The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-26
HEAVY RAIN
PROVES BETTER
THAN POLICE
In Preventing Riotous Disturb.
ances in cleyeland..Keeps
People in Doors.
MORE SOLDIERS CALLED OUT.
A Catholis Prelate's Strong Plea
for the Reign of Law
Against Anarchy.

CLEVELAND, o., July 25.-strlkers
and their friends tonight held a meet
ing and various speakers protested
against the presence Of troops and the
carrying Of arms by private citizens.
meaning non-union street car employees.
To-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 fourteen lines OF
the Big Consolidated street railway
were in operation before o'clock to-
day. The three lines on which cars
were not started were the Union, Bur-
ton and Clark avenue routes.
H.A. Axline, ,adjutant general Of state
troops, is in command of the military
here and approximates the force under
him at twenty companies aggregating
nearly 1900 men. -Four hundred of
them from Columbus, Newark and Chill
lIcotho, arrived this afternoon, and
were distributed about the city at
points where 1t is judged most probable
trouble will occur.
The carrying OF arms by non-union
men has given rise to curious situa-
tion at the line which separates cleve-
land from South Brooklyn, small in-
dependent municipality on the-south
side OF the river. The street car crews
are allowed in the city to array them
selves like walking arsenals, but across
the border the mayor of Brooklyn, as
sisted by the town marshal~and the
constabulary, has taken steps which
guards that suburb from armed inva-
sion. The officers searched the crews
Of every car which came across the
bridge, but found nothing. The men
had taken the precaution to leave their
revolyers on the Cleveland side. On
the return trip they again take posses
ison Of their weapons.
The resolutions adopted at the New
burg mass meeting last night protest
against the carrying of arms by the
street car employees, pointing out that
the presence of the military is ample
protection to the men.
Ralph P. Howley, the non-union
notorman who shot and killed Henry
Cornzweit on Perry street yesterday
was arraIgned In police court to-day on
the charge OF second degree murder.
Attorney Tolles, on behalf of Hawley
requested a preliminary hearing before
Police Judge Fielder on Tuesday next,
Hawley was remanded to jail without
bail.
Mayor Farley. General Axllne, Police
Director Barrett and Assistant corpo-
ration Counsel H. B. Excel held long
conference over the situation to-day,
The result was that large guard OF
soldiers was tonight sent to South
Brooklyn where the mayor believes
the disturbing element to be strongest
The executive committee of the strikers
meeting to-day issued a statement de-
nying any conneotlon with recent dis
turbnnees including the nitro-glyeerinc
explosion which Sunday wrecked Eu'
cid avenue car and aver their deter
nlnation to refrain from any unlawful
acts. Friends of the strikers are asked
to withhold their patronage from the
Big Consolidated company. President
Bryan. OF the strikers association, tc
whom some local papers have credited
utterances advocating anarchistlc acti
in prosecuting the strike, to-day enter
ed q complete denial Of the published
statements to n representative OF th'
Associated Press.
with the coming OF darkness to-day
small riots, mostly in the foreign In
habited part Of the city, made theil
appearance and conflicts in which no
body was seriously hurt took place be
tween the soldiers and police on thu
one side and alleged strikers and theIi
sympnthizers on the other. On Broad
way the cars laden with guards and few
passengers travelled in pairs and a
Clay and Pearl streets mob OF abou
1000 men and boys with a sprinElinI
Of women gathered and when the!
could elude the soldiers, stoned tn
cars and the crews, The conflicts werI
frequent and a number Of arrests wer'
made.
Al 10 o'clock. as detachment o
milItIamen were nearing the spot tn
crowd bombarded pair Of cars witt
stones and specimens OF vegetables "a
from wholesome. The soldiers charged
with fixed bayonets and in few min
utes the erstwhIle aggressive mob wa
concealed In the alleys, by-streets an
in their rookery-ilke houses. Their
were fow Incipient riots In soutl
brooklyn before midnight, but tn
guards had the situation well in hand