The Democrat.
FRIDAY, APRTT , 18,lo0.
THKKK seems to be a new and unex
pected danger in store lor Boss Quay.
Tbere is a probability the details of his
deal with the liquor men wid lie made
public. A Philadelphia correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun says : "By this deal
prohibition was to be defeated conditional
on a contribution of $45,000 by the liquor
men to the Harrison campaign fund. On
account of this di ain upon their resouices
the liquor men ran out of money and bor
rowed $38,000 from Moore & Sinnott to
finish out the campaign. Forty ner ceut.
of this amount was to have been paid by
the Liquor Dealers' association and sixty
per cent by the Brewers' association. The
liquor dealers paid their share, but as the
brewers did not settle, Moore & Sinnott
have sued to recover from them the sum
of $22,800. Unless this amount should
be paid the whole story of Quay's double
dealing may get told in court."
GOVERNOR DAVID U. HILL.
Clearfield Republican.
Some of our Democratic exchanges, and
all the Republican, arc throwing mud at
Governor Hill, of New York, for vetoiug
a reform election bill, passed by a Repub
lican Legislature of that State. Governor
Hill in n short hand manner has uncov
ered the reptiles, who are conspiring
against him most completely.
Tin ee years ago the Republican Legis
lature j assed the Saxton ballot reform
bill. Governor Hill said that some of the
provisions of the measure were unconsti
tutional, and he vetoed the act. There
upon the Republican press held the
Governor up to public scorn as an enemy
of a pure ballot, and there was, apparently,
a great deal of moaning and distress all
around. Two years ago the Legislature
again passed a ballot reform bill. It con
tained all the objectionable features of tne
old bill, and was ot couisc vetoed. This
year the faice was again attempted, but
Governor Hill, who had grown tired of
the game of false pretense, decided to
dump the Legislature into a hole. Instead
of vetoing the bill and thus again furnish
ing thunder for the Republican party, the
Governor said to the Legislature : " You
know that the Suxton bill is unconsti
tutional and that's the reason you pass it.
You know that I am compelled to veto it.
It is a trick to make me appear as an
enemy and you as friends of bullot re
form. Now I propose to test your sincer
ity Let us agree to submit the bill to the
highest Court in Ihe State for considera
tion. If the Court decides the measure to
be Constitutional. I will sign it at once."
And this " reform " State Legislature,
what did it do ?" It took to the woods.
It fled from the Governor's fair and honest
proposition. It didn't want the question
settled, for that would remove the ballot
reform issue from politics. But never
theless, the Governor's action has un
masked the trica. The Governor has pnt
the Legislature in a hole and he is setting
over the hole, and all his enimies may
yell as loud and as long as they please.
The man that's afraid to go to Court gen
erally has a bad case.
A NEW ANNIVERSARY.
Having by appropriate inaugural cere
monies ami with a public demonstration
that reflected credit on all who originated
and participated in it, put the municipal
affairs of our new city into successful
operation, the next thing in order is to
turn our thoughts to the first anniversary
of the event that lias given historic im
mortality to the Conemaugh valley.
Leading events in the history of all
nations and communities, whether the
events were regarded as good or bad, as
instruments of happiness or misery, have
been commemorated by some kind of
annual observances. It is a custom that
has come down to us through all past
ages, sanctioned by the example of the
wise and good. Days and seasons, ren
dered memorable by great blessings or
disasters, should never be forgotten.
In our nation we, in common with the
rest of the civilized world, observe the
annual recurrence of a new year, and of
•lie day made memorable by heaven's best
and greatest gift, Jesus of Nazareth.
And 111 addition to which, we have
anniversaries peculiar to our own history,
such as the Fourth of July, the
day that gave birth to our National exist
ence. and Decoration Day, that commem
orates the heroic deeds of the thousands
of patriots whose lives were sacrificed in
the bloody strife to perpetuate our Na
tional life.
Humanity, civilization and Christianity
unite in reccommcnding the propriety of
suitable ceremonies to commemorate the
anniversary of an appalliug disaster such
as befel Johnstown and vicinity on the
81st of May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine,
It was an event in our history that should,
as it unquestionably will, live in the
memory of all who witnessed it. Hut
when those who passed through it with
their lives, have gone to their eternal rest,
it is something that should be known and
talked about by our children's children
through many succeeding generations. It
marks a new era in the history of Johns
town and the whole Conemaugh valley.
