The Somerset Herald
EDWARD 8CTLL, Editor nd Proprietor.
WEDNESDAY.
JulT 13. MB-
EEFIMCAHJOSLraOE
TA-TIOTL.
FOR I'EESIDEXT,
CiEX. BEXJ. UARKISOX,
or IXDIAXA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
VVHITELAW REID,
OF SEW YORK.
STATE.
FOR Et.IXTOKS-AT LARGE.
JOKES, WILLIAM WOOD, J. Y. M-'NLAP,
WILLIAM H. EAYEX.
FOE CONGEESSMES-AT-LARGE,
ALEXAXDEK McDOWELL.
WlLLIlM LILLT.
JUDICIARY.
FOR UTGK OF THE SCI'F.EME COUKT.
JOHN IEAX, of Biair f 'imy.
COUNTY.
" FOR fONoEESS.
EIiWAkK S" I'LL, of Sr. mem t.
g ubiect to the decision of the district foiiferenre.
FOR ASSEMBLY,
EFHRA1M D. MILLER, of Rockwood.
JOHK C WELLEB, of MiHord townhSp.
FOR bISTRICI ATTORNEY.
J. A. JSEREEY. of ftimerset.
FOR POOR DIRECTOR,
J. D. WE1GLE, of Komert township.
Congress ought to get rid of itself.
Govbbsor Pattisos :4opid "to count
the cost" in vote before doing Lis du
ty as Governor of the State.
Xeithek Cleveland nor Harrison can
I held accountable for tbe desperate
deeds of the campaign jxiet.
Cleveland is at 15uz.ard's bay, Harri
b m's family at Loon lalte and Weaver's
present addrew is the Parrot's Taradise.
KtEP your eye open to note how every
day President Harrison is growing in
strength. The people are going to vote
for him.
Ii is p ainful to observe the anxiety of
leniocratic jou-nabs lest the Republican
National Committee should fail to gel a
good man for its head. Republicans are
in no worry about it
The Ietnocratic organs that insist that
the tar if causes strikes are of the same
material structure s those who b.lieve
that corn planted in "the dark of the
moon" will a 11 ran to stalk.
Tuti.it is nothing agitates the aver ipe
JJeuiocrat so profoundly as the 08sibili
ty of the passage of a law securing hon
est elections in the South. It brings on
the political jim-jams at once.
If Iemocrat8 want "to pet President
Harrison in a hole," as they assert, let
them lire away with their silver bill.
There are no indications that Republi
cans or the PreaiJent are losing any
leep about it.
Statistics from the Interna! Revenue
Office show that Xew York in con
sumed 9,512,549 barrels of beer. And al
so that Xew York City heads the list
with sales of 4.4(5,5!9 barrels and an in
crease of 147,20-5 ovfr the year before.
Tits House linds the silver bill as trou
blesome as the man found his false teeth
when they lodged in his throat He
couldn't pull them op and was afraid to
swallow them. Moreover, be knew it
meant death to allow them to stay there.
We Lave it now announced direct
from a Southern Bourbon sheet that "the
Republican party alone is responsible for
the slaughter at Homestead and ' Harri
son is to lose Pennsylvania in conse
quence. Iieraocrats in Alabama evi
den'Jy take Northern people for fools.
Ex-GovEnNOR Campbell of Ohio de
clares that Ohio will go for Cleveland in
the fall. Inasmuch as it was only last
November that Campbell a.serted that
Ohio would go for himself when it went
21, 000 the other way, his present calcula
tion is subject to an enormous discount.
The fellows who accuse protection and
the Republican party of the murders at
HomesU-aJ bite off a great deal more
than they can chew, as they will find la
ter on. Tbe great public is not a set of
arrant fools, to be guided by every noisy
political Ananias witii a wide open
mouth.
Pem k-ratic bosses seem to think that
"protection is or should be a paid cp pol
icy for life against all strikes." Protec
tion simply build) great manufactories,
creates demand for labor, encourages cap
ital to be invested, and leaves men to
regulate their own private a flairs. It
could do no more.
Henry George, the great free-tradei,
is in eesUcies. Hear him :
"Thank God ! At last, quicker
even than we had more than dared to
hope, what we have struggled for and
waited for bas come to pass, and the two
great political parties of the United
States stand fronting each other on the
naked question of protection or free
trade!
A SorruERX IVmarratic organ says :
" la November Democrats in Alabama
will sweep the last vestige of Republican
ism from the State." So? We infer the
"night riders" are getting into the saddle
nfain and ready for business With
Democrats to count the vote in Alabama
it will be no use for any Republican to
vote, even if he is granted the privilege
by bis lordly masters.
Ost of the planks of the Prohioition
platform adopted by the convention
which met at Cincinnati favors "the lim
itation of individual and corporate own
ership of land." They emphasised this
by naming a candidate, General Bid well,
m hoomns 25,(XK) acres in a single county
in California. Limiting a man to 25,000
ores is what might be called bountifully
liberal in most places.
It is not at all strange that political
demagogues like Wat and Palmer are
eiriviDg to make capital out of the fight
at Homestea They might convict Re
publicans of the crime of building op
neb great manufactories, instead of hav
ing them to be built in England and
France, but it ends there. The contests
between labor and capital bare been as
bitter and unrelenting in free-trade Eng
land as in any portion of the glole.
Cosgkess has at last taken account of
PinkertonUm as noxio us growth in our
civilization, and there k hope that Con
gress may exterminate it root and
branch.
It is an evil nd dangerous thing to
permit a priva person or firm or corpo
ration to enlist and maintain s private
military force and to hire out its armed
men for fighting purposes to anyone
who may choose to employ them.
GKiiEKcan and will be niaintained at
Homestead without invoking tbe id of
mercenaries from abroad. hoMon. G'W-e.
