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AFRAID TO GO TO BED.
Farmers in Western New York Stay
Awake, in Terror Lest the Forest
Fires Descends Upon Them.

BUFFALO, N, Y, Sept 5.-Rsp orts
from the farming districts Of Western
New York say that all that is needed
for repetition of the recent horrible
calamity in the northwest ' 20 have a
fire once get start in tn section.
Farmers are afraid to 60 to bed at
night on account of the danger from
fire. which, owing to the long continued
drought, is liable to sweep the parched
country at any time.
Pasture has burned and dried mp 80
that It'll hard matter to get food for
stock; farmers are compelled to haul
water long distances for their cattle
and other stock, the little brooks and
rivulets having disappeared, The
Gsnesee river is lower than for many
years at this season OF the year.
Dunkirk reports fierce forest fires
raging south Of there that threaten de-
struction to everything in their path
Already thousands of dollars worth of
property have gone up in smoke and
the work of destruction continues un-
checked, notwithstanding the vigorous
work of hundreds Of men, women and
children who are fighting the flames
day and night Yesterday morning
tho flames reached point just south
of Fredonia, and every available man
in the village and surrounding country
10 fighting the fire.
The village is practically without fire
protection, the water in the reservoir
having been nearly exhausted on ae-
count of the long continued drouth.
and should the fire gain headway tho
entire town would be wipad out.
Fires are also raging on the "Cavey
farm" mile south of Dunkirk, and
apprehension is felt on account Of the
high south wind prevailing.
Reports from the surrounding coun-
try are to the same effect Everything
is burning up, and there are no indi-
cations Of rain. Farmers are in terri
BILE predicament. Those who have es
capped the ravages of the grasshopper
plague are now having their seasons
crop destroyed by fire.
The city of Dunkirk is dense with
clouds of smoke from the fire district,
and lake vessels from that port are
keeping up constant blowing of fog
horns in order to prevent collisions.
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THE coNvENTioR At WORK.
Cheers for Jack Robinson and other No
table Incidents.

Special TO the Scranton Tribune.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. 5--The con.
vention assembled in the tastily re-
decorated Harrisburg opera house at
1890 o'clock. At the entrance Of Pres
ident Robinson scene Of enthusiasm
prevailed for several moments. The
William Ahern club. of Philadelphia,
100 strong. carrying American flags,
gold headed canes and silk hats. oceu-
pied the right hand gallery and sheered
vociferously. The Harrisburg City
band and the brass instruments of the
Ahern club united in strident welcome
and enthusiasm thus began early. No
table Republicans, upon entering the
hall, were each accorded hearty greet
ings. Among those thus honored were
Chris l.. Magee, of Pittsburg; Hon.
Walter Lyon. candidate for lieutenant
governor; William B, Ahsrn, of Phila-
delphia.
After invocation by R'v. George
Duncan, pastor of the Westminster
Presbyterian church, of Harrisburg. a
call Of the roll disclosed the presence
Of delegates from 175 clubs, the largest
mem bership ever enrolled at league
convention One of the incidents of
the roll call occurred when the maine
Of the Thomas b. Reed club was
reached. An outburst Of cheering was
the result which continued for fully
one minute. The NJ. S QIay club and
the W. B Abern club an. the Boies E.
Penrose club, Of Philadelphia. were
also honored by the convention by sim
liar ovations. When the Daniel IL
Hastings club was reached the cheer
ing was tumultuous; and the William
Leeds association was also compli-
mented by vigorous outburst.
The address of welcome by A. Will
son Norris, of Harrisburg the leagues
new vice-president, was mastery OF.
fort, abounding in telling points which
We're received at times with an EN-
thusiasm bordering on wildness. His
ailusion TO the recent Democratic de-
preston rs a period OF national tor.
ture' caught the fancy Of the conven-
tion. When he likensd it to the pass
Ing thunder storm which obscures with
the cloud of idleness only for a time
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the towns, but includes no timber
losses, which are enormous.
RELIEF AT HINCKLEY

