The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-12
COURT. HOUSE
MORE Criminal Cases
Returned to District Attorney for Trial
at March Sessions During
Next Week

list of cases TO be tried at the March
Quarter Sessions next week was printed
and announced a week ago. Among
them is charge of involuntary man
slaughter, the defendant being John
Hargest. The list follows:
Charles Dixon, felonious assault and
battery; Frank Lngle, carrying con.
cealed weapons; Willis c. Shrauder,
serious charge; John H. Wohlfarth, lar
ceny as clerk; Steven Cupples, and
Harvey Bricker, assault and battery;
Elmer Kessler, Ralph Grimm, George
% 'Gorck and John Britton, felonious
entry and larceny; James Butler, fell
onious entry; Jeremiah H. Barte, false
pretense; John largest, involuntary
manslaughter.
Conference Postponed
The absence from the city of F. B.
Mnsser, president of the Harrisburg
Railways Company, prevented the Coun-
ty Commissioners to-day from further
taking up with that company the mat
ter of rebuilding the Nineteenth street
bridge over the Philadelphia and Read
ing railroad. The conference, no doubt,
will be held next Wednesday.
More Bounty Claims Paid
Upwards of fifty claims for bounties
presented by Dauphin county hunters
to-day were paid by the County Com
missioners.
Viewers Met To-day
Paul G. Smith, f. Clarke Cowden
and Joseph W. Umberger to-day eonsid-
cred the advisabihty of laying out a
new road from the Sunbury pike to the
Susquehanna river, at a point about
half mile north of Dauphin.
Auditor Receives Claims
A number of claims were to-day pre-
Bented to William II. Earnest who has
been appointed auditor to distribute the
$9,0 600 estate of A. J. Spannuth. The
auditor as yet has made no decisions.
Sweeper Found a Key
street sweeper employed by the
City Highway Department picked up a
Large key on North Second street,
hbove Locust, last evening and it is
how being held at the offices of the de-
partment to await claimant.
bulluang PERMITS
Harvey T. Smith got building per-
mit to build an addition to the two and
one-haf story house at 351 Crescent
street costing $3.50. Louis Fink obtain
ed papers to build an addition to the
hree-story brick house at 31S North
Second street costing $500.
Marriage License
John c. Gould and Elizabeth C. Pope,
Steelton.
Letters Issued
Letters of administration on the es-
late OF Frances l.. Rollins, late of this
elty, to-day were granted by Register
banner to Fannie McCamant.
Liable for State Tax
Judge s. j. McCarrell to-day hadded
down an opinion deciding that the I'm
Perial Window Glass Company, of West
Virginia, is liable for the Common
wealth claim for state tax amount
ing to $S59.69.
Patrolmen Are Paid
The city patrolmen to-day received
heir semi-monthly pay, the department
receiving something like $4,000.
70 Rebuild Wildwood Road
Park Commissioner TAYLOR plans to
ebuld the Wildwood park road with
fifteen cars OF cinder. He also ex-
pects to send request TO the State De
partment of Fisheries for half a mil
ion small fish with which to stock the
Wildwood lake. Work has been begun
Pn the small concrete bridge over Pax
on creek in the Cameron parkway.
.ocal People on Board
The commission in charge of the pro.
Posed State Village for Feeble Minded
Women near Muncy will soon ask for
bids for the construction of the build
ngs. Plans for the village have been
approved by the State Board of Public
;harities. Mrs. Elsie V. Middleton and
Francis J. Hall were selected as visit
ng members of the board
February Death Rate
Statistics as contained in the Febru-
~ report of the Bureau of Health and
sanitation not only show an increase
# IL births over the same month last
rear, but also more deaths. There
re less communicable diseases than in
914, however. The official figures
how 11S births, 70 deaths, and 90
ases of contagious diseases for Feb
rary, 1915.
6umma Back at Desk
9. Nissley Mumma, Deputy County
Recorder, who for several weeks was
onfned to his Steeiton home by an at
ack of pneumonia, was back at his
esk yesterday for the first time since
e was taken i'll.
Chicago Board of Trade Closing
Chicago, March 12.-Close:
Wheat-May, 1851: July. 121.