Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-27
ANOTHER ARREST.
A Young Homestead Workman
Charged with Murder.
TROOPS LEAVE THE SCENE OF WAR.

Eighth Regiment Go Home-Oth ers
10 Follow ShortIy-Anairs a the Mills
Condition of Manager Frick-News-
paper Correspondents Make Effort
at Mediation-Two More Anarchists
Arrested-Tcstimo at the Inquest.
PITTsBURG. July 21.-James Close, q
young mill worker, was arrested in Home
stead yesterday afternoon by Constable
Price on the charge OF murder, and was
brought 20 the city last evening and
lodged in Jail. The arrest was effected on
one of the suppressed informations sworn
cut last week by Secretary Lovejoy. There
are ten more warrants based on similar in
formations that are still to be served, but
the names OF the accused men will not be
made public. Close refused to say any
thing about his arrest or the charge
against him other than that he believed
1t to be piece of spite work on the part of
the company He told a reporter that the
company had threatened to have his
father arrested for murder il the son did
not return to work, but this failed, as he
showed that his father had sailed for
Wales before the present trouble began.1
Condition of Manager Prick.
The report from Mr. Tricks residence
though suffering some pain, he had rested
comparatively easy during the day. and
the progress of the wounds toward heal
Ing was eminently satisfactory to the sur
geons in attendance The sick chamber
has been fitted up with elaborate cooling
mechanism and can now be kept at a cool
and even temperature. All possibility of
the intense heat producing inflammation
r.. i -.
of the Carnegie company claim that be-
tween 500 and 600 men, many of them
skilled men. are now at work in Home
stead mills, and that the plates being
rolled are of the finest character They
have, they say. over 1000 applications on
file and new men will be sent up from
day 10 day until ,he mill is fully manned.
Troops Leaving Homestead.
More troops left Homestead yesterday.
The Philadelphia City Troop left at p.
m. and later the Eighth regiment left, all
highly pleased TO be free of service The
Fourteenth will 90 home today and the
Thirteenth very shortly. Gen. Snowden
has been given discretion by Gov Pattison
to dispose of his troops as he sees fit and
he viii probably send home a regiment or
two day until all but three regiments
have gone. 1t is likely that these three
regiments will be composed of volunteers
from the entire body OF troops, forming
provisional brigade and it is quite rs
likely that the whole body of troops will
be withdrawn If Gen. Snowdeu decides
that there is no necessity for their pres
ence in Homestead.
Wanted n Brilliant SCOOP"
Some newspaper correspondents at
Homestead, melted thereto by the pros
poets of n scoop" organized themselves
into peace committee and tried 10 engi-
neer a compromise between the men and
the company. They first sent commit
tee to O'Donnell proposing that they act
meditators. O'Donnell was unwell and
worried and he gave his consent to the
tender half unthinkiagly. The members
of the committee went back to their fell
low schemers, made their report and The
whole number went to see Potter. Potter
treated the correspondents courteously.
Potter Msks "A Proposition
He said the company did not bear NAL
ice toward its former employees. but it
could not take back certain of the lead
ers, particularly those against whom Grim
inal charges had been made The COM
pany was willing, he said, to propose a
scale of a minimum $50 billet rate ON a
SO. 50 basis. The company did not care
to deal with the Amalgamated associa-
ton, but it would sanction an agreement
for quarterly conferences between a coui-
mittee chosen by the mill workers and
thee officers of the steel company.