a AEA ————— MAN HIGHER UP 1S INDICTED. it is Charged That Frank N. Hoffstot Tried to Employ Blakely to Handle $52,000 to Bribe Councilmen. Pittsburg, April 7.—The grand jury indicted Frank N. Hoffstot, president of the German National bank, of Alle- gheny, as well as president of the Pressed Steel Car company, on the charges of bribery and conspiracy. President Emil Winter, of the Work- ingmen's Savings Bank and Trust company, of Allegheny, another finan- cial power of Pittsburg, went into court to confess that me had bribed councilmen to the extent of $20,000. James M. Anderson, general book- keeper of the Workingmen's Savings Bank and Trust company, was arraign- ed on a charge of having mutilated the books of his bank to save the ex- posure of certain persons. He pleaded nolo contendre and was placed under bail. The most startling feature of the graft probe up to date is information conveyed in the presentment handed down against Hoffstot. District Attor- ney William A. Blakely appeared as a citizen before this grand jury in con- nection with the Hoffstot investigation and told how before he became dis- trict attorney he had been approached ! by Hoffstot and the late J. W. Friend and by Councilman Charles Stewart and asked to act as stakeholder for a fund of $52,000 which they said were to be paid certain councilmen for the passage of a bank ordinance, Blakely Asked to Hold Money. Blakely was asked to hold the mon- ey as a guard against cheating on the partof councilmen, and part of his duties would be to pay it out to the crooked city fathers as they fulfilled their promises. Attorney Blakely is alleged to have refused to consider the proposition, and he warned Messrs. Hoffstot, Friend and Stewart that their course of action if pursued would get them into trouble, and that if he ever attained a position of authority in the courts of Allegheny county he would go after them. This is thought to have frighened them, so that Hoffstot and Friend began to negotiate with Stewart, representing the councilmen, to have all payments of graft made in New York city, paid with money ship- ped from Pittsburg. The grand jury does not say that Hoffstot paid the money out there personally, but says that persons who directly paid the money in New York to Councilman Stewart and others is not yet known to them. All this money was bribery for the passage of the bank ordinance, it is claimed. It is alleged that Hoffstot on two occasions solicited money from Cash- jer James M. Young, of the Second National bank, of Pittsburg, one of the institutions late named as a city de pository, and caused him to ship to New York $21,000 as that bank's share of the bribe money. Cashier Young was before the jury a long time. Couldn't Hear Old Friend Confess. The arraignment of President Emil Winter, of the Workingmen's Savings Bank and Trust company. before the court provoked a pathetic incident. Judge Robert S. Frazer and Winter have been friends since boyhood, and as the banker, white lipped and tear- ful, bowed his head in shame, as he would confess to bribery, Judge Fra- ger's voice broke and. motioning for Judge Elliott Rodgers to come closer, the judge explained that he and the man about to plead were friends of too long standing to permit of his hearing the confession without pain. He would rather President Winter made his statement in some other court. Win- ter was then taken before Judges Car- pahan and Swearingen. where he con- fessed that he had given Councilman Morris Einstein $20,000 in order that his bank might be made a city depos- tory. He was placed under $2500 bail. The indictment of Hoffstot and the arraignment and pleading of Winter makes four of the six bank presidents whose institutions have been selected as city depositories to be accused of wrongdoing. Cardinal Merry del Val Gives Vatican View of Episode. Rome, April 7. — The Osservatore Romano, the organ of the Vatican, publishes the following note from the office of Merry del Val, papal secre- tary of state, its publication following translations of Rev. Tipple's state- ment and the one by Mr. Roosevelt: “In the last analysis is it a question of simple, pure courtesy the holy sec did not impose on Mr. Roosevelt. as has been falsely stated, a condition that he must not approach the Meth- odists or other non-Catholic religious associations in Rome. There are sev- eral non-Catholic centers in the city which, however, do not behave in = harshly hostile and offensive manner towards the pope and everything the pope and all Catholics hold most dear. The Methodist center in the Via Venti Settembre is instead systematically united with the worst anti-clerical and anti-papal elements in the city and dizplays such attitude in the most no torious manner and in the most ag gressive and insulting form. “Mr. Roosevelt