Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-24
DEMOCRATIC SCHEME
Politicians Are Fomenting a Spirit
Of Anarchy Among the st.
Louis Strikers.
NO SETTLEMENT In SIGHT
A Movement By the Strikers to Defeat the
Worlds Fair Appropriation for St.
Louis If the Strike Is Not Set
tied.

Seventeenth day of the great strike in
augurated by the employees of the st.
Louis Transit Company, and settlement
seems farther away than ever. At a
mass meeting last night a resolution
was passed to the effect that all union
labor throughout the United States be
asked to instruct their representatives
to oppose the passage of the worlds fair
appropriation bill unless the St. Louis
Transit Company settles the strike sat
isfactorily to former employees
DEMOCRATIC MACHINATIONS.
st. Louis, May Ex-Governor Ste
phens, who held conference to-day
with the police commissioners, said: 81
am satisfied that the trouble along the
street car lines and the whole spirit of
anarchy which prevails SO largely in st.
Louis at present is being fomented by
the Vaccinations of a certain coterie of
Democratic politicians, who hope by
gains at the approaching party prima-
ries. These persons are responsible for
the many eff1gies Of myself and the po-
lice authorities dangling from the poles
and trolley lines. 1t is as result of
their movements that I have received
letters threatening my life. If, as gov
ernor of Missouri. with all the power
vested in that Office, can put an end
to the disgraceful-I may say abom-
inable-condition that prevails in st.
T Oh q OF ~ fhot
power"
ANOTHER RIOT.
St. Louis, May PA Cass avenue
car was stopped at the corner of Twen-
ty-third street and Cass avenue, in Or
der that barricade which had been
placed across the track might lie re-
moved. During the enforced halt big
crowd Of strikers and sympathizers at
tackled the car, firing number of shots. |
One Of the bullets struck Special Po-
riding on the front platform with the |
motorman, in the left arm, passing |
through the body and coming out on |
the right side. The policeman sank un-
conscious to the floor. The other pa
trOlmen who had been stationed at the
corner to protect the cars then charged |
on the crowd and beat them back The |
riot call was sent into the Ninth dis
trict station. and dozen mounted po- |
licemen came at full gallop to the !
stored order. McCrae was placed in an
but died en- route to the
hospital. McCrae was about go years OF |
age.
A THREE-YEAR-OL BOY SHOT.
Eddie Mann, a 3-year-old boy, was
shot through the leg this afternoon by
a man on a Cass avenue car. The little
boy was sitting on the front door step
of his home. when some small boys
who had been throwing stones at
alley south of the house. A man, who
is supposed to be an emergency police
man, leaned from a car and fired shot
at the fleeing boys. The shot struck lit
tie Mann in the right leg near the hip.
FATALLY INJURED.
r. B. Hodge, a conductor on the Tow
er Grove line, Is a patient at st. Johns
hospital, suffering from injuries which
it is feared will prove fatal. He was
assaulted by crowd of men on car
at the crossing of Salina street Tuesday
afternoon. One Of them hit Hodge on
the head with a club and others knock
ed him down and kicked him until he
became unconscious.
FEW PASSENGERS.
No new lines We're opened, but the
number of cars was increased on those
in operation. Few passengers rode ir
the cars. The cars will probably not
run at night until the strike is ended