and were asleep at
the time the explosion happened The
first they knew of the explosion was
when they were aroused by the police.
While the police looked upon the ex-
plosion as dismal failure, in so far as
1t failed to accomplish its evident pur-
pose they are not overlooking the pos
sibility of anarchists being concerned in
last nights plot, and the neighborhoods
supposed to be .frequented by men of an
archistic tendencies are being closely
watched.
The Fifth avenue and Third avenue
lines shut down early in the afternoon
and the entire Nassau system was run
under one-third schedule
Four hundred and fifty police were
transferred from Brooklyn to Manhat.
tan borough tonight in anticipation oi
trouble with strikers on the Metropoli-
tan Street railway system.
SERIOUS RIOTING.
Several times during the afternoon the
police were called upon to quell riots in
Second avenue, but none were of serious
import. The real trouble did not begin
until thousands Of working people, who
live along that great thoroughfare, came
home from work BY o'clock Second
avenue, from Tenth street to the stables
at Ninety-siXth street, and even as fal
as One Hundred and Tenth street, was
filled, and on both walks was a dense
mass of people, all eager for trouble
Capt Donohue, of the East Sixty-ffrs
street station, earlier in the evening, hat
sent out a squad of men to keep people
out of the middle of the street. so tha
no tampering with the slot might occur
But his men were tossed hither anC
thither. They used their clubs with al
their power, and the only result was t.
anger the crowd, so that little discrimi
nation was shown between the police anC
the car men when bricks were thrown.
At about o'clock a great crowd gath.
cred between Forty-second and Forty
fifth streets and attempted to overthrow
utes apart Policeman Owen Conivan
who was on a car bound south, was hit
on the head with brick and knocked of
his seat to the pavement. His left eye
was knocked out. He was taken to the
Flower hospital.
Louis Mankus, a nine-year-old boy, got
in front of policeman's club, and in the
excitement the blue coat made no dis
tinction. The boy was knocked over an6
was carried home with bad scalI
wound.
Mike Sheridan, a strike sympathizer
Of East Forty-second street, was takeT
home with fractured skull
a sergeant and forty-eight reserve: