VOL. LXV.
THE STRIKE OFF.
THE GREAT HOMESTEAD 8
FAILURE.
TRIKE A
Amalgamated Officers Advise the Men
Give Up the Fight and Take Steps to
Better Their Condition,
to
The great strike at Carnegie’s Home-
stead steel works has been declared ofl.
After five months struggle, which for
bitterness has probably been
equalled in this country, the army of
strikers finally decided to give up the
fighty This action was taken
meeting of the lodges of the Amal-
gamated association at Homestead
Saturday afternoon, the vote
101 in favor of declaring the
and 91 against it.
Among those present at the meeting
were Vice President Carney, Secretary
Kilgallon, Treasurer Madden and
David Lynch, of the advisory board,
The officials addressed members
and in plain words told the
strike was lost, and advised to
take steps to better their condition.
The members met with considerable
opposition, but when the
taken showed a majority of ten in favor
of declaring the strike off. Those who
were in favor of declaring the
off were jubilant, while those
were against it were badly put
Most of the latter were
MEN WHO WERE OBSTINATE,
and many of them were men who had
either applied for positions in the
and had been turned down,
that their names were
pany’s black list and could'nt
tions. A member of the
board said that he had been
get the strike declared off, for
weeks as he knew it
would have been better for the men, as
a great many of them could have
ten their places back.
Thosé who eould’t get back are
bad fix, as the relief funds
ped and many hundreds of th
nothing to live on. The people
Homestead, especially the
men, are highly elated over the de-
claration to call the strike off, for K it
would have continued much longer it
would have ruined the town. Many
business houses have fallen into the
hands of the sheriff since strike
has been on.
resume its normal condition soon.
HISTORY OF THE GREAT
The Homestead strike has d
the most disastrous in the history of
the country. [It orginated from a re
duction in the departments where
members of the Amalgamated associa-
tion of iron and steel
employed. The hitch was on what
known as the sliding s«
scale which regulates the men’s wages
by the market price of steel bi
Nearly every will in this vicinity
ed the scale, including other mills
the Carnegie company.
At the refusal of the firm to sign the
a for the Homestead mill, a
out occurred by the Amalgamated as
sociation and they were joined by the
mechanics and laborers who struck
out of sympathy only, their wages not
being reduced. The strikers were de
termined to keep non-union men out
of the mills and adopted military dis-
cipline. The story of the arrival and
bloody fight with the Pinkertons on
July 6, the subsequent riotous proceed-
ings and the calling out of the Nation-
al Guard and its departure after three
months duty is too well known {o re-
peat.
LAWRENCEVILLE MEN INDIGNANT.
For six weeks the mill had been run-
ning almost as well as before the strike
but until within the last week the
strikers have steadfastly refused to
admit defeat.
The news of Saturday's action
never
al a
standing
strike off
the
them
them
yole was
strike
who
out.
mill
or felt sure
on the com-
Jet posi
advisory
trying to
SO
and it
was lost,
in a
will be stop-
em have
in
business
3
the
Business is expected to
STRIKE
provi
workers were
1%
ale. It
sili
lock-
was
negie’s.
comrade, one drowned,
by the cars,
died from fever and several we
in the mill, one was murdered
another pon-unionist and one
committed suicide,
The attempted assassination
Chairman Frick of the
several non-union
ere killed |
by
Carnegie com-
strike,
MEN GOING BACK TO WORK.
Men Apyly
Positions
Amalgamated for
The decision of the machine
and day laborers to return to work has
put the people of the town in a happier
frame of mind than any time dur!
ing the lock out, and the business men
that the town will
its former activity. There
600 applications for work on Friday at
the steel
were turned
ad 1
ood reason to believe itis a ques-
until nearly
back at his old place
atl
pecially feel re-
slime were
works and although many
away because their posi-
tions hb wen taken by new men they |
ave g
tion of only a short time
man will be
mill.
new men
every
in the
The
groups
are seen gathering in
in the mill yard and discussing
inclined
to believe that they will not be wanted
day, and, rather than
wait for the ir discharge they are taking
time by the forelock by asking for their
pay” returning to the
Cane.
the situation, and many are
after next pay
and section
whence they
already mill since
the old men have returned
The said to be
ying full of old iron and serapple, and
that the
11 pleased as the
noticeable at the
0 many of
3
WR.
mill yard is
cems to be no seeret Cong.
