The Strike At Milwaukee

MlLWAUKEE, May 7. - Sixty cars wero running on the various lines of the street railvvay system Wednesday morning, and the railway managers expeoted to inorease the nuniber to eighty in the afternoon. The number of people who ride is conBtantly increasiag, and it looks as if the strike will be broken in a day or two. Both sides are as determinad as ever to win, and it is to be a fight to a finish. The pólice were summoned to a polnt on Russell avenue, near Bay View, where a barricade of stumps, logs and debris of all kinds has been erected across theetreet car tracks. Three cars were corralled between the barricada and the end of the line. A man giving the name of McCuno was arrested for plugging a switch. The wife of a striker threw her 2-year-old child in front of a moving car in order to block its progress and the little one was nearly run over before the green motorman oould 6top his car. &ice President Payne of the railway conipauy says the strike is over so far as the company is concerned. The worst disturbance since the outbreak of the street railway strike occurrod Wednesday noon at the corner of Third and Walnut streets. A large number of lirewery employés were out on the streot üuring tho noon hour. One of them Btopped a moving car and attempted to pull the motorman off the platform. The policemen on the car were powerless to resist the onslaught and a cali for assistance was sent into pólice headquarters. A squad was soon on the scène and a pitched battle ensued in which clubs were freely used. Six policemen were injured in the melee. Asthe latter clubbed right and left as thny dashed into the srowd they left a large number of soro heads in their wake. Nobody was dangerously hurt, however.