Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-16
Another Outbreak May Occur
at Homestead, Pa.
Strained Relations Between the
Men and Militia.
The Town Still Patrolled by
Armed Troops,
WHO ARE NOT NOW so FRIENDLY Ae
THEY WERE.
THE BAD FEELING Is GROWING
AMONG THE STRIKERS.

AMONG THE STRIKERS.
The First Clash Between the Civil and
Military Authorities Results in the
High Constable of Homestead Being
Run In and Kept In the Guard House
Over Night - He Was Drunk and
! Thought Himself Larger Than Uncle
! sam-Thirty-Two Hundred Men Strike
Out of Sympathy in Pittsburg-The
Homestead Strikers Not Pleased-The
Civil Engineers Assistants at Home
stead Strike AIso--The Congressional
/ Investigating Committee Completes
Its Labors and Returns to Washington.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 16.-Relations
between the militia and mill men are
becoming strained. AT first the troops
were regarded as SO many fellow-work-
men temporarily wearing the state
uniform and required to preserve order,
vet in sympathy with the locked-out
employees of the Carnegie mills in their
fight against grasping capital, non-unlon
labor and the Pinkertons.
The advisors and leaders of the men
said that the troops were coming as
their friends, and when the boys in blue
mingled with the townspeople, drank
beer with the steel workers and gave
them cartridges in exchange for relics
of the fight with the Pinkertons, this
feeling prevailed. But after the tlrst
day the lines have gradually been tight
ening and strict discipline prevails N
the camp and in the town.
The soldiers are under orders not &c
talk with mill men, and those who
can not show twenty rounds OF ca
tridges have been reprimanded and DIS
ciplined.
Picitets Increased.
Thursday night when pickets wer'
thrown out around the Carnegie mil
and soldiers stood within half dozel
paces from each other on one side the
borough of Homestead, and on the othe
the celebrated stockade, which Mr.
Frick placed around the mill in goot
season, the situation was made clear t.
the men. Those who were halted at tn
point of the bayonet when they attempt
ed to pass down Eighth avenue IN iron
of the mills became indignant, and gang
of mill men began to gather III the tow
near the nil. a.,
Down along the tracks of the Pitts
burg, McKeesport and Youghioghen
railroad, which runs through the Cal
negie property, several gangs OF me
were dispersed by the patrol at ? and
O'Clock Friday morning. The specif
policemen Of the borough ordered the
men to go to their homes, but the me
refused and would not move on. In
patrol then took the matter III hand ail
cleared the streets.
The mill men
Had Been Drinking
dand sndulged in loud talk, defylng, II
I military authorities as well as the loct
police Right mt the corner of the mn
nronerty. a crowd of excited strike
gathered and blocked the sidewalk nea
~ all night. They tainted the soidle,
whose picket line was not twenty lie
away, and refused to go to their nom
when asked by their leaders, who fear'
a collision. -,
The first clash between the civil al
the military authorities occurred short
after midnight Amos Stewart, the hlt
constable of the borough, was arrest
Nv the patrol and placed i'll the qua
house until morning. He had be
drinking too freely, and finally becal
so boisterous that the patrol ordered N
TO 90 home. He refused and decla
that no brass buttonel militia could Ia
him in. He was released at oclO
Friday morning.
Rumors of the coming OF
Non-Union Men
were current during the night a
caused excitement among both soldl'
and strikers. Some of the former, w
were ON duty. sent kilograms to tn
families. and the advisory committee
the mill men got together mt mldmt
and sent ont scouts to intercept the n
men. These scouts We're directed TO
arguments only and to explain the 81
alton and appeal to the men, as relic
workmen and ask them, for the sake
the wives and families of Homestead,
remain away.
They were instructed to ask the II
if they were coming here TO take
nlaces of mill mon because they neel
help for themselves If they replied
the affirmative they were to be one
assistance until they could lind w
elsewhere.
The river front was
watched All Night
by strikers and reporters, but III
were no signs of the men. The t1tteee
regiment remained ON duty FRI
morning and the line of plckets
rounding the mill was not removed.
Platoons of the provost guard patr'
the streets, and pickets were static
at the depot. along the railroad an
the intersection of the principal sire
The townspeople are gating ac
toned to the presence of the troops,
business is lively ut all the stores.
telegraph offices and headquarters OF
newspaper men are visited freque
NV min men anxious to learn II
news of the approach of non-union
has been reported.
The investigation
PrrTsBuRG, July is. - The cons
eional committee resumed its mo
Thursday.
Chairman Oates said: 81 wish to
rect an error. 1t was stated that
committee was divided ON the ques
of compulsory arbitration and
Pinkerton measures, and that
would he minority report. SUI
N4.AME