men that
§ 8 we
strike 3 to a certain extent been
leclared
Severs Amalgamation are
have applied for their old
and so far as could be
Men wi
12
rive i
men
ve
positions, learn-
ed
charg
10 have
their
employment,
which does not bear out the
hint
$484
were refused,
none
gil
es of riot han over
heads have been
statement
man who had been indicted
wottld be
every
some offen
OrK.
icants were received at a lively
although many
men were
turned away they still have
$1
hopes that
of
to
company
time,
be Ne Kk
The has
tified the foreman to discharge only
to make room for
and the incompetent list
ge, judging from the
that are being
¢yv will get back In course
will content
Ors
wos an} 3 ’
irk elsewhere.
om petent
id men,
ound to be lar
men
§ 1d
MAN
men
nn back.
-~ > -
Shows Signe of Hydrophobia.
When Albert
it! awnit-
was terribly bitten
fiiteen
of age,
at Sunbury,
years
in jail
ing trial for larceny,
1, who is
by a mad dog. He recovered from his
ing hydrophobia. He froths at the
mouth and seems to be endowed with
Although his
shackled it
twist
prisoners,
times he is perfectly rational and begs
that he be strapped to a table so that
he cannot injure anybody: Several of
the attendants have received bruises
at the hands of the man,
his wife, carries an
ugly scar on |
superhuman strength.
hands and feet are is an
him to
from the grasp of six
easy matter for
insane
who is with kim
of his After making two un-
successful attempts to commit suicide,
yesterday drugs were administered to
make hin sleep. Attendants left the
cell for a few minutes and when they
returned they found him lying on the
floor in a pool of "blood. In their ab-
blows,
cell window and chewed a portion of
it. His mouth was badly lacerated
causing the flow of blood. Physicians
the men at Beaver Falls and Duquesne
the fight in three weeks and the Beaver
Falls strikers decided to go back
work yesterday. The Lawrencevi
no intention of giving in. They are
now in the position of striking for no
cause. They are very angry at the
Homestead men and will probably de-
clare the strike off to-morrow,
The strike at one time involved near-
ly 10,000 men, and the loss in wages
will reach, it is said, in the neighbor-
hood of $2,000000. To this can be
added nearly half a million dollars
paid to the state troops and the costs
of the county of Allegheny for the riot,
treason and other cases growing out
of the strike and the loss to the com-
pany.
THE RESULTS OF THE STRIKE.
At least thirty-five deaths were
directly or indirectly caused by the
i
days. Ruath's home is in Ren'tucky.
MA
The November number of the N New
York Musical Monthly has been sent
It is published by Richard A.
Saalficld, 794, 796 and 798 Tenth ave
nue, New York.. IL contains 32 pages
of full sized sheet musie, printed on
good paper, and consisting of the most
popular voeal and instrumental music,
The November number contains: Chris.
toplier Columbus March, The Popular
Two Biep (Society Dance, Coppelia
Valse, German Patrol, Lohengrin
March, Bince Kitty Went Away, Gol-
den Wedding, Wedded Once But Par
ted Now, Once in a While, The price
is 15 cents pet copy or $1.50 a year,
eosin ems
Hatlrood Necessities.
All the ear works and locomotive
shops in the country are busy trying
to fill the orders for 1,500 new passeng-
er coaches and 400 new locomotives to
be delivered to roads centering at Chi
cago by May 1, 1802, It is estimated
that the outlay for additional rolling
stock and motive power by the Chi.
cago roads alone will not fall short of
sg
: A Citizen's Requae
Mr. Editor: Would it not be well
{ for the citizens to have a meeting in
| Harper & Kreamer's hall some even-
ing to get at the truth of things in re
| gard to the water and also to have the
law on board walks, pay their
jown, and yet are charged for others,
There is difference of
| these matte rs, and the truth and
law might as well minde
{either through the colums of the He-
PORTER or at of the eiti-
wens, where heard.
A CITizeN,
uch a meet-
some
over
the
known,
opinion
be
n meeting
both sides can be
{We see no objection to
Ling.—ED. REPORTER.
We make the following
the above:
answer to
If anyone has a grievance relative to
the water, the law gives him a
dy—by complaint to court,
directed to
matter—the
wrong.
As to board walks,
nor justice to make
board walks
grounds or
own walk,
lots, whether
number
reme-
which is
tl
}
right any
is
wrong
law strictly
th
any
fronting
Each must
vacant
ig
one |
other
lots,
on
owner of
lots, No
1x for sidewalks a
one or
of One need pay
such ts long another's
grounds or for repairs on same; It is il-
legal If the borough
and a violation of t
authorities dot
hie
support.
rough ordinance:
BOR NANCE
That all owners of lots,
other real estate
tre Hall
expense
&e.
