The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-07-16
HOMESTEAD AFFAIRS.
Servant Girls at Hotels Refuse to Wait
On Aiihamen.
HUNTING FOR HIDDEN DYNAMITE.
The Ultinatum at Beaver Falls---Must
go to Work on Monday.
cLANDEsrISE ASSEMBLY FOUND,
Martial Law Not Yet Declared---Pinker-
tons Tsihes---one Furnace Fire
Started.

hesitates to proclaim martial law in
Homestead. This would add to the Ia
bors of his command to an extent that
few people will realize. Servant girls at
the hotel refuse to wait on the militia
men, but among the strikers there ap-
pears to have been great change in
sentiment since the military arrived.
They say they we're perfectly willing for
the sheriff to take charge, and declare
that even the putting of non-unioH men
at work would not incite them to vio-
lence. Notwithstanding this 800 men
were discovered assembled lin the rear
of some buildings on Eighth avenue,
Just below the strikers headquarters,
shortly after dark last evening. There
were other gatherings in out-of-the-way
places about town. Guards at i'm
portant points were doubled at once,
and orders were issued which placed the
soldiers in readiness for any emergency
that might arise. Colonel Green the
provost marshal, was on duty at his
headquarters near the southwest corner
of the mill property. The second battal-
lion was held in reserve in their tents
close by. All the preparations were
made quietly, and few citizens knew
that any extra precautions were being
taken. More than fifty pounds of dyna-
mite have been discovered by soldiers
just outside the Carnegie plant. It has
been confiscated, and quiet search is
being made by the soldiers for other
explosives. Over 200 pounds of dyna-
mite and nitro-glycerine was in posses
ion of the strikers at the beginning of the
work, but it is carefully hidden now.
Frick, of the Carnegie company, hav-
ing received notice from the employees
of the Beaver falls mills that they will
refuse to work unless the company con-
fers with the Homestead men, has tele-
graphed to the superintendent of Beaver
falls mills to inform the men that unless
they go to work under the agreement by
Monday next the company will cancel
the agreement, and the work resumed
will be as non-union; and that under
no circumstances will the company
confer with the Homestead men as
members of the amalgamated associa-
ton. Fire was started in One of the
furnaces at Homestead. Nobody knows
what it means, but it has given rise to
fresh rumors that non-union men are
coming. Lovejoy, of the Carnegie COM
pany,. said this morning, that at the
proper time he knew at least two-thirds
of the men would come back. He ad-
mitted that the company had men with
Photographic instruments SO placed that
they were able to take pictures of many
of the men at the time of the fight with
the Pinkertons, and that these portraits
would be used when the prosecution of
the rioters began. Hugh O'Donnell has
sent this telegram to Attorney-General
Hensel at Harrisburg: "What disposi-
ton do you advise shall be made of such
Winchester, rifles as we can recover?'
The soldiers thought this was a sure sign
that the men were weakening. O'Don-
nell, however, said he had intended all
along to turn these weapons over to the
state authorities. There are nearly 500
of them, mostly Winchester repeaters.