The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-12
Ugly Rumors Concerning Ger.
tain Town Organizations.
WILL BE INVESTIGATED
The Matter is Now Being Followed Up and
~ tho Reports Have Any Reasonable
Foundation the "Herald" Readers VIII
be Fully Informed.

If information which has reached us
from a reliable source shall be confirmed
on further investigation we expect to lay
before our readers in very few days a
story, which may not startle this entire
community, (because many there are who
are acquainted with the statement of facts
we give to-day,) but it will be sufficient to
arouse all order-loving citizens and the
community in general to realization of
the great danger with which they are
threatened.
Recent events growing out Of the very
disgraceful acts of a portion of our for
eign population, who so far disregarded
the laws and so unmindlul of the rights
of others as to hoOt at and interfere with
the funeral of NJ. J. Andrukaitus on the
26th ult., have brought to light the exist
ence of certain societies who, in their
manifesto to Council at it's last session,
made threats which may sooner or later
precipitate one of the bloodiest of bloody
| riots in our midst. We refer to the paper
presented to Council on the night of the
| 5th of April, in which occur the threaten
| ing sentences and which paper, in the
estimation of many sensible citizens,
should not have been received by Council
| in the form it was made, but should have
been couched in temperate terms based on
an unbiased recital of Just what occurred
and ended in an appeal to Council to in
| vestigate the charges made against
| borough officials, emitting all charges
against private citizens and residents
whose conduct would more prop
erly be the subject of a trial in court
| after proper information laid before a
| committing magistrate. In this manifesto
occur sentences which should have been
eliminated before its presentation and
which would have lost none of its force
| thereby.
The HERALD, in the spirit of fairness it
always pursues and with a purpose to do
justice to all, will not hastily form or ex-
press an opinion on this, or any other
subject in which citizens and residents
may be at war. This newspaper is con
tent to record and publish the news OF
| events as they occur and those who are
| found, after just and impartial trial or
| investigation, to be at fault, will receive
| deserved ceusure in our columns.
| To that end and, in order that the
| blame may rest where it justly belongs,
| the HERALD proposes to follow up the
| clue given it to further inform itself ana
| its readers wherein consists the threatened
| danger of blOodshed in this community.
| We are not alarmists, but on the con-
trary the foes of those who are, but we
| believe 1t is a newspapers duty and privi
| lege to probe all threatened troubles to
| the core and give its timely aid to nip in
the bud any attempt at riot and blood
| shed.
| 1t always happens on an occasion of a
| collision between factional and riotous
| assemblies that the most people slain and
| inspired are the non-contending, innocent
| lookers-on, who, drawn to the scene of the
| occurrence by morbid curiosity, become
victims to the desperate encounter of the
| lawless bands engaged in the struggle.
II the HERALD succeeds in getting to
| the bedrock facts of this case it will
promptly dish it up for the delectation OF
! its readers, as well as for the security tC
! life and limb and the preservation OF
public and private property.