The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-08
THREE OFFICERS SHOT.
Result of Attempting to Run
st. Louis Cars at Night.

officers were shot in various parts of |
the city last night as the result of riots |
Michael Gibbons was hit in the ankle
and knee. B. J. Boland in the knee and |
w. o. Coates in the back The latter's !
wound is serious. Gibbons and Boland !
were acting as guards on Union line |
cars and Coates was on a patrol wagon !
guarding property of the Transit COM
pany.
While standing on the rear platform
of a northbound Union line car John
Goetling, photographer, 20 years old,
was shot and seriously wounded at
Fifteenth and Chamber streets. The
city hospital physicians say that Goet-
ling probably will die within twenty
four hours from the result of his in
jury.
Cars We're run on one line of the st.
Louis Transit system last night for the
first time since the strike was declared,
almost a month ago. The line selected
to make the test is what is known as
the Lindell division. Every car carried
police guard and in addition the thor
oughfares along the entire route were
patrolled by police officers and com
panies of the posse comitatus, the lat
ter armed with riot shotguns.
Twenty-Five sticks of dynamite were
unearthed by the police Five sticks
I were IOunQ Dur1e0 unQer Ine EdSlOn
avenue car tracks at Easton and Van
| Denventer avenue and twenty addition
/ al sticks were found in an abandoned
shed at Broadway and Gasconade
| streets in the immediate neighborhoOd
| of the power house Of the Southern
| electric.
The dynamite found on the Easton
avenue tracks had been made into a
bomb and placed Immediately under
| the rail. Had a car passed over 1t at
the time the conveyance probably
would have been blown to atoms.
Owing to the success with which cars
were run over the main branch of the
| Linden division of the Transit COM
| pany'S system last night, General Man
| ager Baumhof has decided to open
| three other lines tonight. He says that
| cars will probably be run over the Olive
street, Laclede avenue and Park or
Compton avenue divisions. Police viii
guard the cars and deputy sherlf1s VIII
patrol the thoroughfares through which
they pass.
1t is. Just one month today since the
| strike began and Mr.. Baumhom says
the Transit company has all its lines in
| operation in the day time, except the
Southwestern. About half the usual
number of cars are running. Mr.. Baum
hoff says it is too dangerous for pas
sengers to ride over the Southwestern
line at present and for that reason it
| has not been reopened.
A special train arrived here today
from the east carrying $50 experienced
delphia Pittsburg and other PennSyl-
vania cities who had come to work for
the Transit company. The conductor of
the train stated that the full number of
men that started from Philadelphia did
not reach here, labor OrganiZatiOn at
different stopping places en- route infiu-
enced at least 10 to return to their
homes. This is denied by representa-
tiyes of the Transit company who say
there have been no desertions. The men
were divided into squads and taken to
the offices of the Transit company at
! Vandeventer and Park avenues, where
they were registered and afterwards as
signed for duty on various lines. The
men say they came here with a full
knowledge of the condition of affairs
existing in st. Louis
DEMAND FOR MILITIA.
J Governor Stephens did not come to
St. Louis from Jefferson City this morn
ing as had been expected, in response tc
the request of prominent business mer
to call out the militia. He will reach
here this evening and Immediately after
his arrival will confer with the citizens
committee and police authorities as t
the necessity and adViSability of call.
: ing on the militia to help preserve or
: der. A petition is being circulated OF
the merchants exchange, asking Gov
: ernor Stephens to order the state guarC
into active service. This petition which
is being signed by many of the prom
inent business men of the city will be
D presented to the governor tonight.
8 Il am in favor of ordering out tn,
= state troops and have always been il
e favor of it.
e Il prefer it to the posse. State troop
4 are disciplined, armed and equipped
and know how to use weapons On
. great difficulty with the posse is tha
n it is impossible to rapidly concentrat
i large force at any given point. I an
5 heartily in favor of the militia beini
f ordered out
e A special telegram from Jefferson
t City says:
q Adjutant General Bells Office force a
4 the state armory began making ever
2 preparation necessary for calling ou
{ of the militia
The application of John J. Mccain
# f. writ of mandamus commandin
n the ST. Louis Transit company to op
h crate it's cars according to the require
. ments of the various ordinances mad
q for their regulation was denied toda
: by Judge John A. Tally. The court
decision was based on an irregularit
in the pleadings and the merits of tn
u cause were not entered into in arrivin
L at the determination
SENT TO REFORM SCHOOL
q Annie Sweze, Anna Klasek and Mar,
e Tritina, three girls who on May 80, par
ticipated in the assault on Miss Paulin
Hensel, and tore her clothes off becaus
IT she had taken q ride on one of tn
= Transit company's cars, We're each sen
= teEced to two years Imprisonment in tn
it reform school by Judge Clark of tn
: court of criminal correction today.
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney John
al son has issued warrant for the arres
ze of a saloonkeeper named Schumache
Who on the day Miss Hensel was as
saulted, refused her refuge from tn
mob and pushed her out of the door {
his saloon. A number of other arrest
} in connection with this and the othe
ID similar cases have been made and a
l. are being vigorously prosecuted.
as Warrants have been issued for the al
N rest Of Thomas Reynolds, Albert Nicf
IS OILS. Frank Worth. George Hill, Jesep
q Elite and William Francis, chargin
to them with conspiracy to interfere wit
United States mails.