A memorial day with appropriate
ceremonies, would serve to keep future
generations in remembrance of one of the
most remarkable events in the history of
any portion of our country. As in the
institution of the world's famed Jewish
Passover, "It shall come to pass when
your children shall say unto you, what
mean ye in this service ? that ye shall
tay " it is a reminder of one of the most
appalling disasters of modern times.
Just what the nature of the commem
orating services should be. it is for the
peonle, especially for those at the head of
our municipal affairs, to say. We merely
throw out these suggestive thoughts upon
the subject, with the hope that due con
sideration may be given it, and timely
action be taken to make the occassion
worthy of the interests involved.
SIXTY WOMEN DUCKED.
Angry American Miners Resent an Easier
Custom of Slats.
Between fifty and sixty Slav women
were thrown in the Shamokin
Creek Wednesday evening by the angry
miners at Hickory Ridge and kept
there until thoroughly exhausted. Many
savage struggles occurred between the
men and women, and while none were
fatally injured dozens will feel for weeks
the effects of the fight. The Slavs have a
peculiar custom amounting to a religious
duty of throwing water on people for two
days after Easter. They think it bad
luck for the thrower to tail in an attempt
to cover the vicim with water, and that,
if successful, both will be blessed.
No matter who passed along the high
way the Slavs at Hickory Ridge hurled
the water at them. As each year passed
the American miners would be greeted by
buckets of water in the face as Ihey emerg
ed from the mines. Of course fights oc
curred when the men threw the water,
but the men were too t hvalrous to battle
with women. Yesterday the miners
heard of an attempt by the women to
duck Holden Chester, Jr., and William
Rihnehart, two of the bosses. It was de
cided on quitting work last evening that
if any of the men were attacked they
would duck all the Slav women in the
hamlet,
The whistle sounded " all home " at 6
o'clock, aud wheu the first four men
gained the earth's surface they were al
most drowned with water from the buck
ets ot a score of women. The angry
miners were reinforced, and while a
dozen of them rushed upon the women
and dragged them to the creek anothcr
squad went into every nouse in the ham
let in search of Slav women. The fight
that ensued was very exciting and the
scene a strange one. In a short time the
creek was filled with struggling women,
while the banks were lined with hundreds
of miners and English-speaking residents.
As each woman would climb the banks
some workman would rush at her aud on
picking up the woman in his arms throw
her back in the swift running stream.
Great cure was taken that none of the
women would drown, although quite a
number fainted.
The Slav men were not strong enough
to show fight and remained maddended
spectators from a distance. When the
invasion of the hamlet occurred three of
the women armed themselves with weap
ons and rushed from house to house
shrieking for their sisters to band aud
drive the men back. The Slavs are en
raged over the affair and threaten venge
ance.
Tlie Hinckston's Run Pike.
Three surveys of the route along
Hinckston's run, for the proposed new
pike have been made by Surveyor Slick,
and a committee bus been appointed to
take the prelimiary steps toward getting
a charter. The distance to the Ebens
burgpike at Munday'sby this route will
be a little over nine miles, and the cost is
estimated at from $3,000 to $5,000 per
mile. After the preliminaries are arrang
ed an effort will be made to secure sub
scribers to the stock of a Pike Company,
and it depends altogether on what financi
al encouragement received whether the
project will be a success.
In this connection it might be said that
the Scalp Level Turnpike Company ex
pects to have their new line from Geis
town to Elton to be built for $3,080 per
mi'e, but it is easier graded there than
along Hinckston's run.
Chicken in Jelly.
Put a fowl on to boil in cold water
enough to cover it, add salt and pepper
and a saltspoonful of sage,allow it to cook
until the bones can easily be removed, re
duce the liquor to a litttle less than a
quart, strain it, and when cold remove all
the fat. Cut the white meat into strips
and the dark meat into dice-like pieces,
boil three or four eggs hard and slice them
| thin, dissolve one-half a package of gela
j tine in one cupful of cold water, heat the
| brotli aud add the gelatine with a salt
| spoonful of mace. Place strips and dice
1 of the meat in a mold and layer of egg
j slices, with a good supply of capers
| sprinkled over; let the broth become
j nearly cold, then strain it over the chick-
I en, and place the mold where it will be
come thoroughly cold, Serve, cut in
slices; dip the mold lightly into hot water
in order to remove the contents well.