HNCKLEY, Minn., Sept 5.-There was
considerable activity in Hinckley yes
terdsy. The survivors have placed the
executive direction Of affairs IN charge
of Q committee of which H, @. Davis is
chairman, and A G, Hay secretary.
Lumber and supplies came up Monday
night and cook shanty, inclosed on
three sides, with an adjoining store
house, was Knocked together. Here
was installed crew Of lumber-camp
cooks. who prepared ham and fresh
meats, coffee and bread and cheese in
abuntant quantities for the refugees.
ASHLAND. Wis. Sept 5-The bodies
of the eight people who lost their lives
at High bridge have been identified as
follows: Frank Bargrin, Maggie Bar
grin, Isaac, Elisha. Willie, Jessie and
Mrs Tawney and Walter Grant.
Homesteaders near Marengo report
twenty.eight deer burned in one bunch
where they had huddlsd together in a
green thicket and suffoestsd. Baked
rabbits, partridges and poreupines are
numberless Within distance five
miles square in the town of Marengo
thirty-two homesteaders lost every
thing and but three houses remain.
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TAILORS' STRIKE.
Brotherhood T~'.... 1910 Saights Of

Brotherhood T~'... 1910 aights Of
Labor -Gen.
NEW YORK, Sept, 5 The third day
of the clothing workers strike opened
with IA, 900 men idle in New York and
1000 idle in Brooklyn and Brownsville.
The Brotherhood tailors aud the knights
Of Labor tailors are at loggerheads be-
cause the latter refuse to join in the
strike.
This morning the Brotherhood men
attacked the headquarters of the
Knights in this city aud hurled nun
her of missiles through the windows.
The strikers We're dispsrsed by the
police. The war between the organ.
izsd carpenters and sub-son tractors,
bids fair to be long and bitter one.
The present fight is not a question of
wages or hours, but is to do away with
the system of Jumping, or sub-letting
Of contract jobs. Nearly 1000 men are
out and it is stated that before twenty.
four hours the number will increase to
$500. tying up the work on over $50
Jobs
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BURLINGTON. Vt. Sant.

BURLINGTON, W., sept. D.
GNETURNS are slow in coming in,
w but it is certain that Vermont
I'M has led off the ball of state cleo
u u tions with a most significant
Republican victory. Instead Of being
as the Democrats predicted, falling
off from the usual off year figure, the
Republican majority is unprecedented
for an off.year, and may not improb-
ably exceed the greatest majority
given in any year in the states history.
Compared with 1890, the last off year,
the majority is nearly doubled. it Is
estimated to be over 26 600 and may
reach 80, 000
That it is bugle note Of the ssnti-
ment which has been aroused through.
out the country against the national
Democracy and against the principle of
free trade cannot be doubted.
The following is the whole ticket
elected:
For Governor-Urban A. Woodbury.,
Burlington.
Lieutenant -Governor-zophar NJ Man
sui, Brighton.
State Treasurer. Henry F. Field, Rut.
land
Secretary of State - Chauncey w.
Brownell, of Burlington.
State Auditor-Franklin D.. Hale, OF
Lunenburg.
Members Of Congress-First district, IL.
Henry Powers Morristown; Second dis
trict William W. Grout, Barton.
NO SHOW FOR PoPULIsM.
The Popullsts, contrary to expecta
tions. made no showing whatever.
They madeIa vigorous campaign, but
when it came time to vote they were
not heard from
The city of Burlington. governor
elect Woodbury's home, gave him a
good ssnd-of by voting a majority of
69l. The vote stood: Woodbury. (Rep. },
l,5O4; Smith Dem J, 76O; McGinness
(Pop.) Al; scattering, H. In the same
town in 1890 Page, the Republican
candidate. only had a majority of A
votes. and in 1892 Smallev (Dem had
II majority of 90 votes. The city gave
the Republican county candidates an
average majority of over 500.
The Republicans carry every county.
elect two congressman by increased
majorities, and elect solid Republican
senate and an overwhelming majority
of representatives.
congressman w. W. Grout and FL
H. Powers are reelected by increased
majOrities. The Democrats have met
the most crushing defeat since the war.
The returns from nearly every town
show an increase in the Republican
and corresponding decrease in the
Democratic vote for governor. as com
pared with the result in 1892
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FLASHED FROM THE WIRES.

