Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-20
QUIET At HOMESTEAD.
Indications that the Militia Force
viii Be Reduced.
THE REVIEW OF THE SITUATION.
Some Departments Of the Home
stead Plant at Work Yesterday.
About One Hundred and Fifty
Men Inside of the White Fence.
No Change at the City and
Beaver Falls Mills.

NO OuduS6 dO OllO ivy S'ANN
Beaver Falls Mills.
HOMESTEAD, PA, July 19.-Barring
a surprise, the indications tonight were
that however many criminal informa-
tions against strikers might be cited by
the Carnegie officials in Pittsburg, d
truce to arrests was at least temporarily
the programme to be pursued in Home
stead. Few of the strikers were dis
posed 10 do any premature Growing, but
a feeling was perceptible that the threat
OF the advisory board to see that the
murder warrants were not confined TO
one side Of the controversy had not been
without its effect.
During the day innumerable rumors
of warrant serving constabes coming,
military posses forming and the like
kept the town people and soldiers at
high nervous tension. Uniformed
members OF the Twelfth regiment
caused a sensation at the Amalgamated
headquarters by walking up stairs and
knocking at the closed door OF the Ad-
visory Committee room. An excited
committeeman peered out and de-
manded their business, while others
within glanced at the windows as il
contemplating for an instant the ad-
visibility Of jump outward for liberty.
Swift second thought quickly gave
them self-poSsession, which was not
Iessened by the fact becoming appa-
rent that instead Of company OF SOL
diers there were just
TWO MEN IN UNIFORM.
The committeeman managed to enforce
a smile when it turned out that the
blue coated officers were only musicians
in the regiment band, and that so far
from wishing TO place the advisory com
mittee under arrest the purpose Of the
blue coats was to find relative named
Foster, who was said TO be at the Strik-
ers headquarters.
A decided gurry in the strikers meet
ing place later had more plausible ex-
cuse. Constable Webber, from the
Squire's Office in Pittsburg, where the
murder warrants, if issued at all, must
be expected, was sped bustllng down
the main street toward the strikers
Headquarters, accompanied by the chief
police eu ployed in the Carnegie
Homestead mills. In the ConStableS'
hands was a bundle Of papers that
looked susDiciouSly like warrants
Webber was eyed in no friendly way by
the several hundred muscular men who
thronged the sidewalks. He was in
In comparatively little danger, however,
for directly across the street was the
Provost Generals headquarters and 500
riflemen within a stones throw.
Instead Of warrants, Constable Web
Der declared he had only subp9nas for
witnesses who were wanted at the hear
ing tomorrow in Pittsburg OF Burgess
McLuckie's petition for bail. The sub
penas numbered thirty or forty, and
were for workmen, merchants and 9TH
ers, not all Of whom by any means were
supposed to have been participants in
the battle.
WITH THE PINKERToNS.
In one case the constable narrowly es-
capped unpleaSantness. Owen Murphy,
to whom one of the suopPnas was di-
rected, was not to be convinced that
the document did not imply criminal
charge and his arrest. Murphy insist
ed upon having the document read and
explained in the presence OF others be-
sides himself, and the incident led to
many wild reports which might easily
have led TO an outbreak II the strikers
leaders were not cool headed and dis
posed to allow nothing to happen which
woule prove the men other than orderly.
Contrary to all expectations, the day
closed with no call Whatever registered
with the officer Of the day for aid to the
civil authorities. The most onerous
duty for officers was TO oversee a Sani-
tary precautiOn-the cleaning out and
disinfection of the foul cutters along
the lane bordered on one side by the
Carnegie works and on the other side by
slime OF Hungarian tenementS. The
fearful odors arising had been the cause
of considerable sicknes and serious re-
suits TO the soldiers and towns people
were feared by the physicians attached
10 the militia unless the matter was
promptly taken in hand.
The meeting Of the advisory commit
tee tonight resulted in charges being
given ont that the Carnegie managers
were resorting
TO PECULIAR METHODS
to force men to work.
The cases OF James Gloz andsanother
man were cited, in which it is alleged
success was achieved by threats to i'm
plicate relatives in the pending legal
proceedings. Clark Richmond and Co.,
of Pittsburg, were reported as advertis-
ing for carpenters, and when applicants
for work appeared, asking them to 60
to Homestead, to build hunks and sheds
for nou-unionistS in the mills. Another
matter which was received by the ad-
visory committee, was the report OF the
discharge tonight of three watchmen
at the mill, because of suspicion that
they were keeping the strikers posted
on the conditiod of affairs inside.
The contributions received to-day for
the benefit of the laborers made idle by
the strike, but who are not members OF
the Amalgamated Association, amount
ed to s1O6.
Among the militia men here to-day it
is stated that after the works have been
opened on Thursday, proclamation
will be issued calling for 500 volunteers,
who will be drafted into provisional
regiment and kept here until all poss
bility Of riot has passed away. The
men will be paid by the State. Gov.
Pattlson, as on nearly every other sub
ject, has nothing TO say about the story,
but the details indicated are given by
one of the members Of his staff. The
soldiers here
apr rxrPENrTY ANyTOTs
to get home. Many of them, especially
from the oil fields, are business men
who dropped everything to come TO
Homestead and their interests are suf-
1arirr In THAR nnar nacfad ahsanca