People will be glad to know this, and
they will bold the Democratic Governor
of Pennsylvania responsible for future
acta. More arrant cowaidioe has never
been exhibited by the Governor of any
State. Tha plea about "the local author
ities exhausting all their el'orts first" if
nothing but the plea of a man shaking in
hi bnots over a responsibility. What
ever may be said of the Finkerton men,
or the workmen oi tne muis, n can nov
by said thy were cowards.
Sieakinu of tbe Carnegie mob at Home
stead, the New York Tutu- says : Mr.
L. L. Sc hoonmaker, the New "i ork repre
sentative of the Carnegie Association, ex
plains the motive of the policy resisted
by Its w orkmen as follows : ' The day
must infallibly come it may come at
the next election when the protective
tariff which built our mills will cease,
and it is to prepare for that repeal that
we are inaUing these tonnage increases,
in order to defy the competition that on
that day now in sight will arise from
every corner in tbe land." Then we in
fer from this, that it is only getting
things readv for Cleveland?
Represevtattve Blasd and his free-
coinage colleagues have succeeded in get
ting theStewart Free Silver bid reported
from the Coinage Comruitte to the House,
Wednesday bas been fixod as tbe date
for considering this crazy uvd dangerous
measure, and the Democrats have made
provision for continuing the discussion
on Thursday in case a vote is not reach
as to whether the bill can pass the Hon,
ed on the first day. There is some doubt
but there is no doubt whatever that it
will receive the support of a f trong ma
jority of the Democrats.
The great preponderance of Democrat
ic sentiment in favor of debasing tbe
currency bas been conclusively shown by
tbe support which three-fourths of tbe
Democratic Senators gave to tbe Stewart
bid and by the vote in tbe House on the
Bland bill on March 24, hen 130 Demo
crats voted for free silver and only eighty-one
against it If tbe Stewart meas
ure for degrading dollars to seventy cents
does not pass the House it will be be
cause of the resolute and patriotic Re
publican minority.
Governor Pattisos bas ordered out
the entire force of the Pennsylvania Na
tional Guard to put down the insurrec
tion at Homestead. This action should
have been taken several days ago ; but
it is to be hoped that affairs in that un
fortunate town have not yet reached the
point where the strikers will offer armed
defiance to the troops of the State. The
disparity in strength is such that resist
ance is hopeless. If their leaders ara
wisetney will counsel them to lay down
their arms and peaceably submit to the
restoration of law.
It is deplorable that an emergency call
ing for the employment of the troops to
preserve the peace should have arisen in
one of the oldest and most highly civiliz
ed States in the Union. But the course
of events has left no other resource if
law and order are to be maintained in
Pennsylvania. It is in the true interest
of civilization, of justice and of American
lalxjr everywhere that the citizen sol
diers of the Keystone State, a great ma
jority of whom are themselves wage
earners, have been ordered to Home
stead. A Record for Soldiers.
Pension bills vetoed from Washington to
Cleveland, 133.
Pension bills vetoed by Grover Cleveland,
524.
Pension bills vetoed by IVnjarain Harri
son, none.
The Truth In a Nutshell.
New York Sun.
To the Editor of the Siut Sir : Will the
be kind enough to set forth plainly, ao
that the wayfaring man, though a fool, may
understand what the free silver question is,
with tbe arjruments in brief against it? I
can find pagss and pages on the subject in
the Ovugrtsflonal lit-cvrd, but they are wordy
beyond comprehension, and it seems to me
that tlicS'tin might tell the whole thing in
telligibly, and still hare space on its editori
al page for its usual scintillations. Of tbe
G2, 2'J5,CiJ people ia this country, I believe
Gi.CMGOO don't know exactly what free sil
ler means. Too 3oso Tt blico.
Free silver means that owners of silver
bull ion bhall have the right to take it in un
limited quantities to the mint and have it
coined into dollars for them free of charge.
At present the (iovernmeut buys silver at
the market price, and coins it on its own ac
count into doilaes, worth as bullion, 70
cents or llierw.bout.-s but as coins, 100 cenu.
Tnder free coinage the coined silver dollar
would drop to its bullion value, and the
price of merchandise would rise projiortion
auly. Shameful and Impracticable.
New York Timet : Tlic more, the silver
men who are supposed to be bentfiutl by th
Stewart silver bill examine that amazing
project of legislation the less they like it
tbe lew, in fact, are they able to comprehend
how it came to be put in the shape it bears.
Thty find .it to he absolutely wiihout any
advantage to the silver mine owners. Tbe
purchase of silver is to be stopped, the mints
are to be set to work to coin the bullion now
on band, for which Treasury notes have
been issued, and though the owners of silver
have tbe privilegeof taking it to the mints
and depositing it to be coined into legal tend
er dollars, the privilege must remain utterly
worthless for a long time, during which the
stopping of silver purchases will tend to de
depre! tbe market value of silver. But
while this U the way in which the Senate
bill apiears to the owners of silver, it is not
to be supposed that it will appear in the
same light to the outside world, and it is
the influence of its passage by the Senate
upon the outside world that will most seri
ously affect our own interest The bUl is
not less shameful for txing impracticable,
and the course of the Senators who voted
(or it is not less shameful for being silly.
Chairman Campbell Resigns,
Chairman Campbell, of the Republican
National Committee arrived in Washington
Thursday, and after a conference with Pres
ident Harrison, Secretary Eusk, Secretary
Eikins, Commissioner Carter and ex-Senator
Spooner, announced tbat he had been
unable to adjust his business affairs so as to
enable him to act as chairman, and that he
would not act His successor will be chos
en by theZxecntive Committee of the Na
tional Committee.
Cuna For Homestead.
BkxxBix. Tex.. July 9.-Two twelve
pwinder Napoleon field pieces, the first issued
to the Brenbam Field Artillery, were ship
ped north last evening with taps fastened
to them bearing tbe insertion : " Striaers,
Homestead, l a." Inquiry at the Santa Fe
depot elicited the information that tbe bill
of lading had been issued through to Kansas
City and from there the oTCcials did not
know where the guns were going. The
shipment created no little sensation.
National Guard Ordered
to Homestead,
TO PRESERVE THE PEACE.
The Whoie Division is Directed to
Mov.
Harrisicri;, July 10. Governor Pattison
at 10 o'clock to-night ordered the entire Na
tional Guard to move to tbe support of the
Sheriff of Allegheny county in preserving
peace at Homestead. The following corres
pondence has been mak public :
PrrrBra.B. Pa., July 20.
To P.olxrt Fottixm, Gormnr. U.vmJturg,". Pa :
Tbe sitostion at Homstead bas not im
proved. Whiie all i quiet there, the strik
ers are in control and openlv express to ma
and tbe public their delermioaiion that tbe
works shall not be operated unless by them
selves. A rter tusking all efforts in my pow
er, I have failed to secure posse respecta
ble enough in numbers to accomplish
anibine, and I am satisfied that no posse
raised by civil authorities can do anything
to change the condition of affairs and that
any attempt by an Inadequate force to restore
therishtof law will only result in further
armed resistance, and eonseqnent los of r.fe.
Only a large military force will enable me to
control matters. I believe if such force is
sent the disorderly element will be over
awed and order will be restored. I, therefore,
call upon you for assistance.
William H. VcCieart, Sheriff.
HARRisBrao, July 10, 12.
George R. SnotrtUn, Major General Cumviand
iug X. Q. P.
Tut the division nnder arms and move at
once, with ammunition, to the support of
tbe Sheriff of Allegheny county at Home
stead. Maintain the peace, protect all per
sons in their rights under the constitution
and laws of the Stale. Communicate with
me. Komirr K. Pattisos, Governor.
William IT. McCUam. fierif.
Have ordered Major General Cwee It.
Snowden, with the division of tbe National
tiuardof Pennsylvania, to your support at
once. Put vourself in communication with
him. Communicate with me further parti
culars. Robert E. Fattisox, Governor.
A DECIDED PtriKTt KE.
This is the first time that the division
of tbe National Guard of Pennsylvania baa
been called out for active service at oue
Fcial point The Guard has not been
called out in any large numbers since ths
riots of 1ST. Tb division was then out.
but was scattered throughout the Slate, and
not intended for concentration at one point,
as in the present case. Tbe last time the
Guard was called out was on the occasion
of the riots in the coke region last year.
They Reach Pittsburg.
PiTTSBi RC, July 7. Tbe Pinkerton detec
tives from Homestead arrived in this city at
2:45 thia morning. Twenty-seven of their
number were wounded, and were sent to the
West Pennsylvania hospital. They one and
all refused to make any statement or to be
interviewed.
COVCR50R PATTISOK'S LACK Of KERVB.
Sheriff McCleary, after th ree telegrams to
the Governor for State aid in suppressing the
fast increasing disturbances, received this
dispatch from Governor Pattison :
" Your telegram indicates that you have
not made any atteratit to execute the law to
enforce order, and 1 must insist upon your
calling upon all citizens for an adequate
number ot deputies.
Robert E. Fattisoji."
This showed that tbe Governor was deter
mined not to proceed in the matter. A con
sultation was held with Judge Wing, R. B.
Pretty and others, and at 5 o'clock, before
leaving Pittsburg, the Sheriff issued the fol
lowing proclamation, which was ordeieJ to
be printed and posted :
" All good ciiizens are hereby notified to
appear at the Sheriffs oihee to-morrow,
TuursJay. morning at ! o'clock, with arms
and subsistence to aid tbe Sheri8 in sup
pressing the riot now in progress at Houie-
Willia II. McCleary, Sheriff."
The results of Wednesday's conflict star
ing them in the face, the citizens of Pitts
burgh on Thurslay ignored Sheriff McClea
ry 's summons to appear with arms and sub
sistence to quell the rioters at Homestead,
and tbe steel wo rters were left in peaceable
possession of their employers' mills.
At 2:43 Thursday afternoon Governor Pat
tison received the following telegram from
Sheriff MoGeary at Pittsburg:
" Last night I went to Homestead, accom
panied by officials of the Amalgamated As
sociation, and succeeded in bringing away
the guards sent by river, who had surrend
ered to the rioters. Tbe arms of the guards,
who numbered about S0O, are all in the pos
session of the rioters. To-day oil is quiet;
the works are in possession of a large force
of the strikers ; any attempt on the part of
the civil authorities to dispossess them will
be met with resistance, last evening I is
sued a general summons to tbe citizens to
attend this morning at 9 o'clock to aid in re
storing order, and I also issued a large num
ber of notices to individuals ; the result up
to noon to-day is 02 ; 32 persons have re
ported, all without anus ; they have been
notified to appear to-morrow morning at 9
o'clock, and I have issued several additional
notices to individuals summoning them to
appear ut the same time. These notices will
be served to-day. I am satisfied from pres
ent indications that I will be unable to ob
tain any considerable force, and force thus
gathered, without discipline and arms, will
be of no use whatever. As soon as any ef
fort is made to take paeuession of the prop
erty another outbreak will occur."
Views at Washington.
Wasuix;tos, July 11. Gov. Fattison's
action, though tardy in calling out tbe
troops, meets with general commendation
here, coupled, however, with the remark
that he should have acted long ago.
Tbe reports current at Homestead that tbe
congressional committee will recommend
arbitration, and name Gov. McKinW, ex
Secrtary Blaine and Gov. Pattison, are en
tirely without foundation. The committee
has no definite idea what it will recommend
until it bas an opportuuity to inquire into
facts of the situation.