By cutting through the stone Jail wall,
seven persons at Hillside Mich, made
their escape.
A cloudburst near Guthrie, o. T.,
drowned Mrs. John McPike, two daugh-
ters and Miss Mabel Hill.
Unable to curb his appetite for liquor,
B. F. Fisher, a bookkeeper, Of ,Oklahoma
CITY, o. T., took laudanum.
While rowing on Pembroke Mass. J
pond, 7. L. Blakely and John f. Hum
phey, Of Boston, fell in and were drowned.
On raft without sails or oars Frank
Beach and Gene Hundley, of st. Louis,
started for New Orleans to win 81, 600
wager.
On the charge of stealing the affections
of Mrs. Carrie Weber Clark, formerly a
noted Boston singer. o. P. Decker, a
travelling man, is sued by her husband for
$4,000.
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enthusiasm that at places broke out
into continuous and vocifsrous cheer
ing, the like Of which old convsn-
ton attendants say has never been
surpassed in the history Of
nominating conventions in this
great commonwealth. Mr.. Colborn's
two points which brought on the crisis
of applause, both had reference to
brainy Tom Reed, and were both i'm
promptu. Paraphrasing Scripture, Mr..
Colborn referred to the ex.speaker not
as the reed that bad been shaken by
the wind, but the Reed by whom the
wind Of Democratic congressional in
competency had been shaken until it
whined for mercy. This apt repartes,
coming after succession Of taking al
lusions, caught the convention. and
when one Of the delegates under the
inspiration Of the moment, proposed
three cheers for Reed, they were given
with vim.
Then the orator, with dramatic ef-
feet and with an eloeution that was
faultless, followed up his theme as fol-
Alows: "The same hand that made the
\Getling and craggy cliff made the
cen valley smiling in tranquil
eauty: the hand that made also the
Mountain torrent made the mirrory
prface Of the plaeid lake. And 1 want
add without meaning any irrever-
kce that the hand that made glorious
% Reed at the same time made a
/"
impossible in cold type to give
hint of the magnetic effect of
speech upon the convention. The
Sum and substance of 1t is that ton light
all Harrisburg is talking of the new
orator, and Colborn, like Byron. may
say that he has awakened one day to
find himself we'll nigh nationally IA
nous.
The convention upon reconvening
after dinner promptly began business
by adopting q strong platform, inelud-
ing plank vigorously denouncing
southern electoral injusticss. Charles
p O'Mslley, Of Olyphant. was chosen
one Of the delegates to the next ma
tional convention of league clubs in
Cleveland, O., next year. The nomi-
nation Of Major Warren for president
was made by acclamation after an
eloquent seconding speech by Thomas
L Hicks. Of Philadelphia. When the
election of officers had been COM
pleted. President Warren named as
corresponding secretary. Fred W.
Flsitz. of Scranton. Mr.. Fleitz's 90.
lection was due less to geographical
location than to the request Of promi.
nent league members who took this
method of testifying to his energy as
an organizer and to his many services
for the leagues advancement.
The Scranton party left for home af-
Ter tonights monster mass meeting in
The opera house and will arrive in
Scranton tomorrow morning at 9.42
o'clock.
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CONDENSED STATE TOPICS.

Auditors report that ex-Treasurer PHILIP
Fisher Of Westmoreland county, is 81, 500
snort.
Tyrone's board of health refuses to re-
move cattle that died of anthrax just out
side of that borough.
The National Master Blacksmths' asso-
ciation, composed Of railroad blacksmiths,
has seventy delegates at Pittsburg.
Locomotive firemen of the country will
send 500 delegates to the Brotherhood con-
vention at Harrisburg on Monday.
r. NJ. Stocker, of Honesdale was yes
terday nominated by the Tunkhannock
Democrats Of the Fifteenth district for
congress.
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c. NJ. 3. a. COUNCIL.
7. P. Hobau, Of Scranton, Elected Presi-
dent of Association,

IL r. hopau, OF SCRANTON ElecIed Presl-
dent Of Association.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 5.-The Catho.
lie Mutual Benefit association of Penn
sylvania grand council closed this even
ing, The reports showed very large
increase in mem bership during the last
two years. The following officers were
elected:
7. P. Hoban, Scranton, president; NJ.
J, Duffy. Great Bsns, first vice presi-
dent: j. Il. Gran>', Erie, second vice
president; J. B, Fcx, Bradford aud B.
A, Kelly. Carbondale. trustees; John
P, Kunkel. Allegheny. marshal l., A.
Schott, Pittsburg. guard: Professor NJ
j. McMahon, Pittsburg; P. McMsmsra,
Sharpsburg; and j. n. Midelsner, Erie,
finance committee.
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V|CTORY'S NOTE
Up IN VERMONT
The Republican Majority May Reach $4,000
YOt6S
NOT APPROACHED Since The WAR

