Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-20
Strikers Hurl Stones Through
Cars and Attack Police.
FIERCE RIOTS IN NEW YORK
fwenty-th. 60 Ex-Empioyaes Held to An, :
wer for Conspiracy to BLOW Upthe
49, Roads with nynamlte.
TerrorS Of the Strike.
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the Metropolitan Street Railway in New
York, infused new blood into the strike
III Brooklyn. and did not intend to i'm
prove matters.
The arrest of twenty-onn men charg-
ed with conspiracy to destroy the elc-
waited railroad this morning. at Fft!
avenue and Thirty-sixth street, had lit
Tie effect on the public. although it WAS
expected the public sympathy would
turn against the strikers.
The car service was very poor In
the earlier part of the day S. per cent
of the cars Of the brooklyn Heights
system We're operated. but this WAS
iessencd to Il considerable extent later
in the day. On the Nassau lines cars
worked on half Roadway all day.
HELD FOL, CONSPIRACY.
The twenty-one men who were ar
rested We're arraigned in the afternoon
at the Adams street police court before
Magistrate Brenner They were repre-
scented by counsel, who pleaded not
guilty in their behalf, and demanded an
imme date hearing. The original charge
of Vagrancy on which the men had been
neld was dismissed and they were
~" VI Ct St'aiSc VI conspiracy, SUD-
stantiated by the affidavit Of William
Ashby, an investigators who deposci
that on Monday evening he had atten-
ded a meeting at Carberry hall and
that there was talk Of buying dyna-
mite. the use of the dynamite 10 BE-.
contingent on the action Of the engin-
GERS OF the elevated railroad concerning
| me proposition to strike. If the ele-
waited employees refused to so out.
somebody suggested. dynamite SHOULD
be used to blow them up Such re-
marks said AShby We're followed bv
we Will" We Will" .Ashby furln-
er stased 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 wrapped up
in brown paper, looking like dynamite.
O'IfARA DENIES TT.
Magistrate Bremen held the prison.
crS in bonds Of $3.50
O'Harn. the man who ..shby said car
ricd dynamite. stated last night that II
and his companions had nothing what
ever To do with the dynamite explos-
ion.
While the police looked upon the ex-
p!oson as dismal failure in SO far as it
failed to accomplish its evident pur-
s.
s.bili;y Of anarchists being concerned
in last nights plot and the neighbour
hoods supposed to be freauented by
men of anarchistic tendencies are being
closely watched
If the strikers wanted to make plen-
~ of work for the police and at the
same time get into a district where
they could depend on popular synpa-
thy. they made a wise selection in tax
ing the Second avenue line for the
principal fight of the strike
Several times during the afternoon
the police We're called upon to ducll
riots in Second avenue, but none was
Of serious import. The real trouble d.l
not begin until the thousands of work.
ing people who live along that great
thorouehfore came home from work.
EAGER FOR TROUBLE.
10y O'Clock Second avenue. from
Tenth street 10 the stables. and east as
far as 10th street, was filled. ana DO h
walks with dense mass Of people. al!
eager for trouble. Captain Donahle %
the SiNty-frst STREET Station. earlier in
the evening had seEt out squad uc
men to keep the people out OF the mid
de OF the street so that no tampering
with inc slot might occur. But his men
vie inc 81 iiialiV cnlpS on q river
when the tide is strong. and they were
tossed hither and thither. They used
their clubs with all their power, and the
only result was to anger the crowd SO
! that little discrimination was shown
between the police and the car men
when bricks We're thrown.
AT about s O'Clock a great crowd
gathered between Forty-sccond and
torty-fif1n streets and ATTEMPTED 20
overthrow the cars that came along
about thirty minutes apart
CASUALTIES OF THE DAY
Policeman Owen conovan, who WAS
on a car bound south. was hit on the
head with brick and knocked or his
seat to the pavement His left eye
was almost knocked out.
Mike Sheridan. Il strike synlpath,z-
eT Of East Forty-second street. was
taken home with q fractured skull.
Another crowd got together in min
ute or two at Fifty-fifth street and
Second avenue and when a 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 roofs.
MEN WERE FURIOUS.
The men We're perfect furies While
car was passing Seventy-second
street with Policeman Gallagher as an
escort a score or moro OF the mob tried
to board it to take off the conductor
and motormar. Gallagher got off.
drawing two reviewers, walked ahead
I OF the car clCa ring thn tract, tba All