The Washington Pat to-day, commenting
upon the governor's course, says :
"It ia to be re retted that Gov. Pattison
could not have seen his way to this course
in the first place, but an obligation tardily
performed is better that no performance at
all, and the Governor will be sustained in
his action by good citizens everywhere,"
The Baltimore American closes an
editorial on tbe subject by saying: "The
attempt to muzzle and to establish a
censorship of the press was the means of
disclosing their utter disregard for tbe right
of others and finally forced Gov. Pattison
to do from necessity what he should have
done from principle. By now finally
ordering out the troops, the conditions be
inj unchanged, be has practically admitted
that he was wrong in not taking this step in
tbe first instance."
Senator PIcffer, in a public address yester
day from the pulpit of the People's church
here, said : "The Homestead riot ia not
riot His the assertion of human rights.
Applause. I vet ns look at it," said be, "99
per cent, of men are at labor. The right to
labor includes tbe riht to organize labor,
and organized labor, knowing its rights,
must defend them. When the armed
Large of hired assassins came down the
Monongahela to assail labor it was the right
of labjr to defend itself, and it bas done so.
It was asked if men's property was to be
taken. The answer was certainly not, but
property most be used for the benefit and
not for the injury of the community in
which ilia stuated."
Out of a Pulpit to Murder.
Atlasta. Ga., July 10 riay on your
harp, little David," sang the Methodist
congregation of McDonough one Sunday
several months ago when its colored pas
tor, Rev. Ben Biven, returned to the ser
vices with his two deacons, Henry Harri
son and Jim Sharer. Ths three had been
out to murder Dr. Sloan, as one of the ne
groes has since confessed. Detectives have
arrested tbe trio in Atlanta.
Biver, the confessor says, carried the
gua and did the killing, after which the
three returned to church and resumed
services by taking up ths collection. There
are fears that they will bs lynched.
HISTORY OF THE TROUBLE.
The Causes Which Have Led up to
the Present Conflict.
Tbe conflict which began at Homestead
last week was an interesting one. It
is a fight for aupremar-y between the strong
est organixatioa of steel worker in th coun
try on one side and the largest individual
steel manufacturers in tbe world on the j,.
er. Upon one hand is ranged the strength
of the Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers of the United States, an
organization 30,000 strong, with a balance in
bank of t2S0,0"0, and hundreds of thous
ands more in reserve, and on ths other ths
prestige, power and wealth of the Carnetrie
Steel Company (Llmited,L-the new title of
the associated inteiestsof the Carnegie firms,
with a capital of $25,000,000.
The actual point at issue is the right of la
bor to dictate to capital the terms ou which
it will consent to be employed or to permit
anybody to be employed. Osteuaihly it is a
struggle agfinst a reduction in wages of 30
per cent of 250 workers, and an attempt on
tbe part of tbe Carnegie Steel Company to
make soch working term as it deems appli
cable to tbe present condition of the steel
business, and the mechanical improvements
effected in the process of mauufactu.-e.
SOrat'E Or THE TROCBLE.
The condition of affairs has arisen ont of
the expiration of a three years sliding scale
of wages in operation at the Homestead
Works of the company and the action of
tbe company in substituting another with
marked reductions in rates.
The Homestead employes have been paid
by the tonnage. Settlements during the
last three years have been based on the sell
ing price of steel billets, the minimum basis
being $25 per ton ; tnat is, no matter how
much the market price ran below $25, pay
ments were to be made on the basis of that
figure. If the market price was higher, jy
meuts were to be made accordingly. As a
matter of fact, billets have been selling for
several months at $22 and $'22.50, while set
tlements with tbe men have been made at
$25, and, of course, at a loss of the differ
ence to the company.
THE NEW STALE or WAOE9.
In anticipation of the expiration of the
three years' scale on June .'to, the Carnegie
Steel Company formulated a schedule of
rates to operate from July 1 to January 1,
18t4. The minimum basis was changed
from $25 to $22. and reductions which Aver
age thirty per cent were made on the rates
for the various kinds of employment
The workers on the other side presented
the company with a scale which differed
slightly from the old one. On a conference
both aides made concessions, but parted
wiihout a settlement. Tbe company had
previously fixed June 21 as the last day
opeu to the workers for accepting the scale
as an organized body.
After that date the men were to be treated
with only as individuals. That day passed
without approaches from either aide, and
both parties began forthwith to prepare for
the struggle that was bound to follow. The
Amalgamated men were prepared to strike
on July 1, when tbe old Sliding scale of w a
ges had expired. But this course wss an
ticipated by the firm, which discharged all
its employes at midnight and notified them
to report for their pay at tbeoffice on Satur
day last By this action the Carnegie fore
stalled the men, and, by making it a lock
out instead of a strike, placed them on the
defensive,
PEEPAKI5G FOR THE STRUGGLE.
The discharged employes, through their
advisory committee, began at once arrange
ments for the protection of their interests
during the coming struggle. Their organi
zation was thorough, consisting of sub-committees
on the preservation of order, the
regulation of the sale of liquor in saloons
and tbe protection of outside labor. Head
quarters were fitted in elaborate style, with
incandescent electric lights and a private
telegraph wire, which puts the Amalgamat
ed Association in direct communication with
every city, town and handet in the country.
Guards were established around the Home
stead Works to prevent the introduction of
workingraen from a distance, and the Mo
nongahela was patrolled day and night,
while twenty members of the association
were placed on duty as special ofilcers, os
tensibly charged with the duty of preserv
ing the peace.
Immediately after the lock out tbe Secre
tary of the Carnegie Steel Company made
the announcement that the mills at Home
stead had been closed for repairs, and would
remain closed for two or three weeks. About
the 15th or 20th of July, he further stated, it
would be announced that any of the em
ployes of the company could return to work,
but must make application by a certain day
as individuals, all who did not apply by that
time being considered as not desiring work,
and running the risk of finding their places
filled by new men. The Secretary further
stated that only 2."C of the 3,800 men em
ployed in the Homestead mills were affected
by the proposed new scale.
met CALLS FOR HELP.
