PREPARING FOR A FIGHT AND LOYAL BICYCLES

Ohio National Guard escorts police during Brown Hoisting and Conveying Co. strike.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, August 3, 1896.

PREPARING FOR A FIGHT.

Cleveland Strikers Said to Be Arming Themselves.

BLOODSHED ALREADY OCCURS.

Nonunion Man Shoots a Striker—Company Said to Have Been Organized by the Strikers and Armed and Drilled. Troops Called.

   CLEVELAND, Aug. 3.—The renewal of the strike at the Brown hoisting works resulted in bloodshed. The trouble began early in the morning, when a mob surrounded the house of one of the nonunion workmen and bombarded it with stones and bricks, breaking the windows and even smashing the weatherboards.

   The police, hearing of this trouble, prepared for an outbreak at noon, when the nonunion men should be dismissed from work.

   A party of these workmen, disregarding the efforts of the police to protect them, started to walk away from the works. They had not gone far when they were met by a mob. First the rioters began to shout at the nonunionists and then to hurl bricks.

   The workmen drew revolvers and began firing at the crowd. Several shots were fired, but only one took effect.

   John Prinz, a foundryman, fell to the pavement, shot through the body, and was taken to a hospital.

   Soon after the shooting the police arrived on the scene, but the mob had dispersed and all was quiet.

   This outbreak resulted in the calling out of two companies of militia and by the middle of the afternoon 80 policemen, in addition to the military, had been massed in the vicinity of the Brown works. No more trouble occurred. It is thought that a long and bitter struggle will ensue.

   The manager of the works says the agreement for the settlement of the strike was well understood by the representatives of the strikers and the company stood ready to live up to its terms. The violation of it by the men, he says, absolves the company from any further consideration of them and enables them to begin on a new basis. This is taken to mean that the company will proceed to hire new men.

   A startling piece of news in connection with the Brown strike, which comes from an apparently reliable source, is to the effect that the strikers are arming themselves and drilling.

   It is said that 40 of the strikers had organized a company last Sunday, elected a captain and had also purchased revolvers. The company drilled Saturday evening and it was announced that the purpose of the men was to avenge the death of the two men who were shot at different times in conflicts between union and nonunion men.

   James O'Connell, the head of the Machinists' union, who was here in charge of the strike and who helped to bring about the settlement under which the men returned to work, came back to Cleveland. He was very much surprised and chagrined to learn that the men had struck the second time. He said he believed the company had entered into an agreement with the men in good faith and he was satisfied that the company intended to live up to its agreement in every respect.

   Four companies of militia are on duty at the works and a large force of police are on hand to guard against trouble when the nonunion men go to work.

The Cleveland Strike.

   CLEVELAND, Aug. 3.—The non-unionist workmen entered the Brown hoisting works this morning under the protection of four companies of militia. A crowd of unionists was about, but no violence was offered. Another company was ordered to the works this forenoon. The director of the police says he is satisfied that the condition of affairs is far more serious than appears on the surface.

William F. Sheehan.

WILY WILLIE SHEEHAN

DECLINES TO FALL INTO TREASURER ST. JOHN'S TRAP.

Republican Campaign to Begin at Once—Harrison and Depew to Speak in New York.

   NEW YORK, Aug. 3, (Special.)—The clamor of the lesser leaders of Tammany has been heeded and the higher officials in the organization, fearing internal trouble, have permitted Tammany Hall to go on record as indorsing the nomination of Bryan and Sewall. This formal action was taken at a meeting of the executive committee held on Friday. But the leaders did not give way an inch more than was absolutely necessary and they managed to have all reference to the Chicago platform smothered. It is significant that no meeting of the general committee was called, and no arrangements were even suggested for a ratification meeting. The leaders are determined to go as slow as possible and they will not permit Tammany to take an active part, as an organization, at the ratification meeting to be held on Aug. 12, when Bryan will be notified of his nomination, though the Tammany members will attend in numbers. It is rumored, however, that some of the leaders will be out of the city on that date and will be unable to be present.

