The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-15

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flcials are concerned, it is not thought
that they will be enforced by the league
directors.
THAT OLD BOMB RACKET
Sheriff at Cleveland Grows Excited Over a
Suspicious Find.
Cleveland, O., July 14-Berea has a
deep and rather startling mystery in
connection with the quarrymen's strike.
1t is thought by some of the sheriff s
force that several persons are engaged
in the manufacture of bombs. for what
purpose they do not know. Another
feature of the situation in which much
interest is conferred, is the meeting of the
state board of arbitration.
The following special dispatch from
Berea was received last night:
1.-THE most important topic discussed
on the streets today, was III regard TO
the probable outcome of the hearing be-
fore the state board Of arbitration on
Tuesday. This heafIss was asked for
by the Berea Quarrypnanfs Union alone,
and consequently whatever action, IL
any. is taken by the board. will not be
binding on either party. Had the APP
plicati been Joined in by the Cleve-
land Stone company, then whatever ac-
ton the board took would be final and
binding on both the company and the
union alike. In the latter case should
work be commenced, and either the
union or the company not abide by the
decision of the board of arbitration for
a certain length of time fixed by law,
the party violating in any way the pro-
visions Of the decision, is rendered liza
bic TO an action in law. Just what eff
feet the hearing before the board on
Tuesday will have on the settlement of
the strike cannot be foretold.
The officials of the Cleveland Stone
company claim they have made the very
best offer they are able to make, and
successfully run the quarries. General
Superintendent Nichols said that the
company was willing and anxious TO
take the old employees back, and would
do so in preference TO bringing in out
side labor, and that they would exhaust
every honorable means to get their old
men to resume work before any such
course would be taken. The officials of
the company claim they have nothing
to arbitrate. They are willing to eff
feet a settlement on reasonable basis,
but are still as determined as ever not
to recognize the union To do this they
say would mean the discharge in Berea
alone of nearly 200 faithful men, many
of whom have worked for them since
boyhood. They are willing, they say,
to hire union and non-union men alike
and on the same terms. but they are
decidedly unwilling to surrender the
management of their own business into
other hands.
The general talk among the better
class of union men today is that they
hope some AMIGA bic settlement will soon
be made. They say the best part of the
year is rapidly passing, and fall will
soon be here when rains and bad wealth
er interfere with the work, and much
lost time is the result. All the men
talked with, however, seemed determin-
ed to fight it out with the company, and,
much as they wanted to go 10 work, they
said they were more than ever resolved
to compel the company to recognize the
union. All the union men seen today
were very much put out about the re-
cent assaults on non-union men and the
destruction of their property. They said
they were fully as anxious as the au-
thorities TO apprehend and punish the
offenders, whose work they characterize
Meanwhile, the war goes on, and the
thoughtful taxpayer begins to look SOL
ernn and ratch his head. He has fig
ured out that UP to Sunday night the
workmen were out about S25, 900 in wages
and 1t has cost the taxpayers upwards
OF $1,000 to preserve the peace in Berea
since June 80. A union man said yes
terday that he supposed the Cleveland
Stone company paid the expenses of the
deputies and the militia here. He was
much surprised when told that every
house and lot, and every foot of land,
his own included, in Cuyahoga county.
as we'll as in the state. would be taxed
to toto the bill.
Deputy Sheriff V. r. Gray told the
Leader representative today of a pecu-
liar incident which occurred one night
last week, when Sheriff Leek, Officer
Webb Miller and himself were hurriedly
summoned to quarry No. at midnight
by the deputies there. who said they had
been fired at from bank above.
Mr.. Gray said: AS we Were search
ing for the men who fired on our deou-
ties, about O'Clock, We came to a house
not great way from quarry No. Z. We
could see faint light il one oftherooms
through the curtains. Cautiously ap-
preaching the house we were surprised
10 hear a sound as IL some one was
pounding on metal The sheriff deciied
to enter and we did so. On the floor We
found three or four men seated about |
what appeared to be a small. fiat iron
anvil. One man was German and the
others appeared TO be Hungarians. One
or the men had what appeared 10 be a
short piece of iron pointed at the end,
which he had evidently been pounding
with hammer. We were so intent II
that time in catching the parties who |
did the shootingthat We paid little atten- |
ton TO anything else. and, after ques- |
ton the men about the shooting, OF !
which they denied all knowledge, We I
left
Sheriff Leek corrohoratei all Mr.
Gray said He also said he had since |
been much puzzled 20 know Just what |
those men were doing at that hour OF I
the night- TSlis question has been lent |
additional interest from the fact that 1
the sheriff has information from an /
undoubted source that there is now a /
man living here who was formerly in 1
the German army. This man told a \
prominent business man here some time
ago that while n the army ne was en-
pioyed in manufacturing bombs and ex-
pfosives OF all kinds. What Sheriff /
L-eek would like 20 know < whether this
nan was az his old trade on that coca |
sion. The sheriff says tie man Will be /
The sheriff said today that ne had re- /
1uested a detail OF militia sent 20 fac
.ory No. last night. Colonel KEENAN, /
sent the detail from Company D. Cap i