The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-26
RAIN QUELLS MOB.
Damp Weather More
Effective Than
the Police.
QUIET DAY IN CLEVELAND.
Large Force Of Troops Scat
tered Around the
City.
QUIET DAY IN CLEVELAND.

Cleveland, O., July 25.-strikers and
their friends held a meeting and va
rlous speakers protested against the
presence of troops and the carrying of
arms by private citizens. meaning non
union street car employees.
The day brought forth no new re-
ports of rioting and violence. Rain fell
during most of the afternoon, and did
what the police have been unable to do
kept crowds from collecting and mo-
Testing cars. Eeleven ofNhe IA lines of
the big Consolidated street railway
We're in operation before o'clock to-
day. On three lines no cars were start
ed.
ADJ. Gen. AXline is in command of
the military here, and estimates the
force under him at nearly 1900 men,
-Four hundred of them arrived this af-
ternoon, and were distributed about the
city at points where it is thought trou-
Die is most likely to occur. Mayor Far
ley said to the Associated Press that
he thought the force of police and SOL
diers under Gen. Axline sufficient to
oVerawe any mobs which might collect
A state law exists which declares
that a defendant arrested for CARRYING
weapons, upon proving that he believed
mis- life, liberty or property endangered
while pursuing any lawful act, shall be
discharged. Several non-union men
arrested on this charge have been dis
charged under the act referred to.
Mayor Farley Gen. Axline, Police Di-
rector Barrett and Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel Excel held a long con-
ference over the situation today. The
result was that a large guard of SOL
dlers was tonight sent to South Brook
Ign, where, the mayor believes, the dis
turbing element to be strongest.
The executive committee Of the strik-
ers, meeting today, issued a statement
denying any connection with recent
disturbances, including the nitro
glycerine explosion which on Sunday
wrecked Euclid avenue car, and av-
erring their determination to refrain
from any unlawful acts Friends Of
the strikers are asked to withhold their
patronage from the Big Consolidated
company
President Bryan, Of the strikers as
soclatlon, to whom some local papers
nave credited utterances advocating
anarchist1c tactics in prosecuting the
strike, today made a complete denial Of
the published statements.
Ralph Hawley, the non-union con-
ductor who yesterday killed Henry
Cornweit, a boy, appeared before a
magistrate charged with murder in the
second degree. The hearing was post
poned and the defendant held without
bail
Rt. Rev. Ignatus F. Horstmann,
Catholic bishop of the diocese of Cleve-
land, today issued an address that, it
is belleved, will result in subduing much
OF the violence which has made the mast
week an epoch in local history.
With the coming of darkness today's
small riots, mostly in the foreign part
or the CITY, and conflicts in which no.
pody was seriously hurt, took place. On
broadway the cars, laden with guards
and few passengers, Travelled in pairs
and at Clay nd Pearl streets a mob OF
about 200 men and boys, with sprink-
ing OF women, gathered, and when
tEey could elude the soldiers stoned the
cars and the crews.
Conflicts We're FREQUENT and a num-
Der of arrests were made. At ten
clock, as a detachment of militiamen
was nearing the spot, the crowd bonn
parded a pair of cars with stones and
other missiles. The soldiers charged
With fixed bayonets and the mob fled
Ihere was few incipient riots in
South Brooklyn before midnight, but
the guards had the situation well in
hand
Mayor Farley, late tonight, issued a
proclamation calling upon the citizens
70 act calmly during the excitement of
the strike and to remain off the streets
as much as possible
Anton Musil, mingling with a mob on
broadway, was chased into his saloon
by soldiers and received three bayo-
net wounds. Musil's wounds are said
to be not serious. Another riot was
started at the street car barn near Boil
ton and Quincy streets. about 10
Q CLOCK. FIFTEEN hundred men assem-
pied and INDUCED in the usual stone
Throwing. They We're dispersed and
TO of them arrested.