Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-17

@uUWuIuas, T ~ h eoVepnorrenep eom mmissien
fEsa has an appropria-
3v<ssE=s=s.- --;-.'sr19 tion of $1,000 to
! pay its expenses and is to Inquire into
the adVlsability of amending the penal
! laws of the commonwealth so as to
provide for the employment of all in
mates of all penal institutions, to pro-
VIDE compensation for their labor and
10 PROVIDE for utilizing the results of
such labor in the penal and charitable
| institutions of the commonwealth"
The commissioners named are Ed
win Nj. Abbott, Philadelphia, chair
man: DR.. Louis M. Robinson, Swarth-
more, secretary; w. d. Grimes, Pitts
burgh; Samuel l. Spyker, Huntingdon,
and Andrew Hourigan, Wilkes-Barre,
who are attorneys; r. ]. McKenty,
warden of the Eastern Penitentiary,
Philadelphia, and Dennis Hayes, Phila
delphia. The bill provided for four
| lawyers, one representative of organ
lzed labor, one expert in investigations
and one experienced in penology.
Other appointments announced were
Charles Schemmelfeng, WARREN S.
| r. Mason. Mercer, and w. r. Hunter,
Erie, reappointed trustees of the State
| Hospital for the Insane at Warren.
John II. Lands, Millersville, and P.
E. Slaymaker and George Gessel, Lam
caster, reappointed trustees of the
Thaddeus Stevens Industrial School,
William H. Richards, Canonsburg.
and John A. Elliott, Beaver Falls, ap-
pointed members of the Pennsylvania
training School at Morganza.
Jacob M. Schenck, Lebanon, and
Colonel Walter 7. Bradley, Philadel-
phia, reappointed trustees of the State
Asylum for Chronic Insane. at Wer-
nerSville.
Edward Bailey. Harrisburg, re-
4 aDDOlnfa1 Of Of
trustees of the Pennsylvania State
Lunatic Asylum at Harrisburg
Expense Accounts. = The Palmer
Mccormick committee of Clinton
county to-day filed it's account of ex-
penses in the campaign, showing
Sl,4OO contributed by residents of that
county. They spent $1,371.54. The
tising and watchers. The watchers got
from 81 to SO and one man got Sc
Tor hiring watchers" The Penrose
advertising committee of Lancaster
flied an accounting for $2G0.7O.
Primary Bills. - Auditor General
Powell said to-day that he had no
controversy with the commissioners of
Phlladelphia county about the primary
bills. The bills are here and are omen
to inspection" said he.
Going to Philadelphia. - Governor
Tener will go to Philadelphia to-mor-
row to attend the College of Pharmacy
commencement.
Senators Here.-Senators C. A. Sny.
der, Pottsville; S. w. Salus, Philadel.
phia, and John w. Hoke, Chambers
burg, were at the Capitol.
Asking Mercy. Applications fo,
communication of the death sentences
OIL three men condemned to be hanged
Tor murder were made to the State
Board or Pardons to-day and the ap-
pllcatlon for one withdrawn. The ses-
sion Is the last to be held by the board
peiore september and large list is
being considered.
When the application for commu-
tatlon for Frank f. Schnabel, of Read
ing, was heard a protest was made by
District Attorney Heinly, who con-
tended that the reasons advanced were
not suihclent to warrant a recommen-
datlon OF mercy. The Rev. f. Ste
pnanl, OF Pottsville, appeared with at
torneys asking clemency for Malena
Massa, condemned to be hanged on
June 70, and told of the circumstances
attending Massa's murder of his wife
when she refused to go to California
with him. Letters from jurors and at
torneys asking clemency were sub
mltted. Massa was refused commuta-
tion In December. The third case was
thta OF Frank Wells, Fayette, refused
IN April. The application for Pascal
Hall, Dauphin, was withdrawn. He is
to be hanged June "a
Rival Charters In.-Applications for
state charters for the Equitable Elec-
trio Power Company and the Penn.
sylvania Electric Power COMPANY. both
to operate in Philadelphia, We're filed
at the department of the Secretary of
the Commonwealth to-day. In each
case the capital is given as $4,000 and
the incorporators as M. p. Quinn, John
Rapp and Charles Doebler, of Phila-
delphia. The former application will
go to the Public Service Commission
for approval and the latter to the
Water Supply Commission for action
These are the companies seeking a
franchise in Philadelphia in compe-
tition with the Philadelphia Electric.
Standards for Nation.-Oficials of
the Pennsylvania Department of Labor
and Industry will map out a plan for
standardizing safety methods in the
big industries and will ask other states
to unite in movement to make them
uniform. This idea was suggested by
Commissioner John Price Jackson at
the efficiency convention held last fall
and at the recent convention of fac
tory inspectors of the country at Nash
vile 1T was found that in many of the
states the inspectors were working
along the same lines. 1t is probable
tnat Wnen the industrial Board has
passed upon the standards of safety
for theaters, electrical, manufacturing
and other establishments and the
regulations have been printed the
other states will be given copies and
an invitation given to suggest places
where the different commonwealths
can get together on uniformity,
APmOries Observation-Disclosures of the
State Armory Board will ask the next
Legislature for an appropriation pro-
gram which will place a fireproof
armory in every place where an or
ganization of the National Guard is
located. This program will require
over million dollars. but 1t Is the idea
to spread 1t out so that the drain will
not be heavy on the State revenue, this
plan having been found to work in the
construction of the new Western Peni-
tentiary. The Legislature will also be
asked to make an appropriation to
finish the new fireproof arsenal, for
whose first story contract was let
recently
Increases Filed.--The Universal Roll
ing Mill Company, of Washington. has
filed notice of increase of stock from
100000 to 100000. and the Fed
Grated Glass Company, of Uniontown.
from $4,000 to $150.000.
See Dustin Farnum in tsThe SQuaw
Man" at the Photoplay to-day.-Adv.
DOGS BITE TWO
Two people were treated this morn
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