Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22

These figures were made public to-
day by the State Department OF
Mines, which received official reports
showing $50 killed in the anthracite
field against 600 in 1914 and 43S
killed in bituminous mines against
Alb in 1914.
The State now has % anthracite
mine inspectors and 80 bituminous in
spectors, increases having been made
last year.
MiddIetown Case Up. - The Public
Service Commission will sit here on
Monday to hear applications for ap-
proval of charter papers and con-
tracts between municipalities. Five
electric companies are asking charters
as is the South Mountain Street Rail-
way Company, which desires to oper-
ate in Berks county. The contracts
for above grade crossings of the Penn.
sylvania Railroad at Middletown and
the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
way at Sunbury will also be taken
up.
State Board Next Week. - Th e
State Board of Agriculture, which will
meet here Wednesday for the thirty
ninth annual session will discuss rural
credits and agricultural education eX-
tension work. Congressman r. w.
Moss Indiana, and J.. +. Lever, South
Carolina, are to be speakers. Gov
ernor Brumbaugh will open the meet
ing.
Cold Has Eject. - Cold weather
has been having it's effect on the
number of visitors to the State Cap
itol and probably the smallest num-
Der in many months outside of cleo
tion week registered at the Office of
the Capitol guides. On two days.
which were the coolest of the whole
winter, there were but thirty visitors,
only ten being registered on one day.
Chestnut Blight. - According TO
oh
here there has been a recurrence of
the chestnut blight in some of the
interior counties and requests for
State tree experts to give advice have
been given About all the State is
now in a position to do is to tell peo-
pie to saw off the infected limbs and
burn them. The worst affected areas
appear to be up the Susquehanna
Valley, the western slope of the
mountains having practically no
trouble at all.
Board to Meet. - The State In
dustrial Board has been scheduled to
meet in Philadelphia on February l
for discussion of the proposed code
of safety for electrical workers. This
will be one of the most important
codes of the series devised by the
State and will affect thousands of
workmen.
Full Crew Cases. - Action may be
taken by the Public Service Commits
sion about the middle of next month
on the full crew cases. They are now
being discussed by members of the
commission who have received briefs
from the counsel for the interested
parties. The decision will cover all of
the alleged violations submitted.
To Clear DoclIets. - Steps to clear
the dockets of the Dauphin county
court of all suits brought by the State
for recovery of anthracite coal tax
nnHnr tho nf 1Q12 will hn takpr
within a week. There are about
seventy pending in all of which ver-
diets will be taken for the defense.
the State having lost the test case.
Pending some legal action the auditor
generals department will assess the
tax under the act of 1915 which has
not been tested in the courts.
Invited to Speak. - DR.. b. Frank
lin Royer, chief medical inspector of
the State Department of Health, has
been asked to lecture on Housing in
Relation to Health" before the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences. in Brooklyn, n. Y, tonight.
The lecture was given year ago be-
fore the Ludwick Institute in the
Academy of Natural Sciences, Phla-
delpl-ia, Pa.
Conference Here. The Public
Service Commission to-day arranged
for a conference to be held here on
Tuesday at p. IN. with the Pennsyl-
vania railroad and coal operators and
and shippers on the. protests made
against the company's rule that cars
would not be supplied for loading of
coal from wagons. Many operators
have protested that the rule would
hamper them in shipping because
mines are not all equipped with sid
ings and tipples.
Measles at JOhnstoWn. State
Health Inspectors were to-day detailed
to go to Johnstown to assist local au-
thorities in handling an outbreak of
measles. Sunday schools may be
closed.
Dciningcr Takes Office. - James
c. Deininger yesterday assumed his
duties as recorder of the State Board
of Pardons to which he was elected in
the latter part of December.
Decline to Talk. - Governor Brum-
baugh and Adjutant General Stewart
have declined to discuss the recon-
mendations of Secretary of War Gar
rison and comments by United States
army officers on the National Guard
system.
Inspector Killed. - Word reached
the Capitol to-day that Alexander
Crissinger, a State highway inspec-
tor in Westmoreland county, had been
killed by being thrown from his
buggy.