Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-10

HOMESTEAD, PA, July o.-The reign
OF Quiet is still undisturbed at Home
stead and but for the suppressed excite
ment OF the little groups that cluster on
the streets no one would suspect the
tragedy that the week has witnessed.
A discipline that might we'll excite the
envy Of militia organization exists In
the strikers ranks, and while their po-
licy is to walt and watch, they declare
they are we'll prepared for
the enemy. So perfect is their
organization, so numerous all
their sentinels up and down the river
that surprises seem next to impossible
from any force. The men have appar-
emily made up their minds that sooner
or later the mill owners will make an-
other effort to resume their dominion
here and every preparation Is being
made to repel that effolt when II comes.
Several times during the day kilograms
have been received conveying the intel
ligence that Pinkertons were being
shipped or massed for shipment TO
Homestead and, whether these were
true or false, they have had the effect
of keeping up public tension that is at
last beginning TO tell on the strikers.
There is no doubt that organized labor
THROUGHOUT THE NATION
is in sympathy with the Pennsylvania
iron workers, and there is no doubt that
in every large city OF the country labor
leaders are keeping yigiant lookout
for the Pinkerton recruiting stations,
and every suspicious indication Is being
flashed to the committee. During the
day numerous kilograms OF coincidence
for the dead and congratulation Cor the
heroic resistance OF the living have been
received by the strikers, aud the ten
ders OF assistance have been pouring In.
While the sentiments OF coincidence
and congratulations have been CRATE
fully received, the proflers for financial
assistance have been courteously de-
clined. A prominent leader OF the
strikers probably looked up the stu
alton this asternOon when be said
Assistance? money? why we have
more money on hand than some Of the
States OF the Union; we don't need
money yet" All the accompanying
scenes OF want and squalor that are In
cidental to 70 the typical strike are
significantly absent here. Nobody
seems to be worrying over the morrow,
and everybody seems to be prepared
for a prolonged siege. Many Of the
woRKNES THEIR OWN HOMES.
Nearly ali OF them have money IN the
bank, and for those who have not MADE
provision for the coming battle the
treasury Of the Amalgamated Associa-
tion will become available. No formal
announcement is made as TO the exact
amount ia the local organizations treas
ury, but the estimates vary from $780,
600 to 500. 0OO, so that the fangs Of
want are not yet visible from the Home
stead cottages.
The scene presented TO the casual Wis.
itor TO Homestead to-day resembled very
much that Of the Sabbath day in a man.
ufacturing town. There was no hr.
mol, no visabls excitement, aud the
new arrival was fairly free TO come and
20 as he wished, quite contrast from
the restrictions OF yesterday. 1t Il
urohable that the newcomer wonld have
been quietly shadowed from the time
be stepped from the train until the In
slant OF his departure, but so cleyerlI
would this have been done that unless
he was unusually Yigilant, he would
never have suspected the espionage r
which he was subject. The challenges
/ the INTERPRETATIONS,
THE yEXATIoUS ASSoYASCEs
are absent to-day and unless the visitor
yeutured too near the mill, he wonlC
never suspect the martial law that ha
been declared by the Amalgamated As
sociation. But there is a martial law
as thorough as Ben Butler ever CAV
I New Orleans, aud the instant the yisi
tor attempts to approach the scene o
Wednesdays battle or enter the mill. b
+ made cognIzant OF It's existence. Bu
the hand that stays him - not one 9
steel, but rether the one OF velvet.
A ssauy crosses his path and p