t is Double That of the Last of Year
Election, Big Gains Having Been
Made in Every Town.-DemocracY
Has Gons to Seed in the Green
Mountain State-A Blow at Free
Traders Given with Stunning Effect.
BugIe Note of Northern Sentiment.
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scRaRToNIANs RECEIVED.
Very Hospitabls Welcome for the Friends
of Major Warren.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

of Maj jor Warren.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.
HARRISBURG, Sept 5.-After break
fast at the Union station dining rooms,
the Scranton contingent was welcomed
by Howard d. Potts in behalf of the
reception committee of the Harrisburg
and Dauphin county clubs. Headed
by the Harrisburg City band, the
members Of the Central Repub.
lican club of Scranton, with Colonel
E. Fl. Ripple, Judge R. w.
Archibald, Mayor Connell and City
Treasurer Reese G. Brooks in the
van, were escorted to the headquarters
of Major Warren at tho Lochiel. Here
hospitabls entertainment was in readi-
ness. credentials and other convential
details were adjusted, and the Warren
Glee club. liz spirited song. consigned
the Democracy. Wisconsin and free
trade vagaries to their proper doom.
The arrangements for the reception
OF visitors were well-nigh perfect, and
many complimentary expressions were
heard in behalf of Harrisburg hospi.
tality.
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ATE LEAGUE CONVENTION
enthusiastic Gathering Of Young Republicans
at Harrisburg Yesterday
WARREN ELECTED PRESIDENT

The Most Enthusiastic Meeting Ever Held in Pennvanas Capoun
Fighting
the Trade Dragon-Scnons Brilliant President
Without oppotion-A j. Coborn Jr, Eecf Asembage by
His Eoquence-Grea Mass Meeting the EvngThe Campaign
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PoPULlSTS SPLIT.
Kansans Preparing to organizs Now

Kansans Preparing to Organizes New
Tangled Political Party.
TOPEKA, Sept 5.-An address was
issued to the people of Kansas ysster-
day signed by J. II. Lathrop, w. H. Ben
nington aud others calling for the or
gsnization of new political party in
this state, based on the initiative and
referendum system.
Polling places are to bs established
all over the state and voters in accord
with any of the old parties will be
asked to call aud identify themselves
with the new organization.
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SUMMONS of Chnlara

CUMBERLAND, Nd. Sept. 5.-John Peter
Watther a native of Bavaria, who was
taken off a west bound train of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad here today, died at
$50 tonight, His symptoms were that Of
Asiaiic cholera.
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SHOT HIS CaPToR.
Desperate Deed of Missouri Horse
Thief In Carrollton.

Thief In Carrollton.
CARRoLLToN, Mo-, Sept. 5.-Hurley
Coin, a horse thief. who was being
brought here from Chillicothe, shot aud
killed Constable William Hall, of Hill
township. with the latter's revolver.
Coin then attempted to shoot Halls
father, but was prevented by Justice
Runyon, who wrested the revolver
from Coins hand. Coin ran and was
shot at four times by Runyon. one shot
taking effect In his hand. He escaped
to the timber. A posse was organized,
and he was captured and taken from
the infuriated people and brought to
jail at this place,
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FINLEY $
OPENING OF
: all
Dress 6
Goods

We have now on exhibit
tion a magnificent stock Of
New Fall Dress Goods,
comprising the latest NOV
ELITES in both FOREIGN
AND DOMESTIC GOODS.
Early selections are most
desirable, the styles being
EXCLUSIVE, and there
will be NO DUPLICATES.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. Sept 5.

(ON ELDOM has convention been so
~ electrified as was the seventh
W annual convention of the Penn
sylvania League of Republican clubs,
by the address of A. J. Colborn. jr.,
in placing the name of Major Everett
Warren in nomination for president.
Up to that point the days proceedings
had been devoid Of striking incident.
When Mr.. Colborn began his address
the convention had been restless; when
he finished it was palpitant with an
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the DOWNWARD TRIP.
Inoidsnts of the Journey on Board the
Harrisburg Special
0peciai 10 Me Scranfon ntibuns.

