Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-23
WARNED TO LEAVE AT ONCE
Eviction Notices Are Posted on the
Company's Houses.
MEN MUST VACATE IN TEN DAYS.
County Cficers Given Power to Call On
the State Troops
SOLDIERS WILL STAY OUT OF TOWN

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McCleary is filing Homestead with depu-
ties. and the streets last night were
patrolled by both the huge starred deputies
and the provost guard of the militia.
Whether this is an intimation that the
guards will be recalled within a short time
or merely the doing away with the provost
guard is question that is at present agi-
tating the minds of the citizens of Home
stead as we'll as the soldiers themselves.
Various rumors were afoat all day yester-
day, and some even went 50 far as to de-
clare deputation Of Homestead citizens had
called upon the Governor and requested him
to withdraw the provost guard, as the citi-
zens of Homestead consider their presence in
the light of an afront. This rumor was denied
by General Snowden, although he admitted
the idea of patrolling the borough of Home
stead with deputy sheriffs and restricting
the militia to Mif1in township, where the
Carnegie works are situated, except in
times of trouble, was originally Governor
Pattison's.
Deputies Take Charge OF Homestead.
Sheriff McCleary sent a deputation OF II
men to Homestead yesterday afternoon
under the direction of Deputy Sheriff
Bradley. The men are large, powerful
looking fellows and upon the lapel of their
coats the great star of their Office is con-
spicuously worn. They were curiously
received by loungers about the
depots and stores throughout the
village who did not seem to
know whether to welcome them or not.
The deputies were marched in rather erratie
line to the quarters of Colonel Greene, the
Provost Marshal of the day, by one Of the
officers who had been assigned to the task of
introducing them to the military officers
and men by General Snowden.
That the presence of some Of them was in
direct contradiction to their wishes was
illustrated when tall fellow, with power
enough for three ordinary men, remarked
in the hearing of DISPATCH correspond
ent that he wished he was five miles away.
The formal introduction of the deputies to
the guardsmen was tedious and somewhat
tiresome, to say nothing of the sufferings
from the excessive heat the men were COM
PEELED to undergo.
Deputies Authorized to Call the Troops.
The provost guard will not be sent out
to-day, and the deputies, together with the
policemen of Homestead appointed by the
Advisory Committee, will preserve peace
and order within the precincts Of the
borough. In case of any disturbance in
Homestead of any character at all, the
deputies nave been authorized to call upon
the militia for assistance.
The first important work of the new Off
cials was to post eviction notices upon q
number of the company's houses nearby the
mill property. These notices are per-
within ten days in order to make room for
the new workmen of the Carnegie Com
pany.
The guards, both officers and men, were
instructed to respect the authority of the
deputy sheriff to whom they were to be
subordinated. The guardsmen were also
given to understand that the task of polio
ing the town of Homestead had been turned
into the hands of the deputy sheriffs and to
the borough officers, the latter OF whom
make total of 60.
The Guard VIII X aep Outside.
Except on call of the Sheriff. representa-
tiyes, the militia in Homestead are to re-
strict their operations to looking after their
own members such for instance, as appre-
hending absconders from the ranks, if any,
and enforcing an order issued last night, pro-
hibiting the National Guard from entering
saloons.
General Snowden declined to attempt to
define the respective limits of authority of
the militia and deputy sheriffs, and retus I'd
to discuss the reasons for the change in the
situation. He denied emphatically that
any differences existed between himself and
Governor PattIson.
The new arrangement, it should be ex-
planned, does not materially alter the condi-
tions that have existed in Mifflin township,
which adjoins the borough OF Homestead
Miff1in township contains the military en-
campment ground, all the Carnegie Home
stead mills, and the so or more houses be-
longing to the Carnegie Company. Home
stead borough is entirely distinct, and is
where the 800 locked-out men chiefly re-
Gil