Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-19

Victim Is enIlIleQ TO
benefits. This is the decision of the
Compensation Board in an opinion
written by Chairman Mackey in the
appeal from the award of the referee
in the case of Kate S. Kephart, claim
ant VS.. the Glasgow Iron Company,
whose husband, G. S. Kephart. was
killed as the result of inhaling gas
while at work. 1t was claimed that
Kephart had died of heart disease and
not as a result of accident.
In the appeal from the award of the
referee of benefits in the case of Kate
NJ. Dickey, claimant against the State
Workmen's Insurance Fund, defendant,
Chairman Mackey also rules that
heart disease did not cause the death
OF her husband but that he died as the
result of a fall near his home at Lines
vile. Pa. Mrs. Dickey will receive the
presses the belief that if heart trou-
BILE had caused the death the man,
VINO was carrying a grip, would have
fallen forward instead of backward.
Quarantine Maintained. - Several
more infantile paralysis cases were
confirmed by the State Health Depart
ment this morning. The Secretary of
NN-C SNAAhdy 0SllOOl SOnNtHllOH Indl
VIII be held mex week at Mercersburg
a been notified by the department
that no children will be allowed TO at
tend. Children will likewise be ex-
Guided from the excursion on the
Western Maryland line from Baltimore
to York by order of the department.
Set Fire to House. - A confession
OF lncendlarlsm was extracted by De-
putty Charles H. Rein. of the State
Fire Marshals department, from Gus
Sumbuski. of Mahanoy City, who ad-
mitted setting fire to his own home,
then picking up his I'VE children and
escaping from the house. He gave no
reason for his actions, but it is un-
derstood that he was under the in
huence Of liquor.
Quarantine Lifted. - Quarantine on
account of the epidemic of rabies in
Delaware county has been lifted by
the State Livestock Sanitary Board in
all tho townships of Delaware county
except Upper and Neither Providence,
Ridley and Springfield.
Gilday Here.-Patrick Gilday, chief
of h Bureau of Mediation and Arbi-
tration, of the Department of Labor
and Industry, is in Harrisburg to-day
comforting with Commissioners Jack
son. Mr.. Gilday, yesterday, effected a
settlement in a strike at the E. & H.
Levy Silk Mills. Portage. Pa. One
hundred and fourteen employees had
been on strike since April %. of this
year.
Seventeen Charters Approved. -
The Governor yesterday approved sew
enteen charters, the majority of which
are for businesses incorporated in or
about Philadelphia. One of the larg-
est of these was the charter granted
to the Standard Building and Loan As
ISOLATION of Butler, incorporated for
81, zoo, 900.
The Erie Exposition Association was
incorporated with out capital stock for
the purpose of educating the public
by exhibiting artistic, mechanical, ag-
ricultural and horticultural products.
Approximately $50 citizens of Erie
subscribed to one or two shares apiece.
F. P Fieger took 26s shares. Robert
j. Moorehead is treasurer and there
are 81 directors.
The charter of the National Nurs-
eryman Publishing Company, created
and existing under the laws of the
State of New York was transferred
with the approval of the Governor and
is now privileged to do business under
the laws of this State.
Machine Gun Battery. - Adjutant
General Stewart to-day announced
that the organization of a machine
", having been inspected and accord
ed recognition as a separate unit of
the National Guard by the militia
bureau, war department, the troop has
been mustered into the National
Guard. At the same time he an
nounced that the following officers
have been appointed to the First Cav
airy, as of August Is: First Lieuten-
ant Theodore Davis Boal, assigned to
machine gun troop; Second Lieutenant
George B. Thompson, assigned to ma
chine CUR troop; Second Lieutenant
Wilbur +. Leitzell. assigned to ma
chine gun troop, and that the new ma
chine gun troop has been assigned as
a separate unit of the First cavalry.
The troop will assemble mounted at
troop rendezvous on August 81 and
proceed to Mount Gretna on Tuesday,
August %. Upon arrival the COM
manding officer will report to the
United States mastering officer for in
structions as to physical examination,
ETC.; the uniforms and equipment will
be issued at camp.
Dental Surgeon. - The Governor
has appointed DR.. B. S. Behney, Har-
risburg, dental surgeon to the National
Guard of Pennsylvania. DR.. Behney is
now at Mt. Gretna awaiting orders to
Droceed To FL PasO.