The act of
is as follows:
To regulate the
alleys
Common
and
Here
ordinances
laws they swear to is
the i
y ORD
grounds,
in said borough,
shall construct at
stich pavements or
83. Ie atl
roads, streets,
common sewers, publi
grounds,
ments, gutters, culs
and the heights, grades, width
and forms thereof,
all other ne
same, and they
lay out,
and they
«dful jurisdic
shall
enact
tion over
have power
survey, and ordain fool
wil ks,
and drains,
“ £11
pavements, giltter
over and upon the
the
In
and
abutting on and along
turnpike roads which may
the limits of sald boroughs
the size and width thereof, and
quire the grading,
ing thereof, ny
ERS OF LAXD
ING THERE
general regulations prescribed
sel otitior
and gutier-
OWNER
curbing
THE
RESPECTIVELY
in accordance
OR OW XK.
VRONT~
with the
Act of
ON,
EC
Thnt New Comet
Astronomers
the new
| made such a sudden appearance in the
| sky. This discos
Edwin Holmes, ur of Eng-
land. It is to the
| great nebulae of Andromeda that is
easily found. The comet is nearly cir-
cular in outline and if it
ing the earth will certainly
| a very interesting object.
ed almost directly
o'clock p. m., and
jean identify the great
| nebulae easily find the
which is situated about two Wegroes
| east of the nebulae and moving slowly
to the east; in fact it has moved but
{one and a half degrees since its dis
covery. A good eye readily sees both
| the comet and the nebulae and a fleld
glass enables a person to pick it out
with ease,
sted
Intely
are greatly inter
in comet which h
as
comet was
an amais
situated so elowe
it
is approach
become
It is
overhend
any
a
#iluat-
at 10
person who
Andromeda
onan Comet,
Li. Je
simple. Bride and groom are brought
out before the assembled crowd with
great solemnity and seated side
side. A betel nut is then eut in two!
by the medicine woman of the tribe, |
They begin to chew the nut, and then |
the old woman, after some sort of in-|
cantation, knocks their heads togeths |
er, and they are declared man and!
wife,
nos YM A SA
members of the City Council have been
arrested on complaint of several citi
zens charging the officials with main. |
taining a public nuisance in the way
of keeping some of the streets in an!
impassable condition. It remains to
be seen how this method of strect
cleaning will operate,
A SI MP
A serious outbreak amoung the
Cheyennes and Arapahoes in the
Indian Territory is Threatened, and
men familiar with their ways declare
that unless prompt action is taken by
the Government 3,800 redskins will be
on the warpath by January first,
Great year for the (Vs—Cleveland,
Connecticut, California, Chicago, Cam-
BLAINE THE CAUSE;
DEFEAT OF THE G. 0. P- LAID TO
HI8 DOOR.
Biamed by Harrison's Cabinet as
Cnuse of the Landslide, Large
Deficit In the Treasury,
Binine
the
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 1892 —
the
even
a manly
spect
way that he has won
admiration of the
democrats. The members
had little to
although it was well known that more
than one of them might have very in-
and
staunchest
‘ubinet have
of his ( BAY,
possd. This being the situation, asen-
sation was ereated in high republican
Necretary Rush
ammunition box and fired
straight at the head of
the man who has been privately charg-
Mr.
friends w
ful influence
the
Necretary
name he made it
had spoken through the most powerful
trum
1.
oii
H:
whose head the
when
i hi
Opened gs
Cire jes
jovial
red hot shot
ed by Harrison's close personal
ith having exerted his power
in the republican party
vote for Mr. Harrison.
b called no
as plain as though he
tO lesson
A libimmierr ts .
