Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
CAPITOL HILL NOTES
General Clement Here. - Ma

General Clement Here. - Major
General Charles NJ. Clement, COM
mander of the Pennsylvania division,
stopped in Harrisburg a short time
to-day on his way to Camp Hancock
at Augusta, Ga, accompanied by
Major Walter Sterling and Captain
II. d. Boals, of his staff. General
Clement said that he expected the
PENNSYLVANIA troops would soon be
moving south. He was greeted here
by number of friends. Captains
Churchman and Tilghman, aids, will
join him at Baltimore.
Both Recovering. ng.-Attorney Gen
cral Brown and Commissioner of
Health Dixon. the State government s
two sick officials, were to-day re-
ported as improving in health. Both
are attending to departmental mat
ters while in bed. DR.. Dixon is at
Mont Alto.
To Discuss Trolley Service.-Steps
to pave the way for better trolley
service in Harrisburg will be taken
this week by Chairman Ainey and
Chief Engineer Snow, of the Public
Service Commission, who will make
a survey of the conditions in the
city and then have a series of con-
ferences with officials of the COM
panies with a view to bettering
service.
Mr.. Iafean's Name Eorged.-Bank-
ing Commissioner Daniel f. Lafean
to-day charged that r. j. Lewis, the
missing York lawyer, had forged his
name to a note for 100 and that
an estate TO whose executor he
charged that Lewis had presented
the forged paper is out that sum.
The forgery is alleged to have been
committed in 1916 and Lewis to have
I 1.
The commissioner says he did not
endorse any paper for Lewis after
May 1, 1915.
Officer Resigns.-Adjutant General
Stewart to-day accepted the resig.
nation of Harrison +. Seaman, of
Hamburg, as a member of the Ma
tional Guard Reserve, TO enable him
10 attend the medical officers train
ing camp at Fort Ogelthorpe.
Twenty Sworn In.-Twenty men
from various parts of the state were
to-day mustered into the quarter
masters corps of the Seventh Di-
vision by federal officers. They in
cluded a number of experienced men.
State Files Answer.-The Attorney
Generals department to-day filed an
answer to the mandamus proceeding
brought against the Secretary of the
Commonwealth by f. 7. Matthews,
of Philadelphia, who wants to have
a judicial nominating petition filed
The answer is similar to that filed in
ether Philadelphia cases. 1t is prob
able that all of the mandamus cases
growing out of petitions will be
heard Monday.
Companies Dissolved.-The Dau-
phin county court to-day made or
ders dissolving the Guaranty Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, Allentown,
and Industrial Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, Reading, against which re-
ceivership proceedings were started
some time aGo.
Want Better Stations.
against the station facilities of the
New York Central Railroad at Clear
field was filed with the Public Service
Commission to-day by residents of
that borough. William II. Edwards,
Of jamestown, Cambria county, to-
day petitioned the commission to re-
quire the Pennsylvania Railroad to
establish a station at jamestown.
which, he says, contains 1000 per-
sons and is growing.
Going to California. General
Richard Coulter, Jr., former COM
mander of the Tenth Pennsylvania,
goes to Camp Fremont, Cal, where
he will command n brigade.