Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-08

facts and not upon mere probabil-
tiles" the State Compensation Board
to-day declined to set aside the re-
fusal of the referee in the application
OF Marcella Andrulis, of Scranton,
against the Delaware and Hudson
Railways Company. Mrs. AndruluS
complained that her husband James
Andrulus had died as the result of
pneumonia superinduced py an in
jury received while in the employ or
tie company named. NO evidence of
INJURY could be found, nobody saw
Andrulus injured and he made no
complaint. The medical evidence was
thai he died of pneumonia.
On'Rate Case Ended. - Following
a complaint of unjust freight rates
on crude oil in carload lots from Wal
ford to Roussville, from May %, 1913,
to December IS, 191, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and the Pennsyl-
vania Company are ordered in a de-
cision handed down to-day by the
Public Service Commission to pay to
the complainant, the Gormania Re-
fining company s2,044.S7 perore July
81 1915. The rates which were too
high during the period named, the
commission announces, have been
since reduced.
Food Prosecutions. - The Dairy
and Food Bureau of the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture during the
month of June ordered III prosecu-
tions for violations of the various pure
food laws of the State and received
in fines and cold storage and oleo-
margarine licenses $4,546.71. The ma
jority of the prosecutions we're for the
sale of cream and milk which did not
come up to the State standard in
solids and butter fats. One case
where formaldehyde was used as a
va
eight prosecutions were brought in
cases where food stuffs were mis-
branded, contained poisonous in
gradients and were unfit for food pur-
poses. Twenty-Five samples of nom
alcoholic drinks were found to be
artifcally colored and ravored in
imitation of fruit extracts and some
contained saccharin. Three prosecu-
tions for the sale of oieomargarine
not properly labelled were made and
six prosecutions for the sale of goat
meat as mutton. The toraT receipts
of the bureau for the first six months
of the year were $26S,S16.oS.
State Contracts with Itself.-Attor-
ney General Brown to-day gave an
opinion to Joseph w. Hunter, first
deputy State highway commissioner,
to the effect that the State could
award a contract for furnishing auto
mobile license tags to the State Prison
Labor Commission, the lowest bidder
therefor and that the giving of bond
may be waived. Under this ruling the
automobile tags will be made in the
prisons, but the attorney general says
that both the department and the
commission should be satisfied that
the proposed contract can be prompt
ly and efficiently fulfilled"
Commission is Busy.-Members of
the Public Service Commission are in
session to-day to clear up more cases
which were heard during the Spring
and will have sessions on several days
next week. The full crew cases are
being considered.
Board in observation-disclosures of the
advisory board of the State Depart
ment of Health were in session at
Philadelphia with Commissioner Dixon
to-day considering the infantile paral-
ysis outbreak. An announcement re-
garding the policy to pursue is ex-
pected.
Ball Visits Camp.-William II. Ball,
secretary to the governor, left to-day
for Mt. Gretna, where he will visit the
organizations about TO leave. He will
then go to Philadelphia. Mr.. Ball has
visited the camp almost every day
since it began.
Company Gets Bump.-The Pub