Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-30
SENDING MEN TO HOMESTEAD.
The Steamer Tide Makes Another TIP from
Pittsburg.

Tno steamer Tide Makes Another Trip from
Pittsbury.
PIrrsBuRa, July S0-The force Of non-union
men at Homestead grows daily. The prepare
tons to start the Union city mills continue and
the anarchists will be heard before Judge Gripp
this afternoon. The threatening letters received
by the Carnegie officials are, the developments
this morning in the great industrial duel begun
Just q month and day ago.
DR.. Litchfeld, in his formal bulletin concern
ing Mr.. Prick, reports him comfortable and
happy and adds that the chairman will be en-
tirely well in a week or two.
Early this morning the tug Tide made trip
to Homestead and carried about forty non
union men, together with enough provisions for
o regiment. She will make two more trips to-
day and will take up more men. These Access
sions increase the number of men in Homestead
mill to $50 and the officials claim /, 200 will be
there by 8 o'clock to night.
The class of men most needed are those with
skill and laborers There are too many mechanics
there now. No new departments will be started,
but on Monday morning furnaces will be blown
in and the entire mill il possible put on double
turn.
The strikers are still aggressive at Home
stead.
An oil scout named Smith of Pittsburg was
set upon last evening by the strikers cavalry
patrol and roughly treated until he reached the
military pickets. The strikers suspected he
was guiding party Of non-unionists to Home
stead, but Smiths business was private.
AT THE CITY MILLS.
Nothing developed at the city mills this morn
ing. A squad of police went through the
plant and left more guards stationed at the
entrances. Supt Dillon is preparing to fill his
threat Of placing 800 men at work. and the
strikers will be furnished the reason for order
ing out more guards.
~ Fell he oh
sympathy strike is on, last evening held mon
ster gathering there. and good and bad speeches
were made by Amalgamated leaders and some
Homestead strikers. but neither Hugh ODon-
nell nor Burgess McLuckie was there, as
promised.
but nothing was said to them about being dis
missed. The company will attempt to start the
steel rail mill Monday with new workmen &C
cording to common gossip.
The threatening letters which have been re-
ceived by high officials Of the Carnegie Steel
Company and Vice Chairman Leishman, printed
in red ink and promising death, have the effect
Of stimulating the vigilance Of the two guards
at the 5th avenue entrance to the offices. Now
no person who looks at all suspicious is allowed
to loiter in the vicinity, and dozens Of people
have been stopped at the door. There is al
residence, and any one would have a hard time
breaking through them.
THE ANARCHIST coNsPIRAToRs.
The Carnegie officials will take no active part
in the prosecution Of the anarchist sccomplees
Of Bergman, whose hearing will occur today,
but their feeling is shown by Secretary Love
Joys remark: "As . matter Of safety for the
public we think they should be kept in Jail for
. time
II Is intimated in police headquarters that
the magistrate will fix the bail so high that
their friends cannot furnish it, even though the
lawyers retained protest against this method OF
keeping them prisoners.
Ex-Privste 1sms' lawyers come to the front
this morning and say that before the day is
over criminal suits will be entered against Col.
Hawkins and Lieut.. Col. Strestor. A civil
suit is impossible for thirty days owing to a
clause In the National Guard laws One Of the
counsel, G. G. Dickey, is a law partner Of the
new United States Supreme Court justice,
George Shiras, jr.
James Close, one Of the alleged rioters ar
rested in Homestead on tho chcrge Of murder
and admitted to bail by judge Magee on Thurs
day, was released on s10 900 bail this morning,
Mrs. J. NJ Gusky going on his bond.