The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-26
SITUATION OF STRIKES
there We're No Riots During the Day al
Cleveland.
RAIN KEPT STRIKERS FROM COSCREGATlNC
MESSENGER Boys strikes mt Ctncin-
natl and New York Are Assuming
Serious Proportions.

Cleveland, July 25--The day brought nc
new reports of roting. Rain fell during
most of the afternoon and did what the
police have been unable to do-keer
crowds from collecting and molesting cars.
Eleven OF the fourteen lines OF big con-
| solidated street railroad companies Were
in operation before o'clock today. The
three lines on which cars were not started
were the Union, Burton and Clarke ave-
! nue. routes. Strikers and their friends
tonight held meeting and various speak
er5 protested against the presence of
troops and the carrying of arms by pri-
! Yate citizens, meaning non-union street
car employees.
| n. A. AXllne adjutant general Of State
| troops, is in command of the military here
| and appr0Aimate5 the force under his
| command at twenty companies, aggregat-
| ing nearly 1000 men. Four hAldred OF
them are from Columbus, New Arkansas
and Chilicothe, and are distributed about
! the city at points where trouble may oc-
cur.
| Mayor Farley said to the Associated
| Press today that he thought the force OF
police and soldiers under General Axline
sufficient to overawe any mobs which
might collect. He refused to say whether
the non union men now operating the
cars. a state law exists which declares
defendant arrested for carrying weapons
upon proving that he believed that his
life, liberty or property endangered while
pursuing any lawful act, shall be dis
charged. Several non union men arrested
on this charge have been discharged un-
der the act referred to-
Mayor Farley, General Axline. Police
Director Barrett and Assistant Corpora
tion Counsel NJ B. Extell held long con-
ference today. The result was body of
soldiers was tonight sent to Brookiine
where the riotous feeling was strongest
The strikers today issued statement de-
nylng any connection with recent disturb
ances, including the Sunday wrecking Of
the Euclid avenue car. and aver their in
tention to refrain from any unlawful acts
Friends OF the strikers are asked to with
mold their patronage from the Big Con-
solidated company.
Ralph Hawley. the nom union conductor
who yesterday killed Henry Cromwell, a
BOY, appeared before magistrate charged
with murder in the second degree. The
hearing was postponed and the defendant
held without bail.
Win the coming of darkness tonight
small riots, mostly in the foreign inhabited
part of the city, made their appearance
ana conflicts in which nobody was Sc |
rlously hurt took place between the SOL
dlers and police on one side and the al
legged strikers and their sympathizers OH
the other. On Broadway the cars. laden
with guards and few passengers, Travelled
IN pairs; at Clay and Pearl streets a mob
OF about 1000 men and boys with sprink- I
ing OF women gathered and when they
could elude the soldiers stoned the cars
and crews. Conflicts were frequent and
number of arrests We're made.
AT 10 o'clock, as detachment of militia
men were nearing the spot. the crowd bonn
barded pair OF cars with stones and
specimens of vegetation far from being
wholesome. The soldiers charged at fixed
payohets and IN few minutes the erst-
while aggressive mob were concealed in the
a!ieys, by streets and in aair rookery-
IKE houses. There were few incipient
riots in South Brookline before midnight.
but the guards had the situation well in
hand. letachments of the Cleveland
trays and the Cleveland Scots Guards have
neen sent there to preserve order, the
i i OF tine Inhabitants being decidedly
in favor of the strikers