Altaough usk
pet ever made, that in his opinion
Blaine, the head of the
rrison Cabinet was the traitor upon
wrath of the
' should he poured.
nes (3, ex
republi-
arned from trustworthy sources
. Harrison was averse to such
: a
being
made by any
binet, that he believed
bx he it
unnecessary; but Secre-
for Blaine,
much that
ever since
i Blaine tried to
the credit for restoring
wi privileges of the Ameri-
later him to defeat
in his
a traitor
hit have held in until
office, but for his
avery of indisputable evi-
Mr had much to do
of his own which
«1 80 hard to keep in the
That settled it:
and it
with
party
not
Bee thought
d and
«i1 who had in fire
wimired so
fter him,
to use
i's renomination,
‘tried to make
s 1
of aes
cogthial Blaine
bh the
fipan
state,
re
he
was in
olumn,
Ave Dis say,
woeord
pnd
what many
think without
members of his
saying.
juest] 11} Of
The « pensions isone of the
that the
ad ( gress
Gen with: it air
most important coming ad.
ministration an on will have
ectly affects every
child in the United
certain that there
of $35.00 000 fo
=i, : r
wornan and
it
3
i Os
HOW
fic
it fiscal year, w
appropriated at this
ss, and those who ought
te this that
wr year
wney
the curret hich must be
of Con-
to know
will re.
quired {i the beginning
July 1, 1863, which must also be fap-
propriated this BOT.
where in neighborhood of £200.
1} It is difficult for human in-
tellect to comprehend the immensity
of the pile represented by
It represents
than for each inhabitant
country, and Secretary
session
Hit
ext
iount be
fiscal
nt Sission, ns
the
£5 000,
of money
those figures,
£3,
more
Foster
of Cleveland's administration it will
take $250,000,000 a year to pay the pen- |
sions—more than all the other ex-
penses of The country added together.
It is scarcely to be wondered at that |
the old idea, championed in the House |
some years ago by Hon, Wm. R. Mor- |
rison of 1linois, of mising the money |
to pay pensions by imposing an in- |
come tax, should be revived at this
time. If pension expenditures are to
keep growing some extraordipary
method of raising the money will cer.
tainly have to be resor®ad to.
There is so much rivalry among
| Washington democrats to be members
{of the citizens committee which will
make the arrangement for the most
{ largely attended inauguration the con.
try has ever had that it has resulted in
ta more or loss bitter wrangle for its
| control, between the National commit-
| teemen for the District of Columbia,
| who took the matter in its own hands
and forwarded the name of gentlemen
{to be members of the commitiee to
| chairman Harrity for his approval,
| and the central democratic committee,
| which belives that it should have
sclected the inaugural committee, Full
details of the claims of both sides have
been forwarded to chairman Harrity
and his decisions will be cheerfully ac
cepted by all parties,
“Teddy” Roosevelt, the President of
one of the greatest American humbugs
the Civil Service Commission, has
forgotten all about the numerous pro-
secutions he was going to make for
violation of the law by various indi
viduals, in soliciting campaign con-
tributions from federal 1 employes, pre-
vious to the election, and is now lying
awake nights to study up Nr to
keep the democrats out of the patron-
Mr.
endorse
been re-elected,
far refused to
rison
| has this |
80
issing the necessary order to carry it
it yet. The people of this country |
afise |
holding, and a democratic
might take a notion
Congress |
The tears would be few,
eyes,
Bo ff lon
Other Foints of Interest,
Some idea of the amount of traveling
done by Americans as a people, and
the comfort and luxury at ther
mand, is gathered from the Pennsl-
vania Railroad Company's announce-
for 1893.
First comes a series to the Golden
starting from New York, Phila-
delphia, and Harrisburg, February 8th
March 2d, and March 20th, 1863,
Tourists will travel by
pointed special trains
Ciate,
of Pullman
ing, and observation cars,
supervision of a Tourist Agent and
five
ary
28th.
Febru-
14th
{o Florida—January 31st,
14th and 28th, March
The first four admit
tickets for the fifth tour are good to
return by regular trains until
30th, 1893,
They will be conducted on the same
general principles, and maintained at
Pennsylvania Railroad Company's
personally-conducted tours. For in-
formation and detailed itineraries now
York; 860 Fulton Street,
oe
Brooklyn; or
3 South Fourth Street, Philadel phia. |
——
Turn to the Right.
driv
the right the expected
practice of all pedestrians on sidewalks,
as is also
prevent collision in these operations,
cases. Wherever this rule is observed,
confusion and collision are
ed and prevented.
on the right side. They are jostled,
elbowed and growled at, while
many cases they regard themselves as
roughly handled. Keep to the right,
then, and avoid confusion. It iseasier
EE
Clean Them Out.
Chimneys should be attended to
{ fright of their taking fire. Many a valu-
able homestead has been destroyed
| from negligence in this matter. Soot
| accumulates very rapidly, much soon-
{er with some kinds of coal than others,
jand there is also a difference in the
{wood., All chimneys and flues should
now be cleaned out or burned out in
guard against the possibility of fire
during the high winds and rigorous
blasts of winter,
ipso iden
Narrow Eseape.
