Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-26
Clcyland Is Now Being Pa
trOlled by Them.
SEVERAL SMALL RIOTS
Occurred Yesterday But There Were
No Serious C0nSeQuences--MObS
Gathered Many Times But Were
Dispersed BY the Military.

Cleveland. Ohio, July 25.-strikers and
their friends tonight held a meeting and
various speakers protested against the
presence of troops and the carrying of
arms by the non-union street car en-
ployes. A state law exists which de-
clares that a 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 n%on-union
men arrested on this charge rave been
DISCHARGED under the act referred to.
Rain fell during the most of the after
noon and did what the police have been
unable to do-keep crowd from collect
ing and molesting ears.
Eleven of the fourteen lines of the Big
Consolidated Street Car company were
in operation before Z o'clock this morning.
Three lines on which cars We're not start
ed were the Union. Barton and Clark
avenue routes. Adjutant General Az
line is in command of the militia here,
and approXimates the force under him
at twenty companies, aggregating nearly
], 200 men. Four hundred of them, from
Columbus, Newark and Chiliicothe, ar
rived this afternoon and were distrlb-
uted about the city at points where trou-
BILE is feared.
With the coming of darkness today
small. riots, mostly in the foreign lnhab-
tied parts of the city, made their appear
ance and conflicts in which nobody was
seriously hurt, took place between the
soldiers and police on one side and the
strikers and their sympathizers on the
other. On Broadway the cars, loaded
with guards and a few passengers, tfaV-
eled in pairs, and at Clay and Pearl
streets a mob of about 1000 men and
boys, with a s%prinkling of women, gath
cred, and. when they could elude the SOL
diers. stoned the cars and the crews.
Conflicts We're frequent and a number or
arrests were made.
At 10 o'clock a detachment of militia
charged with bayonets and dispersed the
There We're a few incipient riots
in South Brooklyn by midnight, bu the
guards had the situation we'll in hand.
Mayor Farley, to checkmate the mayor
Of South Brooklyn, where sentiment
seems to be largely pro-striker, dug from
his musty tones an ancient law which
declares that in case of riot, ETC., the
mayor of the largest city may declare
the chief of police commander in
the county.
Mayor Farley, betaking to himself this
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members of the Cleveland Grays II of
the Cleveland Scots guard and placed
them under the command of the police
department. They Were sent over the
river to South Brooklyn for the purpose
not only Of preserving order generally,
but to keep an especial eye on n%on-union
men, h are regarded as being a par
ticular element of danger in that sec
ton.
Anton Musil, for melting a mob on
Broadway, was chased into his saloon
wounds in the head. Musil shut the
door of his place, but his pursuers broke
down the door, and. meeting with a show
of resistance, used their weapons. An
other riot was started at the street car
barns near Bolton and Quincy streets
about 10 O'clock. Fifteen hundred men
were assembled and INDUCED in the
usual stone throwing. They were dis
persed and ten of them arrested.