The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-27
MAULEO NON-UN|ON MEN
Searching Soldiers Unable to Find
the Rioters.
SOLDIERS USED BAYONETS
Shopkeepers OF Brooklyn Refused to
Sell Food to the Troops = Cars Run
on Twelve OF the Lines-Arbi-
tration Is Declined.

Cleveland. Ohio, July 26.-The storm
center of the street railway strike has,
according to the authorities, settled
in Brooklyn, a suburb connected with
Cleveland by long high bridge. At
noon $50 employees Of the Born Steel
Range company blockaded a car on
the bridge and dragged the motorman
and conductor from their posts, infiict-
ing with their fists and other weapons
injuries more painful than serious. Sol
diers on guard at the barn about half
mile away hurried to the scene, but
the rioters had taken refuge in the fac
tory, which stands under the approa ch
to the bridge. The factory was sur
rounded and the premises searched,
but there was no clue by which the
guilty ones could be picked out, so they
bent their efforts in assisting the blood
stained motorman and conductor to
move the car, most of the windows Of
which had been broken by stones.
General Axline, in command of the
troops here, in order to personally view
the situation, took ride to-day on an
orange street car. He was in civilian
oress and the car was stoned at vari-
Gus intervals all along the route A
rock came near him. The general took
other trips through the troubled dis
trict but declined to give his views of
the situation
The vigilance of the guards while
daylight aided them prevented trou-
pie or serious nature. Preparations
ior mass meetings at various points
were made during the day. 1t was ex-
pected 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 statute, supreme DO
lice power in Cuyahoga county This
leaves Mayor Phelps of the suburban
town, together with his constabulary.
shorn of their power, and they don't
like 1t. The two mayors are not on the
terms that existed between the storisd
governors of the two Carolinas. The
soldiers and Cfeveland's chief execu-,
tivess special police in Brooklyn are
not allowed to use the public hydrants
to get water, 1t is said, and upon vari-
Gus occasions bayonets were of a ne
cessitysused to convince shopkeepers
that 1t was wiseSt to sell soldiers what
they wanted.
Mayor Farley to-day mailed Mayor
that If the Cleyeland cohorts had any
more trouble about getting water,
Cleveland, which pumps the water TO
tine suburb, would at the present abro-
gate the truce and let the whole ham
let go thirsty. Mayor Farley also is
sued statement to the strikers in
which he said man who was more
loyal to his labor union than to himself
and his country was a coward and a
bad citizen.
Cars were run on 12 lines of the Big
Consolidated to-day and most of the
lines last night. President Mason of
the National Union of Street Car EN-
ployes, in an interview to-day declared
that as the street car company, ac-
cording 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 arbtra-
ton that the company had nothing to
arbitrate. The board Is unable to take
action looking to a.settlement, a 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 We're sent out to
Newburgh, which includes the turbu-
lent sections of Broadway to Pearl
street, and to Windemer, where the
street car company has the more val
liable part of it's 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
13-year-old boy, was sitting on the
front porch of his home at SO Anadale
avenue when an electric car came
along. AS there was no disturbance in
the neighborhood at the time 1t 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 bullet
had entered his right leg just below
the groin. The car ran on to Euclid
avenue and ran into the barn. When
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