Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-07-20
MARTIAL LAW IN FORCE.
Measures to End the Mob Rule at Home
stead-Troops Contrnl the Town.

Measures to End the Mob Rule at Home
stead-Troops Control the Town.
HOMESTEAD, Pa. The borough of
Homestead was placed under martial
law this morning. This is the outcome
of the unwarranted arrest of strangers
Yesterday. After various unauthorized
arrests made by the special policemen
yesterday, Gen. Snowden made strict
investigation into the circumstances
and he had determined to take rigor-
GUS measures this morning, even
to the length of declaring mar
tial law. Upon the request of
a committee representing practically
all the correspondents in Homestead,
who were unwilling that martial law
should follow the assault upon one of
their number, Gen. Snowden decided
TO defer for the present the formal an
nouncement of martial law; but the in
formal work was quite as effective. The
Fifteenth Regiment was early drafted
down the hill, taking up positions about
the provost marshal's tent, fronting
Eighth Avenue. Two companies of
into the city under the command of
Maj. Crawford, and squads were placed
in front of the advisory committees
rooms, at the railroad station and at
about eight other places about the town
where heretofore the men have been in
the habit of congregat;ng. Their orders
were explicit. In the case of any ar
rest made by the special police for a
manifest breach of peace, drunken
the provost patrol will not inter
fere, but in any arrest not for
such cause the patrol will at once
take charge of both the arrested, per-
son and the man arresting him, and
bring them both before the provost
marshal or his representative. If the
arrest is an illegal one, the policeman
will be properly punished. The patrol
is armed with bayonets on their rifles,
and with twenty rounds of ball cart
ridges each, and an officer is with each
squad.
Gen. Snowden was seen very shortly
after the new order of things went into
effect. He said: "There has been no
change whatever in the position, save
that the provost patrols have been
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the preservation of peace can now be
somewhat more certainly assured.
Yes, the patrols will prevent any fur
Their illegal arrests They will cooper
ate with the civil authorities to that
end, but further than that nothing will
be, DONE" Gen. Snowden is still in
vestigating one arrest made by the spe-
Gals yesterday, and the chances are
that the policemen in each case will be
brought before the provost marshal and
made to explain their position.
Col. Green, the provost marshal, had
little to add to what Gen. Snowden had
said. "The town is most distinctly not
under martial law" he said, 'but there
has been SO much decentralization that it
has become necessary for us to cooper
ate with the civil authorities in preserv-
ing order"
The story that the town had been de-
clared under martial law travelled rapid
ly to the strikers headquarters, where
there was naturally much excitement
over the news. Mr.. O'Donnell said that
it was a step which, under the cir
cumstances, was to have been expected.
1t is announced that a special train
with 400 non-union men on board will
arrive in Homestead by $3.50. The
strikers have the news and say that no
attempt to prevent their entry will be
do