Matters at Homestead progressed with
comparative quiet until Tuesday, when
Henry C. Frick, the president of the Carne
gie Steel Company, applied to Sheriff Mc
Cleary, of Allegheny county, for help in
guarding the property of the company, and
protection for those men who were willing
and anxious to go to work, but stood in fear
of bodily harm from the strikers. The
Sheriff aid a visit to the works nnder a
guard furnished by the Amalgamated Asso
ciation, and later in the day dispatched elev
en Deputies to Homestead, nnder command
of ex-Sheriff Cluny, by whom an attempt
was made to enter the mills. They were in
tercepted, however, by hundreds of the
strikers, who maintained a firm and un
flinching front when commanded to stand
aside.
Their spokesman stepped forward, and,
declaring that the mill property was not in
danger, ind that the admission of the depu
ties would be against their interests, an
nounced that they would not be permitted
to enter, but would be safely escorted out of
the town. Tbe doz?n deputies accepted this
offer and were escorted to a point on the
river a quarter of a mile distant, where they
were taken on board the steam yacht Edna,
which is in the service of the Amalgamated
Association, and carried down the river to a
point where they were within easy reach of
the electric cars running to Pittsburg. After
this fiasco. Sheriff McCleary issued a procla
mation calling upon tbe people of Home
stead to preserve the peace and not lnolest
the company's property.
THE CARS' EGIE PLAST.
The works of the Carnegie Steel Company
are located in Homestead, a town eight
miles southeast of Pittsburg. It is situated
picturesquely on the banks of tbe Monon
gehala river, overlooking one of the most
placid waterbeda in the Slate of Pennsylva
nia. Across the river ia a row of winding
bills, now verdant with tbe bloom of sum.
mer. Towering bluffs and wooded moun
tains surround the valley which centers on
the quiet little borough. Aud that entire
valley might properly be named the seat of
Andrew Carnegie's industries. It was he
that built tbe borough as it now stands. It
was he that planted there ons of the great
est industries known to the living labor
world. Here are 12,000 souls dependent for
an existence on the wages paid by Andrew
Carnegie weekly.
The monthly pay-roll of the cbmpany
amounts to $200,000, sometimes exceeding
that amount This in itself shows the de
pendence of the town upon the manufactur
er. Covering an area of 600 acres of land,
tie works stretch out from the Pittsburgh
City Farm to Marshall station, on the Mc
Keesport and Youghiogheny Railway.
ARMOR PLATE FOR THE HAVT. -
It is here that armor plate for most of the
vessels of our new navy have been ma. It
The defensive coverings of the steamship
Monterey have only just been completed.
Huge ingots measuring 55 inches square by
14 inches wide and weighing 100,0" O pounds
are lifted from tbe pits, charged into tbe
heating furnacts and rolled into plates by
machinery that is unequalled by any other
in the world. Appliances imported from
Scotland plane and mould and fashion the
plates into the exact shape required by the
Highest of all in Leavening Tower. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE
contour of tbe ship's aides, so that when the
material is placed in the cars it is ready for
position on the vessel.
Iu perfecting the armor-making branch of
its business the firm has invested over $1,
kpo?oX In other departments are manu
factured massive beams up to forty inches
bigh, plates of every kind and structural
material of all descriptions. Everywhere
throughout the works labor-saving applian
ces have been introduced at great cost, aud
within the last three years the necessity for
human labor bas been very largely reduce!.
Tbe latter is one of tbe chief reasons why
the firm insists on cutting the rates for
work.
FORTIFIED FOR CATTLE.
In anticipation of such scenes ss those en
acted at Homestead last week the Carnegie
Company has for some time past been mak
ing careful and exhaustive preparations to
guard the property and the men it might
find necessary to employ against any violence
on the part of the workers. Around theentire
plant was placed last week a palisading nine
feet high, topped with three strands of bard
ed wire. There are appliances by which
these can be charged with electricity to
prevent any possibility of invasion. All
through the ground at various points are
erected huge lowers from which to view the
surrounding country. Even every means
of egTess had been cut off, with ons or two
exceptions.
Where the workmen and laborers entered
heretofore from the railroad tracks and other
points, stout baTicades of wood and iron
have been put up and bridges placed iu their
stead as a means of getting from one portion
of the works to the other. Search h ;hts
with strong reflectors have been erected on
the buildings, so that a blaze of light can be
thrown on the entire place to prevent sur
prise in case of a night attack. All approaches
are firmly guarded by stout fortifications.
A XEW STATI05 Bt'ILT.
Hal f way between City Farm and
Munb all Station new station has been
buit for the accommodation of the company
This is to enable train of watch men,
workers and Pinkerton's men to be unload
ed right in the center of the works without
possible interference from strikers. Once
inside, ample refuge is guaranteed them in a
big barrack-like frame building recently
built for the purpose. The river front is
unprotected by any fence, but a steam launch
was purchased and fitted with a good
equipment to serve as a river patro'.
On July 1 of this year a new company
was formed under the name of the Carnegie
Steel Company, Limited. The consolidation
affected the firms of Carnegie, Brothers t
Co., Limited; Carnegie, Phipps & Co.,
Limited ; Allegheny Bessemer Steel Company
and the Keystone Bridge Comany, at the
Edgar Thomson furnaces ; The Edgar
Thomson Steel Works, Duquesne Steel
Works, Homestead Steel Works, Lucy
Furnaces, Keystone Bridge Works, l"pier
Union Mill, Lower Cuion Mills, Beaver Falls
Mills, Scotia Ore Mines, Larimore Coke
Works and Youghiogheny Coke Works.
The general offices of the new firm were
located in Pittsburg, with branch offices in
all the principal cities of the United States.
The capital was fixed at $250,000 and the
company has in its employ upwards of 40,
000 men, about 3,S00 of whom are at Home
stead. Statement of the Firm.
