Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-02

TEMPT Made To PREV EN- A
PHYSICIAN ATTENDING THE
CHILD OF A BOYCOTTED MAN
A SICK MAN REFUSED MEDI-
CINE AT TWO DRUG STORES
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER
CARS COLLIDE.
CLEVELAND, O., August 1.-The
strike has practically been lost sight of
in the popular excitement over the boy
| colt. Everybody is talking about it,
and the newspapers publish many sto-
ries illustrative of the methods that are
| being resorted to in the effort to pre-
vent people from riding on the cars of
the Big Consolidated. People in all
classes and all occupations and walks
of life are being affected more or less,
and business is suffering greatly in con-
sequence.
The Street Railway Company contin-
ues to operate its cars on all lines, but
| many of them are run over the road
empty, while on the other hand the
cars of the Little Consolidated and the
union buses are crowded to their ut
most capacity. Apparently the officials
Of the company are not worrying over
the situation, but the strikers are jubi-
liant, declaring that they will yet win
the fight and force the company TO
come to terms.
Late last night some unknown per-
sons pushed an electric freight car
! loaded with ties from switch on May
field Heights, just east of the city, onto
the main track and down the long,
way down the incline it eollided with
an up-bound car with terrific force.
Both cars were badly wrecked. Two
passengers were on the up-bound car.
Strange to say neither they nor the
crew were injured beyond severe
shaking up.
The cars running down town on the
Euclid and Cedar avenue lines were
fairly we'll filled this morning. On
the other twelve lines in the Big Con-
solidated system, however, they were
comparatively empty at an hour when
they are usually crowded.
The boycott movement has spread
so rapidly that it has now reached the
u VIII Ill lo rt-
ment stores. In many cases the pro-
prietors of these establishments are
requesting their employees not to ride on
the Big Consolidated cars. In some in
stances, however, the merchants have
fatty refused to take part in the boy
colt and declare they will have moth
ing to do with it no matter what the
result.
Adjutant General Axline said tonight
that he had found a way to smash the
boycott, so far as it affected the troops.
Every day since the soldiers arrived
they have been subjected to petty an
noyances, because of the refusal of mer-
chants to sell them necessary supplies.
Gen. Axline pointed out the other day
that these merchants could be prose-
requires all keepers of inns, restau-
rants and places of public amusement
and accommodation to serve all people
alike. Tonight Gen. Axline declared
that If any more complaints of dis
elimination against soldiers came to
him he would appoint a Judge advo-
cate general to proceed against the mer-
chants and thus seek to bring them to
time.
The result was to be a disposition
to stir up trouble among the employees
of the Little Consolidated Company.
More than half of them have been
initiated into the union of the Big
Consolidated former employees and a
dispatch has been sent to Senator NJ.
A. Hanna, who is in France, asking
him if he, as president of the Little
Consolidated Company, will recognize
the union. No answer has yet been
received to the cablegram
A prominent physician to-nigh gave
an incident of how the boycott is being
enforced. He says he was called to
see a little girl who was dying. He
was met by two men, who told him
he had better not attend the child, as
its father was ..5cab." He replied
that they ought to serve notice of the
boycott on the Almighty and inform
Him that they would not go to heaven
for the child would be there in a short
time
Last night a man was refused medi-
clint at two drug stores. even though
he was in a critical condition, simply
because he had ridden on a Big Con-
solidated ear. The man who was boy
coted says that one of the druggists
who refused him medicine was recent
ly saved by him from prosecution for
damages for selling poison to be used
for a criminal purpose, and that he af-
forwards endorsed the druggists notes