Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-26

ezzEzzz i1aaKlEB complaints which
have attracted some attention.
Next Tuesday the complaint of AL
X. Thomas against the Susquehanna
Township Water Company will be
heard, those against the Hummels-
town Water Company the next day
and on the following day the Newport
Water cases.
The commission has received
complaint by G. w. Dunkle against
the Trout Run Water Company and
an inquiry may be made. The parties
in the complaint of the city of York
against the York Water Company have
agreed upon a stipulation so that no
further testimony need be taken.
Mitchell Elected. - Dr. II. w. Nit
chell. superintendent of the Warren
state Hospital was elected president
or the association of superintendents
and trustees yesterday at Norristown.
Contracts For Materials. The
contracts for materials for the Nor
ristown State Hospital barn were
awarded yesterday by the Board of
Grounds and Buildings. .rhe hospital
VIII do its own work.
Officers Home. - A number of Off
GERS of the Second Regiment have
been returned to Philadelphia because
OF the fact that since the transfer
to artillery they are not needed. The
FIRST Artillery has completed its work
Returned to City. - c. f.. Caroth-
ers, deputy secretary of agriculture is
home from Philadelphia where he at
tended the milk investigation meeting
Governor Pleased. - &C overnor
Brum baugh to-day expressed his
gratlteation at the fine showing made
py the Pennsylvania Guard team in
the national matches. The Pennsyl-
vanians finished third. The team was
sent TO Florida from Ell Paso.
Gas Rates Go Up. - Three big gas
companies in Western Pennsylvania
have filed notice of intention to in
crease their rates for natural gas this
year. The companies operate in five
counties.
Files Notice. - The Fort Bedford
Inn Company, of Bedford. has filed
notice of increase of stock from S10,-
600 to $4,000.
Attended Meetings. - DR.. ]. George
Becht, secretary of the State Board of
Education, has returned from Eas-
ton where he attended the meetings
at Lafayette college of which he is a
trustee.
Home From South.-Commission
or Fisheries n. r. Butler has returned
from New Orleans where he attended
the forty-sixth annual meeting of the
american Fisheries Society. Mr..
Buller was elected chairman of the
executive committee of the society.
which places him in line for the presi-
dency. On the return trip he was
accompanied by the commissioners
from Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Rhode Island and an inspection of the
Cory, Erie and Torresdale hatcheries
was made. The commissioners were
very much surprised to see what
Pennsylvania is doing for the propa-
CATION of the fishes. They spoke very
highly of the fine Matching buildings.
n oh HcI,
saying that the Matching stations We're
the finest and most up-to-date of any
State they had visited
School Payments Start. - State
Treasurer Young to-day began the
payment of the school appropriation
tricts shared in the distribution
Uniontown received S242S5 and Will
liams township. S1,330.43. In Cum
berland districts paid included Dick
lnson, Independent, North Middleton
Upper and Lower Mifflin. About so
districts were paid $4,000.
Officers Commissioned. - SEVENTY
six special policemen. all but six for
mer officers, We're to-day commission
ed for the Carnegie Steel Company.
1t was the largest single number
handled in long time.
Hearing at Sunbury. Commits
sioner Ainey will sit tomorrow in the
sunbury Electric Company com
plants
Want Switch Restored. - The COM
plant of the Wilkes Rolling Mill Co.,
Sharon, against the Erie Railroad for
removal of a switch, was heard to-
day by Commissioner Ainey who sug-
gested that the parties at issue make
an effort to reach an agreement
New inspector. - Robert Danison
OF Nanticoke, was appointed 20 fac
tory inspector to-day.
New Justices. Governor Brum-
baugh to-day appointed these justices
of the peace for Berks county: Ralph
e. Schooner, Marion township, and
Wesley x. Schultz, Hereford town.
ship.
New Surgeon. - The Adjutant Cen
erals Department to-day announced
the appointment of Charles James
McAnulty, Philadelphia, as an assist
ant veterinary surgeon with the rank
of second lieutenant. He was as
signed to the First Cavalry.
Date Changed. - The November
meeting of the State Board of Par
dons has been postponed from No
vember Is to November 16.
Compensation an Estate. In an
opinion to the State Bureau of Statis-
tics of the Department of Labor and
Industry Deputy Attorney General
Kun holds that an amount of money
adjudged to be due as compensation
for injury can be considered as part
of an estate. The question arose In
the case of a Somerset man who died
the day after an agreement had been
made by the State Insurance Fund to
pay him lump sum as compensation
for an injury received while working
for coal company several months
before. The compensation was paid
after the mans death. 1t is held that
the agreement established tho rela-
tion of debtor and creditor, and the
amount paid could have been dis
posed of by will. Therefore the COM
pensation Is payable to legal repre-
sentatives or heirs of the deceased
and the question of an escheat is
held not to be pertinent.
To Address Council. - Albert l..
Allen, assistant manager of the State
Workmen's Insurance Fund, will speak
before the Lehigh Valley Safety Coun-
ell, No. 5, at Nazareth, tomorrow
evening. The organization he will ad-
dress includes owners and employees
of manufacturing plants located in
the slate and cement belt included in
the Allentown, Easton and Bethle-
hem district. He will outline, to the
organization, the experience of the
State Fund in its connection with the
operation of the Workmen's Compen-
sation act.
win Meet Here. = The Approvals