Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-28

.7sasaAAs@ bench may not be
selected until after the May primary.
Ihe death of Commissioner Cum
ningham makes the third major ap-
polntment for the Governor to fill In
ADDITION to the highway commissioner
snip ne VIII name a Fire Marshal and
an insurance Commissioner. No names
nave been mentioned for the highway
place, which will require a man of
extraordinary talent to fill Mr.. Cum
lngham's place. The present acting
Fire Marshal and Insurance Commis-
sioner are being urged for appoint
ment to those places. The State In
surance Fund Board has also to name
a manager at $500 q year. Albert l..
Allen, the assistant manager, who or
ganiZed the fund, has been urged for
the place for the same reason that
Messrs. Wolfe and McCulloch have
been talked of in conjunction with The
places they now fill temporarily.
For some time it has been the belief
that Public Service Commissioner John
Monaghan will be named as Judge in
Philadelphia, which will make a va
cancy on the commission. Mr.. Mona
CHAN has been one of the most active
o. the members of that board.
Bids On the 9th.-The bids for State
supplies and for the waste paper at
the Capitol will be opened by the
Board of Public Grounds and Build
ings on May 8.
State to Assist. The State His
torical Commission has arranged to
donate $4,000 toward the restoration
OF the old town hall at Chester, in
which the Legislature sat and which
is intertwined with the history Of the
commonwealth for almost 100 years.
The total work will cost $4,000, the
hulk of it being borne privately.
Brown in Philadelphia. Attorney
General Brown left yesterday for
Philadelphia where he will remain
until Monday.
No Date Set. - No date has been
set for dedication of the tablet at
Fort Hunter by the State Historical
Commission. 1t will likely be arranged
next week.
Boards To Meet. - The State Com
pensation and Insurance Fund boards
Will meet here next week. Meetings
were held in Philadelphia yesterday
and to-day.
Commission AdiouTns. - The Pub
lie Service Commission has adjourned
its Wilkes-Barre session. The COM
Inlsslon Will meet here on Monday.
To Insure Deputies. - Application
was made to-day to the State Work.
mems Insurance Fund, which insures
against employers liability, by the
sheriffs of two Western Pennsylvania
counties for rates for insuring deputy
| sheritts who might be called out on
strike duty. The rate for policemen
is $2.16 per 500 of annual payroll,
but the rate for sferIffs' deputies will
be taken up by the Board when it
meets next month.
Department Closed. The State
Highway and several other depart
ments of the State government were
closed to-day out of respect to High
way Commissioner Cunningham who
was buried at Sewickley this after
noon. All of the officials of the High
way Department attended the funeral
Lebanon to Answer. - The Public
Service Commission has asked the
city of Lebanon if it desires to make
answer to the complaint of the Leb-
anon Valley Consolidated Water Com
pany that it is furnishing water in a
district recently annexed to the city
without having obtained a State certi-
iicate of public convenience. The case
will likely be taken up next month
and viii! be the first of the kind to be
heard.