Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-07-28
BIG FORCE ON HAND.
Nearly 1900 State Troops Gath
cred at Cleveland.
ADJT. GEN. AXLINE is In COMMAND.
Strikers Protest Against the Presence
of the Militin and Carrying of
Arms by NonuniOn Men-Com-
H. paratively Quiet Day.

against the presence of troops and the
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 1900 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. Axline
sufficient to overawe any mobs which
might collect.
He refused to say whether or no he
union men now operating the street
cars and whose use of firearms is gen.
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 non
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, boy,
appeared before magistrate charged
with murder in the second degree. The
hearing was postponed and the defend
ant held without bail.
Troops for South Brooklyn.
Mayor Farley, Gen. Axline, Police Di-
rector Barrett and Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel M. B. Excel held 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.
Mayor Farley, to checkmate the
mayor of South Brooklyn, where senti-
ment seems to be largely pro-striker,
dug from his musty tones an ancient
low which declares that in case of riot,
ETC., the mayor OF the largest city may
declare himself the chief of police COM
mander in the county. Mayor Farley,
betaking to himself this authority
swore in as special police members OF
the Cleveland Grays and of the Cleve-
land Scots guards, placing them under
the command of the police department.
They were sent over the river to Brook
lyn for the purpose not only Of pre-
serving order generally, but to keep an
especial eye on nonunion men who are
regarded as being more particularly in
dangerin thatsection than in any other
part Of the strike territory.
Riots at Night.
With the coming of darkness small
riots, mostly in the foreign inhabited
part of the city, made their appearance
and conflicts in which nobody was seri-
ously hurt took place between the sol.
diers and police, on one side, and al
legged strikers and their sympathizers
on the other. On Broadway the cars
laden with guards and few passen.
gers, travelled in pairs, and at Clay and
Pearl streets mob of about 2, 1000 men
and boys, with sprinkling of women
gathered, and when they could elude
the soldiers, stoned the cars and the
crews. Conflicts were frequent, and g
number of arrests were made. At ter
o'clock, as detachment of militia We're
nearing the spot, the crowd bombarded
a pair of cars with stones and speci
mems of vegetation far from being
wholesome. The soldiers charged witt
fixed bayonets, and in few minutes
the erstwhile aggressive mob was con
cealed in the alleys, by-streets and il
their roolSery-like houses. There were
few incipient riots in South Brooklyn
before midnight, but the guards had
the situation we'll in hand.
Plead Not Guilty.
The executive committee of the
strikers met and issued a state
ment denying any connection with re
cent disturbances, including the nitro
glycerin explosion which Sunday
wrecked Euclid avenue car, and ave
their determination to refrain from an,
unlawful acts. Friends of the striker
are asked to withhold their patronag,
from the Big Consolidated company
President Bryan, of the strikers asso
citation, to whom some local paper.
have credited utterances advocating
anarchistic tactics in prosecuting thu
strike, has entered a complete denia
of the published statements.
Bishop Horstmann's Address.
Citizens of Cleveland, among whom
the street car strike is the chief topi,
of conversation, Tuesday added theil
%.comments to the address issued by Rt
Rev. Ignatius f. Horstmann, bishop o,
the diocese of Cleveland. The utter
ances of the Catholic divine, a man o.
great influence among the people of hi.
denomination throughout Ohio, are re
garded as wildly expressive of the sitll
alton here, and it is expected that hi
message pleading that the law be OBJ
served and civic dignity upheld will re
suit in the subduing of much of the vic
lence which has made the past week al
epoch in local history
The Cincinnati Strike.
Cincinnati, July 26.-The hoodlum.
that gathered in Fountain square by
the thousands Tuesday night on ac