Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-30
News at a Glance

HARRISBURG, Aug. so.--In an opinion
handed down by the Attorney Generers
Department to James T., Roderick, ohief
Of the Bureau OF Mines, the department
holds that the section of the act OF 1911
which provides that all holes in bitumlnous
mines shall be fired when all workmen
are out of the mines, except the shot hrers
and others designated by the foreman to
protect property, applies to all mines In
the bituminous district.
HARRISBURG, Aug. sO.--smulis Legis-
| lative Handbook issued each year at the
| Capitol, will be off the press and ready for
distribution about the middle Of September
LANCASTER. Pa, Aug. sO.-Catharine,
the 4-year-old daughter of George Painter,
was severely burned on the body last eve
| ming, while playing with matches The
mother wrapped the child in strip OF
carpet, extlnsuishing the flame.
HARRISBURG, Aug. sO.--The New York
| and Pennsylvania Company, which operates
| paper mills at Lock Haven and Johnson
| burg, has filed complaint with the Public
| Service Commission against the New York
| Central Railroad Company, alleging that
| the proposed increased rate for carrying
| bituminous coal from the mines in Hawk
| Run district to the Bald Eagle Junction. to
be transferred to the Pennsylvania lines, is
unjust and unreasonable.
| ATLANTIC CIT, y. j., Aug. 30.-Beryl
| c. Kendrick, an aviator here will attempt
| tomorrow to establish a record for flight
| from Atlantic City to New York and return
| Kendriclt plans to leave early in the MORN
| ing and expects to make the trip up the
coast to Sandy Hook and thence to Man
| haitian at 109th street and the North River
in two hours, with one stop at Seaside Park
| en- route for fuel He will attend meeting
Of the New York Flying Club before start
Ing on his return trip.
NEW YORK, Aug. 80. - Countess Won
Bernstorff arrived late yesterday from Ber-
lin on the Scandnavlan-Amerlcan liner
Frederick VIII to join her husband, the
German Ambassador, who went to meet her
on the United States cutter Calumet The
Countess said she was going to Rye for
few days and would then go to Washington
and visit friends she had not seen since
the beginning of the war.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9O.-Advances in pay
of 9216 employees in transportation service,
including all classes from car cleaners to
superintendents, and totallng S65o,ooo an
nually, have been announced by the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company, to take ef-
feet on Friday. The Increases were sane.
toned by the directors of the company as a |
reward to employees for not joining the |
Amalgamated Association of Street and |
Electric Railway employees in the recent |
surface car strikes.
HARRISBURG, Aug. S0.-Auditor Gen. |
eral Powell. adjutant of the Tenth Regi- |
ment of the National Guard now at the |
Mexican border, has returned to the Capitol |
on a 30-day furlough. He will spend the |
next two weeks at his department. |
He returned to find warrants Of his de- |
partment awaiting payment at the State |
Treasury to the amount of S1,500,0O0 in |
excess of the available funds of the State. |
JOHSSTOWS, Pa, Aug. 30.-Fifty dele !
gates representing all except two of the |
20 third class cities of the State are at |
the seventeenth annual convention of the |
League of Third Class Cities.
INJURIES RECEIVED when struck by |
automobile while playing in front of her
home may cost the life of Elizabeth Robin |
son, IL years old of 415 North Forty-sec-
ond street. Leo Magee, 20 years old of 125 |
North Yewdall street, who drove the car, |
was arraigned before Magistrate Harris |
today and held for a further hearing The
girl is in the Presbyterian Hospital.
LONDON. Aug. 80. - The Norwegian
steamship Isdalen. formerly the Tyr, of
1900 tons. has been sunk, says a dispatch
from Christiania. -
BERLIN, Aug. 3O.-An official statement |
issued by the Austro-Hungarian Admiralty |
says: Lieutenant Konyovic on August &c |
attacked with two other naval planes a |
group of hostile patrol steamships in the |
Ionian Sea. The naval planes were violently |
shelled by the vessels but returned un- |
harmed"
LONDON, Aug. 80. - "The rise In the |
price of cotton" says Reuters Alexan-
dria, Egypt, correspondent threatens a |
serious disturbance here. The Bourse has |
decided not to allow dealings in cotton at |
any price h CHER than S23 until September |
20, thus constituting special moratorium. |
II is understood that this decision is due to |
the uncomfortable position Of jobbers who |
have been selling short in anticipation of a |
fall in the price Of the staple, and are now |
unable to meet their losses"
TRALEE, Ireland, Aug. 3O.-Police and |
soldiers have seized the machinery and |
plant where the newspapers Nubainer, |
Kerryman and Liberator were published. |
The authorities acted under a warrant is |
sued by General Sir John Maxwell, COM |
mander of the forces in Ireland, charging |
the newspapers with publishing on August |
10 an article calculated to cause dlsafrec- |
ton
WASHINGTON, Aug. s0.-Information |
that Mexico will introduce before the In
ternatonal Commission evidence alleging |
American outrages along the border by |
both civilians and soldiers has reached the |
State Department. Clerks are compiling |
evidence for counter-clams and for the |
regulation of the Mexican charges. This |
evidence will be sent to Portsmouth for the
use OF the American commissioners. and
several State Department clerks and stenOg-
raphers will be sent along 10 assist them.