Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-27
Nd ENCAMPMENT
DATES ARE SETTLED
Everything Depends Upon What
Uncle Sam Does About the
Maneuvers

IT,
.-.f5 g.s.Ssn-5 what part Penn
a. sylvania Is to play
IN the maneuvers in the vicinity of
Baltimore. Notwithstanding reports
that July Is to 25 has been selected
as the period for encampment nothing
mas been done.
IL two brigades of the Guard go into
the federal maneuvers there will be
no division encampment this year. but
TWO brigades with camp separately at
places and dates to be chosen later
on. Mt. Gretna, Indiana and Erie
nave been suggested as places. Gem
eral Stewart is looking for definite
information as to what organizations
are TO participate and the date Sc
lected by the United State officers,
! Gossip is that two eastern brigades
VIII go, but this is not confirmed.
Arnlory Contracts.-Contract were
let to-day for the construction of the
new armory at Waynesburg to f. Blair
q Son, Waynesburg, and for remodel
ing OF the building of the Fourteenth
infantry in Pittsburgh to Madducks &,
Co., Pittsburgh. 1t is expected that
the $4,000 required to award a con-
tract for the Greensburg armory will
be raised within a few days and that
contract will then be let. The bids
were above the amount available and
Greensburg people undertook to Sc
cure the balance.
| Two AppOinted.---James Towel,
Greensburg, has been appointed a
capitol Noliceman to succeed the late
Captain W. II. Crook, Harrisburg, and
John NJ. Hale, Jenkingtown, an ele-
iVator operator, to succeed Joseph
Berrier, Jr.. Harrisburg, who becomes
clerk to the moving picture censors.
conscience Hurt.-Seventy dollars
IN bank notes was received at the
State Treasury to-day in a plain en-.
velope addressed to the State Treas
urer and without any directions The
money was ordered placed in the con.
science fund This is the first time
money has been received without a
word of explanation.
Cattle Dealer Fined.-Henry e.
Brown, cattle dealer of Lam
caster county, has been fined 500 fol
violating the interstate cattle law by
bringing diseased cattle from Mary
land to Lancaster county. The cattle
were quarantined by agents Of the
State Livestock Sanitary Board and
upon being killed under State super
vision were found to be extensively
diseased State Veterinarian c. J.
Marshall says that this is but one OF
many cases that demonstrates the
necessity of State and Federal super
vision of the interstate movement OF
| livestock He said that had there
been no livestock sanitary law and
no State agents on the lookout for
| Illegal cattle traffic these diseased
COWS might have been sold and placed
in Pennsylvania dairy herds where
they would have been a menace to
healthy cattle.
Leper at Large. Commissions,
Dixon has given directions to all
health officers to keep lookout fol-
Frank Syracuse, the leper who escaped
from Oil City. State police will help
Flood Warning.-The State Water
Supply Commission to-day sent tele
graphic warnings to Wilkes-Barr ant
other places along the north branch
of the Susquehanna that the report.
from southern New York and north
lern Pennsylvania indicate that tn,
river will rise and that 23-foot fioot
may be expected at Wilkes-B Barre b,
Saturday morning. Men connected
with the flood service have beei
notified to send warnings of any ris
in the streams elsewhere, the warn
weather having caused rapid meltin,
Asking For Bids.-State Highwa.
Commissioner e. NJ. Bigelow will asl
for bids to be closed April 6 for fur
nishing asphalt to the State for 1T
road work. Indeterminate quantities
are asked on the State specifications
Lieutenant Resigns.-Second Lieu
tenant Ray B. Eyre. of Company c
Eighth Infantry, Chambersburg, ha
resigned
Increases Filcd.-The York Care
and Paper Company, York, to-da,
filed notices of increase of stock from
$4,000 to S268,50O and of debt from
s6.2S5 to $316.500 and the Miller Or
gan and Piano Company, Lebanon, o.
debt to extent Of $4,000.
Governor at Albany. - Governor
Tener addressed the New York State
Legislature yesterday. He was in AL
bany yesterday for an Elks' gathering
and by invitation addressed the law.
makers, receiving a notable reception
Telephone Row On.-The fight over
telephone rates in the Melrose district
of Philadelphia Is on again. A hear
ing was held yesterday by the Public
Service Commission. but it Is probable
that another will be held.
| To Meet Here. Superintendent
and trustees of the State institutions
will hold their annual association
| theetins III ILLS Wy oi May ~. toN-
ernor Tener and Superintendent III. l..
Orth will be speakers
Big Hearing On.-The Public Serv-
| ice Commission last night announced
that a hearing of all persons inter-
ested in changes OF tariffs on April /
| will be held in Philadelphia on Mon
| day afternoon. Invitations to attend
have been sent to lao railroads and
| 81 shippers who have made com
plants have also been invited. 1t will
| be one of the most notable hearings to
| be held by the commission.