HOMESTEAD

a borough of Pennsylvania, in Allegheny co. It is on the Pennsylvania, the Pittsburg and Lake Erie, Be emer and Lake Erie and other railroads, 10 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. It is one of the chief steel manufacturing cities in the country and is the seat of the steel works established by Andrew Carnegie, afterwards sold to the United States Steel Corporation. Its other industries include gla works and machine shops. The labor troubles in 1892 culminated on July 6 of that year in a serious riot which was provoked by the attempt to intimidate the strikers by Pinkerton detectives. The riot was finally subdued by the State militia, after several persons had been killed. Pop. 1920, 20,452, —