1Y .- : - . v CONTAINS ALL THE NEWS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, Steady Work at Good Wages Paid In Good Money. , Cho Way to Get It Is to Vote for McKlnley. EIGHT PAGES 3d COTTV PAM FRIDAY MOKN1KG, SEPTEMBER 18, 189. TWO CENTS A COPY . ".nirt ' ; ' . - , First mm ICwpdl 1111 IV. IV 1 1 VU "w FROM THE BUBKCt ' Dcoardin. We open the Fall and Winter Blanket Reason Thursday, September 117, Willi a deep out In price lor one week only, ami not a day longer. Kvery pair In the following lots is this season's g.inds, fresh and clean from the mills. We bought them a good deal better I nan most store keepers would call "right," and propose to emphasize this fact In a Grand Opening Sale but don't come after It's all over and expect u continuance of these price, for you won't Ret 'em. Quantities are also limited to the numbers stuted. PUKSE APPEALING FACT!: WMie Cotton Blankets 'J einjes 10 1 size, 6."K. quality, 4.,;. a pulr. 2 eases Ji-4 size, 75e. Quality, OSJ. a pulr. ' i' case 11-4 size, $1.00 quality, We. a pair. - ' cat 11-1 size. Jl.li'j quality, ue. a pair. !(., Jl size, Jl 35 quality, 1.12Vj a pair. " -.. 2 cases lu-4 size, 6i4c quality, 4Le. a pair. !i cases 11-4 size 73c. quality, KM. a pair. 2 canes 1M size, 11.00, quality, 79c. a pair. 1 canes 11-4 size $1.12' quality, !H)c. pulr. i cases 12-4 size, $1.30 quality, Va pair. All WooKWWtc Blankets luO pairs 10-4 size, $3.60 quality, J2.T5 a pair. W pairs 11-4 size, $4.25 quality, 3.fi0 a pair. o pairs 1J-4 size, $4.00 quality, $330 a pair. 10 pairs 11-1 size, $5.00 quality, HJi'i a pair. 7u pairs 11-4 size, 16.60 quality, Ji.25 a pair. . Woof Woof White Blanket 75 pairs 10-4 size, .'.50 quality, SIM pair. luO pall 11-4 size, $4.00 quality, $3.25 a pair. loo pairs 10-4 size, $3.50 quality, $2.95 a pair. 55 pairs 11-4 size, $4.00 quality, $3.50 a pair. 85 pairs 10-4 size, $1.25 quality, a pair. 75 patra 10-4 size, $2.00 quality, $1.59 pair. 76 pairs U-4 size, $2.50 quality, $1.18 a pair. 100 pairs 10-4 size, $3.25 quality, $2.75 a pair. 100 pairs 11-4 size, $4.00 quality, $3.50 pair. 76 pairs 10-4 size, $3.25 quality, $2.75 a pair. so pairs U-4 size, $5.00 quality, $4.1714 a pair. 00 pairs 11-4 size, $4.00 quality, $3.35 a pair, 60 pairs U-4 size, $5.00 quality, $4.374 a pair. To last two numbers ar scarlet. Special At this sale we will offer 73 pairs ex tra fine all wool white blankets, with new style borders, especially designed for us on single brass or Iron bed steads. Their actual value Is $.50 . Sale Price, $5.25 a pair GLOBE WAREHOUSE MORE WORKINGMEN VISIT M'KINLEY Immense Excursion of Braddock Steel Workers to Canton. THE CANDIDATE'S SUPERB SPEECH He Makes an Eloquent and Convinc ing Pirn fur Protection and Sound .Money Kmphiiti.cg the Need of a Prompt Return of Public and Pri vate Confidence. Canton, O., R-pt. 17. Major MoKln ley'n mall vast exceptionally heavy this morning. Besides the usual large num ber of letters containing expresnlons of best wishes, assurance of support, and i-oiiKiHtulatlons upon the Maine vic tory, there were advices from numer ous political organizations, clubs and Individuals throughout thl &"l un joining states or their intention to par turiate In the Me demonstration to be hidd In this city tomorrow. Should the weather prove favorable, It is, expected thut the opening of the cutupuiKti In Stark county tomorrow will be the greatest political gathering in the history of the state. The rail roads centering In Canton have ar ranged for the reception of fifty special trains of excursionist which will come from all directions. WORKMEN PROM T1RADDOCK. A large and enthusiastic delegation, romposed of the employes of the Kdgur Thomson Steel works, at Braddock, Pa., arrived on three special trains over the Pennsylvania railroad shortly after noon today. The visitors wwe accom panied by the Sherldnn Sabre and St. Thomas bunds. There were fully 3.500 persons in the party. At the depot the visitors were met by the Canton mount ed troop and a large crowd of citizens. When the last of the three trains had pulled into the atation the line was formed Hnd the delegation marched to the residence of Major McKlnley. The spokesman of the party was John I Jones. Ue said: AI:vjor McKlnley: We come from the town of Kraddock, l'a.. us u delegation of emploves of the great Kdgar Thomson works, of nil 'lasses, colors and creeds, not as licpiiliMcaus or Hi-innciats. We have thrown old party utllliHtloiie. Rsl'le, as In the d.tvs of ''il and 'ifi. .Indus sold his Master for thirtv pieces of silver, ratio unknown; Arnold tried 10 sell his country for a prize, and we recognize the fact that we have men in our 'country today who would liriiiK.ruIn