The Carnegie Steel Company, limited,
gave out the following statement to the
Associated Press :
"Our Homestead Steel Works were on
July 1 taken possession of by a mob, wh'ch
wa3 immediately thereafter organized by the
local representatives of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers, and
all our mechanics, mill men and even fore
men and superintendents of departments
were forcibly dented admission thereto. We
were also notified by the self-styled advisory
committee that no fires would be permitted
at the works, lest the men become excited
to further unlawful acts. This continued
until yesterday, when we called upon the
Sheriff of Allegheny county for protection
and assistance in regaining possession of
our property.
"TSe Sheriff went to Homestead and on
his return sent deputies to the works and
ported a proclamation ordering the men to
disperse. His deputies were routed and his
proclamation torn down. The Sherid then,
through his chief deputy, attempted to take
300 of our watchmen who were sent to the
works by boat last night These men were
met more than a mile below the works by
an armed mob of Amalgamted men, who
followed along the river bank and fired rifles
and revolvers at the boats. This shooting
was continuous for twenty-five minutes
befre one shot was fired from the boats,
which was nut until the boats were tied np
at oar landing.
"On the arrival of the boats the mob tore
down a large portion of the fence about the
works and filled tbe bluff above the landing,
keeping up a continuous fire and wounding
three of our watchmen. Then, aud not until
then, was the fire returned, resulting, we are
advised, in some loss of life.
Mr. Cleveland Objects.
Buzzard's Bat, July f. In reply to the
letter received from a number of New York
women, asking permission to nse Mrs. Cleve
land's name in connection with a woman's
political club, to further tho interests of the
Deraorrotic party ia the coming campaign,
Mr. Cleveland has written the following :
"Mrs. Cleveland has referred to me your
letter informing her of tho orrani ration of a
Frances Cleveland Influence Club. It is by
no means pleasant to dissent-from tbe meth
ods which sincere friends adopt when their
efforts not only demonstrate their friendli
ness, but when they also seek to subserve
the public good and are, therefore, engaged
In a patriotic service.
"It is, however, impossible for n to ap
prove of the use of Mrs. Cleveland's name in
the designation of clubs designed to do po
litical work. We trust yon will not under
value our objection, because it rests upon
the sen'iment that a name now sacred in the
home circle as wife and mother may well be
spared in tbe organization and operation of
clubs created to exert political influence.''
Judge New Kills Himself.
CoLCKBts, Isn., July 9. At his home in
Vernon, at 6: 30 o'clock this morning.
Judge Jephlba D. Xew, of the Indiana
appellate court, from the Second district, and
Democratic candidate for supreme Judge
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head. Of late he has complain
ed to friends of being troubled with Brigbts
disease, and that he fc-ared it would cost
him his life. This is tbe only cause known
for tbe act. Death came instantly. lie
was 27 years of age and leaves a wife and J
several childreu.
Eloped With A Negro.
Freeport, July 10. Mrs. Cordia Thomp
son, alias Moran, was here this evening tn
the hunt of her twelve-year-old daughter,
Flora Thompson, who ran away from ber
home or was abducted by s negro named
William Berry re an, about seventeen years
old.
The parties all live at Sunnyside coal
works below Apollo. They started to run
away on the fourth but their plans were
frustrated, bnt left early this morning, going
towards Pittsburgh. Rerryraan bas some
relatives living at Tom's Run andSmithton.
The woman thinks they ran off to get
married or live together.
SouRht the Baty In a Fire.
Pittt-tox, P , July 1". Mirs Kate Man
gin, who on Friday rushed tai k into her
mother's burning dwelling in this town to
rescue her sixer's 3 year old daughter, but
who was mistaken in her heroism, ss
neighbors had already saved the child, is
dying of tbe terrible burns she sustained.
Miss Mangan searched in vain through the
flaming house fully fivs minutes before the
emerged, herself enveloped in lire.
Men Blown to Atoms-
Sak Fras isa, Cal., July !. San Francis
co was shaken this morning by one of the
most remarkable explosions in iu history.
The Giant Powder Work?, at Highland
Station, 15 miles away, across tbe hay, ex
ploded, completely wiping out the works,
killing many men, wounding over a score,
and causing tbe effect in this city and Oak
laud of a severe earthquake.
Nothing like the tilect of the great shock
has ever been known here. The shock
cau;d a rush of air like the first breath of a
mighty cyclone. Then came a series of
shocks attendeil by a dull roaring noise like
the discharge of heavy artillery at ta.
Hundreds rushed out of the tall buildings
and hotels pale vfith fear. Broken glavs fell
about them as sxres of heavy plate glass
show windows came crashing into the
streets. Not even in the heavy earthquake
several months ago was the shock so terrify
ing. The high new office buildings swayed
like pendulums, while in old structures
plaster fell from walls and all moveable ar
ticles on shelves came lumbering to the
ground.
TItOl'JUT IT WAS TflE ESD OF THE WORLD.
Seven minutc-s after the first shot k came
another, even more severe, which shattered
windows all over the town, rocked buiMir.g?,
blew in skylights, broke plate gla-s and
caused people to rush into the streets as
though an earthquake was about to tumble
all the buildings about their ears.
PEOPLE LEFT IS FEAR AM) TEEXULIXO.
The consternation was still at its height
when there followed two more s'uoi ks little
less than the terrific one which had been
felt
BLOWK FIFTY FEET IX THE AIR.
Fully 20 Chinese were badly hurt. &ime
were taken np by the rush of air afier the
explosion and thrown 5 feet Others had
eyes blown out or ears torn off. Several
had one side of the head raw and bleeding
from flames which carueso near ending their
lives. How the loss of life was confined to
so few is not understood. Chinamen are
distributed all over the grounds formerly eic
cupied by buildings and were huddled
together as closely as possible.
CAt'SE F THE IVPLOSIOS.
The cause of the explosion is raid to have
becu the upsetting of a bottle of acid in the
office which set fire to the building. Early
this afternoon no one would approach the
magazine which had not exploded, and wlikh
contained over .'Wt tons of giant powder and
dynamite. Fortunately, however, the fire
kept away from the main mag-.zlue.
