The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-03
Police Of the Ohio City Believe
They Have Made an Arrest
Which May Lead to Developments in the
Attempts to Blow Up Cars.
A Striking Conductor Taken Into
Custody and Detained on the
Charge of Being a Suspicious
Person Who is Thought to Have
Some knowledge Of the Out
rage.

rage.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 2.-The police
believe they made an arrest which may
lead to important developments in con-
| nection with the several attempts TO
blow up Big Consolidated 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 a suspi-
| cious person, and has since been de-
tanned at the Central Station, where
he was subjected to rigid examina
ton by the detectives.
Several days ago we'll digger named
Stokes, living at Nottingham, a SUI
burb, told the police that a street rail-
road man had tried to purchase dyna-
mite from him. The report was in
vesigated, and the arrest of Schoen-
| thai followed. The prisoner admits
that he is the man who approached
Stokes, but he says he made the in
quiry at the instance Of another man
whose name he does not know He
says he was approached by the stran-
ger, who asked him if he knew where
ten pounds of dynamite could be pur-
chased. The prisoner told the stran-
ger that he knew a man in Noting
ham who used dynamite, and he might
have some to selL Thereupon he went
to Nottingham, saw Stokes, but failed
to get the explosive. He reported his
failure to the stranger, according to
his story, and that was the end of the
matter
The police will not say what they
think of the story, but they declare
they are not yet through with the in
vestigation, and they look upon the
arrest as an important one. Schoenthal
had been employed by the company
about four years before the strike be-
gan.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 2-There WIS
practically no change in the strike sit
uation here to-day. President Everett
of the Big Consolidated declares that
his company has about all the men re-
quired and that the service now main
tanned 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 reinstate-
have already been put to work.
The strike leaders, on the other
hand, insist that not a single deser-
ton has occurred and that their ranks
remain unbroken.
Officials 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. AS matter of fact, how
ever, the cars, aside from those on the
Euclid and Cedar-avenue lines. con-
tinue to run almost empty.
The spoilers sent out by the strik-
ers are scattered everywhere. They
board the cars, if there happen to be
any passengers, and endeavor to learn
their names. Failing in this, the pas
sengers are followed to their homes or
place of business and, as a result, in
lEost cases their names go down on
the list
Many merchants who are taking part
in the boycott have changed their tao
tics on account of threats of prosecu-
ton and simply place a prohibitive
price on their goods to boycotted per-
sons.
The militia is being gradually with
drawn at the rate of two or three COM
panies each day.
The strike has practically been lost
sight of in the public excitement over
the boycott. Everybody is talking
about IL and the newspapers publish
many stories illustrating the methods
that are being resorted to. in the effort
to prevent people from riding on the
cars of the Big Consolidated. People
of all classes and in all occupations
and walks of life are being affected
more or less and business is suffering
greatly in consequence
Apparently the officials Of the COM
pany are not worrying over the situa-
ton, but the strikers are jubilant, de-
claring that they will yet win the fight
and force the company to come to
terms
Major J. r. McQuigg was to-day APP
pointed acting Judge Advocate by Adj
jutant General Axline, commanding the
Ohio National Guard troops on strike
duty here. 1t is understood that the
acting Judge Advocate will look up the
legal phase of the boycott so far as it
relates to the soldiers.
General Axline said to-day that pro-
prietors of stores who refused to sell
goods to either soldiers or civilians
could be punished under the law He
added that reports We're constantly be-
ing received at headquarters in the
City Hall showing that many store
keepers throughout the city are so re-
fusing to sell their goods to the troops.
To a representative of the Associat-
ed Press Business Agent Pratt of the
striking Street Garments Union said
that the boycott had practically passed
out of their hands.
1.-The people themselves have taken
it up, and where the movement will
end no one can tell"
Speaking of threatened prosecution,
Mr.. Pratt said:
'Why don't they prosecute some of
the corporations who place men on
their blacklist and follow them up all
over the country in order to keep them
out of employment, some times for
years? This boycott is undoubtedly a
great hardship to many thousands of
people 1t is, however. the only re-
manning weapon with which to fight a
powerful corporation like the Big Con-
solidated Should we lose, it would
have a demoralizing effect upon or