A Curwensville engine hostler nar
rowly escaped death one day last week.
He was under his engine cleaning it
when a drunken tramp climbed into
the cab and pulled the throttle. The
hostler heard him getting in and crawls
ed out between the wheels just as the
engine leaped forward along the track.
a A TAS
It was the trust stocks that fell off
most by reason of Mr. Cleveland's elec-
tion, and they are the stocks which
the country can see depressed not only
with equanimity but with a certain
feeling that justice is being done te
men who had no pity to those whom
the MeKicley law had made their
victims,
The comet's tail, it is surmised on
rather insufficient data, will come
within 36,000 miles of the earth In
about 8 days from now. If thestrange
or rather occasional, visitor is really
Biela’s comet, it may be said that it
has made even a closer acquaintance
NO. 4§
NATIONAL GRANGE MEETING.
A High Protective National Polley Denount
ced.
On 16 the National Grange Patrons
| of Husbandry, assembled in the State
house Concord, N. H., in the 26th
annual session this forenoon, J. - H.
| Brigham of Ohio presiding. Twenty-
| five out of 34 grange States were repre.
sented at the first roll eall
Master J. H. Brigham delivered the
| annual address. He said that the
financial standing of the national
| grange Is good, and that reports from
i State granges show increasing numeri-
cal strength, activity in every good
| work and a careful observance of the
| principles of the order. The speaker
| then reviewed the result of the recent
| election, and said:
All our order will ask of the new ad-
ministration is that the same considera-
tion given to other interests be accord-
ed to agriculture. If the producer on
the farm must compete with cheap
labor, let the producer in the factory
and mine do the same. Let the clever
of free trade descend upon every pro-
tected industry and not alone on agri-
culture.”
These remarks are sensible, and in
perfect accord with the utterances of
the REPORTER that the interestes of
{the farmer be to attended above all
others. Weare glad to see the senti-
ments of the REPORTER voiced in the
National Grange.
pm fp—
Harpers weekly, s Republican tariff’.
{organ says this: The great overthrow
of the Republican party at the con-
gressional elections of 1890 was the im-
| mediate upshot of the enactment of
{the McKinley tariff; and the recent
Democratic victory in the presiden-
tial contest has clearly demonstrated
that the revulsion of 1880 was not a
mere gust of wind which suddenly
comes and as suddenly passes away,
but the matured product of a serious
and enduring current of popular opin-
| ion electrified into action by a daring
{ defiance.
b It may therefore be safely asserted
that the policy of high protection has
been finally condemned by clear, em-
| phatic and repeated popular dissp-
|proval. Even the most fanatical Re-
publicans will recognize this verdict
{and abandon all serious thought of
continuing the struggle for the shat-
tered idol.
mc m——————— A ——
THE VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
The total vote of Pennsyvivanie cast
{ for President last week was 1,008,005,
The vote of 1888, the next largest ever
cast in the state, was 997 544. The Re-
{ publican vote fell off about 10,000; the
| Democratic vote increased about 60,
| 000; the Prohibition and the People’s
jor Labor vote increased about 5,000
each.
What a pity the Democrats did not
{make a fight to carry the state. It
| might have been swuog into line with
| some of the other Republican strong-
holds, If we gained 60,000 votes with-
out a contest, what would have been
the result if a fight had been made?
Apecimen Cases,
Clifford, New Cassel, Wis,
was troubled with Neuralgia and
Rheumatism, his Stomach was dis
ordered, his Liver was affected to an
alarming degree, appetite fell away,
and he was terribly reduced in flesh
and strength. The three bottles of
Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, Ili,
had a running sore on his leg of eight
years’ standing. Used three bottles of
lectric Bitters and seven boxes of
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, and his leg
is sound and well. John Speaker,
Catawba, O., had five Burge Feverjsores
on his leg, doctors said he was incur
able. One bottle Electric Bitters and
one box Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured
him entirely. Sold by J. D. Murray's
Drug store.
8. H.
The great Democratic victory, it
secms, is to be celebrated in the sky
by the appearance of a grand comet,
now approaching the earth. It. will
be visible from Salt river as well as in
other parts. There will be no tariffon
the comet or its tail,
Gen. Hastings announced from the
stump that Harrison would have 100,
000 majority in Pennsylvania. He
just missed by a nice little 40,000.
Mistakes will happen,