The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-07-23
The Militia WI No Longer DO Police Duty In
the Town, but Will Remain Supreme
About the Carnegie Works.
All of the COmpany's Employees at Du-
quesne Out on q Sympathetic Strike.
No Work Done al the Union or Bsayer Falls
Mills-0'Donnell and Ross st II In Jail
Two More Alleged Rioters Arrested.
CHANGE AT HOMESTEAD.
Deputy sheriffs Suppians the Militia In p
licing the Town.

Deputy sherifs Suppiant she Militia In Po-
licing the Town.
HOMESTEAD, Pa. July Ex-Governor
Pattison left Homestead for Harrisburg at
noon to-day. He had o conference with
General Snowden and Sheriff McCleary
just before his departure. At the Govern
or's suggestion body of police officers, in
the persons of deputy sheriffs were this
evening placed throughout the borough Of
Homestead TO supplsnt the unlimited mill
tary control that has been gradually estab-
lishsd. The soldiers are now to aid the
civil authorities. and not TO be its superior.
A street procession headed By the towi
Council, In honor OF the chief magistr ate OF
the borough, Is not 20 be dispersed. The
sheriff of the county or his representatives
are to be the ones to say when the danger
point has been reached by assembiages of
citizens. the men In uniform with guns In
their hands being no Ion ger to constituts
themselves at will. judge jury and execu-
toner.
The deputy sheriffs installed this even
ing number sixteen, and in Sheriff Me-
Cleary's absence are directed by Chiel
Deputy Brady. who is authorized to cal
in the assistance of the militia to preserve
order and maintain the peace. The depu-
ties on their arrival from Pittsburg were
introduced to the military officers oIfguaro
duty throughou the town by a major from
General Snowden's headquarters. ho had
been ASST gned tho task of introduction by
the prov ost marshal, Colonel Greene. The
guards, both officers and men, were in
structed to respect the authority of the
deputy sherifis. TO whom they were TO be
.B<>-A II
given to understand that the
task of policing the town Of
into the hands of the deputy sheritfs and
make total of sixty. Except on call OF
the sheriff's representatives. the militia In
Homestead is to restrict its operations to
looking after it's own members, such, for in
stance, as apprehendIng absconders from
the ranks, IL any. and enforcing an order
issued tonight prohibiting the national
guard from entering saloons.
General Snowden admitted o-night that
he was aware the installation of the sher-
lHs representatives was Governor Pat
tison's own suggestion. The General de-
clined to attempt to define the respective
limits of authority of the militia and the
deputy sheriffs. and refused TO discuts the
re asons for the change in the situation.
H denied empbatically that any differ
ence existed between himself and Governor
Pattison.
The new arrangement. it should be ex-
planned, does not materially alter the con-
ditions that have existed In Mifflin town.
ship. which adjoins the borough of Home
stead. Miff1in township contains the Mill
tary encampmens ground, all the Carnegie
Homestead mills and the fifty or more
Indeed the complete change in the attitude
of the town towards the camp was more
plainly shown to-day than heretofore. No
attempt to speak to any of the soldiers was
m al
trary. the militia were regarded with
gloomy silence with suppressed oaths.
The women were even more bitter than the
men In their language abont the troops,
some quarters among the more radical of
tho strikers.
In the camp the hostile feeling was
cordially returned and some of the men
trouble in Homestead. it begin and be fin
ished. The prospect for an indefinite stay
ct Camp Sam Black is not an inviting one
and the militia are eagerly looking for the
orders which will permit them TO return
home. General Snowden esys the whole
command will be here until it 10 perfectly
evident that the civil authorities can
maintain law and order. and he declines 20
express any opinion as TO when that will be.
Swiftly on the heels of the Governors
departure the serving of eviction notices
commenced on Shanty Hill, and so expedl-
tiously was 1t conducted that all of the
IOEty or uIIY families aDlect 10 DOtlce
were served before the chief executive was
ten miles on bis journey TO the state capt.
tai As a rule. the notices were received
In grim silence and without exhibition OF
feeling by the recipients Chief McBroom.
of the Carnegie company police force.
companied the Carnegie agent, w. ii. Cor
bett, who made the distribution in per.
son. Willingness to pay rent cut no figure.
clause In the lease of oil the houses CIV
ing the company poremptory right Of pos.
session on ten days notice. No distressing
scenes of forcible removal were 10 be wit
messed, the ten days margin postponina
such occurrences though the talk of some
of the occupants Indicated that If they
followed present impulses. an unpleasant
spectacle was certain 10 be presented at the
end of that period.
At the meeting of the advisory commit
tee this evening it was reported that $50
had been received from sympathizing
friends during the day. A committee was
looking into housing of the workmen who
were served with notices of eviction from
the Carnegie property. &c Is reported that
forty-eight of these families would proba-
bly, receive help from the association, and
twenty-five houses for their nccomod alton
had been secured, rent free, from different
real-essate owners In Homestead.
committee which had been sent TO
Braddock reported that the men would
strike tomorrow. A lodge of the Amaiga-
mated Association was formed of .he oper-
ators in the mills.