himself had a slight limited sample of this in the declara tion published recently by the Meth odists. which he felt obliged to dis avow. The holy see, after the regreits. ble Fairbanks incident. had every rea. gon to fear that Mr. Roosevelt, unwit tingly and in perfect good faith, would have been led to manifest open svi pathy and friendship towards this hos- tile center of aggression against the Catholic church in the very heart of the Catholic worid. Therefore, when Mr. Roosevelt requested indirectly and confidentially an audience of his holi- HT I mea rms em Ar | ness, the hope was courteously ex- pressed that he would be guarded against being dragged into the false position of seemingly publicly support ing the offensive campaign against tie pope within his own see. Mr. Roose- velt replied by refusing any condition or stipulation, thus admitting the pos- gibility of his accomplishing an action which would be a grave offense to his holiness. This was amply con- firmed by the refusal to give any as surance. An audience thus became impossible. Therefore it was a ques tion of pure ordinary courtesy, and surely courtesy is not incompatible with the rights and freedom of ap American citizen." SE —— says Miliprecht Tablet Is a Fraud. The tablet that Professor Herman V. Hilprecht, of the department of archaeology of the University of Penn- sylvania, announced two weeks ago he had discovered in an expedition to Palestine, and which he said upheld the Biblical story of the deluge, was denounced at a meeting of the Ameri- can Oriental society at the Johns Hop- kins university in Baltimore, Md., as a fabrication and as an exploitation of an archaeological fraud for purely sen- sational purposes. The paper, which was on the “latest addition to the Babylonian literature of the deluge gtory,” was presented by [Professor George A. Barton, of Bryn Mawr col lege. He took up in detail the conten- tions of Professor Hilprecht and show- ed that they were fallacious in every particular. “To those who know Professor Hil- precht,” said Professor Barton, “an elaborate refutation of his theories will be unnecessary. Nevertheless, | hope to show that his statements about the tablet are not only incorrect as regards interpretation, absolutely wrong as regards the alleged age to which he attributes them and totally of no significance from a Biblical standpoint.” Dr. Barton said that the scholarshin which Professor Hilprecht manifested in his translation of the text of his tablet was hardly worthy of a first year student in Hebrew, and that the restorations which he made in the case of filling in broken lines were purely conjectural amendations and that the chances of his interpretations being correct, were only about one in a hundred. “While occasionally his translation of a line is sound,” continued D-. Bar- ton, “his drawing upon his imagination in filling out the broken lines was en- tirely too free.” Maryland Negroes Disfranchised. The Maryland legislature has dis franchised over 45.000 negroes so far as state and municipal elections ar" concerned by the passage of the bills of Delegate W. Mitchell Digges, of Charles county. I is the most sweep. f. = wether of we. oncuisement ever aiv.ng... ... and even lead- ing sta.ozmen of (he far southern states have expresved a doubt as to its constitutionality. But the scheme is so ingeniously worked out that no real test can be made in the courts until after the next state election. There are four bills in all. The first repeals the existing registration laws; the second enacts a new registration measure providing thgt none but white men shall be registered in the future as voters: the third carries the con- stitutional amendment designed to re- strict registration for all time to the white persons of the state, as it pro hibits any future legislature from ex- tending the registration privilege to negroes, except those owning $500 worth of property. This amendment will be voted upon fn the fall of 1911 by white men only A provision has been inserted which will permit the white voters, if they so desire, to extend the privilege of registration and the ballot box to ne- : groes owning and paying taxes on $500 worth of property. It was thought best to insert this provision, as the Demo- cratic leaders desire to shut out only the thriftless and ignorant negroes and are willing to admit to the ballot box those who have sufficient thrift to accumulate $500 worth of property. This property qualification is thought preferable to an educational qualification, because it is believed that the negro who has accumulated property will prove better worthy of the franchise than the educated negro, who may be weighted with all the shiftlessness of his race. Cripple Walks Berore Lying. Miss Anna Causey, youngest daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Josiah W. Causey, died suddenly at the home of her par ents, in White Haven, Md., of heart failure, superinduced by a curvature of the spine, aged sixteen years. Miss Causey had been afflicted yith spinal trouble since early childhond and had not walked a step since she was six years old until the day pre ceding her death when, it is said, she surprised everyone by suddenly jump: ing to her feet and walking around the room just as any child with good use of its limbs would do. For nearly ten years the afflicted girl had moved about the room by crawling. She had never been able to sit up, except for a few minutes at a time since she had her first illness, and was a dwarf phy- sically. Autos Crash Head-On; Four Hurt. Pottsville, Pa., April 7.—Four auto {sts were injured, one of them fatally, in a collision of machines between Pottsville and Minersville T. H. Coombs and W. H. Kanter occupied one of the cars and George Ball and John Reed the other. The occupants of the Coombs car were intent on watching an auto approaching behind them and did not see the Ball car coming. The machines met in a fear ful crash and were practically demol- jshed. Coombs’ steering wheel was driven into his stomach, fracturing geveral ribs and causing serious inter- pa! injuries. {| Loganberry, to which it is allied. ROOSEVELT TO HEAR PINCHOT. ———— Former President and Wife to Tra- verse Again the Route They Took as Bride and Bridegroom—The Last Day In Rome. Rome, April 7.—No one but Gifford Pinchot, the deposed forester, will be received by Colonel Roosevelt during the three days he will spend at Porto Maurizio, near the French frontier, where he will visit at the villa of Migs Carow, who is Mrs. Roosevelt's gister. Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt left here at midnight for Spezia, from which point they will begin a carriage irive over the route to’ Gemoa which they traversed on their honeymoon. The American newspaper correspond- ents who accompanied Mr. Roosevelt from Khartoum have promised, at the former president's request, to respect the privacy of this sentimental jour- ney. ‘ The carriage drive from Spezia tc Genoa, a distance of sixty-five miles, will occupy the greater part of three days. Arriving at Genoa, the Roose velts will proceed at once by train to Porto Maurizio, where they will stop for three Jays at the Carow villa, where Mr. Pinchot will be the only other guest. It will be at the Carow villa that Mr. Roosevelt will hear the complete story of how and why Mr. Pinchot was deposed as chief forester by Pres. | ing ident Taft, and of the charges made against Secretary Ballinger, of the in- terior department. Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Pinchot are close personal friends and both, when the former was president. were devoted to advocating the conservation of land. Colonel Roosevelt has al ready made a statement in advance of the meeting with Mr. Pinchot that he will have nothing to say. at this time, of the deposing of his friend or of the | 5 i 2 : 8 § ; g i § i | 8 HH L I 1 : i! i B 7 E | | fi Anyone fl ’ Hi Brood Sow for Sale PLENDID BROOD SOW FOR SALE. —In i with section 3 of the Anye whe foo Brocd N ct of Assembly of February 17th, 1896 SHAS learn of one by addressing X. Y. TF mr EE A didate for Congress in, the Zist Pennsylvania dis DEMOCRATIC primaries to be held 4, 1910. One Representative in rict. with the ner he many ti he by Sh a members of party in the district One General Assembly because | believe that in Congress, if ve a - , er a. One as Chairman of Democratic County A Federal legislation . pelieve PROHIBITION. And {the end thi my serve their BR Bolictes. - a One Representaive in Congress. 2lst districts support of the Republicans of this one Senator inthe General Assembly. 3ith Y. Jr OMES FOR SALE--T wo nice homes in . othe ord, Pa., March 15. 5510, EMERY. as ine , one Much better induce: Four tea ah Gi the Geer en. . = 1. ~One person as Chairman Prohibition STATE SENATOR. 54.334f a. County Committee. "the ARRIAGE AND HARNESS FOR —A tion except about ip acres, on good carriage harness there growth white oak timber. can be pu! at a low price by inquir- ie So Of whe oer: MISS HOY, Bellefonte, Pa. PraperSicai the valley. (Bell Telephone) 55-1341 Sd74f J NEw . 