Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-08
HIS HOMESTEAD TRIP.
Agent Baxter Was There to Buy
Land Instead of Dispose of II.
O'DONNELL HAVING A NICE REST.
About 800 Men Applied for Work at
shoenbergers Mill Yesterday.
CHANGES IN THE UPPER UNION WORKS

Real Estate Agent Baxter's visit To
Homestead, Tuesday morning, was to ar
range for the purchase of all salable pro.
perty for the Carnegie Company. The
report published yesterday that his object
was to sell the Hill property has been
denied, and last night the preceding explain.
alton was given by professional man in
Homestead.
The object is to control the property in
the town, which may be done by few
more purchases, as it was stated by Chair
man Frick at the Congressional investiga-
tion that the company held $141, 900 worth
OF mortgages there.
Mrs. Hugh O'Donnell told DISPATCH
reporter her husband was "taking nice
rest at the seashore." She said she was
Shaving home and O'Donnell would appear
at the proper time.
Officers Farrell and Mills called at the
O'Dounel home and found the house
locked up tightly from cellar to garreS
They hold two warrants for O'Donnell, one
charging him with aggravated riot and con-
spiracy and a second warrant Tor murder.
They Fooled the Constables-
Last Friday, when O'Donnell and Ross
were last seen, they both promised Constable
Stewart, of Alderman McMaSter's Office,
that they would go Immediately into town
and give themselves up: As they had kept
their promise before, the constable trusted
them, and no one in Pittsburg or Home
stead has seen anything of them since.
Mrs. O'Donnell appeared to be in an ag-
gressive mood and said the few words she
did in testy, decided tone Of voice. She
accounted for the house being closed at the
time of the officers call by saying she was
probably at ''the store
Officers Farrell and Mills quelled an en-
bryo riot Yesterday afternoon A large
crowd of women, one of them over so years
of age, was congregated about the Carnegie
fence on Munhall road They were vigor-
ously shouting and hurling insulting in
vectives at the workmen within. They
would have become more demonstrstive had
not the two officers appeared at the oppor-
tune time they did.
his Irf1uence Questioned.
Paul Oldshue denied last night he had
made arrangements for the return of all the
Huns and Slavs Later, Chairman Craw-
ford said Oldshue had no influence what
ever over the foreign element of the
strikers, and could not arrange for their
concerted return, even if he so desired.
Manager Potter said yesterday but 136
men were now needed. "We employed
about 15 men, he continued, "from Lewis
ton and ten from Phoenixville. and have Sc
cured some splendid workmen." Eighty
men LETT the mills yesterday, according to
Chairman Crawford, among whom were
three soldiers of the Sixteenth Regiment,
who had been promised sS per day, and
were given laborers' situations at 81 6S per
day.
The revolver shot of Tuesday night out of
which startling sensation has evolved was
simply an accidental shot fired into the air
by reveler. No house was struck, no
person was within 100 yards of the spot, and
no excitement of any character whatever
followed. 1t scarcely aroused any curiosity.