Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24
'DAUPHIN'S FIRES
WERE EXPENSIVE
Figures Issued by the State
Fire Marshal's Department
Show Their Extent

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Ings visited by flames
H6D amounted to s1,I26,-
400. The State secured three convic-
tlons of persons for incendiarism and
eiSht cases were not pressed because
evidence could not be obtained to war
rant arrests. Seven of these instances
were in Harrisburg and one in Lower
Paxton township.
Thirty-two inspections of buildings
declared to be dangerous were made.
YORK county had two convictions for
hres and Cumberland. Perry and Ju-
niata one each. Cumberland had six
| cases In which no evidence could be
obtained and Perry one.
The number of fires in Cumberland
was 14s with loss of s15S.95S: in Perry
oil with loss of $2S.o51; Juniata, IS with
loss or s121S5: Lebanon, 90 with loss
OF SI3,129; York, 2S6 with loss of s14O.-
6I0; Lancaster, $50 with loss of $751;
In the whole State there We're q. .oo7
fires with loss of s14.4s2,s3O covered
twelve times by insurance.
sitting I'm ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ers Ainey and Killing are sitting in
Flttsourgh to-day to hear the jitney
ana water works cases. They will re-
main there until tomorrow evening.
WOOL Men to Meet.-Representati
Oh men Identified with the wool and
textile trades will meet with Secretary
ration tomorrow to discuss ways and
means to increase the number of sheen
In the State. Purchase of sheen are
oeing made in number of adjoining
States.
Filed Notiee.-The Dale Light, Heat
ana POWER Company, of Johnstown. has
MED notice of issue of $4,000 of bonds
Tor extensions of plant The Mechanics
trust Company, of this city, is trustee
Appointed Manager. David b.
1ohns' FORMER legislator from Allie
gheny county, was to-day appointed
by the Governor to be a manager of
the State Training School at Nor
deceased.
Sand1date Quits. - A. l.. Mulhern,
Union Labor candidate for the Legis-
lature in the Seventeenth Philadelphia
district, filed his withdrawal TODAY.
The name of David d. Fisher, Mt.
R!easant, was to-day substituted as
Washington party candidate in the
First Westmoreland district
new inspector. Richard Maize
BOSWELL, Somerset county, was to-day
appointed mine inspector fthe Fifth
Ditumlnous district to succeed l. G.
Roby, deceased.
Major Vale Resigns.-The Adiutant
Generals Department to-day an
nounced that the President had ac-
cepted the resignation of Major E. NJ.
vale, Carlisle, Eighth PENNSYLVANIA
infantry. Major Vale is law clerk of
the Public Service Commission.
New Officers. John S. Purucker.
Pittsburgh, was to-day appointed a
captain OF artillery and assigned to
Battery +, First artillery and Samuel
-. Hollis. Pittsburgh, appointed a |
nrst lieutenant and assigned to Bat
terry Is, First Artillery
Memorial Meeting Plans. - Secre-
M
Will preside tonight at the memorial
meeting to be held in the hall of the
House of Representatives under the
auspices of the PENNSYLVANIA State So
clety for the late Samuel w. Penny
packer. Governor Brumbaugh. State
Librarian Montgomery and others
will speak
10 Settle Managership. - Indica-
lions are that the managership of the
state insurance Fund, which has been
under discussion for months, will be
settled before November /. w. j.
Roney of Philadelphia, has been men
TONED for the place, but Assistant
Manager Albert L. Allen is being
strongly urged for the office as he has
been in charge from the start. Paul
n. Furman, chief of statistics, is also
talked Of
Cash Coming In. = A good supply
OF cash is commencing to come in at
the State Treasury and payments of
general warrants are moving along
more rapidly. The mountain of
requlsitions has almost disappeared.
Likely to Compromise. - 1t is prob
able that the commission named to
investigate milk prices at. Philadel
phia will make a compromise. The
general impression is that after an
investigation it will try for an agree
ment.
No Extra Time Granted. No
extra time has been granted in the
commuters case from suburban Phila-
delphia. The time allowance is Just
where agreed upon at the conference
here last week.
First Back in Guard. - At National
Guard headquarters it was stated to-
day that the First regiment was auto
matically back in the National Guard
as soon as it was mustered out and
that If officers chose to resign that
was their affair.
Object to Black. Objections TO
the appointment of DR.. r. J. Black.
former mayor of McKeesport, as one
of the State election commissioners,
are understood to have been made by
friends of Chairman William H Cole
man, of the Allegheny county Re
publican committee. who is also a /
Republican candidate for Congress.
Governor Brumbaugh declined to
make any statement regarding the
matter.
Making Investigation. S. ST.
Riddle. of the Department of Labor
and Industry, is in Philadelphia, maxi
ing investigation into the manner in
which compensation has operated in
that city.
Complains of Station. - Complaint
of the Jersey Central Station at Le-
highton has been filed with the Public |
Service Commission.
Committee to Meet. The COM |
mittee on approvals of the State In
dustrial Board will meet at the Cap
itol tomorrow to pass upon safety
and other devices.
Attending Hearing.-W. N TrinkIe.
former deputy attorney general, and
Senator J. II. Thompson, of Beaver
Falls. were at the Ca nifn1 To dn,.