Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-24

operation tonight. This, he said, depended
on developments today.
Since last Saturday night no cars have
been operated after 8 D. m.
In defining it's position on the suggestion
to esttle the strike by mediation unofficial
OF the company said that under no com
sideration would the company entertain
such a plan.
W haYe heard tina Senator Penrose
will be asked to lend his rood offices to end
the strike" said this official. 'Tha fact
would never lead us to consider any inter-
ference or mediation from outside parties
In a dispute which Is not at all an issue
in which the public can be concerned. In
the language of George H. Earle, a direc-
tor of the company, 1t cannot be arbl-
trated."
The transit company gave official notice
today that, the city would be held respon-
sible for all losses sustained by 1t through
the wrecking OF its cars.
Mounted Police Follow Car.
The Frankfort line traverses part Of the
Kenslngton district'in the north, ard the
first car was started out at $3.50 a m.
When 1t left the barn at frankfort ave.
nue. and Bridge street it carried four po-
licemen, but no passengers,
When It turned from frankfort avenue
into Kensington avenue it was met by four
mounted policemen, who rode behind It
dong that highway, which has been the
scene of much disorder. At every twenty
feet along tina avenue stood a policeman
with a heavy riot club a yard long.
Both sides Of the street were well filled
with people. but the show of police force
had a q~uietlng effect,
A. ENRrAu-fotaptb and TonaozAA. a..-,,.
in West Philadelphia, about 0 o'clock two
cars, coupled together and carrying twelve
passengers an dtwo policemen, were fired
on by an unidentified man standing at the
curb. With the first shot the passengers.
four of whom were women, thrsw them
selves upon the floor of the conveyance.
The policemen gave chase, but the man
got away. -h5-e,
Major Thurber J. Brasier. commander OF
the State Fenclbles, the military command
with which a big holiday crowd had sport
in Kensington late yesterday afternoon,
made the following statement:
IF any one Of our men had fired into
that crowd yesterday, he would have been
annihilated. The men, a mere. handful,
were stationed ten feet apart. What could
they hope to do against a disorderly
crowd OF 1O.O0O2'
Governor Stuart, who spent Washing
toms birthday in this city, left for Har-
risburg at 10 Q. m. He said that he had
not received a call from the mayor for
state troops.
Boys Organize Attacks.
That the attacks on the trolley cars in
the northeastern section were ir a number
of cases planned by gangs of boys is shown
by the ante-mortem statement made last
ufCbt kNr M - A., z..4h -
Most Of the boys are participating in the
trouble through pure mlschievousness.
They are having the time of their lives
and superintendent n Police John B. Tay-
Tor has issued an official warning to par
ents.
More than 1000 persons have been ar
rested for rioting and s,ecO have been in
dicted.
The stock Of window glass in the city
suitable for car windows has been ex,
hausted, the company announced today,
and no more broken windows can be re-
placed until more glass is secured. More
than 1000 windows we're broken yesterday,
running the total for the four days of the
strike to well over 5000.
Third Death From Wounds.
The third death as a result Of a conflict
between the police and strike sympathiz-
ers occurred today when John Hough, 10
years old, died in the Samaritan hospital.
A policeman who was protecting a motor.
man saw boys throwing stones at the car.
The policeman opened fire on them and
one bullet struck Hough In the neck.
Hough is the boy who in an ante-mortem
statement to the coroner said he was a
member Of an organized gang of $50 carpet
mill employees who had agreed to assemble
and attack cars.
Riots On Main streets.
Market street, the principal business thor.
%oughfare in the heart OF the city, was the
scene Of disturbances during the entire day
yesterday. Cars were stoned and two Do.
ncefnen were roughly handled by a mob Of
several thousand persons. A dozen arrests
we're made and the prisoners placed in a
trolley car, This was stormed by the mob
and two of the prisoners escaped.