The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-18
NORFOLK STRIKE
NOW ABOUT OVER /
But the Resumption Of Business
Only Partial.
sIRlKESYMPATHlzER SENT UP
Qlvea Two Years Ia Peniteatlary for Stop
pius Street cass-A Disbollcal Plet on
the Ocean View Line that Was Dan-
gerous but Not Disastrous.

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NORFOLK. VA. March 1.-THE quiet
prevailing here for several days continues
and there is little left Of the Nortolk
street car STRIKE except the boycott OF the
Central Labor Union, which still rests
upon the company's cars and which con-
tinues to cause them to be but thinly
pcoplcd by passengers.
Hardly half the usual number ride and
the company's loss by decreased travel Is
probably fairly estimated at $500 day.
Public sympathy for the strikers con-
1inues to ebb and many of the men realiz-
snx this, and being dissatisfied with the
IS q week allowed them by the labor
union are returning to work for the COM
rany. The company still refuses TO take
back the malcontents, but accepts most
OF tho old men who apply for reinstate-
menk
A DIABoLIcAL PLOT.
e developed to-day that a diabolical
Mot was concerted and carried Into exc
cution last night, when much glass IN
the car Of the mail train from Old Point
was broken It has been discovered the
rotlway peaple claim, that stone
weighing perhaps eighty pounds, was sus-
pended by wire alongside the track
and this, evidently done to kill the non
union motorman, missed him and wreck
I'd the glass
men and children passengers on the car
and most of these were cut by flying bits
OF glass. Some narrowly escaped be-
fne blinded and many bled profusely
when all the glasses, save one on one
side of the car, were demolished and filed
the car with flying glass, some Of It fine
rs powder.
THOUGHT TT DYNAMITE.
b. S. Lindsay, a Norfolk umbrella
manufacturer. was one Of the injured.
He expresses the belief that dynamite
was placed on the track and this, explod-
ing, caused the crash OF glass When
this news spread to-day. Norfolk was
shocked. and vengeance arose. should the
guilty be. apprehended The company.
it is stated. meant to put bloodhoundS
on the trail, but rain fell after the
occurrence and this made that expedient
useless
The soldiers all left yesterday and there
has since been no disorder In the city.
The troops before they left received
message from Governor Montague, con-
Eratulating them upon their behavior
curing the strike.
The first disorder reported tonight was
The firing of pistol bullet through the
window of a car passing through Hun
fcrsviile.
The person who fred the shot was un-
Eeen
Shortly afterward a shot, apparently
a mist OIL shot. was fired as a car turned
the corner of Main and CRANKY Streets;
that it struck anything was not apparent,
although the correspondent was WITHIN
a few feet of where the shooter seemed
to be.
Persons standing awaiting cars after
ward moved on afoot, evidently fearing
to ride in the cars. It is apparently the
purpose Of strike synpa thizers to intimt-
date those who would ride and the scheme
SENS to work as the cars are running
empty tonight
Ut was said afterward that pistol
was not fired, but that torpedo was
placed on the track This has not been
proved to be true.
sYMPATHIZER CONVICTED.
J. W. Jenkins, a strike sympathiZer,
was, this afternoon. by jury in the
Corporation Court, sentenced to serve
two years in the penitentiary. His coun-
sci made motion for a new trial, which
has yet to be argued.
jenkins, cripple, was one OF the mob
who. on one of the most riotous days of
the strike last week, INSTRUCTED street
cars on Church Street He was seen to
be carrying a. heavy board which ne
dropped on the track in front OF an ap-
r,roac ching car. He was arrested and was
sfterward sent on for trial and released
on bail. He set up in his defense that
he was carrying the board out OF the
woy and only dropped it because ham
pered by the crowd.
Section s525 Of the Virginia statutes,
under which he was tried ,prescribes
under which he was tried. prescr1bes
OF q steam railway and pleas were en-
tered that the street railway mad Ior-
seited its charter because it failed to run
.cara on the two first days Of the strike
These pleas were overruled by Judge
S1anckel. jenkins conviction has given
strike sympathizers shock. Several
euch arrested on similar charges are
Eet to be tried.
Jenkins received the lishtest sentence
the law prescribes for such otfense as
t,9e