Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-21

more OF less u0pleLeu
This fund had less cash on December
81 than known for years and the
January receipts have not been
heavy.
The State Highway Department is
Just now the States biggest revenue
raiser as 1t has been turning in thou
sands of dollars day. The hunters
| license revenue has about ended and
the money taken in for premiums for
State compensation insurance goes
into a separate fund, as does all the
money from the automobile licenses
and from the hunters licenses.
School payments have not been
heavy lately and there are still owing
over three quarters of million dol
| lars
Twenty Arrests. Twenty arrests
were to-day announced by the De-
partment Of Agriculture, mostly due
to violations of the cold storage laws
and the pure sausage act. In
Philadelphia alone fourteen arrests
were made for the violations of the
storage act in the sale of stored eggs
as fresh, while in Warren county what
was alleged to be pork sausage con-
tanned potato flour and water.
Grip Hits Guardsmen. The grip
| and the demands of industries which
are working at high speed because of
munitions and other contracts are
having an effect on the attendance of
izations of the National Guard ac-
cording to reports which have been
received here. The grip has been
prevalent in a number of localities
where the attendance was low. The
most serious interference has been be-
Icause of the strenuous work in the
industries.
Visited Governor Brum-
baugh was visited late yesterday by
Senator S. r. Catlin, of Wilkes-Barre,
and Roger Dever, chief counsel or
the mine workers, who discussed the
workmen's compensation with him and
gave assurance of support for legisla-
tion to perfect 1t.
In Washington. Adjutant Gem
eral Thomas J. Stewart is in Wash
ington on militia affairs.
Bigger to Retire. - Col. James Fl.
Bigger commander of the Eighteenth
regiment at Pittsburgh since the pro-
motion of Brigadier General A. j..
Logan, has retired according to Pitts
burgh papers to-day. Lieutenant
Colonel e. L. Kearns, formerly of this
city, is mentioned as possible sue
cessor.
StiIIweH Commissioned--The COM
mission for Brigadier General f. w.
Stillwell, the new commander of the
Third Brigade, was made out to-
day.
VIII Ask Answer. - The Public
Service Commission will send the
complaints against the rates of the
Highspire Water Company to the
company for an answer.
\ chief clerk of the Senate, was in the
4 city to-day. He visited the Cover
nor.
Protest on Name. - A protest
against the use of the name Scottdale
Trust Company by a proposed cor
poration was made yesterday at the
State Department by the Scottdale
: Savings, Deposit and Trust Company.
4 No decision was given.
, New Harrisburg Company. - The
!. Automatic Film Rewinding Company
of this city, was chartered yesterday
: with $1,000 capital. The incorpora-
4 tors include Ross Oenslager, Frank o.
> Horting, John L. Wohlfarth, Myron
- w, Pickens, F. e. Ray, w. S. Ray,
, Harrisburg, and L. H. Lamb, of Me-
h chanicsburg.
increase Filed. The Panama
- Traction Company, of Warren, filed
h notice to-day of increase of debt to
Il amount of $250,000.
a State Needs the Money.-A warning
a to life insurance companies of prob
q able move on the part of the State to
= tax them in its program for increased
revenue was given yesterday by State
:, Senator William c. Sproul at the sec
: ond days session of the convention of
n the general agents of the Provident
Life ana company OI
- phia. The State needs more money
"a and the Legislature soon will be cast
ing about for additional corporations
to tax Mr.. Sproul said. Life insur-
ance companies, he said. were consid-
Is cred by many revenue seekers a profit
i. able field To the officers of the Provi-
l. dent company and agents assembled
II he counseled immediate plans for re-
= sisting such move. There is going
10 to be a scrimmage, hunting for sub
'r jccts of taxation. within the next two
~ years" said Mr.. Sproul.
IL Spoke at Altoona.-Chairman w. ID.
p B. Ainey, of the Public Service Com
n mission, spoke at Altoona last night on
= conditions in the Orient, where he has
l. travelled widely. He favored cult
s. waiting friendships in that quarter.
IF Inspectors On Job.-State health in
a spectors are making Investigations into
Is the scarlet fever outbreak at Wash
d. ington and Jefferson College.
er Ex-Judge Here. = Ex-Judge A: G.
'e Tanning, of Towanda, was "HilP'
visitor.