Show HAGEn WITH NAKED BLADES Soldiers Go Alter a Crowd of Strikers i the Streets of Brooklyn PRISONERS ABE RELEASED RAILWAY COMJTAXIES REFUSE TO COMPROMISE hn Abu Who Was Shot in the 5 Tntv Is Dead Thomns ICivrixcy Who Threw RrlcUN Is Badly r AVonndcd Otlier Men Tabbed with I j Bayonets by the Soldiers Lively Time with a 3Iob AVho Smashed Car IVInrtoTis Soldiers Met yy Volleys of Stones and Other Mis nilcs Brooklyn Jan 2 There is a greater public confidence in tlhe maintenance of public order today than on any day fince the strike commenced The city Ss about free from the vague terrorism of nameless deeds by mobs Jiich kept ithe public mind at Uiigli tension and served to increase the danger of ser ous collisions and outbreaks The mere rowdyism rwihieh is looking for trouble and wants to destroy property from wantonness has been pretty well suppressed I Ihas bee demonstrated to those characters that the militia will shoot to kill If necessary to suppress sup-press lawlessness Another abortive attempt was anaQw on toeQialf of the strikers t induce the trolley officials to submit to anbltra I fcixm The proposition wfliich twas sub fitted to President Norton of the Attic 1 At-tic Avenue company was flatly reused re-used by him I Men Will Lose The refusal indicates that the companies com-panies feel no abatement of confidence that tihey will lin The success with which tihe Atlantic Avenue company Oias met in Its efforts TO operate lines I undoubtedly a its influenza on President Presi-dent Morton in tfliis matter That < the I strikers made the overture alter being several times repulsed in the same i Quarter may be regarded a flndicating r that they ihave lost some confidence Rnd are anxious for peace Indeed i II I is alleged that for three days the I highest Shope Jhae been that they might I I Ibe able to extort from the companies 1 i the concession that those who ran t < one their cars ten days ago should 1 be reinstated and hat the new hands brought here to take their places ° oe diitharged When i was found tat the linemen were wt work a usual repairing the damage during the night Master Workman Work-man Connelly denied thait he thad ordered the men to strike Later in the day after ithe episode at Odd Fellows Fel-lows hal he declared again that < the linemen were on a strike and would all be out by morning There was no indicatJon of the linemen quitting work They are under contracts with the companies com-panies for from thirty o ninety days In isolated cases crews have refused to take orders to repair wires which have been cut by the strikers friends As a class however they remain loyal > their employers The fact that the Thirteenth regiment was this evening retired from active duty is believed 1 be indicative of the lginnrng of the end The evening p fa kind without sensational incident of Prisoners Released Before the time arrived when General IMcLeer was to make an answer tote to-te habeas corpus proceedings for the release of 300 strikers imprisoned in Odd Fellow hall in the suprems curt before Judge Gaynor the men had been released They were driven Into Odd Fellows hal during a charge this morning Ten the trouble was over the men demanded their release but the floors of the building were kept locked and the < men were kept in confinement > rjL ° veral hours The release of the strikers rendered the writ inoperative When the case was called at 4 oclock a statement was read on be ihalf of General McLeer in hic a lienial was made of the allegation that he locked up ithe 300 men or had ordered or-dered that they be locked up Further Fur-ther it was sd on learning of the imprisonment of the men he had ordered or-dered their immediate release which order had been complied with and that the men had thereupon departed 1 their several homes Upon this explanation ex-planation Judge Ga nor dismissed the proceedings Jacob Quinlan aged 25 was lo kIp k-Ip for throwing1 lumps of coal at Private vate W Cole of company I Thirteenth duty Thir-teenth regiment who was on fpicket John Alms Died hn Alms the New York man who was shjt in the jaw by the mif ia at Hay street last night died at St Marys hospital today John Meane was arrested this afternoon after-noon for pointing a revolver from his I window at Corporal Pac of the I thirteenth regiment I L As a company of the Twentythird fregiment was escorting a Hicks street I car Tnomas Karney Is said to have thrwn a number of bricks at it from a re If some of the soldiers being hit One of them took deliberate aim and that Kai ey in the side The man a Seriously injured that the chanc of his recovery are slight The foeli s in the neighborhood is cry bal gainst tho railroad In a state = > the said ront tr coroner Karney sdI sd-I was at work on the house at the cnner of Hicks and Harrison streets t a man named OXeill I was on > 3 cornice and saw the soldiers on Hicks street belnw me Some of them yelled at