and dlshouoi' on our old ting and nation for l'i ounces of silver. .,-;M K.. .. it Vm ttiti-lv that i degrade the honor of the nation shall I have our votes, no party thai says that the lietioin 1 government I not supreme shall I have our support, and the inn n who tries i to army imipses agvt-inFt "classes will be I t routed with the contempt he deserves. We rtcognize no man as our superior. We i look lo von. the soldier, statesman and true p:-.iiot. one who has always been the true rriend of the workinmtian, one who know their wants, who has said that hon est lulior should have a chance thruUKh hones'tol to eurr. an honest dollar. With our friend and comrade, William McKlnley, In the presidential chair, a loyal congress lo bold up hl hands, und n strong protective tariff In working order, the "crown nf thorns und cross of (told and III to 1 " hurled In Cotter's Held forever, then will peace and prosperity reign. Major ai. Uinity had been received with a storm of cheerimt when he ap peared on 'the jjorch. This applause was renewed when the spokesman had finished his Introductory remark 8. and the nominee had mounted a chair to re spond. He said: MAJOR McKlNLEY'S ADDRESS. Mr. Jones and my fellow-cltlzens: Many deligatlon have waited upon me In the last two months. All have been welcomed and their visits have been Inspiring: but somehow when an assemblage of work Ingtnen come to puy me a visit, It attracts my Interest and touches my huart. ('heem, I I bid you welcome to my city and to my home. I can well appreciate w hy the win kin men of this country Khould have a deep und profound Interest in the outcome uf the present national contest. We cannot fall to remember that the one thing which stand between your labor and the luuor of Europe, thi- one thing which stands between sour work shops and the workshops of the old world, is a wise pstriuttc American protective policy. (Great cheering. i 1 am Klad to have you come in the manner your spokes man has describedrepresenting all creeds, all colors, and all classes, men who hclmtg to the Kepulillcan party and those who have heretofore belonged to other parties now Helton tenet her for what Ihey believe lo be the cuunuou good. (Ap plause.) This is distinctively .the people's year, when old lilies are effaced and men here tofore opposed to meet upon a common platform to sustain the honor ol our coun try. (Applause.) Wo are all concerned, no mil tier what may be our occupations, in our country's welfare. (Cries of "that's so. "I Whatever political views we may have, however, we may diflVr on minor questions of public policy, we are all cf one mind In the conviction that some thing or other is the matter with the country. (Applause.) We may differ la our diagnosis; we may differ about the treatment In detail, but we do not (il.ia Kl'et upon what is essential In the first In stance to the restoration of 'better condi tions of the past. NKED OP CONPIDEXCK. One thing above all else thai Is wanted at this Juncture is the return of public and private irontldeuce. (Applause.) Its absence is our iunaamental trouble. I pun that there cannot tie two opinions, and that, my fellow-citizens, no class of peo. pie know better than you. We know the very day and the hour when this confi dence was first shaken, and from that hour distrust and doubt have hum; over the business of the country. It has been ag gravated from a variety of causes, hut none greater than the assault which has been made by the allied political organiza tions upon the credit and the currency cf the country. (Applause.) This new men ace must be averted before we can hope to have any permanent prosperity. We know that the present monetary standard has not stood In the way -f our prosperity in the past. (Cries of "no, no; free trade has."') you know that we were prosperous in 1K92 and had been for the preceding ten years. You know that wc have not seen any real measure of pros perity since. (Applause.) Business is so sensitive, so quick to scent danger, that any legislation or proposed legislation or change of policy which would deranee or alter or unsettle values, is felt long before the apprehended blow is given. So Xhat from the very hour it was determined by the American people that the Republican party, which, with but a single interrup tion, had been In control of the govern ment for more than thirty years, win to go out of power and another party with a different policy was to come in, that mo ment every business man of the country assumed an attitude of waiting and of anxiety, (Applause.) While business men were waiting to know exastly what that legislation was to be, business was lan guishing from one end to the