Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-10

and from some of the best known
stores show that the Quaker City has
purity in that line. No authorizations
were found.
Four Cases.-counting the Dauphin
county cases there were four new
cases of infantile paralysis reported
to the State Department of Health yes
terday. They did not include Phila-
delphia.
Gray to Enter Business.-A. B.
Gray. who resigned as division engi-
neer OF the Washington district of the
state Highway Department. has de-
cided to enter the engineering bust
resignation was not accepted.
Northumberland Bridges. - The
State Water Supply Commission last
night issued permits for bridges near
Orwin and in Girardville, in Schuyl-
Kill county; near Selinsgrove in Sny-
der; in shamokin and Dornsife,
Northum berland; near Ephrata in
Lancaster and for several Pennsyl-
vania and Reading railroad bridges
Assets Run Low.-Insurance Com
missioner O'Neil yesterday led a re-
quest with Attorney General Brown
that he go into the Dauphin County
Court and ask that Receivers be ap-
pointed for the Sterling Mutual Fire
Insurance Company and the Textile
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, both
located at Schuylkill Haven. An ex-
animation just completed shows that
they are clearly insolvent. The Ster-
ling Mutual Fire Insurance Company
S7,205.00. The Textile Mutual Fire
Insurance Company has no assets. and
liabilities of $21. 100000. The above
are comparatively small companies,
but have been writing a great deal of
business in Western and Southern
States.
Big Project Approved - The Pub
lice service commission has approved
the contracts between the borough of
Sewickley and Edgeworth in Allie
gheny county and the Pennsylvania
railroad whereby the old right of way
of the railroad will be used for q
boulevard. The highway will be a part
of the across-State system.
Judge Langham Here - Judge ].
N Langham, of Indiana county, form
er corporation clerk in the Auditor
Generals Department, was here to-
day.
MFR. Patton Returns - Secretary of
Agriculture Charles L. Patton has re-
turned from a brief visit to his home
in Clearfield county. Mr.. Patton said
that there had been no new develop
ments IN the Surface matter and he
did not expect any.
Gray Leaves - Frank Gray, of
this city. a clerk in the Public Ser
vice commission, retired this week.
Appointed Justice Thomas A..
Warmer was to-day appointed Justice
for Winslow township, jefferson
county.
Claim Big Damage - Claim for
$3.50 damages was to-day filed with
the Public Service Commission against
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
by Harriet A. Laird and Ray NJ. Laird
OF Huntington, who operate a coal
mine in Cambria county. They con-
tend that because of the operation of
the railroads rule refusing cars to
be loaded on sidings from wagons
they were damaged. This rule was
In force from December 81 to Febru-
ary 22 when after r conference of
the Public Service Commissioners.
railroad officials and operators the
order was withdrawn.
Tax Not Demandable - In an opin-
ion given to-day Deputy ATTORNEY
General Keller informs Auditor Cen
eral Powell, who forwarded an in
quiry from the prothonotary of Brad
tord county, that the fifty cent State
tax provided by the act of 1880 is not
demandable on conditional sales filed
IN his office under the act of June I,
1915. -