New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-26
CHICAGO ALMOST QUIET,
Shea Escapes JGiI-LittIe Rioting
as Strike Spreads.

Chicago. May 25.-Cornelius P. Shea, presi-
dent of the International Transfers Union.
was upheld to-day by Judge Kohlsaat, of the
federal court, in his refusal to answer ques-
tons before Master in Chancery Sherman.
which might tend TO incriminate him. Shea is
now under indictment in the Criminal Court,
and Judge Kohlsaat declared that answers to
some of the questions put to him might preju-
dice the hearing Of his
In the same decision which excused Shea the
court ruled that Bernard Mulligan, president
of the Express Drivers Union, and John Don
ohue, a member Of the same union, had refused
to answer questions which could not in any
way connect them with any criminal proceed
ings, and they were, therefore, in contempt Of
court He sentenced both men to Jail, but al
lowed them to remain in nominal custody in
the hands of United States Marshal Ames for
five days in order that their attorneys may per-
feet review on habeas corpus proceedings
before another federal judge. The men will
be held in hotel for the five days. in charge
of two deputy marshals-
The strike did not spread to any great extent
to-day, and there little disorder. A number
of lumber firms made few deliveries but did
not attempt anything like their normal amount
of business. For the first time since the COM
mencement OF the strike large number of coal
wagons handled by colored teamsters passed
through tho downtown streets without police
protection. None OF them were molested in any
way The large State-st. stores also made de-
| liveries, going into the outskirts of the
| city without guards, and no trouble was expe-
! rienced.
Mayor Dunno and Chief OF Police O'Neiu did
not meet to-day with the response expected
when they called yesterday for one thousand
volunteers for additional policemen. Not over
one hundred men responded and only seventy
| five OF these proved acceptable. In the lumber
yards several concerns. when police protection
was afforded, refused to accept it, saying that
| it was not possible for them to make deliveries
unless their wagons were guarded by soldiers.
Chief of Police ONeill replied that he would not
walt for soldiers If they desired, but that he
would cause their yards and the territory around
! them to be patrolled by policemen.
! There is tonight no apparent prospect in any
! direction of a settlement of the strike The ex-
press companies refuse to recede in the slightest
degree from their declaration that none of their
former men will be re-employed. and move
| looking toward a settlement has been started IN
any other direction.
Not the least sensational of the days de-
velopments the re-entry of the Union
Traction Company phase Of the situation De-
mands for increased wages and other requests
made by employees TO the receivers of the big
street railway system to-day brought the COM
pany again to the verge of a strike. Delivery
| of so-caled unfair coal to the traction COM
pany's power plants has heretofore caused Sc
riouS apprehension but, pending the making Of
a new agreement with the company, leaders Of
the strectcar mems union ordered hremen to
handle the coal. Now the crystallized de-
mems pay from 26 to 80 cents hour; in
crease of conductors pay from % TO "a cents
an hour, and reduction of the probationary
period from six months to three months