other and labor was without work. Then we com menced lacing from hand to mouth and we have been living from hand to mouth evr since. (Great applause and cries of "We have.") 1 A9 TO CHEAPNESS. My countrymen, I am one of those Americans who believe that the American werkshop should be protected as far as possible from the foreign workshop, to the end that American worklngmen. (Ap plause) may be constantly employed, and su protected, too, us to be employed nt American wages. '(Tremendous cheering.) Nor do 1 want products cheapened at the expense of American manhood. (Ap plause.) Nor do I think that it is econo my to buy goods cheaply abroad If there by it enforces Idleness at home. (Re newed applause.) Such goods are the dear est thut American people can buy. (Cries of "light you are. Major.") James 11. Klalne (applause), that gifted statesman, In 1K84. sKike words of wisdom which seem singularly applicable to our present situation and to the present hour. He said: "A policy that would abandon the Held of home trade must prove disastrous to the mechanics and worklngmen of the I'nited States. Wages are unjustly re duced when an Industrious man is not able by his earnings to live In comfort, edu cate his children and save a sufllclent amount for the necessities of age. The reduction of wages inevitably consequent upon the throwing our home market open to the world would deprive the workmen of the power to do this. It would prove a great calamity to our country. It would produce a conflict between the poor and the rich and In the sorrowful degradation of labor would plant the seeds of public danger. "The nepuhllcan party has steadily aimed to maintain just relations between capital and labor guarding with care I he rights of each. A conflict between the two bus always led the past ami will always lead in the future to the injury of bo;h. (Applause. I Labor is indispensable to l he creation of profitable use of capital and capital increases the eillclency und value of labor. Whoever arrays the one against the other Is an enemy of both. (Applause.) That policy is wisest and best which hur monizes the two on the basis of absolute Justice. The Republican purty ha pro tected the free labor of America so that Its compensation Is laruer than Is real ized in any other country." (Great ap plause and cries of "hurruh for McKln ley.") NO FRER SILVER. But. my countrymen, as if the business conditions were not hsd enough and hard enough to bear, we have thrust upon is at til's critical time In the business af fairs of the nation, a proposition to de base the currency of the country and un dermine the public credit. We know what partial free trade has done for the labor of the 1'nlted States. It has diminished Its employment and earnings. We do not propose now to Inaugurate a currency system that will cheat labor in Its pay. The laboring men of this country when ever i hey give one day's work to their employer, they want to be paid In full dollars, uood everwhere in the world. (Great cheering and cries of "MeKinley's all light.") We want In this country good work, good wages, und good money. Ap. plause.) We want lo continue our good government with its generous privileges and mutctiess opportunities, and want It to be a government where law is supreme over all (cheers) and for tho equal beuellt of all. (Renewed cheering.) My fellow-cltlzens. It Is gratifying to me to lie assured by your spokesman und my old comrade It will he Inspiring to the whole country that the voice of labor here today declines that no party which de grades ihe honor of the nation, no party width stands opposed to law ami order, or which seeks to array the masses against the classes, shall receive (is voting sup port. (Great cheering.) We have this resting upon us as citizens a grave re sponsibility. The country has never fulled or faltered In the past to meet everv crisis. It will not falter or rail ttuv.- to uphold the dignity and independence uf luiior and the honor ami stability of the government, that it may still further exalt the Ameri can name. (Applause.) 