Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-03

carrying of arms by private citizens,
meaning nonunion street car employees.
The day brought forth no new reports
of rioting and violence. Rain fell dur
ing most of the afternoon and did what
the police have been unable to do-keep
crowds from collecting and molesting
cars. Eleven of the IA lines of the Big
| Consolidated Street railway were in
operation before seven o'clock. The
three lines on which cars were not start
ed were the Union, Burton and Clark
avenue routes.
big Force of Militia.
| H.A. AXline, adjutant general of state
troops, is in command of the military
here, and approXimates the force under
| him at 20 companies, aggregating near
| ly 1,20O men. Four hundred of them,
| Columbus Newark and Chillicothe, ar
rived Tuesday afternoon and were dis
tributed about the city at points where
it is judged most probable trouble will
occur, if any at all takes place. Mayor
| Farley said that he thought the force of
police and soldiers under Gen. AxIne
! sufficient to overawe any mobs which
might collect.
| lie refused to say whether or no he
pUrposed the disarmament of the nom
| union men now operating the street
cars and whose use of firearms is gem
orally commented upon as too promis-
| cuous." A state law exists which de-
! clares that defendant arrested for car
rying weapons, upon proving that he
| believed his life, liberty or property en-
! dangered while pursuing any lawful
act, shall be discharged. Several nom
union men, arrested on this charge,
! have been discharged under the act re-
! ferred to.
Ralph Hawley, the nonuiOn conduct
or who killed Henry Cornweit, a boy.
| appeared before "A magistrate charged
with murder in the second degree. Tie
| hearing was postponed and the defend
ant held without bail
Mayor Farley late Friday night is
| sued "A proclamation calling upon he
citizens to act calmly during the excite
ment of the strike and TO remain of1 the
street as much as possible.
Troops for south Brooklyn.
| Mayor Farley. Gen. AxIine. Police Di-
rector Barrett and Assistant Corpora
tion Counsel NJ. b. Excel held "a long
conference over the situation tuesday,.
| The result was that large guard of sol
diers was sent to South Brooklyn. where
the mayor believes the disturbing ele-
ment to be strongest.
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With the coming Of darkness small
riots. mostly in the foreign inhabited
mart of tbe ci1v made tbeir anna,-a,co
and conflicts in which pohod,. ,vo.. eori,
ousIv b,,rt took nIoce batwear tho col
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peariuo the snot The crowd borbarded
a pair of ears with stones and sneci-
mons of vegetation far from being
wholesome. The soldiers charged with
| fixed bayonets. and in a few minutes
the erstwhfle aggressive mob was con-
cealed in the alleys, by-streets and in
their rookerv-Ii<e houses. There were
a few incipent riots in South Broollyn
before MIDNIGHT. but the guards had
the situation well in hand.
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wrecked n Euclid avenue car. and aver
their determination to refrain from anv
unlawful acts. Friends of the strikers
are asked to withhold their natronaoa
from the Big Consolidated comDanv.
President Bryan. of the strikers ASSOC
ciation. TO whom some local paners
have credited utterances advocatipr
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