* who were with us all summer,
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“By P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—RoBERT VALENTINE has spiked
the Gazette's $900 gun.
—The tin-plate robbery of the Me- |
Kinley tariff will be resented at the polls :
by the “tin-bucket brigade.”
—Subjecting it to the action ‘of an |
Emery-wheel hasn't made DELAMATERS |
pathway to the Governors office aay
smoother.
—After being so thoroughly sk ¢
by EMERY, the Republican candidate
for Governor may be considered an ar-
ticle of raw material.
Pas
—-Tt is reported that candidate j Ruev
has bought a new gun. From
amount of game that JOHN is gona to
bag in November we presume tht
a double-barrel.
»
HARTER miscalculate
when he
—Doesn’t Dr.
the size of Penn's Valley
thinks he can putit in his pocket—
Democrats and all?
—The new tariff requires all imports
to be branded. But there will be a deeper
brand on the party that is responsibie
fr this monopoly tariff.
— The eensus of 1890 is now generally
considered untrustworthy. This comes
from the misfit of employing an Eng-
lishman to do an American job.
—The swallows and ANNIE ROONEY,
have de-
parted. The former will be back in
the Spring ; the latter, we trust, has
gone forever.
—The magnifying power of a forty-
foot telescope would be insufficient to
“discover the proof which FIepLER has
been challenged to produce in support
of his $900 charge.
—In sacrificing his ¢‘coal lands” for
the cause of Labor, RYNDER evinces the
magnanimous spirit with which he has
assumed the championship of his “fel
low workingmen.”'
—Who knows but that the train
which is now conveying the Democrat-
ic candidate and people’s choice for
* Governor through the State, is also car-
rying a future President.
—GRrUBB, the famous Philadelphia
trooper, has been appointed Minister to
Spain. What could be more appropri-
ate than the sending of so gallant a cav-
alier to the land of the Cid ?
—Dr. HARTER claims that he is going
to get the votes of all the members of
the Bellefonte Band, irrespective of par-
ty. Yes, “ina horn I” ' In this band
matter the Doctor is only blowing.
—DELAMATER in his electioneerin g
tour is traveling on a free pass. But as
the pass to the Governor’s office will. be
furnished by the. people, and not by a
railroad Company, QUAY’S man won’t
get there.’
—CxsAR said that “all Gaul” was
divided into three parts. But old Ju-
L1vs hadn’t any idea of the amount of
gall that DELAMATER could put into a
‘campaign or he would have reserved
another andqeparets division for it.
—The ort with the tariff Dbenefi-
ciaries who furnished the campaign
boodle of 1888 has been fulfillel by the
passageof the McKinley bill. The fat
furnished to elect HARRISON will be lib-
erally repaid at the expense of a pillaged
people.
—The cold-blooded unseating of a
Democratic congressman who had been
elected by 1300 majority, wasa blow” at
. our popular system of government more’
deadly than that which was directed
against the Union by Lee's army.
The Union was saved, but it looks as if
the government is being destroyed.
—Emperor WILLIAM of Germany
visited Vienna this week and a cable-
gram says he had the biggest reception
ever given to man in that ancient city.
The great NaroLroN of France visited
that ancient capital on several’ memora-
ble occasions, and the réception he re-
ceived was from the thunder of his vie-'
torious artillery. ;
—It was a ‘cold deck” that the
American ship offered to BARRUNDIA
when he sought protection under the flag
that waved at its masthead. It wasn’t
so in the Democratic administration of
FRANKLIN PIERCE when the Austrians
were taught that the deck of an Ameri-
can ship must be held as inviolable as so
mach American soil.
—There was Roman sternness in Pres-
ident HARRISON'S signing the Anti-
Lottery Bill. History records how a stern
parent, impelled by his judicial duty in
the days of old Rome, rendered a de-
cision that resulted in the cutting off of
his son’s head. Asa sample of parental
austerity in the performance of duty,
djd that surpass Mr. HARRISON's sign-
ing the bill that cut off the profits
the {
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SOL 85
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 3, 1890.
NO. 89.
