Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1899 — COWED BY THE MILITARY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COWED BY THE MILITARY.

-Soldiers and Police Hold Cleveland Rioters in Check. The presence of more than 1,400 armed in Cleveland had a salutary effect on the rioters. There have since been a few disturbances, such 'as pelting street

cars and interrupting their passage, necessitating, the dispersing dt crowds by police and troops, but there was little damage done either to property or to persons. There were some conflicts between soldiers and the

rioters and numerous arrests were made. The cavalrymen of Troop A received orders to use their revolvers in case any more cannon firecrackers were thrown lamong their horses. It was found necessary to send a guard of soldiers with a Jmail car from the south end. Lines of “union” buses have been run in competition with those linefe which 13 normal times are patronized especially by •union sympathizers. The buses were sorry affairs, most of them being any ,kind of a wagon which could be found, with boards for seats. Desperate efforts iwere made to obtain good vehicles paralleling the Euclid, Wade Park and Cedar 'lines, the East End lines, but the street company bought up qll owners Both sides declare there is nothing to arbitrate. All admit that the key to the situation is the question which side broke

the agreement upon which the first strike was settled. The men claim the company did so by refusing to make the nonunion men retained in their employ live up to the same rules to which the union men were subjected, thus putting the union men at a disadvantage in the matter of runs. The company claims the men broke the agreement by failing to be joyal to the company and the non-union employes.

SEN. AXLINK.

CENTRAL ARMORY IN CLEVELAND.