Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

Kittanning Brewing Company. Kit
tanning.
Koch Brewing Company Williams
port
Masontown Brewing Company, Ma
sontown.
Meadville Brewing Company, Mead
Vile.
Mercer Brewing Company, South
Sharon.
l. & a. Moeschlin, Inc, Sunbury.
New Lebanon Brewing Company,
Lebanon.
II. Ortlieb Brewing Company,
Mauch Chunk.
Pennsylvania Central Brewing Com
pany, Scranton.
Phlllipsburg Brewing Company.
Phillipsburg.
Pilsener Brewing Company, Halle
ton.
Reading Brewing Company, Read
ing.
f. \. Kicker Brewing Company.
Lancaster.
Adam scheidt Brewing Company,
Norrstown.
schwarzenbach Brewing Company,
Galeton.
Standard Brewing Company, Scran-
ton.
Star Brewing Company, Green's
burg.
Stegmaier Brewing Company, Will
kes- Barre.
susquehanna Brewing Company,
Nanticoke.
Union Brewing Company, Sharon.
Victor Brewing Company, jean
nette.
Windber Brewing Company, Wind
Der.
Yough Brewing Company, Con-
nellsville.
Indicted in L. $. Association
AS members of the United States
Brewers Association, the following
Pennsylvania brewing companies are
indicted
Pittsburgh Brewing Company, In
dependent Brewing Company, Erie
Brewing Company, Daeufer Brewing
Company, Horlacher Brewing Com
pany, Lieberman Brewing Company,
South Bethlehem Brewing Company,
Uhl Brewing Company, Anchor Brew
ing Company, Brownsville Brewing
Company. keystone Brewing Com
panY. Seitz Brewing Company, Arm
-Schonegg Harmony Brewing Com
pany, Schwarzenbach Brewing Com
pany, Fink Brewing Company, Sus-
quehanna Brewing Company, Adam
Scheidt Brewing Company, North
ampton Brewing Company, American
Brewing Company, ]. and p. Baltz
Brewing Company, Louis Bergdoll
Brewing Company, Bergner and Engel
Brewing Company. Glass and Nachod
Brewing Company, Consumers Brew
ing Company, Continental Brewing
Company, Fred Fell Brewing Com
pany Liebert and Obert Brewing
Company. Philadelphia Brewing Com
pany. Premier Brewing Company,
Prospect Brewing Company Proto
Brewing Company Rising Sun Brew
ing Company. c. Schmidt q Sons
Brewing Company, Robert Smith Ale
Brewing Company. Reading Brewing
Company. lockwood Brewing Com
pany, Sayre Brewing Company, West
moreland Brewing Company, Bartels
Brewing Company, Stegmaier Brewing
Company, Flock Brewery Company
and Koch Brewing Company.
Charges Against Brewers
In the charge against brewing com
panies, these specific offenses are set
out:
That the brewing companies con-
spired to make money contributions
to the election of November 3, 1914,
State election.
That the Independent Brewing
company, OF IlllSDuTBn, OH May q
1914 paid S7,331.S2 in a check drawn
on the German National Bank of
Pittsburgh, and paid TO the United
States Brewers Association, for politi-
cal use: that this check was indorsed
over TO the Northwestern National
Bank. of Philadelphia, by Treasurer
6. w. Lembeck Of the United States
Brewers Association.
That the Independent Brewing
Company of Pittsburgh, on March 20.
1914 paid $5,1O1.3O to the United
States Brewers Association, to the
order of Hugh F. Fox. secretary, which
amount, a check. later was indorsed
over to the Lincoln National Bank by
Fox, and, it is alleged the money put
to political use.
That the Independent Brewing
Company paid S6,564.61 to the Penn
sylvania Brewers Association, on a
check made payable to Edwin A.
Schmidt, treasurer. and drawn on the
First Second National Bank, of
Pittsburgh. dated August 2, 1914; the
amount, it is alleged, constituting a
political contribution.
That the Pittsburgh Brewing Com
pany on September 81, 1914, paid S6.-
774.75 to the Pennsylvania Brewers
Association. on a check drawn on the
Lincoln National Bank, of Pittsburgh,
an amount declared subsequently to
have been diverted to political uses.
Evidence of Conspiracy
These were all the specific offenses
set out. but the government is declared
TO have massed evidence of a COM
plete case of conspiracy. at least as
it affects the brewing companies