♦ ♦
Johnstown Councils
The salary ordinance of Johnstown of
ficials has been finally passed by Select
Council by a vote of 11 to 3. And at the
meeting on Thursday evening ihe police
ordinance passed second reading. Other
ordinances of minor importance were
considered and a committee appointed to
confer with the Finance Flood Commit
tee regarding bridges.
Purely Imaginary.
Patient—l am afraid something is the
matter with my head, Doctor.
Doctor (examining patient's head)—lt
is all imagination, sir; there is nothing
in it.
The sliding railway which was in use
at the Paris Exposition is to be tried in
England. An experimental length of
about a mile will be laid down at Neas
den.
THAT QUAY SCANDAL!
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT HAR
RISON FROM HENRY C. LEA.
Quay's Control of Federal Patronage—The
President Warned That He Has Ad
visors Who Are "Luring Him to His
Downfall.
Mr. H. C. Lea, the publisher and civil
service refo. mer, has addressed a signifi
cant " open letter "to President Harrison.
Mr, Lea is a relative of Henry Cary Lea,
one of the most prominent men in Phila
delphia.
Sm: No graver scandal has darkened
our political history than the charges
brought against Senator Quay by the New
Yoik WorUl , in its issues of February 10th
and March 3d. It would be useless here
to recapitulate them further than to say
that, with full details of names and places
and dates, the World asserts him to be a
man whose political career has been a
succession of flagrantly dishonest acts,
including the temporary abstraction from
the State Treasury of §260,000 in one in
stance and of §400,000 in another.
No such accusations, involving iniquity
so vari-.'d and so continuous and supported
by such an array of minute aetai), have
ever before, I believe, been brought
against a politician so conspicuous. If
lliey are true Senator Quay ought to be in
the penitentiary. If they are false he is a
cruelly libelled man ; his accuser is a
journal of the highest financial standing,
and no jury of his countrymen would re
fuse him exemplary damages that would
put him beyond all future reach of want.
Vindication and profit both await him as
an incentive to prove his innocence, but
although two months have elapsed since
the gravest of the charges were made
public neither solicitude for his character
nor desire of gain has prompted him to
break silence. It is his own tault if the
public should regard him ah acquiescing
in the truth of the charges.
It is true that the crimes allcgod against
Senator Quay are connected only with his
career as a Pennsylvania boss, but your
close connection with him has rendered
the scandal National. You were duly
warned in advance from a friendly source
of the danger of such an alliance, yet by
accepting his man, Mr. Wanamaker, as a
member of your Cabinet, you assumed re
sponsibility for both of them. In pursu
ance of this alliance you 1 ave enlarged
Mr. Quay's importance by virtually giv
ing him control of the Fedeial patronage
in Pennsylvania, thus rendering him the
dictator of the Republican party in the
State.
He boasted of your subserviency to him
when, in explaining his triumph over
Representative Dalzell in the struggle for
the Pittsburgh pnstofllce, he publicly said
" the President, though very anxious to
gratify Mr. Dalzell, for whom he has a
high esteem, could not, under all the cir
cumstances, well avoid complying with my
wishes." Even Mr. Quay's remarkable
silence under the accusations of The World
does not seem to have lessened his influ
ence over you. He signalized his return from
Florida a week or two since by capturing
the Pittsburgh Surveyorship of Customs
against the candidates urged respectively
by Secretary Blaine and Representative
Dalzell.
THE HARRISON-QUAY PARTNERSHIP.
Indeed, his power would seem to be us
great in Washington as in for
the party organs now tell us that he lias
been eudeavoring to buy off a superflu
ous candidate tor the Governorship with
an Assistant Secretaryship of War. In
thus entering into a political partnership
with Mr. Quay you must share the losses
as well as the gains of the venture. It is
not Pennsylvania alone, nor even the Re
publican party only, that has a right to
protest; every citizen of the land must
feel humiliation at the smirch thus inflict
ed on the Chief Magistrate of the nation.