55-9-6t . Ss J. C. MEYER Atty. Snow Pa. 54-474f. of Administration on the of The residende of the late Margaret deceased, late of located in State knowing in isa property is one and those I Ce Do Soilege cams claim against same to present them and one of the desirable merit of the charges against Secre-. tary Ballinger. It is not expected | either, that Mr. Pinchot will have any- | thing to say. | The final day of Mr. Roosevelt's stay in Rome was quite as busy as the | two preceding days. After devoting | two hours to his mail and telegrams | he left his hotel for a call upon Pro- | fessor Giacomo Boni, the archaeolo- | gist. Later he received a visit from | Baron Fava, formerly Italian ambas- | sador at Washington. The historian, Guglielmo Ferrero, entertained the former president and a few other friends at luncheon. At the same time Mrs. Roosevelt was the luncheon guest of Mrs. Leishman, the wife of the American ambassador. There were twenty women in the party. Later Mr. Roosevelt went to the embassy and met Mrs. Leishman’s guests, as well ag a few other Ameri can and Italian friends who had call ed there, ——————— Fruit From a Rose. Hugo Lilenthal, a Be-keley, Cal, horticulturist, announces the discovery of an edible fruit from the climbing rose. He declares that this fruit will in course o” time take the place of the Lilenthal succeeded in obtaining the fruit by cross grafting. The fruit, which he says is quite nutritious and has a flavor like a pineapple, may he eaten either raw or cooked. Gives $14,000 to College. A gift of $14,000 to Muhlenberg col- lege, at Allentown. Pa.. was annownc- ed by Rev. W. D. C. Keiter, secretary of the boar! of trustees. The donor is Charles Mosser, a prominent citizen of Allentown. The money will be devoted to the purchase of the land adjoining the college, upon which it is proposed in the near fu- ture to erect a new preparatory school. Boy, Treed by ’'Gators, Starves. After searching for a week. the body of Ernest Johnson was found in the top branches of a tree in a swamp near Palmetto, Fla. A note in his hat sald that his boat was attacked by alligators hile he was fishing, and he climbed the tree, which ihe ailiga- tors guarded day and night. Real Estate Transfers. John L. Holmes et al to John E. Lytle, July 26th, 1909, tract of land township; $300. Wm. T. Mayes to E. S. H. Hoy, March 26th, 1910, tract of land in Walker town- ship; $800. : : g or 23 Fos iat E o worthy effort to keep up with things is commonly seen in a or debilitated condition of the i Gasolene Engines. “The Advance” —1) IS THE BEST (— Gasoline Engine ON THE MARKET. It is simple, durable and economic. Steady as a steam engine when in operation. Is built of the best materials and = throttle governor. THE ADVANCE" 1S GUARANTEED FOR ONE YEAR. Manufactured by the HENRY, MILLARD & HENRY COMPANY, YORK, PA. Bellefonte Foundry & Machine Company, BELLEFONTE, PA. 55-1241. Sales Agents for Central Pennsylvania. | The First National Bank. ee i — —. ————— Al Bl DB BB Bl DB Bl Bi Bl Be lB SL. Br rl En The First National Bank A RESULT OF THE GROWTH OF OUR AS BUSINESS in every direction, together with our modern and up-to-date equipment we are better prepared than ever before to handle your banking business. We shall be glad to have you avaij yourself of our facilities. Our various departments are so adjusted as to render prompt and efficient service, and it ;8 the aim of the officers and employees of the bank to keep in close personal touch with its patrons. . ‘The First National Bank, Bellefonte, Pa 54.49-1y Lime and Crushed Limestone. emt em — CY WW WW WY WW WW WW WW WV Ww vv we system, which results in defec- tive nutrition of both body and brain, and | Office: TYRONE, PA. 55-4-1y. You Farmers and Agriculturists: Your land must have Lime if you want to raise paying crops. Use Hydrated Lime (H-0), through your drill or broadcast when vou seed, for quick results, or use ordinary lime, fresh forkings, or lime for general use. But be Sure to Use Lime Lime for Chemical and Building Purposes. Limestone crushed to any size. Fine Limestone for Walks, etc. All sizes of Limestone. Works at Bellefonte, Frankstown, Spring Meadows, Tyrone Forge and Union Furnace. PROMPT SHIPMENTS. Write for information to ALL RAILROAD CONNECTIONS. American Lime & Stone Company, The largest lime manufacturers in Pa. HN L. , Attest E} Jo Commissioners. 's Office, Penna., April 5th, 1910 55-14-3t for domestic and manufacturing and for these Durposes to have possess and cn the rights, benefits and of said of Assembly and its supplements. The charter is now on file in the office of the ry of the Commonwealth. N. B. SPANGLER, 55-12-3t Solicitor. UDITOR’'S NOTICE .~In the Orphans Court county, inthe matter the estate of J. Sexton, late o 35 to 40 cents for butter when you can buy .... High Grade Oleomagarine from me at 25 cents per pound. m— R. S. BROUSE, Bush Arcade, 5445 Bellefonte. Pa. A —- Automobiles. IS HERE. ; : ARRANGE FOR DEMONSTRATION. 4 Second Hand Cars For Sale 4 ASSHue W. W. Keichline & Co. South Water St. Bellefonte. Pa. LIVERY ATTACHED. 55-1-ly BUILDING MATERIAL When you are ready for it, you will get it here. On LUMBER, MILL WORK, ROOFING, SHINGLES AND GLASS. This is the 2 e close BRIE TBST MST BSC DS AN ESTIMATE? 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