The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-18

to put the handcuffs on him before he could be moved. He is locked up at police headquarters.
 The situation here is without prece- dent in the history of the city. To- morrow morning at 10 o'clock there. will be a law and order league meeting. composed of Sheriff Hawley,, the police commissioners, several ex-rnayors and about twenty prominent business men and Mayor Mulyihill. This meeting is called by the police commissioners at the request of Sheriff Hawley.
 In an interview tonight Superintend- ent Birmingham said that theslocal .po- lice force was not large enough to ham, dle the situation alone. He said: We have but forty-eight policemen and this is too great an emergency for such a small force. Some of the men have been on duty continuously for eighteen hours. The mob we had to deal with to-day is composed of the worst ele- ment in the city. In it there were men who would stop at nothing. We would have had less trouble to-day if had known cars were to be run on Barnum avenue. covered the Stratford ave- nue line with a part of the force that did duty last night and had fifteen men under orders to relieve them at 1:S0 o'clock. I was surprised when I heard. of the trouble on Barnum avenue and rushed the fifteen men to the assist ance of the men already there"
 Frank A. Wood, president of the strikers union, made the following statement: We deplore the violence. We hope there will be no more of it because it blasts our hopes of arbitra- ton. There were no union men con- cerned in the outbreak. The union was in session at a meeting when it oc- cured. Four of our men left the hall and went to Barnum avenue to irn- plore the crowd to refrain from disor- der" '
 General Manager sewell of the troll ley company did not care to make any comment on the situation, remarking that the facts carried their own com ment He said that the company would run cars when it received pro- lection. He will try tomorrow to re- sume operations on as many lines as possible. sts N ..,.
 At the present time five persons are at police headquarters. charged with throwing stones. Two of them are boys whose names could not be learn ed. Shortly after Kelley was arrested the police took in Andrew Fernando and William Bonnato.
 The action of Mayor Mulyihill during the disturbance on Barnum avenue is causing considerable comment; about the city tonight. The mayor insists that he was attempting to protect the sheriffs. He says that after calm thought by the people he feels sure there will be no further trouble. His opinion is not shared by the general public. r. .r
 The trolley company operates about thirty miles of tracks in suburban dis tricts and if any attempt is made to run cars after dark serious trouble in these districts is feared. .. .t..# ..ss7a
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 Whether or not the militia will be called out will be determined by future events but conservative business men believe that at the first sign of an- other disturbance such step will be absolutely necessary.
 Medical treatment has been given to the injured strike breakers at the car barns of the company. Although badly bruised and cut the condition of none of the men was esrious enough to war rant their removal to the hospital.
 Among the officers who participated