Yimery Sustains His Charges Against
Delamater.
ir the address which he delivered
at Bradford to a large concourse of citi-
last Friday” evening Ex-Senator
Funky fully sustained the charges he
made against the Republican candidate
for Governor, that he was guitly of
bribery, perjury and forgery. He pro-
duced evidence, direct, circumstantial
and implied, sufficient to establish the
fact that, when a candidate for the of
fice of State Senate, DeramaTeEr had
used money, and had employed others
to use money in buying votes, and in
other unlawtul ways to promote and se-
cure his election. The offense of per”
jury followed when in taking the oath
otoffice as Senator he swore that he had
not used money to procure his nomina-
tion or election. The guilt of forgery
was fastened on him by proof that he
got up a spurious conference report on
a bill to which the names of Members
and Senators were falsely attached.
This bill was in line with other work
he did in the Senate, its object being to
create a monopoly in natural gas, and
well became one who was an adept in
the methods and practices ot the Stand-
ard Oil Company, of which he was the
recognized agent in the Legislature.
Mr. Exery also showed a letter writ-
ten to S. B. Dick, esq., by J. S. Rutan,
the well known Allegheny county Re-
publican leader,dated October 3 lst, 1888,
months before Quay had selected DEL- |
AMATER as his candidate for Governor,
in which RuraN communicated to Mr.
Dick the information that DELAMATER,
as Senator, had sold out to the Stand-
ard Oil Company i in the matter of the
Billingsley’s pipe-line bill, for $65, 000,
paid with stock of the Meadville
Gas Company, Rutan states 1 his
letter that Quay. old him how much
DerasmaTer had made in this deal.
The record, as proved by Ex-Senator,
Emery, fully shows up the character
of the Republican candidate, and it is
just such a character as the corrupt |
Boss would want to see in a candidate
whom he desires to elect and own ‘as |
Governor,
——Chairmgn Kgrr takes his dis-
appointment in not being renominated
for Congress like a true philosopher |
and a gcod Democrat. Instead of
grumbling and kicking, he regards his
| not being made a candidate as a cir-
cumstance that-will give him more
time to devote to the election of Parri-
soN. Applying his whole attention to
this really patriotic purpose, he casts
personal disappointment behind him,
forgetting everything but the good thac
will come to his native State from the
overthrow of corrupt machine govern:
ment.
on his hands, and in its performance
he will be loyally backed fy the peo-
ple.
~
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Servile Duty.
The Republican organs have great
trouble in shielding the rascals who
have been allowed to become the lead:
ers of their party in this State. The unre-
generate rogue who has made himself
the Boss, needs a great deal of shield-
ing, which the servile party organs
‘endeavor to give as best they can.
Thus in the matter of his treasury
theft they resort to the stupid expedi-
ent of getting a statement from old Mr.
BurLer, now on a sickbed, to the ef
fect that when he took. charge of the
State treasury, as the successor of
Treasurer NovEs, there was no defi-
ciency of funds. This is given to prove
that the charge that Quay and his
gang had depleted the treasury during
Noyes’ term is not true. The utter
foolishness of this defence appears in
the fact that BuTLER refused to take
charge of the funds until the deficiéncy
caused by the Quay raid had been
made good. Noyes did not hand the
treasury over to his successor until
Dax CameroN had come to the relief
of the gang, and by paying the amount
of the default saved Quay and his ras-
cally associates from the consequences,
of their crime.
Burrer is correct in saying that
when the treasury was transferred to
hie charge “Mr. Quay did not owe the
treasury anything.” Cameron = had
which the advertising of lotteries in his | made good the loss of the State money
paper was enabling his son RusskLr to incurred by Quav’'s stock gambling,
scoop in? Who will say that there "and saved him from the penitentiary,
isn’t a great deal of the Roman charac- ' Ex-Superintendent WickrrsuAy relates
ter in BENJAMAN’'S make-up ?
" the distress BuTLER was in when he dis-
Mr. Keir has a glorious work |
covered that the treasury which he was
about to take charge of had been de-
pleted by the robbery of the gang.
The Republican organs should feel
the humiliation incurred in defending
their disyeputable leaders. The con-
sideration that 1t is done “for the good
of the party” does not diminish the
shame that attaches to such a duty.
Regard for the honor of the State, for
honest and reputable government, for
even common decency, must be sacri-
ficed in such a service. To represent
that a treasury thief is a leader worthy
of the endorsement of his party, and
that a creature of this thief, who has
been proven guilty of bribing voters, of
perjury in taking an official . oath, and
of forgery in getting up a bogus legisla-
tive report, is a fit man to be elected
Governor, involves a degree of degrada-
tion which can be accounted for only
as being the result of long service in
Fthe interest of corrupt yolitical bosses.