1 thank you over and over again for this call und for the patiioitc sentiments which have been eloquently expressed bv your spokesman. To hive the hearty support of the worklngmen. Is Indeed an honor, for which 1 ihunk you In the name of the cause which I represent, and It is only another evidence of the wisdom and strength of five government. May Ood bring to you and to your homes uhctir und contentment. (Great applause.) KILLED IN A TRAIN CRASH. Lehigh Valley Passenger Collides with a Beading t'nal Trnin. Pottsville, Pa., Sept. 17. At noon to day the engine of a Lehlijh Valley pas senger train ran Into the engine of a coal train of the Philadelphia and Heading railroad at a grade crossing at MahonyClty and Engineer Henry Bolder, o .h- ReaHiswgUie.was in stantly killed and his nreniniirBt,Dmr who jumped to save himself, was se riously injured. The Lehigh Valley engineer, James Schefi'er and Fireman Henry Follivell er, both of Mount Carmel, and S. (). Mc Curdy, mall clerk, were all Injured in a greater or less degree. Bolder and Broslus live at Ffackvllle. Muny of the passengers on the Lehigh Valley were badly shaken up, some sustain ing slight Injuries. The coal train was wrecked. CANADA FRIENDLY TO SPAIN. r'orbids the Fitting Out ot Filibuster' ing Expeditions, Ottawa. Out., Sept. 17. The Spanish consul at Montreal, having made rep resentation to the dominion govern ment that he had reason to believe a Canadian steamer whs being fitted out at Sarnia, at the mouth of the De troit, for u filibustering expedition to Cuba, a special official gazette was is sued today proclaiming the foreign en listment act, as in fore". The met provides that anyone who prepares or fits out any naval or mili tary expedition to proceed against a friendly state, shall be liable to line and Imprisonment, and the vessel so employed forfeited. GOLD DEMOCRATS MEET. Benjamin Polls nnd'IInv Walker lor oneresKmen-nlLargc. Philadelphia. Sept. 17. The state committee of the new Jeffersonian (gold Democratic) purty held Its first meeting this afternoon at the Hotel Walton. State Chairman William B. Given, of Lancaster, presided. The session was held behind closed doors. The committee nominated Benjamin C. Potts, of Delaware county, and Hay Walker. Jr., of Allegheny, as the party's candidate for congrcssnien-at-luige. BLUE RIBBON CORN IN INDIANA. Walkerton Farmer Needs a Ladder to dilher the tJiant Crop. Walkerton, Ind.. Sept. 17. John Bell, living near this place, has eighteen acres of corn which averages twelve feet In height. Some of the stalks are over thirteen feet. The ears are six feet above the ground and average a foot long. Many of the stalks have two ears. The crop will ran seventy-five bush els to the acre. Harrison Cannot Speak. Chicago, Sept. 17. Ex-President Harri son has asked the National Republican committee to make no appointments for him to speak. His time Is too much taken up with his private affairs to permit him to make campaign speeches. Czar's Arrival Postponed. London, Bept 17. The arrival of the Czar and Csarina at Lelth, whl'her they will proceed to Balmoral to visit the Queen, has been postponed from Monday, Bept. XI, to Tuesday, Sept. 22. JOHN B. THACHER AND FREE SILVER First Named lor Governor if Buffalo, the Other Indorsed. - ONE BALLOT DOES THE BUSINESS Wilbur F. Porter, of JehTernou, Chosen for 8econd PlacePlnf forni I7ure servedly Iudorsr the Chii-ng-o le liveranre and Approves the o ui i nation of Bryan and Newall. Buffalo, Sept. 17. The Democratic state convention adjourned sine die at 2.40 o'clock this afternoon after nomi nating John Boyd Thacher for gover nor, William F. Porter for lieutenant governor, and Robert C. Titus for Judge of the court of appeals. The platform endorses the resolutions adopted by the Chicago convention, and pledges "hearty and active suoport" to Bryan and Sew all. It declares that never In the history of the Democratic party has a platform been written which em bodied more completely the Interests of the whole people, as distinguished from those who seek legislation for pri vate benefit, than that given to the country by the national Democratic convention of 1KH6." The platform fur ther denounces the Raines liquor law, arraigns the administration of Gover nor Morton and recent Republican legislatures, charges the administra tion of the office of superintendent of public works, by the present Incum bent, with being notoriously extrava gant, declares in favor of home rule for municipalities, protests against the removal of union soldiers and sailors from the public service by Republican officials to make room for political fa vorites', recommends the building of good roads, and calls for such a revision of the employers liability and anti-conspiracy aws as will secure exaot jus tice to employes and employer. AGONY SOON OVER. When the convention met this morn ing, Hon. H. H. Rorkwell, of Chemung, was chosen as permanent chairman. and after he had delivered an address. the platform was read and adopted. A message from William F. Sheehan wa read. In which he stated that his resig nation as national committeeman had been forwarded to National Democrat ic Chairman Jones. The nominations followed and then the convention ad journed. BIG RALLY IN LUZERNE. Ex-Postmaster General Wanamaker, State Treasurer