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Show RIOT IN NEW ORLEANS. STREET CAR STRIKE ASSUMES ALARMING PROPORTIONS. The Mnenr nf the City Hwa Decided to Ap-nl Ap-nl to the Governor for Aid In Hup--, prraalnc Violence In Connection Connec-tion Willi Strike. Mayor Capdevllle, of New Orleans, after consultation -with the public coni-mlttce, coni-mlttce, has decided to call upon the governor for troops to suppress anticipated antici-pated violence In conneotlon with the streetcar strike there. The railway company tried to obey the orders of the mayor, to run pns-senger pns-senger cars Tuesday morning; but, with almost the entire force of city police concentrated at tha scene of action, ac-tion, the four cars started got no farther farth-er than Ave squares from tha Cans street barn, and the attempt wus abandoned for the day. In a disturbance thereacarwas held up, F. A. Schwenck of Chicago, a nonunion non-union conductor, waa hit on the head with a brick and badly hurt, and he and three others were bodily .taken possession of by the strikers, Two were kept prisoners at the union headquarters head-quarters all afternoon, carefully guarded. guard-ed. A fifth non-union man. who had been un Inspector for the company, became be-came frightened, and when his sweetheart sweet-heart clung to his neck aud dragged him from the car he wus greeted with cheers by the strikers. Ono policeman was hit on tha foot by a brick and another of the nonunion non-union men who is a prlsonor wus roughly handled, but not badly hurt. The cars were badly damaged by bricks and atones. |