Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-11
REPUBLICAN MAY
HAVE 1850 MEMBERS
Estimates on the Next House Show
ing a Big Majority Will be
in the Seats
ELEGATES ARE NAMED
Ensign Wins State Bridge Contract
For New Castle-News of
the State Capitol
DELEGATES ARE NAMED

The strength of
q the Republicans in
n the next House of
Repre- S II atives
/ NIER& may run as high
- MfEzsnskN as 160, although up
| III HHFSSSk to date no figures
Ii k6Es=EASk have been COM
EHHFHETHTHTHE piled. The total
E7HW969UHs. will not be known
until all returns
-. :,.:Issrs are iTi but I. d.
M a ! s, assistant
resident clerk. to-day hazarded a guess
that 1t would be 100. Last session the
Republicans had 127 in the House.
In the late returns it is seen that
]. w. Sampsell was elected in Snyder
by two votes and that w. A. Ostrander
won in Mexican by eight.
Elected a Member-Governor- elect
Brumbaugh was last night elected
member of the Union League of Phila-
delphia.
Ensign Gets Bridge.-G. w. Ensign,
Inc, Camp Hill. to-day won the New
Castle bridge, being low bidder when
the Board of Public Grounds and
Buildings opened bids. His bid was
! $43,247. Other bids were McClintic-
Marshall Company, Pittsburgh, $780,
S95: Canton Bridge Company, Canton,
Ohio, $54, ,114.25; Fort Pitt Bridge
Company, $4,000; Penn Bridge Com
pany. Beaver Falls, $49,470.
Tax Payment.-The Jones & Laugh
| lin Steel Company, of Pittsburgh, to-
day paid the State $4,000 as state
taxes
Delegates Named.-Governor Tener
to-day announced the appointment of
the following delegates to represent
the Commonwealth at the American
Mining Congress, to be held in Phoenix,
naRan1 II Il
Field, Thomas Lynch, w. w. Keefer,
Walter Calverly and John s. Unger,
Pittsburghi John Bremen, Uniontown:
Benjamin Clark. PunXsutawney; w. J.
Richards, Pottsville; Samuel d. War
riner, Philadelphia, and John Markle,
Jeddo.
Gettysburg ChaPter.-A charter was
issued to-day to the oxford Township
Light, Heat and Power Company, of
Gettysburg, with a capital of $4,000.
The incorporators are Norman S. Mein.
del, Raymond f. Topper and j. Donald
Swope, all of Gettysburg.
Forty-four In.-Forty-four counties
have filed official returns either as a
whole or in part at the Capitol The
returns are being tabulated as rapidly
as possible.
Mr.. McDevitt Hereditary S. McDev-
lit. chairman of the Economy and
| Efficiency Commission, is here work
I
MFR. Hunter at Atlanta. - J. w.
| Hunter, First Deputy State Highway
Commissioners, is at Atlanta attending
! the American Good Roads Congress.
Named Justice.-J. w. Conrad, Jr.,
of Conshohocken, was appointed JUS
| tice for Upper Merton township, Mont
| gomery county, to-day.
| Representative Here. = Representa-.
tive e. w. Cox. of Philadelphia, was
at the Capitol to-day. He is being
| talked of for an important chairman
| ship in the next House.
Oliver Paid.-Oliver township, Perry
| county, was paid it's school check of
| 81. 1.203.13 to-day.
Watching Snyder. - State Health
Department officials have gone to Sny-
der county to make investigations in
to the outbreak of dlphtheria in that
county In some districts the condi-
tions are declared to be very serious.
Schools have been closed.
Lemoyne i'm Company.-The Sun
bury Baking Company, chartered yes
| terday with $4,000 capital, has as
iincorporators L. NJ. Bricker, b. b. Le-
fever, James A. Pryor and w. E.
| Bushey, all of Lemoyne.
Sat in Pittsburgh.-TheP Public Ser
vice Commission sat yesterday i'm
Pittsburgh in the Beaver Valley wa
ter case, this being an instance where
people being unable to come to Har-
risburg to present their grievance, the
commission went to them, il having
been found that they were entitled to
be heard at home.
Men From Milton.-Highway Com
| missioner Bigelow was yesterday ask
ed by a delegation from Milton to
improve roads in that borough. Har-
ry w. Chamberlain, well-known lawyer
and national guardsman, was the
| speaker.
Ex-SenatOrs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. J..
S. Fisher, Indiana, AKA John r. Muir
ply, Philadelphia, were at the Capt.
! tol.
Captain Fired.-Captain Warren S.
Hood, late of Company M, Third in
fantry, has been dropped from the
rolls as untitled to command a COM
pany.
Mfr. Murray Here.-James V. Muir
ray, of Brookville, formerly corpora
| tion deputy, was at the Auditor Gem
erals office to-day.