Quay’s Man.
The Pittsburg Dispatch, the leading
Republican paper of western Pennsyl-
vania, but opposed to DELAMATER on
account of his being therepresentative
of Quax’s personal 1ule of the party in
the State, has gone to considerable
pains to ascertain the feeling in the
oil regions on the subject of the gov-
ernor’s election. Its, reporter was pre-
sent at the meeting in Bradford at
| which ex-Senator Emery proved that
his charges against DELAMATER were
true, The reporter says that “public
sentiment in the oil region is. almost
unanimously on the side of Exery, and
that the feeling against the Republi-
“can candidate is strong on account of
his having been an agent of the Stand-
ard Oil Company, whose assistance, as
| Senator, in defeating a free pipe-line
bill, was an injury to the oil region.
The reporter accordingly represents that
-on the evening when the Ex-Senator
verified his charges against Derama-
TER there appeared to be but two per-
sons in Bradford who antagonized his
| sentiments. - Que was L. B. LockHART,
who is connected with the Stand Com-
pany. The other was Joux P. ZANE,
who had been hung in effigy in the
{ public square of Bradford on account
of his hostility to'the Billingsley free
pipe bill which DeLaMarer helped to
defeat iu 1887.
After presenting the evidence of
Devamater's guilt the Ex-Senator
made a profound impression on his
audience by the remark : “God knows
“I would like to go into court to-mor-
“row and produce these proofs and
“others, that this man who asks for
“ your votes is unworthy of them.”
The effect made on the meeting by Mr.
EMERY’S exposition is described by the
reporter (of a Republican fberphtieny
ber) as follows :
When the crowd was dispersing exclama-
tions were heard voicing the sentiments of
Emery’s hearers, as follows :
“The charges are proven.”
“Chambersburg denials don’t go this year.”
“No Delamater in the Executive Chair to
‘veto Billingsley bills.”
“The Standard don’town the State, or Emery
either, you bet.”
“It would have been better for Delamater
had he plugged the gas well plugging confer-
ence report.” on
“Briber, perjurer, forger—a nice combina-
tion for Governor.”
This feeling towards Quays bribe-
giving, false-swearing and forging can-
didate for Governor is not: confined to
the oil regions. It extends all over
the State,
I A ——
——The book ' containing a list
of the Johnstown beneficiaries, which
has just been published, is cre
ating ‘considerable excitement, and
more is likely to be created when the
secrets of the great flood fund shall be-
come wore fully divulged, as they will
be, sooner or later. Out of the total of
$4,000,000 reported by Secretary Kra-
| MER, it appears by this book that less
than $2,500,000 were given direct w the
people. There is no telling the amount
of picking and stea¥ng which! that
magnificent contribution of the world’s
charity afforded some of ite custodi-
ans who were more avaricious thun
conscientious.
——His excellent qualities and ener®
getic manner are having a fine effect
for candidate GraMLEY in Lis cauviss
for County Treasurer.s The: county
funds can be nowhere safer ‘than in
the hands of an honest farmer,
The Feeling in the 0il Region Against
An Amusing Performance.
There is an amusing performance
going on in the Labor side-show which
T. P. Ry~NDER, of this county, has got
ten up as an agnex to the Quay-Dela-
as ie presented in this show cannot fail
to be a source of amusement to the
working people. So funny a feature
of the performance ‘as RyNper in the
role of a workingman, and his cavort-
ing in thé ring as the trick-mule of
Boss Quay, will afford more fun than
a labor audience could derive from the
antics of the best trained trick-mule
that ever kicked up its heels in an or-
dinary circus.