Colvio of New York and W. A. Sbaelfer Speak. Wilkes-Barre. Pb-, Sept. 17.A big ratification meeting was held at the Ninth Regiment armory tonight under the auspices of the Republican league of Luzerne county. It was attended by one of the lurgest crowds ever seen in this city. Assistant District Attor ney Henry A. Fuller presided. Hon. John Wanamaker. of Philadel phia, was the first to address the audi ence, and dealt principally with the necessity for a renewed high tariff, al lwfcgjj the coinage question took up nearly an how of. hi address. He gave some of his experiences .abroad during the past summer' to show the American worklngmnn how Infinitely superior his condition is to that of his fut-iun fellow laborers. The speaker cited instances of Austrian women working at h manual labor for from 27 to 30 cents a uv. w men in the same country made but f..,, 40 to Eh) cents a day. He asked the attute.. tf they were willing to uccept such con ditions, and a tremendous "no" went up from every one in the house. Mr. Wanamaker further pointed out sun of the fallacies of the free silver lies' arguments. He predicted the ut ter defeat of the Bryan forces in No vember and said that Pennsylvania, will see Maine's majority and raise il H to 1. He tendered a very high compli ment to ex-President Harrison, whose name was greeted with tremendous ap plause, and told of the excellent work Mr. McKlnley had done for the coun try under Harrison's administration. The next speaker was A. B. Colvln, state treasurer of Mew York, who made a most excellent address. The last speaker was District Attorney W. A. Shaeffer, of Delaware county. He said thut In his town the average loss of wages since the Cleveland administra tion begun had been $50,000 a week, and all the factories are practically closed. He showed very plainly how the pov erty of one class affects all others; how, when the mill men are out of work they have no money with which to buy coal and other necessities and general suf fering is the inevitable result. The speakers, after the meeting, were en tertained by the members of the West moreland club of this city. ENGLAND IS INTERESTED. Another Prominent Paper Arranges for Live American .News. London, Sept. 17. The I'nited Asso ciated Presses today entered Into con tract relations with the New Castle Chronicle and the Leeds Yorkshire Post to furnish those prominent papers with the dally service of cable dispatches covering the American field of news which is already being supplied to the Manchester fruardlan, the Edinburgh Scotsman, the Glasgow Herald, the Ab erdeen Free Press, the Dundee Adver tiser and a number of other Journals, Including the London Chronicle, which was the first of the influential British papers to avail itself of this special service. AS TO THE LABOR VOTE. Democratic Managers Alarmed at the Progress of the tiold Movement. Washington, Sept. 17. Some of the managers of the Democratic campaign have discovered that the tide is turning against free sliver among men who work for wages. At one time It -was thought that certain great bodies of organized lobor would support the Bry an ticket and free silver. But the Re publicans have been actively circulat ing literature anions; the wage-earn ers everywhere and they have eudeav ored to show that free silver will In no way benefit the wage-earner. These efforts have been so successful that the Democratic managers have become alarmed and at the recent con ference between Chairmen Faulkner and Jones It was decided that vigor ous measures are necessary at once to counteract the Republican policy. Con sequently a large portion of the avail able funds of the Democratic national committee has been set apart for the employment of speakers who are known to have a large following among wage-earners for the purpose of having them epeak to the working people. BL00MSBIRQ ALSO VISITED. Damage in the Town and Vicinity Is Estimated at 9100,000. Special to the Scranton Tribune. Bloomsburg, Sept. 17. This town and vicinity was visited by a terrific hail storm this evening. It is estimated that the damage to crops, fruits and flow ers will amount to $100,000. All the glass In J. K. Dillon's green houses, the total length of which are 15.000 feet, were broken In and the plants within destroyed. His loss is 110,000. The 2,000 windows in the Bloomsburg Carpet company's factory were also shattered. No reports of any one being killed or injured have as yet reached here. CUBAN GENERAL SEIZED. Carlos Roloff Held In New York on a Charge Preferred by the Spanish Consul. New York. Sept. 17. General Carlos Roloff was arrested last evening and taken to Ludlow street Jail, where he was Jocked up. The