The record-union., 1899-07-27

CLEVELAND (O). July 26.-The
storm center of the street railway
strike has, according to the authori-
ties, settled in Brooklyn, a suburb
connected with Cleveland by long
high bridge
At noon 80 employees of the Born
steel Range Company blockaded a car
on the bridge and dragged the motor
man and conductor from their posts,
inflicting with their fists and other
weapons injuries more painful than
serious. Soldiers on guard at the barn
about half mile away hurried to the
scene, butethe rioters had taken refuge
in the factory which stands under the
approach to the bridge The factory
was surrounded and the premises
searched, but there was no clew by
which the guilty ones could be picked
out, so they bent their efforts in assist
ing the bloodstained motorman and
conductor to move the car, most of the
windows of which had been broken
by stones. =7
General Axline, in command Of the
troops here, in order to personally view
the situation, took a ride to-day on an
Orange-street car. He was in civilian
dress, and the car was stoned at va
rious intervals all along the route. A
rock came near hitting him. The Cen
eral took other trips through the troub-
led districts, but declined to give his
view of the situation.
The vigilance Of the guards while
daylight aided them prevented trouble
of a serious nature
Preparations for mass meetings at
various points were made during the
day. 1t is expected that a large one
will be held in Monumental Square,
in the heart of the city, tomorrow
night, unless the Mayor prohibits it, In
preparation for one, platform was
to-day erected in Brooklyn to protest
against the action of Mayor Farley of
Cleveland, who has assumed, under the
authority of an almost forgotten stat
ute, supreme police power in Cuyahoga
County. This leaves Mayor Phelps of
the suburb, together with his consta-
bulary, shorn of their power, and they
don't like it. The two Mayors are not
on the terms that existed between the
storied Governors of the two Carolinas.
The soldiers and Clevelands chief exc
cutives special police in Brooklyn are
not allowed to use the public hydrants
to get water, it is said, and upon va
rious occasions bayonets were of a
necessity used to convince shopkeepers
that it was wisest to sell soldiers what
they wanted.
Mayor Farley to-day mailed Mayor
Phelps a letter, in which he declared
that if the Cleveland cohorts had any
more trouble about getting water,
Cleveland, which pumps the water to
the suburb, would at the present abro-
gate the truce, and let the whole
hamlet go thirsty. Mayor Farley also
issued statement to the strikers, in
which he said a man who was more
loyal to his labor union than to himself
and his country was a coward and a
bad citizen.
Cars We're run on twelve lines of the
Big Consolidated to-day, and on most
of the lines last night.
President Mason of the National
Union of Street Car Employees, in an
interview to-day, declared that as the
street car company, according to his
information was losing thousands of
dollars every day, the strike would
have to be settled soon upon advances
made by the company In the face of
this, President Everett to-day again
told the Board of Arbitration that the
company had nothing to arbitrate. The
board is unable to take action looking
to settlement in view of the attitudes
of the opposing forces.
The task of distributing the soldiers
was to-day completed by General AK
line. Many of them were sent out to
Newburgh, which includes the turbu-
lent section of Broadway, to Pearl
street and to Windmere, where the
street car company has the more val
liable part, of its property stored. A
company was sent to Collinwood also.
Mayor Farley declared that he would
suppress violence, if he had to call out
the entire National Guard of Ohio
A boy was shot by a non-union con-
ductor, but whether or not the bullet
was an accidental one the police have
not yet determined. Frank Wright, a
boy of 13, was sitting on the front
porch of his home at 33 Annandale ave-
nue., when an electric car came along.
Although there was no disturbance in
the neighborhood at the time, it is
stated that the conductor, who stood
on the front platform with his motor
man, carried a revolver in his hand.
Suddenly it was discharged, and young
Wright gave cry of pain. The bull
let had entered his right leg just be-
low the groin. The car ran on to
Euclid avenue and into the barn. When
the police arrived the conductor was
not to be found.