As a Republican by conviction, ardently
desiring the success of the party so long
as it deserves success, let me request you,
Mr. President, to take a calm survey of
the situation and render to yourself an
account of your stewardship. Thirteen
months ago you entered upon the duties
of the highest office which the world has
to bestow ; your party was supreme in
the control of both Houses of Congress
aud of the Executive ; everything prom
ised a prosperous and useful Administra
tion, in which you, by simply adhering to
the pledges under which you were elected,
might earn another term from the confi
dence and gratitude of the people. The
only cloud upon the pol.tical horizon was
your acceptance of a Postmaster-Gen
eral at Mr, Quay's dictation, ostensibly as
a reward for certain services performed
during the canvass. That cloud, then no
larger than a man's hand, has spread till
it covers the firmament.
Look back now and reflect upon your
work. You have sedulously dovoted
yourself to the distribution of " patron
age you have turned out nearly forty
thousand Democratic office-holders, and
in this ignoble business you have tilled
vacancies thus made by giving " recog
nition " to the worst element of the party.
You have thu9 degraded it to the lowest
level, till it no longer deserves or enjoys
the public confidence, and its interest, as
well as that of the nation, demands its
purification by defeat.
The elections of last November were a
warning tiiat the people would not toler
ate your methods. You have refused to
heed the lesson, and the clecctions of
next November will emphasize it. The
narrow Republican majority in the lower
House will bo swept away, and your path
for the latter half of your administratis n
will he a path of thorns. You have re
warded the magnificent majority of
80,000 given to you by Pennsylvania by
riveting upon her the chains of Quayism.
You need not wonder that disaffection is
spreading rapidly throughout her borders
in a manner that may render even her al
legiance doubtful. The outlook for 1802
is even darker. Were the Presidential
election to take place to-morrow there
could scarce be doubt of Democratic suc
cess. Let me counsel you, Mr. President,
as a friend, to reflect that this has been
your work in one short year of misused
power.
If this retrospection should bring with
it repentance and amendment, you still
have before you three years which may
be fruitful for good. Bear in mind that
" taitliful are the wounds of a friend, but
the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."
Discard the advisers who arc hiring you
to your downfatl. Recognize that the
truest political expediency lies in the ap
plication of conscience to public affairs,
and that you can serve your party best by
Simulating the nobler aspirations of the
nation, rather than by pandering to the
baser appetites of spols men.
Cease to expect to gather figs of thist
les or to touch pitch without defilement.
Apply to your public duties tha high
standard of morality to which you adhere
in your private life. Remember that evil
can give birth only to evil, and that you,
as thief Magistrate of sixty-five mil
lions of freemen, have on your soul
a charge for which you must reckon to
posterity and to God.
I am, Mr. President, your obedient ser
vant. HENRY CHARLES LEA.
Philadelphia, April 8, 1890.
A PROMINENT DIVINE IN TROUBLE
ttev. Edward Mason of Die Progressive
Brethren Church Says he is a Forger and
■ alks of Snlclde—formerly Editor of the
Church Paper—What the Members Here
Say of Him.
The following dispatch was received
from Dayton, Ohio, Saturday :
" Letters have been received from Rev.
Ward Mason, of Miamisburg. pastor of
the Progressive Brethren Church at that
place, confessing that he is a forger and
that he is on his way to Walts to claim an
inheritance ; failing in that, to kill him
self. He leaves a wife in destitute con
dition, he having squandered a small in
heritance of hers. He left home April 3d
saving he was going to St. Louis to preach
at a funeral, but instead he went to New
York, from which place he wrote to his
wite and others, makiug the above state
ments. He forged notes and borrowed
money from a number of banks. The
amount is not known and it is a mystery
what he did with the proceeds. Rev.
Mason had high standing in religious cir
cles, and is an author of some repute. It
is said he was addicted to the use of
opiates."