How this sort of eutertainment i is ap:
preciated by working people is set forth
by Mr. Joux Brapy, a Labor leader
of Luzerne county, who was invited to
meet Ry~NpEr at Philadelphia and as-
sist in getting up his Labor ticket, but
was disgusted with the proposition,
and, returning to Luzerne county, made
a rattling speech at Freeland las - Fri
day evening in favor of ParrisoN. In
this speech Mr. PraDY said ®
I was called to Philadelphia, as was Mr, Mec-
Garvey, hurriedly, and when we got to the ho-
tel we were told the “cause of our hasty sum-
mons, Mr. Rynder, who used to he a friend
of labor, treated us very kindly and spoke very
feelingly of the deplorable condition of our
fel ow-workingmen. After a time we were let
into the scheme, and Mr. McGarvey was offer-
ed the Lieutenant Governorship, and to * assist.
him in the campaign as a starter was offered
the big sum of $200. Mr. Rynder, when asked
how he had come by so much money, replied
that he sold a tract of coal land for $500 a few
weeks ago, and that Mr. McGarvey was wel-
come to that sum. Whoever heard before of a
laboring man owning a tract of coalland? We
laughed at the idea of ‘$200 to start with, but
our labor friend sssured us there was a barrel
of it: to be had, and intimated broadly that Mr.
Quay, thé man who owns Delamater, was the
owner, of said barrel. We emphatically de-
clined to enter any scheme todefeat our friend
Mr. Pattison, gnd strongly advised that he be
indorsed by the Labor party, but our friends.
Mr. Rynder & Co., would not see it that way.
There was something really pathetic
in the. feeling | manner in which Ryn-
plorable condition of onr fellow work-
ingmen.” His sympathy for them in
their down trodden condition was so
great that he did not hesitate to sell
his coal lands 2nd apply the proceeds
to the purposes of a campaign in which
their rights should be vindicated- and
maintained against the tyranny of
their oppressive task-masters.
The expression, “our fellow working-
men,” as used by the great Centre cot n-
ty Labor champion, was good, consid-
ering the fact that he hasn’t been
known to do a day’s work in the last
twenty years, and, as to his coal lands,
which he is willing to sacrifice in the
labor ‘cause, it would take a’ mighty
smart surveyor to locate them,
It wasn’t difficult for Mr. Brapy to
see that Ry~Nper has been assigned to
play the part of trick-mule for Quay,
for which he is to receive his ration
of oats. ;
re ———————
Love for the Crowned Heads.
Foreign potentates appear to have
A the affections of American Minis-
to a surprising extent, it we are to
judge from the way the latter speak in
praise of the crowned-heads. Minister
Suita feil in love with the Czar of Rus-
sia at first sight, giving evidence of that
sentiment in the letters he has written
homein which he tells whata benevolent
ruler the Russian autocrat is, and with
what a gentle hand his imperial scep-
ter is wielded. As to Jew-baiting, of
which the Czar is accused, Minister
Syrri repudiates the charge as being
a baseless misrepresentation—as vile a
slander as—as is, for instance,the charge
that Mar Quay raided the Pennsylva-
nia State treasury.
Minister PrELps also dearly loves a
.crowned-head. The - object of = his
adoration is WiLriay, Emperor of Ger-
many. He was captivated as speedily
by the Kaiser as Samira was by the
Czar. Such 19 the high estimation he
has formed of the German ruler that
he verily believes he has no other wish
ou ¢vih than to make his subjects hap-
py. luo the exuberance of his admira-
tion Minister PurLps calls him “the
poor man's Kaiser.” Even the bad
treatinent which the Awerican hog
has received at WiLLiaM's hands will,
uot turn our Ministet’s affections away
frown that imperial young man.
How is this love for the crowned-
abroad, to be accounted for? May
not ‘Le, fact that we also have a Czar
, excite in them a love for the potentates
i ot the old world ?
mater combination. Such broad farce"
DER i to Mr. Brapy of “the "de.
heads on the part of our representatives
The Legislature and Governor Should
Both Be for Reform.
It is gratifying to observe how gen-
erally the people are impressed with
the fact that the good which would
come from such an honest administra-
tion as Governor Parrisoy would give
the State, could not be fully carried out
without the assistance of a Legislature
in harmony with his principles and his
purposes. The farmers and laboring
men are particularly impressed with
the importance of having these two
agencies of reform in the State govern-
ment operate together.
To the farmers, the question of the
highest account for the#interest is the
equalization of taxes. For years they
have beef deceived on this subject by
Republican Legislatures and Governors.
They can expect no justice from them
in the matter of taxation. We have the
testimony of Worthy Master. Ruo~g,
and the other grangers who had the
tax equalization bill in charge, that the
bill was deliberately rejected by the
last. Republican Legislature, and that
Deramarer participated in its rejec-
tion after he had promised to sup-
port it. . .
