The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-18
'lSf VICTIM
/ or RIOT DIES
Hit With Brick While Riding
on Streetcar.
COLUMBUS IN QUIET MOOD

! Company Again Refuses to Arbitrste
and Governor Harmon is Said to
tfsvs somsthins, Up His sleeve.
Recommends That Chief Of Police
Carter Be Removed, but Mayor
Marshall Says No--stewsrt Hires
Large Detective Force.
Columbus. O., Aug. ls.--The first
. fatality Incident to the car strike
rioting resulted when Robert Mitch.
ell, 80, died at st. Francis hospital
hffrom fractured skull. Mitchell,
who was o piano salesman, was hit
by a brick while riding streetcar
last Sunday night, and was found un-
conscious in the streets early Mon
day morning by police authorities.
He died without having regained con.
.sciousness.
Mitchells wife, who had been Wis.
iting her mother in Washington c.
H., was called to Columbus by her
husbands injury and was at her hus-
bands bedside during his last hours.
Mitcheil's skull had been fractured
ever the right eye.
Hopes that the strike OF motormen
and conductors In the employ OF the
Rail.Light company might soon be
settled were again blasted when
Manager Il. X. Stewart fiatly refused
the offer to act as arbitrators sub.
: mitted by the city council The union
carmen announced their willingness
to submit their grievances to arbitra.
ton. At the statehouse 1t was an.
nouDced that Governor Harmon, who
held lengthy conference with State
Labor Commissioner Wermel, was
working on new peace plan, the
, details OF which are not yet ready
for publication.
Governor Criticises Chief.
p Governor Harmon intimated quite
strongly to Mayor Marshall that
Chief of Police Carter is a mere fig
urehead and should be dismissed.
Mayor Marshall declined to act upon
the governors suggestion, but
through Safety Director McCune or
dered the chief U appear in uniform
! ard take personal charge Of the men
under him and see that peace and or.
der are restored in Columbus at the
earliest possible momenL
Encouraged by the presence OF the
militia in Columbus. the streetcar
company Is going ahead with the or
2 Sanigation OF private police force
OF its own on large scale.
Z IL was stated by persons who are
In position To know that the com
pany has howard Of 40 private de-
tectiyes In tlc city at the present
time aud thEt more are coming. Most
Of those nav on the ground were
sent here ry Cleveland detective
agency, trc head OF which is here di.
4 rseting the movements OF the men.
"Our cars are going TO run at night
whether We have police on the cars
: or not" said General Manager Stew.
art The company is preparing to
use the imported guards in protecting
its property and men. Some of the
d company's detectives are riding on
! cars, others are following cars In
autos, while still others are stationed
IN sections OF the city where there
has been the most trouble heretofore
Brigadier General John G. Speaks
reports show that he has a total OF
y 5s5 soldiers on duty In Columbus at
= the present time. OF this number
430 belong to the First regiment OF
;. infantry, 100 to Troop and Battery
u G, 20 to the ambulance corps and
about 35 officers and special detail
h men. The cost of keeping these
troops on duty is close TO $4,000 a
day. The privates get 81 Il day, while
the average pay Of the officers is
about Sc. Each private is allowed 40
cents a day for food. Incidental ex-
penses will run anywhere from $50
y 10 5000 a day for the whole outfit.
Company Has Own Guards.
~ According to officials of the Rail.
Light company there are $50 guards or
4 strikebreakers on duty, and more are
expected today. The citizens In gen
( eral do not look with favor on the
importation OF armed forces, as they
say II will do no good, but n time
viii act quite the reverse by infian
= ing the strike sympathizers. II IL
~ prbsble that Governor Harmon viii
p today be asked to cancel the com
~ missions OF strikebreakers who hole
~ state police certificates AS long as
y the state troops are here. There are