The Rev. Mason referred to above is
Edward Mason, who in connection with
Rev. A. L. Garber for several years, ed
ited the Progrem-ee Christian at " Ash
land, Ohio. i|ie lending organ of that
church. He is well-known to the frater
uity and leading members of the church
here who were spskon to about the matter
felt very much aggrieved to learn of his
downfall. He was a man of bright attain
ments aud considerable prominence in the
church. Before, and during his connec
tion with the paper his writings attracted
considerable attention which were gener
ally printed over the name of " Nosam,"
this being the reverse spelling of his
proper name. He was also the author of
a work on the ordinances of the church.
Several of the members who were spoktn
to here said that while they were aggrieved
they were not so much surprised at the
news, as it had been well-known by prom
inent men in the church for some time
that Mason had not been conducting him
self as he should. They acknowleded
that the retL ction would not be pleasant,
but as Mason had disposed of. all his in
terest in the paper some time ago, the
church as a body would not suffer.
HIS HEART I,KAPUT.
Atraiil ihe Man Sawing Wood Was Disgrac
ing the Profession.
Detroit Free Tress.
A tramp who was making his way
around to the back door of a house on
Third avenue found a man sawing wood
in the rear yard and after gazing at him
for a moment called out.
" Are you workin' for old clothes ? "
" No, sir," was the reply.
" Hain't sawing wood for your din
ner ? "
" No, sir."
" Haven't quit the purfesh ? "
" No sir."
" Say, what arc you doing at that wood
pile, anyway ?"
" Working at my business, I saw
wood for a living."
"Gh ! Then you don't belong ? "
" No."
" And it's regular? "
" Yes."
" Then that's all right and I've no fault
to find. When I walked in here and saw
you at work my heart jumped right in my
mouth. I didn't know but it was one of
the boys making a break and calling
down the purfesh. Regular, eh ?
Well, you keep right on and never mind
me. I'm after warm a meal and a
respectable looking suit for Sunday wear,
and if she's the right sort of a woman I'll
hit her for half a dollar in cash besides."
#
Killed Near llarriftburg.
A Philadelphia tramp named John
Myers, was struck by a freight train west
of Ilarrisburg this morning and so badly
injured that he died a few hours later.
French engineers propose to construct
a bridge across tho Rosphorus. It will
be 2,500 feet long with a single arch.
STOLKN FOKTY YFA Its AGO.
A Woman Meets Her Aged Mother on
Faster Sunday -A Happy Keunloo.
The people of Northumberland, Pa.,
and of the neighboring settlements, are
gieatly excited over a most extraordinary
reunion which occurred Easier Sunday in
a little home at Market and South Third
streets. A woman was restored to her
mother, Mrs. Wilthiese, aged seventy
three from whom she had been
stolen when a child forty years ago, of
whose existence, until recently, the re
turned woman was entirely unaware.
Forty yeats ago Mrs. Wilihlese, who
was then Mrs. John Gilbert, lived with
her husband and three children on a farm
near Freeburg, Snyder county. One of
their near neighbors was a wealthy
farmer, uamed John Mathias, who, al
though married for a number of years,
had no children. The third child of the
Gilberts, little Saiali Jane, was a univer
sal favorite on account of her beauty and
brightness. Mr. and Mrs. Mathias would
frequently come over to the Gilberts aud
ask them to let little Sarah Jane come
over to their place, as they were lonesome.
The request was always granted,
Mathias got into s mi business compli
cations and secretly converted all his
property into money, aud one morning
started tor the West, taking the little girl
with him. It was several days before he
was missed, and there being no railroads
and telegraph in that section in those
days, no trce of them could be found.
The distracted mother made every at
tempt to trace them, and spent many
thousand dollars in trying to learn the
whereabouts of her favorite child. The
farm was sold and the money spent fo r
that purpose, but all to no avail.
Some years later her husband died, and,
having given up all hopes of ever regain.
Ing the child, she resigned herself to her
fate. Afterward she was married to Peter
Wilthiese, and twenty years ago they
moved to Northumberland. There the
second husband died, and she raised a re
spectable family of nine children.
Mathias, journeying weslward, located
in Indiana, but after a few years moved
to Youngstown, Ohio, the present home
of the daughter. Here Sarah Jane grew
into maturity and later wedded George A.
Kriechbaum, a painter and reared a family
of nine children. The foster mother,
since dead, had made a confidante of a
Mrs. George Menges, and last winter Mrs.