charge made against him on which a warrant for his arrest was issued was that of Aid ing and abetting an expedition to Cuba. He was arraigned before United States Commissioner Alexander this forenoon and held in $2,500 bail fur examination. General Roloff Is a veteran of the Ten Years' war In Cuba, and Is major general in the present Cuban army. He came to this country from Cuba about two mouths ago upon a privato mission in behalf of the Cuban cause, and since his arrival, it is stated, lie has been watched by detectives put upon his track by the Spanish consul. The charges against General Rololf nre based upon his alleged connection with an expedition sent from this port to Cuba on the steamship Laurad. on Aug. last. General Roloff, it Is al leged, elluded the deteetivee'shortly af ter the expedition sailed and has been traveling through the country for sev eral weeks. He returned to this city yesterday and as the ofllcers had bevn informed that he was about to leave for Cuba, they made the arrest, Gen eral Roloff is secretary of war of the Cuban provisional government. VETERANS ON A FR0UC. The Army of the Palouiac Reunion Brought to Pleasant Close, Burlington, Vt Sept. 17. In spite of the hard rain which fell all this morn ing, the society of the Army of the Potosnae boarded special trolley cars and were conveyed to Fort Ethan Al len, where are quartered four troopv of the Third United States cavalry. Major L. I Morris commanding. The post was Inspected with much Interest by the" reu-raos. . After dinner the party boarded the eicnr4 . .s.o.r Rein deer and enjoyed a two hoiui about Lake Chaniplalu.' The exercises of the reunion were brought to a close with a banquet this evening, at which speeches were ma.de by several distinguished gentlemen. SCOUT THE REPORT. aukee Waxhips Are Not Likely to Fores the ohoru. Wsnington, Sept. 17. Officii. la of the state and navy department decline to assume from the report published in Kngland that there can be any Idea seriously entertained that American wurships are to force the Boeidiorus In conjunction with the British tsquuU roti. While the Bancroft Is to become eventually, it Is hoped, the American guardship at Constantinople, the size and armament of the American cruis ers in the Mediterranean is declared to be unsuited for any hostile partici pation In operations against such fa mous fortification as command the Dardanelles. Lathernn Synod in Session. Easton, Pa Set. 17. At this mornlng-s session of the East Pennsylvania synod of the Evangelical Lutheran church. Rev. D. M. Gilbert, D. U., of Harrlsburg, was re-elected president; Rev. W. 8. Hinman, of Columbia, Pa., secretary, and Rev. A. H. T. Fischer, treasurer. President Oil bert presented his annual report showing encouraging progress for the past year. Populists Want to Fuse. Washington, Sept. 17. Senator Butler, chairman of the Populist national com mittee, said today that the committee was willing to make any reasonable conces sions in order to solidify the silver vote for Bryan, and believed this would be done. THE NEWS TIIIS M0RMNU Weather Indication Teday I Oenarslly Fair; Easterly Wind. 1 3.500 Worklngmen Listen to McKlnley. New York Democrats Name John B. Thacher for Governor. Daring Burglars at Hawley. Told a Lie to Save Her Brother. 2 Bryan's Butter Argument. Violent Hail Storm in Berks- and Lie high. I (Local) Mr. Merrifleld Consent to Be a uaniuaie. Lively Council Meeting. 4 Ed torlal. Is It True that Gold Is Cornered? 5 (Local) Joyous Reunion of Veterans. Turnpike Company Is Determined. Chrls'.lan Endeavorers at Work. Countrv Club's Tennis Tourney. National League Base Bull Games. 7 Hnhnrtian HaDDeninss. Wail Street 'Review and Market Re ports. ttawa Up -s4 Dewn th Valley. DARING ROBBERY BY FOUR BURGLARS Break a Door in, Gaf a Man and Then Ransack the House. FOUND ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT Ueorge Murray, the Keeper of a Toll Gale Near Hauler 1 the Victim. The Crime One of Peculiar Audacity-.. 