Show HARMONY SOCIETY Serious Charges Alleged in the Filing of an Application as Receiver PITTSBDBG Feb 10A bill praying for the appointment of a receiver for the property of the Harmony society and an accounting by the president John Duss was filed at Beaver today In addition to alleging that much of the 4000000 worth of property of the society had been lost through fraud negligence and misman of Duss and Trustee Sieber agement Trutee rendering ren-dering the society insolTent the bill charges that they are living in luxury with their wives in contravention of the main principle of the society which enjoins en-joins celibacy while other members are obliged to eke out a precarious existence also that the board of elders are confirmed and common drunkards that Duss sought to cast discredit on the teachings of the society by casting doubts on the story of the Christ and by preaching doctrines doc-trines of Cyrus Teed Koresh of Chicago Chi-cago and Prince Michael Mills of Detroit De-troit pretended dive beings The bill goes on to state the various losing los-ing ventures which Duss has entered into in the name of societyhe being infact sole manager of its affairs since the other trustees were merely his tools and that he refused to render an accounting This is the first step in a hotly contested battle bat-tle The entering of the suit will surprise sur-prise the Economites a much a anyone for most of the members thought the trouble had blown over An afternoon paper is authority for the statement that the commonwealth of Pennsylvania has entered a legal battle for possession or the immense wealth of the Economite society The matter is now in the hands of States Attorneygeneral Hensel and is being prosecuted by the ablest legal talent ol Allegheny and Beaver county bars Proceedings be instituted at once and will be far reaching in all results I successful it will involve absolute surrender of all property of the Economite society and confiscation by the state I will be a proceeding in escheat based on the established precedent of eminent emi-nent legal authority and the act of the assembly forbidding the conduct of societies soci-eties whose principles are at variance with public custom and against the spirit of the constitution I is claimed that sufficient authority I I can be obtained to disrupt the Celibate community and turn it goods and chattels I chat-tels into the state treasury The proceedings proceed-ings have no connection with the suit filed in the Beaver county courts today by Feiehte and other economists asking for a receiver to wind up the affairs of the I organization On the contrary two battles bat-tles will be fought on entirely different lines the issues being contrary and detrimental detri-mental t each other as the success of the states case would necessarily mean a malcontents failure of the prosecution society on behalf of the I |