Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-05
DIR. FRANK B. KANN
Is REAPPOlNTED
Governor Again Names Harris
burg Osteopath to the
State Board

Governor Brumbaugh to-day re.
appointed DIR. Frank B. Kann, one OF
the prominent osteopaths of the State,
as q member of the State Board OF
osteopathic Examiners. DR.. kann
was first appointed to the board by
Governor Stuart and has been re-
appointed ever since.
Dr. B. W. Sweet. of Erie. was also
reappointed q member of the board
today
Paul n. Furman. Albert L. Allen,
Lee Solomon and others connected
with the State compensation and
workmen's insurance ends of the State
government left to-day for Philadel-
phia 20 attend a dinner to be given at
that city to members of the Compen-
sation Board at which new insurance
form matters will be discussed.
John P. Dohoney. investigator of
accidents. went to Lewistown to make
an investigation of the wreck
State funds took jump to-day when
the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Rail-
road paid S250.006 in state taxes and
the Bell Telephone $4,000.
Arrangements have been made for
tours of inspection of various types
of road construction and for observa-
tion of maintenance methods by the
engineers and road superintendent of
the State Highway Department. The
engineers will be here on October is
for the annual fall conference with
Chief Engineer w. H. Uhler. at which
the winter and spring work will be
outlined, and the next few days they
will cover some of the State highways
70 inspect the roads and discuss engi-
neering problems.
Leroy Z. Chapman was to-day ap-
pointed coroner of Warren county to
fill vacancy.
Attorney General Brown returned to
he Nit ~ hria a ahSanra
and consulted with his deputies, but
no decision in the Fischer case from
Williamsport was given.
The State Board of Pardons has re-
ceived an application for pardon of
Felix Fare. of Montgomery county. in
prison since December "a, 1909, on a
conviction of second degree murder of
q. A. Johnson in 1909. Two of the
men convicted in the case were hanged
and one, John Ballon. granted COM
mutation on the eve of the date set for
execution.
The Public Service Commission is
arranging to hold hearings in the
cases of the men operating Htneys on
the Baltimore pike near Philadelphia
against whom complaints have been
filed. A number of other jitney COM
plants have been entered.
The State fire insurance fund. ere
ated by act of 1915 to provide for the
rebuilding. restoration and replace
ment of structures, buildings, equip
ment and other property owned by the
Commonwealth" damaged or destroyed
by fire or other casualty, can not be
used to replace automobiles or othel
property which may be stolen. In an
opinion to Highway Commissioner
PlacR to-day Deputy Attorney General
W. H. Keller holds that the theft of an
automo bile owned by the Highway De-
partment is not a casualty as was in
tended to be covered by the act. He
advises that If 1t Is necessary to pro-
tect automobiles or other property
against theft, special policies will have
to be taken out
pointed Howard j. Calderwood to be
Justice of the peace at Tyrone.
The following legislative candidates
filed Withdrawals to-day: Jacob B.
Hoffman, Washington, First Philadel-
phia George w. Long. Washington,
Sixth Philadelphia: Thomas ]. Myers.
Personal Liberty. Twentieth Philadel-
phia, and A. E. Rapson, Washington.
Sixth Luzerne.
The city of Uniontown to-day filed
complaint with the Public Service
Commission against the Pennsylvania
Railroad. asking that 1t be required to
protect four crossings with gates and
four with gongs.
The Crew-Levick Petroleum Com
pany. of Philadelphia. to-day filed no.
tees of authority TO increase its stock
from $4,000 to $500, 900 and debt to
s5,000,o00. The Assets Purchasing
Company. another Philadelphia corpo-
ration. filed notice Of authority to in
crease stock from $4,000 to 81. 800, 900.
Both companies were recently char
tered.