Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1892 — PEACE REIGNS, [ARTICLE]

PEACE REIGNS,

ttli Betiaved the Trouble at Pittsburgh | Settled, Unless Z A spedal from Homestead, PL., on the IBth/says: * Homestead citizens all are aHnit to-day in one sentiment— they want no more vloenc©;ah<i declare that under no circumstances, save a re-introchiction of Pinkertonism, will they resort to arms. This is a wonderful change in a week, and whether or not the presence of the militia hast© do with this pacific attitude, the men believe themselves thoroughly in earnest as they reiterate the statement, and declare that the presence of non-union men would not provoke them to a breach of the peace' although they may useall moral suasion possible to induce such persons to leave town. As an evidence of this sentiment the telegram of Mr. Hugh O’Donnell to Attorney General Hensel is striking. He offers to return the Winchesters to the proper persons. In this Mr. Q’Donnell merely demonstrates the general desire of the mill workers to conduct the wage-con-flict on lines other than those which led so many possessors of the captured guns to say last week, with significance, “to the victors belong the spoils ” Every member of the old advisory board will to-day repeat that he is perfectly willing that the Sheriff should send deputiet into the mill, or that he assume direction of the Carnegie watchman, and that the locked-out men will not attempt to pass the gates under nearly any provocation. The men, of course, are as watchful as they ever were, and the constantly flying rumors of hon-union men coming serve to nourish their vigilance. Yet is safe to say that no harm would be done them* Last evening a man came into town and said he was going to work. The men argued with him for two hours, and finally he returned to Pittsburg. In all the time, however, not one personal threat was mau6 against uiiu. The men in the other Carnegia mills wont out on aj strike Thursday, because the company refused another conference with the Homesteaders. All of the mills are now therefore closed. Several and men went out. A special on the 16th referring to this strike says: “The men at the Union mills of the Carnegie Steel Company, at Twenty-eighth and Thirty-third streets, haye locked themselves out and they will have to wait till the company unlocks the gates before they go back. This is the conclusion of the company as expressed by Mr. Lovejoy, why this morning said: 'lf these men who quit yesterday think they can strike and go in and out of our property and go to work when they plexse and quit when they please, they are very much mistaken. They will not be permitted to go back until the company saysso, nor will they go back under the same terms and considerations. They broke the contract they had with us, and a new one will have to be made before they can work for us. This is their own doing, and having broken the contract, we propose to say when and under what terms they shall return.’!—The company hopes to start the mills soon with non-union men. A fire was started in the hearths at the Carnegie mills Friday, and the slght gL the steam very nearly precipated a conflict between the troops and the men. As soon as the- steam rose a large body of strikers, who were near the railroad front of the mills, made a hasty movement towards the gate, and the provost patrol hurriedly got between them and the main entrance. The bayonets were brought to a charge, and the men were halted. It was probably curiosity rather than any purpose to enter the works which made the men come forward, but the abrupt manner in which they were turned back caused some feeling, and was taken by many as an indication that the troops are ready to fight, a fact which may have heretofore been disbelieved, on account of the sympathy for the men expressed by ♦he military. Since the soldiers have beeu confined in the camp there has been a very marked change in the feeling between the town and the hill, the sentiment on both sides being decidedly more unfriendly than it was at first. General Snowden comes in for the most criticism by the strikers, and they are not particularly sparing in their remarks. In this connection is the boycott which the servant girls at the clubhouse have put on General Snowden and the officers of the militia. The clubhouse, also called the Frick Hotel, is just opposite the main gate of the mill property, and the best restaurant in Homestead. It has been doing a land office business since the militjia arrived, but Friday morning the cooks and the servant girls declined to minister to the wants of the military and the camp commissary had to be called on to provide for the needs of the headqUar-, ters. The strike at the Frick Hotel indicates the general feeling of the people toward the militia. Although General Snowden was butlpart of the grievance of the young women, the man against whom the boyfcott of the girls was chiefly directed was Manager Potter, of the mills; who has again taken up his permanent residence in Homestead. A new force of waiters was speedily found and at a rather late dinner everybody coming to the hotel, Including the distinguished commander of the forces, was seryed. - q -„

Sir Charles Dilke, who a few years ago figured in a notorious divorce suit, has been elected to Parliament, and may again enter public life. The rear coach of an excursion train on 1 the Louisville Evansville & St. Louis line was wrecked near Eyansvllle city limits Thursday night with fatal results. The accident was the result of carelessness on tye part of an employe of the transfer company, who threw the switch too soon and caused the rear trucks of the last coach to jump the track. The car ran on the tied for twenty-five feet and then rolled down the embankment into a litch, completely overturning. The car was crowded, every seat being occupied. Eleven passengers were more or less sorlnni'v injured, and* number of ot’i<r- ’.. hurt