   Treasurer William P. St. John of the Democratic national committee, who is arranging for the notification meeting, asked William F. Sheehan, as a member of the national committee and a leader of Tammany Hall, to co-operate with him in arranging for the meeting. Mr. Sheehan, however, did not fall into this trap at all, and he informed Mr. St. John that Elliot F. Danforth was the member of the notification committee from New York and that he would doubtless be glad to do what was necessary.

   The Democrats and the Silver organization people have plentifully supplied Mr. St. John with funds, but he does not find all plain sailing. In fact he is compelled to do all of the work with the help of his paid assistants, for the leaders are very shy as yet in mixing themselves with the combined Democrat-Free Silver party campaign that Mr. St. John is to conduct from this city. The headquarters at the Bartholdi hotel were not opened on Saturday because they had not been properly cleaned and put in order at that time, but Mr. St. John said that by Monday night they would be thrown open for the campaign. There is yet some doubt that the New York headquarters will be anything more than a branch, for Chairman Jones of the national committee still insists that the national headquarters must be in Washington. This matter will be settled at the meeting of the Democratic national committee to be held here on the night before Mr. Bryan is notified of his nomination.

   Mr. Hanna has considerably modified his ideas as to the time when the Republican campaign should be opened since he came to this city. When he reached here he announced that the active work of the campaign should not be started before the first of September, but that in the mean time the literature of the campaign would be circulated. He has since talked with the business men and the Eastern political leaders and they have united in urging him to begin the most active kind of a campaign at once and point out to him that the Democrats have been busy with their campaign for several weeks and that the free silver campaign has already made considerable progress.

   Mr. Hanna is expected to announce that the active campaign shall be begun at once, and he will promptly make arrangements for such a change before he returns West to put the same plan into operation. The leaders here will be pleased with such a change and if it is agreed to they will at once arrange for the monster ratification meeting to be held under the auspices of the county committee. If it is held in the near future Ex-President Harrison will be the speaker of the evening and Chauncey M. Depew will ably assist him. Mr. Hanna still is firm in his belief that Major McKinley's letter of acceptance should not be published till after the Bryan notification meeting is held, that the arguments made there may be answered by the Republican candidate. However, it may not be postponed till September 1 as Mr. Hanna had planned.

NO IRONCLADS FOR SPAIN.

Argentina Has a Prior Right to Those at Genoa.

   MADRID, Aug. 3.—The shipbuilders at Genoa, with whom the Spanish government has been negotiating for the purchase of two ironclads, have finally declined to sell to Spain the cruiser Garibaldi on the ground that Argentina has prior right. Admiral Beranger, the minister of marine, will in consequence send a commission of naval officers to Glasgow to negotiate for the purchase of two ironclads.

   The Spanish government, apparently, has not known before that Argentina was the bidder against them for the two Genoa ironclads, and a rumor which gained currency in Spain that the United States was the competitor of Spain for the ships caused considerable excitement there.

Turks and Druses at War.

   CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 3.—Dispatches received here from Damascus report that several serious fights have occurred in the Hauran province of Syria between the Turks and the Druses. The Turks claim to have won a victory, but independent reports represent that the issue was doubtful with heavy losses on both sides.

   It is now feared that 40,000 Turkish troops will be required to suppress the Druse rebellion, which broke out in June last with renewed vigor.

Struck by a Trolley Car.

   Henry Driscoll, a deaf mute residing at 30 Crandall-st., [Cortland],was struck by a park car Saturday evening on Elm-st. near Crandall. He was playing ball in the street and when struck was just outside the track. He was thrown about twenty feet and received a bad bruise on the left leg. The left hand was split open between the third and little fingers. It was a very narrow escape, for had he been standing between the tracks he would probably have been fatally injured as the car was going at a rapid rate. The car was in charge of Conductor L. M. Head and Motorman Hollenbeck, who thought Mr. Driscoll saw the car and was walking off from the track.

ALMOST INSTANTLY KILLED.