HARRIsBURG, Sept 8. = Forty-one
Sorantonians occupied the two through
sleeping oars attached to the Dela-
ware, Lackawanna and Western train
which left Scranton for Northumber-
land at 6.05 o'clock last night. The
county convention at that time had
only got partially through its work.
and this fact probably deferred many
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WEATHER FORECAST.

HaEhRI WASHINGTON Sept. - For
eastern Pennsylvania, generally
F. fair, cooler, rariabie ioinds. For
~ toestern Pennsylvania, fair,
cooler, ercept in the vicinity of Erie,
north toinds.
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The EiRht n Draw.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 5.-The fight be-
tween Dempsey and McCarty was declared
draw at the end of the twentieth round.
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tions of the present belong to an
old civilization-social cannibalism
you may call it. The industrial
system is in a condition of wage
slavery.
Our government should be for the
people and by the people, but it is
for the people by Wall street. A
change must come, or else that Ma
son and Dixon line, which the farmer
abolished, will be set up between
the West and Wall street. We
want no millionaires or corporations.
Selfishness reigns supreme. We
live a gigantic lie. We profess
christianity and fail to practice it..
You build monumental piles OF
stone and brick and dedicate them
to God, and still you allow your
children to starve. Your ministers
are afraid to preach doctrine an
tagonistic to plutocracy. You ask
why your laboring men are leaving
the church, and answer, because
the churches hold the hay too high
for the sheep. Our social conditions
have no part with the teaching of
Christ. If you are afraid to attack
the plutocrats, then you need a new
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Christ-one who will hobnob with
the rich, and who will preach Heav-
en- for the rich and He'll for the
tramps.
The two old parties have strug
gled for thirty years with two OBJ
iects high or low tariff. Both
parties have become incapable of
solving the problems of the present.
They can progress no further. They
have reached their limit. The day
of the Peoples party is at hand. A
change is working unseen and un-
aided by human agency. The cry
of the poor for bread is not heard
by your political leaders, but the
answer is soon coming in the shak-
ing of the heavens and the earth.
Punishment will come to your
leaders. Under the dark cloud of
to day there are portentious signs of
a struggle that will convulse the
world. Some radical social change
is coming. The giant OF labor in
this country is aroused. The light
of justice is in his eyes. Men will
not starve in the sight of plenty.
Aristocracy may well start from its
slumber as it dreams of the French
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revolution. 1t is a struggle for
justice, and those who long ignore
it cannot survive.
Grover Cleveland, that great
smoke extinguisher, is menace to
the republic. He is blight to
prosperity and liberty. He struck
down our silver and proved himself
tool of the money changers Of the
old world The Peoples party is in
accord with right and justice. 1t
is in accord with the teachings of
Christ and the constitution of the
United States"
***
We are in receipt Of the follow
ing letter from New York city
Populist
New York, March l., 1894.
EDITOR AGITAToR: At last, the
rights of the people have been heard
in New York city. The writer of
this has been in attendance at polit-
ical meetings in Cooper Union since
it was thrown open to the public by
that greatest of all philanthropists,
Peter Cooper. After listening
spell-bound for two hours to a speech
by Mrs. Mary E. Lease, the queen
of the Kansas plains, the chairman,
Rev. DR.. McGlynn, the noble priest,
who teaches Christ's doctrine on
earth, as did the S of Man when
the salvation Of the people was at
stake announced that the resolutions
would be read. The question was
put: "Shall the resolutions be
adopted All ia favor say l." 1t
1t was all a." "All opposed say
no." Not a single ono" We feel
that the East is already captured,
starting two miles from Wall street.
Mrs. Leases thoughts were SO
deep, and created such profound
feeling, that we would not be sur
prised to hear that she would drop
down into Wall street and lash the
money-changers theirs Mrs. Lease
has captured the New York press,
and they pronounce her the great
political phenomenon.
There is great demand for Mrs.
Lease in the East. New jersey
wants her at Dover. Boston has
her Saturday. Then New Hamp
shire will fall under her telling
blows. GEO. A. HUNTER.
Xxx
At the Cooper Union meeting.
Mrs. Lease wore handsome corsage
bouquet of smilax and scarlet car
nations, presented by our good old
friend, Capt. G. w. Lloyd, of New
Rochelle, N. Y.