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Rock Island Argus
Rock Island, Rock Island County County, Illinois
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In Waterbury, CT, the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company obtains a temporary injunction against trolley men's union and allies amid a strike since Jan. 11, prohibiting boycotts, interference, intimidation, and violence. The company alleges assaults on employees and a policeman's murder, seeking $20,000 damages. Investigation into Policeman Paul Mendelsohn's death yields nothing; $10,000 rewards offered.
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Traction Company in Connecticut Tries the Value Thereof.
Waterbury, March 16.—An important move in relation to trolley men's strike, which has been in progress since Jan. 11, was taken Saturday when papers were issued in a temporary injunction granted by Judge Elmer, of the superior court, on application of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting company, restraining the trolley men's union and most, if not all, of the unions in this city from acts calculated to interfere with the company's business or its employes. The injunction, which is sweeping in its nature, enjoins the strikers and their sympathizers from boycotting the plaintiff or its employes, or any other corporations or persons; from in any way impeding the business of the railroad company, and from acts of intimidation and violence, under a penalty of $10,000 fine.
In the complaint of the company attached to the writ an attachment to the amount of $25,000 is ordered placed on the property of the defendants. The complaint declares that men in the plaintiff's employ were abused, and assaulted with clubs and revolvers, and that some persons in sympathy with or connected with the defendants have murdered or caused to be murdered a policeman. The complaint asks damages in the sum of $20,000.
After examining a number of witnesses Deputy Coroner Pond last night brought to a close for the present his investigation of the death of Policeman Paul Mendelsohn, who was killed while acting as a guard on a trolley car at Forest Park a week ago. The investigation developed nothing. Rewards aggregating nearly $10,000 are offered for the detection of the murderers.
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Waterbury, Connecticut; Forest Park
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March 16; Strike Since Jan. 11
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Connecticut Railway and Lighting company secures temporary injunction against trolley men's union and other unions in Waterbury to prevent interference, boycotts, intimidation, and violence during ongoing strike. Company alleges assaults on employees and murder of policeman, seeks $20,000 damages and $25,000 attachment. Investigation into Policeman Paul Mendelsohn's death at Forest Park concludes without results; $10,000 rewards for murderers.