State Rifles Used in the Homestead Riot Night Battle
Witnesses describe a savage Homestead clash with rioters seizing barges for plunder and firing on Pinkertons. A bystander recounts chaotic scenes, brutal assaults, and a dying Pinkerton detective later identified as Edward Connors of New York.
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Salvation Army
Bill
Jack Leasure
Homestead
Monongahela
Tennessee
Pinkerton
Edward Connors
Montgomery Street
New York
Munhall Station
Homestead Rioters Rename Street as the Gauntlet
An addled exchange records rioters naming a street the Gauntlet. A detective reports the victim bears two head wounds with blood on his vest as the crowd decorates the hall with rough art, leaving lasting reminders.
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Pere Oseen
Homestead
Law of Riots and Corporate Rights in Riot Cases
Discussion in a law library outlines Supreme Court rulings on rioter definitions and corporate defense. It cites Justice Clark on participation in riots by joining, and Justice King on arming firms’ facilities to defend property against mob violence as a lawful right under specific conditions.
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Supreme Cort
Law Library
Court House
Homestead
Supreme Court
Justice Clark
Pennsylvania Law Journal
Khimeslf
Carnegie Steel Company
Justices King
Indu
Pg Sereen
Secrey
McC
Tensions Rise Between Braddock and Homestead Labor Camps
A Braddock special telegram to The Dispatch notes possible unity between Carnegie Edgar Thomson mill workers and Homestead men if trouble resumes. Most Braddock workers fear resistance to unionist agitation and worry about a spillover attack on Braddock.
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Edger Thomson
Braddocks
Braddock
Carnegie
Edgar Thomson
Duquesne Mills
Amalgamated Association
Homestead
Thorfton
Wight
William Redman
Rankin
Keating
Ested
Fovk
Carnegie Company Severs Ties with Amalgamated at Homestead
H G Frick, chairman of Carnegie Steel, says the company will operate Homestead and Duquesne plants themselves, rejecting further dealings with the Amalgamated Association. He cites three issues: sliding scale minimum, expiration date of the scale, and departmental tonnage rates.
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Philadelphia
H. G Frick
Carnegie Steel Company, Limited
Carnegie Company
Amalgamated Association
Homestead
Amalgamated
Edgar Thomson
Duquesne
Bessemer
Carnegie
Arge
Pps Amalgamated Ms
Eefuses
Allegheny County
Pinkerton
Gray
Captain Rodgers
Fin
Debensel
Congress
Tree Laxative Syrup Ad Promises Safe Relief
An advertisement urges readers to trust the Tree Laxative Principle from California Fig Syrup Co as a pleasant, permanent remedy for the human system, contrasting it with cheap vegetable extracts and mineral medicines sold as cures. It notes want and miscellaneous ads appear on page nine of today's dispatch.
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Dispatch
California
Safe deposit vaults offered for valuables storage
Do not leave all valuables in the house. Store them in the safe deposit vault of the Farmers Deposit National Bank at 6 South Avenue where safekeeping is guaranteed. The notice advocates secure storage and absolute protection for valuables.
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Farmers’ Deposit Rational Hank
Fouth Avenue
Engiar Aia Ate
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Istreet
Lefl
Artridge
National Guard
Pinkertons
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Sarournel
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Heine
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Wis
Carnegie, Phipps & Co
Omestead
Allegheny Branch
Joseph Raby
Hood
Pillaarea
Tors
Beaver Falls
Coke
Ees Lite
Ewan A. Woops
Man
Market Street
Pittsburg
A. G. Campana
Soxs
Fifth Avenue
Ace Vestane
Suatt
de Witt
Argains
Irree
St Cor
Fifth Ave
Oxford
G. D. Simen
Ohio ST
Allegheny, PA
E. P. Robe IS &S & Sons
Blazer
Eton
JOS. Horne &Co
Penn Avenue
Jyt
Horne & CO
Penn Avenue Stores
India
Chevron
Jos, Horne
P&nn
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