The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-05-11
STREET CAR MEN OUT
Attempts to Run Cars by Nom niOnD
lists Causes RiOting at St. Louis.
Disorders Take Place in Several
Different Parts of the City, in
Which Shots Are Fired
From RevOIVers.

st. Louis, May 9.-St. Louis walked
Tuesday morning. At 1880 a. m. the
union employees of the ST. Louis Tran
sit CO., which owns all but one line
of St. Louis electric roads (the Sub
urban railway, decided unanimously
to strike because of the company's
refusal to grant the agreement pre-
scented by the union several days ago.
The tie-up is complete on the transit
system. The company Monday post
ed a new scale of wages, effective
June 1, providing pay for conductors
and motOrmen of 20 cents per hour,
gripmen on cable division % cents an
hour, new men Is cents an hour for
the first six months and 20 cents af-
ter one year.
A crowd of over 5000 surrounded
a Suburban car at Sixth and Locust
streets at Q a. IN. and threatened bod
lily harm to the mOtOrman and con-
ductOr. After they had smashed every
window in the car the crew became
frightened, and, leaving the car, Join
ed the strikers. They were hoisted on
the shoulders of a dozen stalwart men
and carried for blocks, surrounded
by cheering throng.
\ Park avenue car was considerably
damaged at Eighteenth street and
Washington avenue. \ large crowd
Of men and boys was congregated
there, and as the car was within dis
lance they bombarded it with stones.
regardless os the fact that several
women were inside it. The crew on
the car stuck TO their posts, although
the stones flew thick around them.
The company, when it found the cars
could not be operated, ordered them
back to the sheds.
Vehicles of all sorts are pressed into
service by the citizens of the town in
getting TO and from business.
st. Louis, May 1O.-Chief of Police
Campbell Wednesday announced that
the police department and the street
railway lines had come to an agree
ment, whereby no attempts were to be
made to rIn cars Wednesday.
At 9:15 a. IN. a United States mail
car had been run to Baden. on North
y
crowd had gathered, but no violence
is reported.
In consequence of the determina-
ton not to attempt the running of
cars, it is not expected that many
disturbances viii occur during the
day.
TUESDAY night the Carpenters
union sustained the strikers, and re-
solved to fine its members $3.50 for
each offense if caught riding on the
cars run by non-union men.
ST. Lonis, May 1O.-The strike of
the street railway employees is becom-
ing quite serious. A dynamite cart
ridge exploded under a car on the
Meremac Highlands division of the
Suburban line with great force at
midnight. The force OF the explosion
splintered the truck, broke off a sec
ticn of one wheel and cracked the
axle. The car was occupied by a doz-
On worlimcn of the company. Sue
cecding she explosion a number of
shots were fired in quick succession,
but the persons who did the firing
were not seen owing to the darkness.
and nobody on the car was struck.
At Q o'clock as a Suburban car. en-
route to the company's sheds in the
western part Of the city, was passing
the Baptist sanitarium, number of
men gathered in the grounds of the
institution threw rocks at the car.
Some one on the car fired a shot into
the crowd, the bullet finding lodg-
ment in the breast of Frank Lebrecht.
The wounded man attempted to enter
the sanitarium. but fell dead on
reaching the door.
One story is that a police officer on
the car fired the shot Dan Donivan
was placed under arrest by the police,
charged with firing the fatal bullet.
Donivan is employed in a minor ca
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