Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-25

COLUMBUS, July 25.-Adjutant Gen
er;l Axline received the following mess.
age: Send regiment at once"
The Columbus regiment was at once
ordered TO assemble and should reacl
Cleveland early today.
CLEVELAND, July 25.-The adjutant
general informed Mayor Farley that the
militia companies at Youngstown, Ge.
neva, Berea, Warren and Norwalk,
towns near this city, had been officially
notified to hold themselves in readiness
to answer the call OF the mayor should
the situation get beyond the control OF
the present force. Various companies
OF the Fourth, Sixth and Eighth regi-
ments, 80 the number of 800 men, have
also been ordered to prepare for sud
den summons.
A repetition of the wrecking of a
Euclid avenue car was attempted by
strikers or their sympathiZers Ill Brook
lyn, u suburb of Cleveland.
An explosion took place under the
car, but failed to injure it materially.
There were no passengers aboard, and
the conductor and motorman escaped
unhaT1ned.
CLEVELAND, July 25.-The state board
Of arbitration practically abandoned
their efforts TO conciliate the street car
strikers and Their former employers.
The resentment Of the conductors and
m0tormen who quit work and the more
turbulent spTit OF their sympathizers
WAS held in check to d degree by the
presence of the police and the militia,
members of which rode i'll the cars or
were held ill readiness at the barns and
terminals.
Small riots occurred, but with one
exception they We're without serious re-
suit. The death of Henry Cornweit,
slain by Il bullet fired by Ralph P.
Kawlcy, Il conductor OH the Broadway
line, was recorded the first fatality of
the strike.
Shortly after noon Hawley's Car ap.
preached Orange street and was beset
by Il crowd OF men and boys. Corn
welt, the 19-year-old son of butcher,
was asiride "a horse and rode to the side
Of the car, keeping pace with it for
some distance.
Various stores were told as to what
lassed between the conductor and the
boy, put the mob was suddenly called
TO It's senses by the sight OF Hawley,
who jumped to the street and started
i'll pursuit OF Cornweit.
The latter, closely followed by his
pursuer, turned up Perry street. At
Woodland avenue the latter pulled his
revolver and fired. His victim fell,
fatally wounded, with ghastly wound
III the lett temple, and died soon after
being removed TO the hospital.
Tho ,.rf,Iy-,i yri,If.E, bafnr, tho incident
had been 50 violent. was awcd by the
seriousness of the anair, and permitted
the conductor To walk back to his car.
He wis arrested and taken to the sta
ton, wnere IL charge OF murder was en-
tered against him.
When the car returned III charge of
another man and laden with police,
thousands OF people We're crowded
blockaded and the stalled. cars bonn
barded with stones, pieces of brick and
sticks of wood. The police managed by
dint OF using their clubs to clear the
way after il delay of about half an hour.
ihe police beileve they have Il clew
to the man who placed nitroglycerine
which blew up the Euclid. avenue car
and injured four passengers. Mathew
hODiuSOu, WHO was seen DRIVING Il Morse
and buggy, said to resemble the one in
which the mysterious wrecker rode,
has been placed i'll cell. Robinson
claims to have found the rig. master
less, and took possession, intending to
deliver it to Charles Steinmetz, a livery
man by whom Robinson is employed.
Mr.. SteinmetZ informed the officers
that he rented the outfit to man whom
he identifies vaguely as having dark
moustache.
With the exception of the Mayfield
suburban, all the lines OF the Big Con-
solidated We're i'll operation, although
their movements We're necessarily ham,
pered somewhat.
COLUMBUS, July 25.-The state au-
thorlties regard the Cleveland strike
situation a; very serious. Adjutant
General Axlne, who was commander OF
the Tenth Ohio volunteer infantry dur
ing the Spanish war, will go to Cleve-
land and take command of the troops i'll
person i'll case other regiments are
needed. There are eight companies al
ready ON duty in Cleveland.