Menges told the story of the abduction to
the oldest son of Mrs. Kriechbaum, and
he informed his mother of the discovery.
This recalled the matter, of which she
had indistinct recollectiou. It was finally
decided that the young man should take
a trip to Elkhart county, Indiana, to visit
an old uncle who knew the full particu
ars and unravel the mystery if possible.
Upon arriving at the house of the uncle
the son slowly obtained the story link by
link. It was ascertained that his mother
had an uncle living in Freeburg, Snyder
counly. Pa., by the name of VV illium Teats,
aud letters were sent to him to inquire into
the history of the. family of his mother.
Mr. Teats is very old-and too feeb'e to
write, and after a short time placed the
correspondence into the hands of Mrs.
Kriecbbaum's brother, Jacob Gilbert, of
Middlcburg, and after several letle s had
been exchanged he informed here of the
whereabouts of her mother and kindred.
The next step taken was the difficult task
of breaking the good news to the moiher,
and this was by no means an easy matter,
as the old lady had passed her seventy
third year, and although remarkably well
preserved for her age it was considered
advisable to impart the news of the fiud
ing of the long-lost Sarah Jane gently and
with as little surprise as possible. Jacob
Gilbert, being a lawyer, undertook the
affair, and with diplomacy informed his
moiher without causing a shock. By de
grees the facts were imparted to the
parent, and when at last the truth dawned
upon her her happiness was boundless
aud she wept tears of joy.. -
A telegram received last Thursday at
Northumberland announced that Mrs.
Kreichbaum would spend Eeaster with
her mother and sister. Mis. Chas. Bloom-
Held, and at the appointed tune she arriv
ed. She was recognized by photographs
that had been exchanged, and the meet
ing was so touching as to affect everybody
that was at the depot at tho time. Easter
morning the entire party, including Jacob I
Gilbert, the brother and a sister from Sny- !
der county, wended their way together to
church.
THE CLINTON STREET VIEWERS.
Tliry Have Prepared 'llioil* Report of the
Awards and Assessments.
Messrs. John Thomas, B. P. Speedy,
Geo. W. Moses, and Wesley J. Rose, the
viewcts appointed in the matter of wid
ening Clinton street, have prepared their
report which will be presented to the
Court at the June term.
The awards to property holders on the
cast side of the street, made by the view
ers are as follows :
(teo. wilt $ 558 44
Suppes Estate (Hulbert House) tun 01
.John Wldman . .815 14
Sophia BurgratT ssn 97
Charles s. liuth t;,36 97
St. John's church 1,239 its
stamler x Kress 835 95
c. Oswald 1,885 go
Total amount to bo paid property
owners on east side of street $6016 0"
Tho assessments levied on propertv
holders on the west side arc as follows :
Luther estate $ las ao
Mrs. Henry Fritz 853 50
J.J. Murphy's estate an 00
Charles Unverzagt 3.M 00
Foster & oulnn 354 00
Bantly X Fronbclser 853 60
K. L. Edwards 811 00
(lottlell) Bantly 897 no
William Updevrave 297 50
James J. Fronholser 670 40
John Fritz .. 18 40
C. Krelger 474 60
Ktmple estate 3M 00
Louis Wehn 820 10
Lenhart heirs 079 go
(leorge Raab's heirs 897 go
James M, Shumaker .. 889 70
Total amount to be raised from west
side of st-eet $5,763 00
A mount to be paid by tbe city 883 07
Total amount of assessment $6,016 70
MK GOT THKRK.
The " Connecting Link " and the MUslngl
Link Pound.
To the Editor of the Johnstown Democrat.
I see by your valuable paper of Friday
that Dr. James Jeiomini Fronheiser,
Superintendent of the Cambria Iron Com
pany, has at last been made a School
Director from the Third ward of Johns,
town. That was a laudable ambition. It
appears that Mr. Gottleib Bantly, thafca
public spirited and whole-souled and
erous citizen, who was the School*
Director from the Third ward, has re
signed so that Mr. Fronheiser could be
elected to that importaut place. Do you
know, Mr. Editor, that a horrible sus
picion flashes across my mind that there
is some mysterious " connecting link ™
between Fronheiser and Bantly, or is it
only some illusion of the imagination ? It
strikes me, however, that Bantly and
Fronheiser are familier names, and that
have heard them before.