To the laboring peorle, who have in
vain asked for legislation to protect
them against pluck me-store robbery
and other methods of extortion, and
for executive prevention of the use
of Pinkerton’s thugs in bringing them
into subjection to industrial oppression
and injustice; a’Democratic Legisla-
ture in conjunction with a Demo-
cratic Governor is also a matter of the
highest interest.
It is for this reason that, especially
among farmers and working people,
there is. a gratifying impression,
amounting to a conviction, that in or-
der to have the full measure of the
benefit which the State will derive
from PATTISON'S election, there should
him in his measures of reform. pis
conviction wi!l have a very favorable
effect in increasing the majorities of
Messrs, Hor and MoCormick, the
Democratic candidates in this county.
The same consideration will produce a
similar effect 1n other counties.
More Evidence of Quay’s Treas-
ury Theft.
The charge made against M. S.
Quay that he participated in an unlaw-
ful use of money taken from the State
treasury, practically amounting to a
theft,; scarcely needs corroboration.
The character of the man, as shown by
all his public methods, is prima fa-
cic evidence of the truth of the charge.
But in addition to this, it is made so
circumstantially, and with such direct
specification of time, locality, and per-
sons connected with and cognizant
of it, and is suomitted to with such
unbroken silence by the accused, that
none but those who wish to condone
his offense will even pretend to disbe-
lieve it. ta
But if further evidence of Quax’s
guilt should be necessary we have it
in the statementof Mr. WicKERsHAM ,
at one time Republican Superintendent
of Public Instruction, which we re-
print in the inside of this issue. Mr.
WickersHAM was at the head of the
school system of the State while
QuAy's treasury raiding was going on.
He says that the depletion which it
caused prevented him, for the time be-
ing, from getting the money which was
intended for the schools, but which
the treasury thieves,under MAT QrAY’S
direction and management, had ab-
stracted and lost ina desperate stock-
gambling speculation. For months
the operation of the school department
was crippled by this criminal abstrac-
tion of the funds from the treasury,
and it was a mystery to Superintendent
WickersHAM why his legitimate de-
mands for money were for months
answered with the reply that there
were no funds, until the incoming
State Treasurer, Mr. BuTLer, divulged
to him the disgraceful fact that Quay
and his gang had cleaned out the treas-
ury by an unsuccessful stock operation.
Mr. WickersHAM was a Republican
able character, Yet he is assault:
ed by the Quay organs for bearing tes-
timony against a scoundrel against
whom there is evidence stronger than
that which would be amply sufficient
to send a horse-thief to the peniten:
tiary.
be a Legislature that will stand by,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Williamsport has 4126 school children.
—A Japanese miss attends school at Wilson
College. *
—Chester county’s real estate is valued at
§.7,089,364.
—The Hepner murder
county mys.ery.
is sull a Bucks
—West Chester is to have another census
enumeration.
—A newly elected school teacher at Berne-
ville is but 13 years of age.
—The North Wales Web Factory has an ore
der for ten tons of suspenders,
—Mrs. Ellen Wachter, the Whitehall faster,
has again changed for the worse.
—A farmer at North East says he eleared
$400 dollars on two acres of grapes.
—The Gibson oil well is unmanageable, and
is spouting fifty feet into the air.
—A Bethlehem man has been arrested for
burying a cat in his neighbors garden.
—Eugene Auchy, of Norristown, broke his
arm while enjoying his honeymoon.
—A Carlisle girl with an 18-karat appetite
recently ate two dozen ears of corn.
—The report of the Pittsburg police depart»
ment shows a remarkable decrease in crime.
—A New York leather firm is about to start
a kangaroo farm at Warrington, York county,
—Henry Kintzel, of Port Carbon, uses a
barlow knife imported from England in 1760,
—Patrick Clare walked over one of the
Pittsburg’s great bluffs and fell 150° feet, and
still lives.
—The State Association of Poor Directors
will meet at Lancaster on October 21 to 23
inclusive.
—The National Progressive . Union of the
coke regions has been united with the Knight
of Labor,
—A wild steer at Pittsburg made a bold ate
tack on a locomotive, but was worsted in one
short round.
