Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-27
AFFAIRS AT HOMESTEAD.
Departure Of the Troops-Arrest Of Another
Striker.

Departure Of the Troops-Arrest of Another
Striker.
The city troop Of Philadelphia WAS the first
to leave Camp Black and Homestead yesterday.
Shortly after o'clock yesterday afternoon the
troop assembled and started for Munhan sta
ton at the east end Of the Carnegie works. At
$50 O'Clock the troop was started on its journey
home over the Pennsylvania railroad. The
eighth regiment, under Col. Magee, struck its
tent. and marched to City Farm station of the
Pennsylvania road The fourteenth regiment
will go home tomorrow and the thirteenth may
not be twenty-four hours behind it. Gen.Snow-
den has been given discretion by Gov. Pattison
10 dispose Of his troops as he sees fit and he
will probably send home regiment or two q
day until all but three regiments have gone. 1t
Is likely that these three regiments will be COM
posed Of volunteers from the entire body Of
troops, forming a provisional brigade, and 1t Is
quite as likely that the whole body Of troops
viii be withdrawn if Gen. Snowden decides that
there is no necessity for their presence in Home
stead.
James Close, An employee Of the company,
was arrested yesterday by oonstables from
Pittsburg. Close refused to say anything about
his arrest or the charge against him other than
he believed 1t to be piece Of spite work on the
part Of the Carnegie Company. He told q
threatened to have his father arrested for
murder if the son did not return to work, but
this failed, ss he showed that his father had
sailed for Wales before the present trouble
began.
Adam Foy, who has bsen in Jail in Pittsburg,
was released and returned home todny. bail in
100000 being furnished.
James Close was brought to Pittsburg in the
evening and lodged in Jail. The arrest was
effected on one Of the suppressed informations
sworn out last week by Secretary Lovejoy.
There are ten more warrants based upon SINH
the names Of the accused men will not be made
public:
Officials Of the Carnegie Company claim that
between five and six hundred men. many Of
OF them skilled men, are now at work in Home
stead mills, and that the plates being rolled are
over 900 applications On file and new men will
be sent up from day to day until the mill is
fully manned.
SCHEME OF CORRESPONDENTS.
An attempt on the part of some news
paper correspondents, who were anxious
to get home and also to score a
golden SCOOP to settle the famous wage-working
difficulty, has resulted in lamentable failure
The scheme In substance, as outlined by its
originator, was that the correspondents should
send a committee TO Hugh O'Donnell and pro-
pose W ufl tnat the bC(lOes II Ine plot, SELF
selected on account Of their belief in their per-
sonal prominence among their fellow workers.,
should go to Mr.. Potter, superintendent of the
Carnegie Company works at Homestead, and
agree TO act as mediators in the settlement Of
the lockout between the advisory committee and
the Carnegie Company.
This committee called on Mr.. O'Donnell and
made the proposition. Mr.. O'Donnell WAS not
well and was worried, and he gave his consent
to the tender half unthinkingly. So the members
OF the committee went back to their fellow
schemers, made their report, and the whole
number went to see Mr.. Potter.
Mr.. Potter treated the correspondents oour-
teously. He said the company did not bear
malice toward its former employees, but it could
not take back certain Of the leaders, partic-
ularly those against whom criminal charges
had been made. The company was willing. he
said, to propose q scale Of minimum S22 billet
rate on s261S basis. The company did not
care to deal with the Amalgamated Association,
but IT would sanction an agreement for quar-
terly conferences between q committee chosen
by the mill workers and three officers Of the
steel company.