CHAPTER XV.

PROGRESS IN THE MILL--A QUARTET OF ARISTOCRATIC NON-UNIONISTS--SICKNESS BREAKS OUT--MORE ARRESTS--JACK CLIFFORD SUSPECTED OF TREACHERY, BUT IS HELD WITHOUT BAIL FOR MURDER--167 TRUE BILLS RETURNED--SUPREME JUSTICE PAXSON IN THE SADDLE--HE ORDERS ARRESTS FOR TREASON AND IS GENERALLY CONDEMNED--SNOWDEN FAVORS THE GALLOWS FOR HOMESTEADERS--JUDGE AGNEW ON TREASON--PAXSON INSTRUCTS THE GRAND JURY AND PRONOUNCES THE HOMESTEAD MEN TRAITORS--CARNEGIE IN SCOTLAND.

During the month of August, the mill continued to fill up rapidly with non-union recruits. Among these there was an admixture of worthless characters, who went to Homestead only for the novelty of the thing or for the purpose of securing a few square meals and perhaps a little money from the Company without imposing any special tax on their energies. Men of this type rarely spent more than a day or two in the