The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-26
Proves More Effective In Cleveland
Than Policemen's Clubs.
THE MILITIA In CONTROL
FEW LITTLE DISTURBANCES,
BUT NOBODY BADLY HURT.
Adjutant General Has Force of 1900
Men Distributed About the City
and They Disperse All Gatherings
of Strikers and Their Sympathiz-
ers-Many Arrests Made.

Cleveland, July 25.-Strikers and their
friends tonight held a meeting and va
rio1s speakers protested against the
presence of troops and the carrying of
arms by the non-union streetcar en-
ployees. a state law exists which de-
clares that a defendant arrested for
carrying weapons, upon proving that he
believed his life, liberty or property
was endangered while pursuing any
lawful act, shall be discharged Sew
eral union men arrested on this
charge have been discharged under the
act referred to.
Rain fell during most OF the afternoon
and did what the police have been I'M
able TO do-keep the crowds from col
Letting and molesting cars. EleveE of
the fourteen lines of the Big Console
dated were in operation before O'Clock
today. The three lines on which cars
We're not started were the Union, Bar
con and Clark avenue routes.
Adjutant General Axline is in COM
mand of the militia here and approx
mates the force under him at twenty
companies, aggregating nearly 1.200
men. Four hundred of them, from CO.
lumbus, Newark and Chillicothe, arriV-
ed this afternoon and We're distributed
about the city at points where trouble
is feared.
Mayor Farley, General Axline. Police
Director Barrett and Assistant CoTpo-
ration Counsel Excel had a long con-
ference over the situation today. The
result was that a large guard of SOL
diers was tonight sent to South Brook
Ign, where the mayor believes the dis
turbins element to be strongest.
Riots After Dark.
With the coming of darkness today,
small riots, mostly in the foreign inhab-
tied parts of the city, made their ap-
pearance, and conflicts in which nobody
was seriously hurt, took place between
the soldiers and police on one side, and
strikers and their sympathizers on the
other. On Broadway the cars, loaded
with guards and a few passengers,
Travelled in pairs, and at Clay and Pearl
streets a mob of about 1000 men and
boys, with a sprinkling of women, gath
cred and, when they could elude the
soldiers, stoned the cars and the crews.
Conflicts were frequent and a number
of arrests were made. At 10 o'clock a
detachment of militia charged with
bayonets and dispersed the rioters.
There We're a few incipient riots in
South Brooklyn by midnight. but the
guards had the situation well in hand.
Mayor Farley, to checkmate the mayor
of South Brooklyn, where sentiment
seems to be largely pro-strike dug
from his musty tombs an ancient law
which declares that in case of riot, etc,
the mayor of the largest city may de-
clare himself the chief of police, COM
mander in the county.
Mayor Farley, betaking to himself
this authority, swore in as special pO-
lice, members of the Cleveland Grays
and Of the Cleveland Scots Guards, and
placed them under the command of the
police department. They were sent over
the river to Brooklyn for the purpose,
not only of preserving order generally,
but keep an especial eye on non-union
men who were regarded as being a par
ticular danger in that section.