0 Clue to the Perpetra tors, Special to the Scranton Tribune. Hawley, Sept. 17. Last night about 11.80 o'qlock four masked burglars went to Geowge Murray's house. Murray is the keeper of a toll gate about one mile from this place on a country road along the Paupaok river, leading toward Wll sonvill. With the aid of a piece of 4 by 6 Umber they broke open the door. Murray and his wife are an aged couple who are the only occupants of the house. They had just nicely gotten io sleep when they werV suddenly aroused by a terrible crash at the door, and Mur ray, rushing down stairs, found four men standing in the front room. Mur ray went to a pantry to get his gun and as soon as he returned to the room was knooked down by one of the rob bers, who disarmed Mm, Then calling Murray by his first name, the man sold: "We are not going to hurt you, providing you win leeep quiet." The robber theu gagged Murray and stood covering him with a revolver, while another one of the robbers went up stairs to the bedroom of Mrs. Murray and sat on the bedsMe with a revolver In his iiand and warned her to keep quiet, too, or he would kill her, while the other two robbers ransacked the house from top to bottom, making a complete search, even to tearing up the carpets. The amount which they procured U estimated at about twenty four dollars. MADE THEIK ESCAPK. , As the robbers were leaving they took Murray's gun. Mr. Murray Is , man of very tall and large build, but for over a year has been feeling ill and is in a very feeble condition. There were several tramps discovered about town this morning, but none of them an swered the description which Mr. Mur ray gave. As yet no arrests have been made. The general opinion is that the robbers were no strangers, as they seemeit quite well acquainted with the surroundings at the toll gate. SHE SAVED HER BROTHER Pecallar Story of Mnrder Brought Out in a Luzerne Court Bogus Con fesslon Is Withdrawn. Wllkes-Barre, Bept. 17. Catharine Yannutz, of Hazleton, charged with killing Daniel (Jelelli at Lattimer last April, was called In court this morning for trial. The case is a must peculiar one. The story of the crime, as told by the woman, Mrs. Yannutz, Is that Gelelll, the murdered man, who was married and had a family, came to her house on the night before the murder, crept in through a window and tried to assault her while she slept. On being discov ered by herself and husband, Oelelll es caped, but left his hat, by which he was identified. Karly next morning' before going to work, tleielll catne to the Yan g's' home- and got down on his knees 10 -logie to ,-wrn. r .nutz for the Insult1, and she grabbed a revwur which lay on the table and fired Ave shots at bin), killing hiin almost In stantly. The woman at the habeas cor pus hearing admitted the shooting and took the whole responsibility, saying that she alone was to blame. RKC ANTED FIRST 8TORT. When the prisoner took the stand this arternoun in her own behalf, she de nied that she did the shooting. She said her brother and Oelelll got Into a quarrel at her house and the former pulled a revolver and killed him. She claimed she was excited when she saw the man was dead and told the story of herself shooting him In order to gave her brother, who has since made his es cape and left the country. Other evidence was produced which proved that the defendant was wholly Innocent of the shooting. Judge Lynch decided that the woman was innocent and she was discharged by proclama tion. RIVAL FOR THE BELL COMPANY New I.ong-Dit-nce Telephone Cor poration Being Formed. Llgonjer. Ind.. Sept. 17. Eastern cap italists are reported to be interested in the building of a long distance tele phone line In the states of Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio in opposi tion to the Bell company, which now ha undisputed control of the long dis tance business in the four states. If the new lines are built an effort will be made to consolidate the small lines and cement an opposition to the Bell conspiration that will cheapen rates. Sufllclent capital is behind the project to make the competing com pany a formidable rival. Coming Insurance I.itigatiou. Harrlsburg, Pa.. Sept. 17. Insurance Commissioner Lambert Is after the doubt ful mutual nre Insurance concerns. Today at hi Instance the attorney general's de partment asked the Dauphin county court for writs requiring four Philadelphia mu tual fire Insurance companies, the Com monwealth. Niagara, Atlantic and Rit tenhouse, to show cause why their busi ness should not be closed and receivers ap pointed. Silver Coinage for August. Washington, Sept. 17. Mint Director Preston made public today the coinage of sliver dollars for August. There were coined $2.'K.00n. th- seigniorage on which amounted to Ss:!2,o-7.or. which was yester day paid into the treasury. Autumn Arbor Day. Harrlsburg. Pa., Sept. 17. Dr. Schaef fer. supeslntendent of the public instruc tion, today issued a proclamation desig nating Friday, Oct. 23, as Autumn Arbvr Dajv TP TT H LEY'S Fall Brcss Goods We are now exhibiting our REW. FALL - STtDflC The character of our 0ood5 being 50 well and favorably known it Is un necessary to enumerate the good qualities and Treat variety of this season's IMPORTATION We'll only-say that out PRESENT - SE0WI1G Is strictly high class and up to date In every pa tlculae. 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