Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-03

CLEVELAND, O., August 2.-The
police believe they have made an ar
rest which may lead to important de-
yelopments in connection with the sew
eral attempts to blow up Big Consoll-
dated cars since the beginning OF the
present strike.
This forenoon John Schoenthal, a
striking conductor, was taken into GUS
tody ON the charge of being suspl-
clous person, and has since been de-
tanned at the Central station, where
he was subjected to a rigid examina-
ton by the detectives.
Several days ago well digger
named Stokes, living at Nottingham,
suburb, told the police that street
railroad man had tried to purchase
dynamite from him.
The report was investigated, and the
arrest of Schoenthal followed. The
prisoner admits that he is the man
who approached Stokes, but he says he
made the inquiry at the request OF
another man, whose name he does
not know He says he was approached
by the stranger, who asked him il he
knew where ten pounds of dynamite
could be purchased. The prisoner told
the stranger that he know a man in
Nottingham who used dynamite, and
he might have some to sell. Thereupon
he went to Nottingham, saw Stokes,
and he failed to get the explosive.
He reported his failure to the stranger,
according to the story, and that was
the end of the matter.
think of the story, but they declare
they are not yet through with the in
vestigation, and they look upon the ar
rest as an important one. Schoenthal
had been employed by the company
four years before the strike began.
Good lawyers say the boycotters may
be proceeded against under the Ohio
antitrust law. which covers conspir-
acies of all kinds in restraint of trade.
One lawyer who has examined the law
says that merchants who refuse to sell
goods to boycotted persons, as well as
those who assist in placing the boycott
upon them, aiding or abettfng it in any
way, can be convicted of conspiracy,
without proof of the existence of con-
spiracy. The penalty provided is a
fine of from $50 to $4,000 and impris-
onment of from six months to one
year, and each day that the conspiracy
continues constitutes a separate Of
fense This law was passed at the last
session of the legislature, but the au-
thors of it intended that it should APP
ply only to trusts.
There was practically no change in
the strike situation to-day. President
Everett, of the Big Consolidated. de-
clares that his company has about all
the men required and that the service
now maintained on the various lines
of the system is equal to that which
was in force prior to the strike.
Mr.. Everett states that he is receiving
applications from some of the strikers
for reinstatement and that a number
of union men have already been put to
work
He was asked if he would receive a
committee of the strikers should one
call upon him.
1.-THE company has always said,' re-
piled the Big Consolidated President,
that it is willing to receive a commit
tee of it's employees, but the strikers
are no longer in the employ of the
company"
The strike leaders, on the other hand, in
sist that not single desertion has oc-
Cured and that their ranks remain I'M
broken.
There is no indication so far Of any check
in the boycott movement, although the Of
ficials Of the Big Consolidated say there
was a marked increase in the number of
passengers carried down town on their
east end lines this morning. At matter
Of fact, however, the cars. aside from the
Euclid and Cedar avenue lines, continue
to run almost empty.
The spoilers sent out by the strikers
are in evidence everywhere along the Big
Consolidated lines. They board the cars II
there happens TO be any passengers. and
endeavor to learn their names. Failing in
this the passengers are followed 10 their
homes or place Of business. and as a result
in most cases go down on the "ist''
Many merchant who are taking part In
the boycott have changed their tactics on
account of threats OF prosecution and sim
ply place a prohibitive price on their goods
TO boyeotted persons
The militia is being gradually Withdrawn
at the rate of two or three companies
each day.
Major j. s McQuigg was to-day appoints
ed acting Judge Advocate BY AdJutant
General Axiine commanding the Ohio Ma
;ional Guard troops on strike duty here.
1t Is understood that the a-ing Judge Ad-
vocate vii lat once take up the legal phase
of the boycott so far as 1t relates to the
soldiers Gen Axlire said to-day that pro-
pr1etors of stores who refused 10 sell goods
to either soldiers or civilians could un-
doubtedly be punished under the law He
added that reports were constantly being
received at his headquarters In the city
hail showing that many storekeepers