Of course the School Directors of the .
borough of Johnstown knew that the Su- *
perintendent o' the Cambria Iron Compa
ny was not a citizen of the Third ward,
because he had been serving with them
as a member of the Board from the Second
waid ; but as they are about to lose con
trol of a good thing they are willing it
seems to demean themselves and violate
their consciences by tricky aud illegal
action in hopes that this fraud will still
give them a little longer lease of power.
The Johnstown Directots knew when they
appointed Dr. Fronheiser as a director
trom the Third ward that it was not a
legal appointment, or if it was that he
had been sitting with them for ten months
as an illegal director. It is not material
which way they look a' it. I would
ask that Board if they think it is a proper
thing to do to elect or appoint a man
School Director who will hold an office il-
legally for ten months, and then
only surrender it to sicurc the same posi-**
lion from another ward.
I begin to think it a good thing for the
people of this place that the power of
these School Directors is drawing rapid
ly to a close. I hope that the hitter parti
sanship that for many years has been
observed in the Johnstown School Board
will not be copied by the new City School
Controller, and that they will not dis
grace themselves by trying to holster up
ufr.uduient aspirant for a place among
them, simply because by some inscrut
able reason lie holds a high position.
I said that there was a connecting link,
perhaps, I should Lave said a missing
link between Bantly and Pronheiser, and
that missing liuk has been found in the
person of Supt. T. B. Johnston who will
be an aspirant before the City Controllers
for Superintendent of the new city
schools. How many of the new School
Controllers will vote for this biiter and
bigoted partisan ? Will their names be sur
rounded witli black lines and will they be
politically buried? I hope not, but those
who do so will be politically damned in
Cambria county. AN OLD DIKEOTOK.
WHAT 1)111 IT MEAN.
,loc. Nicely Wanted to Make a Contention
i'lttler condition*
The foiling facts are bee published for
the first time, but are vouched for by un- k
doubted authority: \ J
Some three months ago, while confin
ed in the Somerset jail, Joe. Nicely ask
ed for pen and paper and spent consider
able time in writing a lcDgthy statement.
He then asked the Sheriff whether, if he Ji
would make a confession, assurance
would be given him that his family would
not be pursued any farther. The Sheriff
repled that ho would consult the at
torneys on both sides and giyc him aiv
answer 011 the following day. According
ly the next day the Sheriff accompanied!
by an attorney 011 each side of the case *.
called at his cell, but Joe had by that
time concluded not to make a confession
but destroyed the paper, and nothing
further could be got out of turn.
The inference is that some members of
Joe's family arc implicated as accessories
probably, or on account of false testimony
they have given, and on a sudden impulsel
to make a clean breast of
the matter if he could shield his family.
The incident certainly seems suggest
All Old Alan's First Visit to Town,
Huntingdon Local News.
Henry Spitzcr, an aged farmer, who --
resides in this county, near Burnt Cabins,
was in town yesterday for the first time
in his life. He is nearly seventy-two
years of age, and has resided in the lower j
end of the county for almost fifty years,
having moved to that place in 1841. Ho •I;
says he came at this time because he had \
read anil heard so much about Johnstown JN
that he wanted to see it, and after spend-.. ■
ing a day or two there lit came to Hunt
ingdon and was shown tiie town byf 1
Jackson Laraberson, who worked for him I
mnny years ago. .Mr. Spit/.er is a hale '
old German, and was dcl : irhtcd with his .
trip.
OEXKKAI. GOBIN, the leader of the Leba
non county Republicans, created a sen
sation by his speech at the banquet of the /
Republican Inviuclbles in Norristown on '<
Monday night. An effort has been made
to suppress his speech, but a synopsis
was printed Thursday. General Gobin . t
said he liked to see agitation in a politi
cal party, particularly in the Republican 1
party. He gave Quay and Delamater a {
direct slap by saying that when political '
agitation showed that one man or a set of
men were managing party affairs in a
manner solely to gratify their own sel
fish motives, he hoped they would be
struck by lightning and wiped out of ex.
istence politically. B. F. Hughes voics<H
the same sentiments. General Gobin is a
prominent member of the Rational Guard.