A Lapse That Confused Senator
Quay and Amused the Senate.
Washisuton, D. C, July 1). The Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill occupied almost en
tirely the attention of the Senate to-day,
and when the clause w as reached providing
for the coinage of 10,' "),'" silver souvenir
half dollars in aid of the Columbian Expo
sition at Chicago, Mr. Q iay offered an
amendment requiring provision to be made
by the proper authorities for the clesing of
the Exposition on the Sahbith day. He
sent to theclcrk's c:ek and had read what
he eMled the reasons f r his amendment,
hut was surprised and amused, as all
Other Senators were, when the clerk read
impressively the commandment, " Honor
thy father and thy mother that thy ehiys
may be long in the land which the lord
thy God giveth thee."
MR. tjl'AY's XNFC-:IT0 KKKilR.
1 Mr. tjuay, in some confug'on, supplied,
and the clerk read tha commandment ap
propriate to the matter, " lb-nu-mber the
Sabbath Day to keep it holy."
Seven Burned to Death.
Halifax, Ju'y 10. The victims of the SL
Johns, N. F., fire are six children and one
man. Two-thirds of the buildings of the
city have been destroyed and from l.", to
20,oOO people are camping in the fields.
Everything is destroyed fiom Birch's Cove
to the wharves of the Allan line. The con
flagration started at 4 o'clock yesterday af
ternoon. It w as raussd by tbe careless use
of a match in a barn on Long's Hill. At
10 o'clock this morning the fire cea-?d burn
ing only for a lack of fuel. The Mayor of
Halifax has appointed a relief committee
and authorized the sending of ft .) worth
of fxx by steamer to-night General Sir
John lioss will forward tents to accommo
date IJOiju people, and Admiral Hoi kins is
co-operating by holding tha fast cruiser
Magacic-nr.e ia readii.ess to transport sup
plies of food.
The latest reports up to 1 e'clock V. M.,
state that thesjuth side H now on fire, and
a big blaze is coming down Fr. -.hwaler val
ley. The south side coutai:i3 the oil factor
ies and oil stores.
Another bulletin fays that fire has broken
out bark of the city at a p!a-e railed Monks
town road. Tbis is the southern portion of
the town that escaped, hist nilit. A tem
porary telegraph olli.-e h. been established
at the railway depot at St. Johns. It is
thought the houses of Mr. Outerbringe and
Fred Smith, the M. P.'s, were saved.
One vessel was burned in the harbor and
several put to sea. The steamer Bona Vista
ran the gnantli-t while on fire, and was sav
ed with six men.
A Desperate Fight.
Washington, Pa.. July 10. Intense ex
citment prevails in Amweil tnwnh:n, this
county, over tbe result of a fight between
prominent citiz ns of that place. Last even
ing D. T. Watson, William Wier, P.lley
Watson and John Keeslrick met on the road
leading to Lone Pine and soon became in
volved in a qnarrel. Clubs, stones aud ev
erything they could get their band on were
used, and in the midst of tbe alternation
John Knestrick drew a knife and cut Wil
lism Wier in tbe back and abdomen. The
irjurles are pronounced fatal by the attend
ing thysicians.
Knestrick is the youngest of the party, and
is about li years of age and is a member of
one of the leading families of the neighbor
hood. Wier is a married man and has sev
eral children. The fight was caused by a
dispute over a suit which had been broucht
by 1). T. Watson against Weir to recover al
leged unpaid wages.
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uj ujmnMi'iiu. i eamtXfUft se-pu-inot-r N Is"
rijr aipii(-iiutis desirable.
Fur Catalogue uppljr to
MISS HE LEX E. PELLET REAC.
I'lTTSBCRtiH, PA.
WANTED
WOOL!
WOOL!
WOOL!
Ten thousand pounds of washed
and unwashed wool for cash or
trade which wc will pay the high
est market price for.
Wo carry the lanrest and best se
lected stock of Pry Good and
Notions in the County at prices
that can't be beaten, and if you
don't want Goods we will give
vou the moncv. Uring us your
"Wool.
PARKER
MER
C ARMO
The Celebrated English Hack
ney Stallion-
fMDHin t nndoubtedlv the iine M-xvV!
OAniVtU Hi-kaey llor-e ev-. r iin;., ttJ lu
to this cwur.try
EXPORT CERTIFICATE.
Hackney Horse Society-
This is to i-ertify that th. transfer rf the
Sraltion h. reinjitu-r ih-ritet h tw-n lu'I.V
: K&.KrtKKii in tbe lijoiu of th Sjcif.v, vU:
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(' I R Rav or rtrown.
IlktKIiKK Thomas Cook, Thlxcndaie,
Yorkshire.
SIKK-hl.ACK At'STKR.
Traofvr iro.a Tlioin.m x.k to Galbraiib
' Itrus., Jano-- ;!:. Wisconsin. I . 3. A.
HENRY F. Kl'hh-V, ties-retary.
of Hs'-knt v stul Book soci-;v.
Office: 11, Chnij8 St., LooJoa. W.
BLACK AUSTER I U'rst prize at Laai-av
ter Eatire Horse Show in 16.
PARajin won the prize stthe Koya! NUn
UrAniVllJ C:f-ter ao-i Liverixol U"rMj Saur
ia 1 w wtiea be u ou!y two yuart o. J.
Q n . Dam of Caraio, earae tn d.
Ueen DeSSy r! !:ne from the wof..l..r
f:il mate Nnnparfel who trotted 101 miles hitrhcl
to a raft. Sue Irou.M JO nutt-s tu 1 b'ir and i
mimiie, afier stopping 3 minutes site trHtM
4t mlU-s within f.mr bciur aiid fim!u-.l the l'"
aiiU'S in 'J hours, ,v. mini:U' an t j" !wvn'lj, an-i
MiowtM no sym ptorna of fntiue : ate a fv--l iiu
liiwiiately iijiuu Kinua to Ute -table, alter whicn
he walked 7 ruUej u where ane iii kept.