—By worrying over his wife's illness. John
Swick, of Harrisburg, was himself dethroned
of his reason.
—Evidences of silver in paying quantities
have been discovered along Brady’s Run, near
Beaver Falls.
~—Thomas Martin has been placed on trial at
Wilkes-Barre on the charge of murdering
James Hughes.
—Rev. Messrs, Kynett and Dyckman drove
the gamblers from the Tri-County Fair
grounds at Pottstown.
—The old leaves on a horse-chestnut tree at
Harrisburg have disappeared and new blose
soms have appeared.
—The landeau. which recently bore Presi-
dent Harrison through the streets of Johns.
town has been demolished in a runaway.
—A motherand her babe were run down
and trampled nearly to death by a drove of
cattle at Mount Hope, Lancaster county.
—There was an epidemic of marriages in the
little town of Carbondale last week. Inside of
a few hours seven couples were united.
—The Thomaston Colliery, six miles west of
Pottsville, has been shut down, throwing 400
hands idle, owing toa fire in the inside works,
—The Bethlehem Iron Company will on
November 26th consider the. increase of its
capital stock from $3,000,000 to. $5,000,000.
—Forty sill-plush weavers employed at the
Unicorn Silk-Mill, Allentown, went on a strike
on Monday against a reduction of 134 cents per
yard.
—Adam Miller and Lizzie Horst attempted
to elope to Camden, but were intercepted at
Lebanon by the girl’s father and were sepa-
rated.
—Henry Tan and his wife, of Ritter-
ville, committed suicide together a few days
ago because of griefover the loss of ail their
children.
—The Girard Estate Trustees are at Hazle-
ton. So far they have found every thing in
first-class condition there, and are well pleased
with the trip.
—A covey of partridges took shelter in’ a
Norristown out-shed, and the weather prophets
are predicting a cold winter on the strength of
| the visitation.
—Mrs. McConnell, of Erie, attempted to
light the gas while she wore gloves that she
bad just cleaned with benzine, and she was
nearly burned to death. y
—Several employes of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company have been laid off until
they can show tne receipts for certain amounts
due merchants of Easton.
—A cave-in of the Keyley Run Colliery de-
stroyed the foundation of twenty houses in
Shenandoah and caused wide and deep cracks
in some of the streets.
—Mrs. Catherine Ueberroth, of Salisbury,
Lehigh county, 81 years of age, frequently
walks the four miles to and from South “peti
lehem to visit her daughter.
—A meeting of the oil producers of the But-
ler and Washington fields was held in Pitts
burg to take measures against the oppres-
sions of the Standard Company.
—Simon Link’s dog became mad at Prince-,
town and bit so’ many other dogs that the en-
tire canine population of that town bids fair to
follow the Link dog to untimely graves.
,—A meeting of business men at Easton on
Tuesday night decided in favor of a belt line
around that eity to connect the Easton and
Northern and Lehigh Valley Railroads.
—Miss Emma Frazier, a teacher in the Ale
legheny public schools, was dismissed by the
School Board because she gagged the pupils
with a piece of flannel saturated with benzine.
—A satchel, containing $2000 worth of
watches, in charge of E. W. Drary, a salesman
for a Lancaster firm, was on Friday stolen
from the railroad baggage-room at New Castle.
—Patrick Killen, of Scottdale, was so enrag-
ed at young Mr. Brown, who made formsl ap-
plications for Killens daughter's hand, that
the father chased him over town with a re-
volver.
—John Souders, a veteran of the late war,
who served in the Thirty-first New Jersey
Regiment, and had smoked incessantly and
'I'drank moderately ‘from boyhood until two
weeks ago, died on Wednesday night at Ease
ton, aged 91 years.
| District Attorney Miller has sworn oub a
warrant at Reading for the arrest, for criminal
negligence, of Hindbrakeman H, C. Kemp,
who was blamed by the Coroner's jury for
| being the cause of the terrible wreck on the
official and is a man of unquestion- !
' makersville some weeks ago.
Philadelphia and Reading railroad at’ Shoe-
—The fourth German Catholic Congress at
Pittsburg onSaterday adopted resolution pro-
posing a federation of all German Catholic
societies in the United States. as a better
means of effecting better results in combating.
heresy and fostering religion and morality
among its members and extending such mem
bership.