Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-07

Io'h the settlement OF the Auditor
General on the taxes. The question
OF the constitutionality of the act IL
now before the Dauphin County Court
and, pending a decision, the companies
VIII take the matter into court
Under the law the companies have
sixty days in which to pay or appeal
from the settlement. Judging from
indications, the companies will seek to
nave the highest court pass upon the
act, and they if they are beaten they
Will pay up with interest.
Commission Meets.-The Economy
and Efficiency Commission resumed
its hearings to-day, COMMISSIONS
John Price Jackson being the firs'
olnciai to appear before it. He out.
lined the work of his department.
Application Due. The Public Ser.
vice Commission will give a hearing or
THURSDAY on the application of the
Ellzabethtown and Deodate Street
Railway for permission to make 9
crossing of the Cornwall and Lebanon
Railroad in Lebanon county.
state Fire Marshal Busy. - OWNS
TO demands of officials in Berks anC
northern tier counties for investigation
OF fires, the deputies of the State Fire
Marshars Department have been or
the jump. Over twenty investigations
are in progress.
officers Here. Several of the of.
ncers OF cavalry organizations of the
National Guard were here to-day or
their way to Philadelphia to attent
the meeting of the officers to organize
the cavalry regiment.
To Address Convention. - Commits.
sloner jackson will make an address.
at the State convention of box manu-,
facturers at Reading on July Is.
Banks Big Payment.-The Farmers
Deposit Bank, of Pittsburgh, to-da,
paid the Stae $23,37S.SO as State Ia,
on bank stock. 1t was the larges
payment of the kind in a long while.
Enforcing New Law. - The new
mattress act regulating the use of ma,
terials and tagging is being v~igorousl,
enforced by State agents Throughout
the State. In Philadelphia severa
arrests have been made and notice,
and warnings given in half a dozer
cities.
len Arrests.-Ten arrests we're or.
dered In Philadelphia to-day by Dairy
and Food Commissioner James Fousr
for the sale of soft drink" containing
saccharin. The samples were taker
in the recent raids.
New Justfces.-Roy Blackburn wa,
to-day appointed justice for Haver.
ford township, Delaware county, ant
Albert T. Lilley, for Leroy township
Bradford county.
Camp Plans.-Orders for the in.
spectlons of organization of the tn,
National Guard in camps this summer
are being prepared by Adjutant Gen
eral Thomas j. Stewart. The frs
camps will begin on July IS and Gov,
ernor Tener who is spending a few
days at Salisbury Beach, Mass, viii
attend then.
New Prothonotary. - Samuel I,
Marks, of Danville, was to-day ap
pointed p~rothonotary of Monitor
county vice Thomas G. Vincent, re
signed.
Water and Rights.-A hearing II
the case of the ~bondholders of tn,
Allegheny Valley Water COMPANY
against the borough of Tarentum wa.
begun by the Public Service Commits
ION at noon to-day. The %bondholder.
are represented by ~ex-Judge Bechte
and Senator Charles A.. Snyder. O.
|Schuylkill county, and the borough
by Attorney NJ. L.. Hazlett. 1t is tn,
contention of the bondholders thai
they have expended about $500, 900 il
the plant and hat the invasion of tn,
borough in the water service business,
has deprecated the value of its Sc
curities. 1t is argued also that tn,
borough has no legal right to engag,
in business of this character without
first having obtained the approval o
the Public Service Commission. Amont
other things the borough will con
tend that heretofore the water sup
ply has been inefficient and that man,
disastrous fires We're the result
thereof. A number of borough Off
Gals as we'll as bondholders are her,
as witnesses.