The Hokipy Hone are very remarkable f,r
their tfcnUeuca, speed and eudorantt-.
PnrrviA U nnv owtiftl hy Hon. A. H
V-ctf 1 1 1 LI co;ir.h. of Somi'rvt. 1'a.. and
will Im Utr the aNia under the care ami cUarr
of tiie uuierfugned.
12no-li Plough.
SOMkST, PA.
lohristevVrR'
t Pi e D
PIC-NIC
GOODS.
Tie-nic Flates, per dozen, 7e.
Tie-nic Mu3, Planished Tin, 5c.
Pic-nic Knives and Forks. e.
Pic-nic Spoons, per dozen, 10c,
Pic-nic Folding Cups, 9c.
Pic nic Lemon Squeezers, 9c.
Pic-nic Kaskcts, 2'jc.
NATHAN'S,
WlolBsa
IB
Retailer
JOHN P. KNABLE & C(K
JULY CLEARANCE SALE !
Wo Male a rule to carry over no stock. Price will '-. I
It ii our loss, t'oiiw and sLu e the bargains. We will ord : '.'
few we have to ofl -i v.u. ' "' ;
ArASH GOODS.
OG-inch Chain, 12-1-2 c srrade, reduced to 2,-.
Fine Chevrons reduced to 9e.
DEESS GOODS.
All-Wool Cheviot reduced (o 2oe, wa-i "V.
All-Wool Cheviot reduced to 3"e. wa 5n,
All-Wool Cheviot reduced o o"e. was s 7-1
INDIA SILKS.
One line Cue jrrade reduced to 7 "c.
PTTTTT A TT- "IT r
dUUO Ri'iU ti.UAr.i ALL iLLLL r
This line we are detenninctl t close, many at exi
half price. We have some elegant Paris Dresses,
that we will sell at about half price. They are elo'.rr Z ":
Come see the many bargains all departments havet 'y "
John P. Knable & Co,
35 Fifth Avenue. PITTSBURGH Pi
Send for samples and share the Bargains. '
e"nevv
white front building !
No. 113 Clinton St., Johnstown, P-
fcGEIS OLD .-TAXI, XOWQU-V-N.
LEADING STORE OF THE CITY
TO HUY YOUIt
m eooE, mm mmm, fancy gcoes, ik. ;
With economy and profit to the Customer. Come aud
JAMES GTJI35T2Sr;
Jas. B. Holderbaum,
HAS JViT RK FIVKD A CUT. LOAD OF THS.
Plench & Dramgold
ALL STEEL FRAME
SPRING-TOOTH HARROW
wiiic!i U a wotiilrrf::! imj rvveuit-nt in
SPRING-TOOTH
HARROWS.
Teeth i:iuV'y a.Tj't-te.1 v only Iitiiin; one nut. The bost
TOOTH
HOLDER
Ev-r Inv.nu-.l. Th.- l.v.t!, i- 1..-M in tuition br .1 RaM,.. w'!h w!.i I, ;t r-n I .-, -
.VI ad waiaine this llorr-w. -V ' 1 r;':" X j"'-' kr.-,w .u .-::,
JAMES B. HOLDERBAUM
PAUL. A.
We have ia stock and sell verv
MILK PAIL?, MILK CANS. SIIHTIXG and HAULING
STEP LADDERS', CLOTHES WHACKS, WASHING M
CHINES, TL'PS, WRINGERS, WASH HOARDS, ICE
CREAM FREEZERS. SCREEN DOORS, '
SCREEN WINDOWS, 1R.ON. WOOD
ai d JXCKET PUMPS, 1 RON
PIPE, VALVES and FIT
TINGS, and SEW
ER PIPE.
We have also put in a nice stock of Paints, Oils. Varni.-hes, Sui:
Colors of Lost make. Ready mixed paint from one pint .
JuA received a carload of Drain Tile verj cheap for farm
Paul A. Scliell,
SOMERSET, PA.
E- Agent fr Domestic Sewing Machines.
OUR MAMMOTH STORE'
ILivin- filled the lanre building formerly oecurn'.d lv W."
Morrcll &. Co., with a lar-e -tock of. '
G-eneral Merchandise,
wc re?o:tfully call the attention of Somerset Conntr Imvers to t!,e
Our DRY GOODS and NOTION DEPARTMENT is fail of a!
the late styles of Staple and Fancv Goods; white our lines of CA K
PETS. MATTINGS, CLOTHING', FOOTWEAR, HARDWARE. .MIL
LINER V GOODS, HATS, GROCERIES, etc., are full and cl-Iew
W iih our increased facilities for handling goods, we are fi;!'y 1'
pared to niet the wants of the general public, with cverTthini' at a
torn prices.
PENH TRAFIC CO., LIMITED.
Lower End of Washington St., JOHNSTOWN, PA
When in JOHNSTOWN, don't fail to call at
GEO. K. KLINE'S
NEW STOIIE, 241 Main St.,
Where will Le found a Complete Stock of Dry Goods. Ladie-'
Gents' Furnishings and Wraps. All the Newest th:n-3 in Dre-s Oo
inclnding Silks, Serges, Henriettas, Camels Hair, Dedford Cords, Wool
en, Crepes and all other Novelties in the Dress Goods line. ANo
complete line of Staple Goods, Mich as Muslins. Shcetinj. Tab!--'
ens, Crashes, Ac. Our Line of Ladies' Wraps, includes J-u---4
Capt 3 and New Markets of tho latest Sprb" St les.
OUR MOTTO : Best Goods, Latest Styles and Lowest
Come and see u.
GEO. K. KX.INE.
I rrrt T T t i
SCHELL.
lovr, Kitchen ware and furn
CAN.'
is ai
aa np.
drain-