Carriage Thill Penetrates the Breast of a Bicycle Rider.

   Jay A. White, a young man about 20 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Darwin White of Truxton, was almost instantly killed in that place Saturday evening. He was riding a bicycle in the dark on Main-st., when he met a horse and wagon driven by Judson Osterhout, a farmer living three miles from Truxton. He probably did not see the rig for the two came together with such force as to drive one of the thills deep into his breast. Dr. Van Hoesen was called, but could do nothing and White died in a very few minutes after the accident. White was a popular young man and was employed in the milk station at Truxton.

DIED SUDDENLY.

A Freetown Man Fatally Injured by a Fall from a Wagon.

   Morgan Pickert, who lived about one mile south of Freetown Corners in this county came to a very sudden death Saturday afternoon. He returned home from Marathon at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and drove into the barn. His daughter, who was at home alone, on going to the barn a few minutes later found her father lying on the floor under the wagon. The horses had not yet been unhitched. She pulled him out from under the wagon and assisted him to the house. He sat down in a chair on the porch and in a few minutes dropped over dead.

   Mrs. Pickert was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Brown, in Cincinnatus. She was at once sent for and a messenger was dispatched for a physician from Marathon. On the way Dr. Trafford of Marathon was met and he at once went to the Pickert house.

   There was a black mark under the chin and it is supposed that in getting out of the wagon he fell, striking his neck and breast on a wheel. It was the opinion of the physician that death resulted from hemorrhage of the lungs and throat caused by the shock from the fall. Mr. Pickert was a man about 60 years of age.

George W. Porter.

   Mr. George W. Porter, an old and much respected citizen of Cortland, died Saturday afternoon at his residence, 15 Maple-ave., aged 79 years, 2 months and 1 day. Mr. Porter was a native of Waterbury, Ct., but the greater part of his life has been spent in Cortland. He was [not] the youngest but one of a family of nine and is survived by his younger sister, Mrs. Catherine Curtis of Forestville, Ct. He also leaves two daughters and one son, Mrs. C. F. Cogswell and Miss Georgiana J. Porter of Cortland, and Mr. George W. Porter, captain of a steamer now cruising in the Arctic regions.

   The funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. C. F. Cogswell, 30 Arthur-ave. It will be in charge of the Masonic fraternity of which he was a member for forty years. Burial in Cortland Rural cemetery.

Police Court.

   Two indulgers in Cortland whiskey faced Police Justice Mellon this morning and pleaded guilty to the charge of public intoxication. The first, Michael Foley, was given ten days in jail with a promise of six months on the hill for the next offense. John Reagan of Spafford also sent to jail for ten days.

   George Matthews, charged with grand larceny, was admitted to bail in the sum of $500 for appearance before the next grand jury.

BREVITIES.

   —W. H. Wilhelm, Lehigh Valley paymaster, has held that position ever since the road was organized. He travels 1,600 miles every month in the discharge of his duty, and has 32,000 names on his payroll.—Ithaca Journal.

   —Invitations are out for the wedding of Mr. Carlos John Coleman and Miss Cora Etta Peck which will occur at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Caroline Peck, 82 Greenbush-st. in Cortland, Thursday evening, Aug. 13, at 8 o'clock.

   —Mr. Norman Graves died Saturday night at the home of Marvin Maine, about two miles west of the village, aged 85 years, 7 months. Funeral at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning from the residence. Burial in Cortland Rural cemetery,

   —There is quite a steady stream of produce flowing every day into Brown & Dye's cold storage house near the Lehigh Valley road. To-day among other things there came 300 cheese from the Sears cheese factory and 100 from the Virgil cheese factory.

   —New advertisements to-day are—F. E. Brogden, Beef, Wine and Iron, page 2; A. S. Burgess, Are You a Gold Man, page 7: C. F. Brown, Catch Her, page 6; Stevenson, Insurance, page 6; Cortland Park Land Co., Building Sites, page 7; Gladding & Card, Laundry, page 4.