The Morning herald., 1877-09-05
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CONVENTION AT HARRISBURG
HARRISBURG, Sept. 4.--The first lnett-
ing t,;r an Informal conference on the plat
lp!m is reported as having been held late
st night OF the rcsidcoce of Simon Canes
ron. A number of drafts were presented,
he TWO pvlns Of interest b:i the "Eu-
d,rsement and "Laboe" plan A secord
meeting was held this nor i from which
it WIS learned that Attorney Gs~eral Lear
had ctncoctcd the labor llAuk. The
pla' folm ai in all pr atility adop5 tie
Hayes n licy.
On the financial question the platform
will demand tn, restoration OF the silv'
d III i Of The day Of l79}, which meaps lis
rem ,le'iz ,tion.
The labor plank will denounce mob l4w
and violence Of all kinds, express sympathy
for he workmen iu their distress, and &C"
kno sledsipg their right to dem aud a lair
dsy wages for fair days work.
YESTERDAYS FIRE.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4-The morning pa
ers devote uuch time to reports OF yes'er-
day's fire. No reliable list of the lost can
yet be given. Theodore stvetzel, aged lS,
employed on the top floor of the piano 1ac-
,o,y, says tha. he men ran to the stairs 10
csc. pc, but found them on fire.
The ladder escape wss too nearthe hre'
be available, and the men tried the cnAin
scape, but the wheel aboutwhich the chaln
should revolve would not turn, and the men
had to 20 down over hand. The staircase
IN the corner of the building was locked ,and
could not bc opened to accelerate their Is"
cape. oh,u
v orkmen on the second floor say probably
| ten or dozen on the top floor were buried
in the rufus, as he observed several 'all
back from the window overcome by heat
and smoke.
man living opposite the factory says
the yorkmen had time to pass from The Old
builling, where the fire broke out, in'o the
new building through connecting doors on
each floor.
Aman who escaped from the sixth story
told the firemen he had descended by 1a1l
rop,, and left sixty men behind, not one OF
whom followed him down. Mason, WHO
escs ped to the roof and thence down 'he
chain csc ape, says fifty men were on Inc
,of and he thinks 40 perlshed.
A workman who sscap from the drylng
room floor where the fire started, THINKS
non. perished on that floor, nor any excep-
inc hose on the top story.
Some we're enveloped in flames be:ore
they descended. The tiremen who first ar
rived in Thirty sixth street say they saw
mon IN all the windows above the third
story trying to escape, but afraid to leap
paf,re the tiremeu could cut the CLONES
lines stretched across the intervening space
and cet their ladders up, the flames burst
; from the windows.
Then four men leapfd from the third
; ,to,v. All were seriously injured. one
! tru, k ca plain is certain that twenty or more
, .r,shed, One tirmen declares that ne saw
two or three heads at every window in the
t ,o,u,b and fitch stories. Another saw sew
, era, lump from the windows. Some climbed
7 h.,,,out others held their hands In an at
t;5ude of prayer, and their screams were
terrible.
. ,,I,c widows of the top s'ory OF the ~"
b,i ding were flei with men.
RUSSO AMERICAN EXTRAORDINARY
TREATY.
: sr. PETERSBURG, Sept. 4.-Frince Gor's
ch, ,off has authorized the Russl'n Minis
q ter vt Washington ,e arranG' RUSSO
American extradition treat