me Get back I started to go ark in fad I started to run back and I heard gun shots and I was hIt In the hip I had not thrown anything any-thing from the roof at the soldiers nor did any one who was working in the middle of the roof We had been work Ins on this roof since morning Soldiers Bloodthirsty At 6 oclock this evening a Gates avenue car collided wit a ai of the DeKalk avenue line At 7 oclock tonight to-night Corporal Doyle of company H Seventh regiment while on duty at the regment Knickerbocker avenue station of the I non Avenue Elevated road told a crowd on the stairs to move on The O zP refused Dole struck one man on the shoulder with his clubmusket sash lug the musket and knocking the man down Healso jabbed his bayonet into another man deep enough to draw blood 1 Both men were taken away by thdr friends Fifty nine cars In all have been run out > of the East New York depot today H 6 oclock this evening as the cars began to come in they er held in che depot for the night Quiet pre ailed at Ridgewood at 7 oclock Vhls evening The cars had at that time topped running The militia was then withdrawn from the streets in the 1m medIate vicinity of the stables hay lug been relieved by 0 detadhment of police he majority of the men are leeping in the car shed tonight Supt HarrIs of the Suburban railroad road at Sunnier avenue and Bergen treet was arrested by Lieut Clayton and McLeod of Company F Seventh regiment this afternoon for persisting ir moving cars in which the members of the regiment were sleeping The regment soldiers say that Mr Harris for the I last l feV days Bias amused himself by ordering the movement of the cars 5n 1 which they have been sleeping compelling com-pelling them t seek new quarters He was told to change his tactics < but at 205 he ordered the men to leave one of the cars When they refused he turned on the power and tie to move it out o the depot He was then arrested ar-rested and taken before the colonel Breeze with n Molt About 7 oclock this evening mem bers of the First regiment had a breeze with a mob of 150 men who had mashed the windows of cars of the Ralph avenue line at Ralph avenue and Sumpter street Colonel Green of the Seventyfirst hearing the rumpus telephoned tele-phoned to Captain Kack who was stationed near the disturbed district 1 and the latter with 20 men hurried to the scene and jabbed and butted the crowd away so the cars resumed their trip accompanied < by the troops At Ridgewcod at S oclock this even ing William Wendling P J Matekey J Martin and Fred Kreig special policemen police-men walked into the Bushwick avenue car stables and surrendering their shled refused to work any longer From early morning until ipast noon here was more excitement in the vicinity of Third avenue and the railroad road depot than there has been since the strike commenced Tha barns at Third avenue and Fiftyeighth street presented a busy scene nit 11 oclock when Court at 1 Q Curt street and a Halsey street stet car reached the depot filled with fifty nonunion len who were at once lodged in the depot Each corner on the east side nf fh avenue was thronged by the strikers and their sympathizers while in front of the stables were drawn up 100 m n of the Twent third regiment under aptain Thorne The strikers contented themselves with hooting and jeering the militia rout committed no act which whih varrante their dispersion Some hours previous to the running of the first car the repair wagon of the repr wagn Brooklyn Heights company went down Third avenue to clear the track be tween FDrtyfirst and Fiftysecond streets The toct between these two streets was filled with bricks stones lumber and trunks of tees which had been cut in the vicinity 5 as to render the running f cars a impossibility The repair wagon was manned by twelve men and escorted by troop A Volleys of Mone When they reached the Pequod club the strikers headquarters at Fiftyfifth street some three hundred men who had assembled there jeered and denounced de-nounced the escort and hurled several volleys of stones at the men who were removing the obstacles Lieutenant Bagley who was in charge of the troops called on them to disperse The strikers replied by another avalanche of stones Lieutenant Bag ley then ordered Ctils men to charge and strike the rioters with the flat of their sabres On this being don the strikers ran away When the rail way employees finished their work the strikers reassembled nerd followed up the escort and renewed the stone throwing when the cavalry again charged them with naked blades Some of the strikers received swore thrusts but managed to escape No further disturbance occurred durine the day At the strikers headquarters the men were still confident and said that if it took SOO men to run one car the company would not continue long They also averred tit < the number of scabs secured for employment was fa below the number required |