Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08

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Battery d, artillery. practice march
on date TO be selected by commander.
First Cavalry, July 22-29 Mt. Gretna.
Worl<men's Compensation. - The
Workmens Compensation Board will
meet at Scranton on Thursday, June 5.
Rig Safety Meeting.-Lew R. Pal
mer chief of the Bureau of Inspection,
and John $. Spicer, of the Division of
Hygiene of the Department of Labor
and Industry, are in Pittsburgh ar
ranging for large safety rally for the
western part of the state, to be given
under the auspices of the Pittsburgh
Chamber of Commerce, the National
Safety Council. the Bureau of Mines
and the Pennsylvania Department of
Labor and Industry.
Two Complaints Filed.-Two COM
plants were received this morning by
the Public Service Commission. One
was preferred by the Lancaster Auto
mobile Club against the New Holland
Turnpike Road Company and the New
Holland Railway Company on the
ground that the road is in poor repair
ana the rates for toll excessive and
unreasonable. The other was brought
by ]. NJ. Hoagland and ]. w. Gaugh
dealers in lumber, coal. cement, etc,
against the Sharpsville Railroad. which
has tracks three miles east of Sharon,
Pa. claiming that the railroad s
freight charges are unreasonable.
Gilday i'll Town. - Patrick Gilday
chief of the Bureau of Mediation and
Arbitration of the Department of La
Dor and Industry, is in the city to-day
comforting with Commissioner John
Price Jackson
Baseball Game june 24-Announce-
ment was made to-day of a baseball
game between the Harrisburg News
boys and the Department of Labor and
Industry on June "a. The department
team will line up tomorrow afternoon
at AIS at Island Park to play the
Highway Department team. The two
mines Will bat in the following order:
Highway Department, Wietman. catch
er; Jeffries and Ney, pitcher and sec
ond base; Snyder, first base; Fitzpat-
rick, shortstop; Giblin, third base;
Smith, left field; O'Connell, center
field; Tate and whistler, right field;
Labor and Industry, L. Smith, third
base; Sellers, shortstop; Lippincott,
second base: w. Smith, first base; Got
walt. left field; Gould, center field;
Miller, right field; Dick pitcher, and
Leeeh. catcher.
department P1cnlc. - Inc Depart
ment of Labor and Industry employees
are arranging for a departmental pic
mic, to be held at Hershey Park on
June II. The picnic will last all day
and there will be swimming, a base
ball game between the married and
single men and other sports.
Communication Asked.-An applica-
ton for the commutation of sentence
of II. +. Filler, a Westmoreland county
murderer, who has had six death war
rants read to him since last year, was
received by the Pardon Board this
morning. Filters case reached the Su-
preme Court and that body granted a
rule permitting the Westmoreland
court to rehear the case If it so de-
sired. After some testimony had been
taken the Westmoreland court refused
to grant a rehearing and now Filters
attorneys have asked that the death
sentence be changed to life imprison-
ment
Smallpox Reported. - A case of
smallpox was reported to the State
Department of Health this morning
from Downingtown. The patient is
Clifford Jefferson. who came to Penn
sylvania from North Carolina a few
weeks ago. He is now in the county
hospital and the twenty-four members
of track gang in which he was en-
ployed have been vaccinated and are
now under observation of health au-
thorities.