The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-07-14

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as thick with fine dust, and yellow
sediment covers everything. In Kho-
tan this dust sometimes so obscures
the sun that at midday one cannot see
10 read fine print without lamp.
The tales Of the overwhelming of
travellers by sand storms in Sahara are
familiar to every school-boy.
WAUKEsHA, Wis, July s. Gustaye
Lielke died about noon to day from
the effects OF two bullet wounds re-
Iceived last night at the hands Of Anton
Nogt, q boarding house keeper, at the
corner CT Mary street and st. Paul
avenue. The shooting was the result
Of a quarrel over board bill, so far
as can ce learned, but it is surmised
that th. re were domestic troubles.
HoMEsTERD, Pa, July S.-The re
port circulated after midnight that
four carloads of Pinkerton's men We're
on their way here, was without foun-
dation. The engineer of the electric
works blew the alarm whistle because
a man ran in and told the Pinkertons
were on their way to town. After the
story proved to be false the people
again returned to their homes. At
3:l5 \. u. everything was quiet and no
trouble was quiet and no trouble of
any kind was anticipated. A commit
tee OF strikers started for Harrisburg
last night to advice Gov. Pattison not
to call out the militia They return
ed here at midnight The committee
had a conference with Sheriff Nc
Cleary i'll Pittsburg, after which they
returned here without going to Harris
burg.
Shortly after this morning Hugh
O'Donnell, the leading Amalgamated
association man here received a tcle-
gram from Cincinnati informing him
that in accordance with orders from
the Carnegies and Pinkerton Detect
I'VE agency. Workmen were engaged III
remodeling a number OF freight cars
for use at Homestead. The telegram
further stated that the cars were being
made bullet and fire proof with mum
eyous rifle holes provided and that
each car is being stocked with rations
sufficient to feed small army several
days According TO advices received
at late honT, the Pinkertons were
preparing to place the cars in charge
Of from 800 TO 400 armed men. Just
as soon as everything is in readiness
| the train will pull ont for the scene of
| hostilities.
How well the men are prepared to
meet physically all attempts to force
an entrance was shown last night,
| when q false alarm was sounded that
! the detectives were on their way 10
the town. This signal soon brought
| out men from every corner and block
The alarm showed that the strikers
have 4 fairly effective organization,
and are not disorganized mob.
though at the same time they can do
| much III the way OF perfecting their
organization. Out Of every house the
men poured, and the leaders ia each
| block hallooed and collected their
forces. On two cordcTs a couple Of
young men began blazing away with
| pistols, firing INTO the ground This
was not a part of the programme, and
angered one lieutenant, who rushed
down the street and yelled: stop
that shooting fools II there
was any need for shooting you
wouldn't be around" One wife hur-
ried to her husband, who was doing
patrol daty along the railroad tracks
She put rife in his hasis. L load
ed it myself" was all she said, and
with this she turned away and joined
a group OF women who had collected
to learn the cause Of She trouble.
| Committees are placing arDas and
ammunition in the hands OF trust
worthy men. and any attcmpt by The
company or by Sheriff NJ eCleary and
his deputies to tax possession o. the
works viii be met with determined
and organized resistance. The alarm
sounded last midnight, followed 50
closely by the startling telegram of
warning from Cincinnati has stirred
up the men and they are IN no mood
/ to be trife ! with.
| The posse comitatus which Sheriff
McCieary has been trying to raise for
the past three days 70 go To Homestead
to protect the property OF the Carnegie
Steel company, has not yet amounted
TO handful OF men. Al day yesterday
only thirty wo men reported and all
OF tslese had 10 be summoned. There
was not volunteer among the,e.