Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17

BrumbauSh. as president of the State
Board of Public Grounds and Build
ings, and officers of the State Senate
and there will probably be u formal
receiving of the pictures for the State
followed by action by the Senate.
The final touches were given to the
paintings yesterday by Miss Oakley
ana the scaffolding is now being re-
moved. Tie chamber will be opened
to public view of the paintings within
few days.
Miss Oakley will complete two more
panels for the Senate chamber this
year.
State Gains. - Figures compiled by
the statistical bureau of the State De-
partment of Agriculture show that
pennsylvania advanced from twentieth
TO seventeenth place as corn, rails
ing State and is now twelfth in the
Union as raiser of oats, having risen
from fourteenth place last year. The
latter gain was made in spite of the
fact that TIE crop was less than nor
NAL.
Rabies in 1915. - The State Live
stock Sanitary Board has reported
that rabies occurred in twenty nine
counties during 1916. There were 126
animals affected, including 115 dogs
and hogs. The number of cases is
less than usual.
ApprovalS Committee. The COM
mittee on approvals of safety devices
or the State Industrial Board held it's
January session to-day at the offices
and number of devices of various
Kinds were taken up and inspected.
The approvals will be issued later in
the month.
Attended Meeting. - Insuran e
Commissioner O'Neil attended the
meeting of insurance men in Pitts
burgh yesterday and received some
i Ksflt lttR.r l,,..
holders in companies which were in
the Pension Mutuars list. These COM
panieS may be revived.
Commission Gets Results. The
Public Service Commission last night
announced that the Lehigh Valley
Railroad had agreed to change meth
| odS or firing locomotives on the Mont
rose branch SO that there would be no
more complaints about smoke in
, Tunkhannock. The commission was
/ unable to make an order in the COM
plant owing to lack of authority, but
certified matters to the company and
secured an abatement.
Change in Quarters. The bureau
of tariffs of the Public Service Com
mission will vacate one of the houses
| IN Fourth street bought for park ex-
tension and used for several months
in order to make more room for the
engineering bureau. The tariff bureau
V.
Sitting at Bethlehem. Chairman
Ainey and Engineer Snow, of the
| Public Service Commission. are sit
ting to-day in Bethlehem in the bridge
proceedings.
Vale Gets Job. - 1t leaked out to-
day that Peter Z. Vale, prominent in
! politics in York, has been appointed
State game protector in place of f.
p. Gemmill, who was fired" recently
by Secretary Kalbfus.
Stay i'll jefferson Cases.-Governor
Brumbaugh to-day granted a respite
| staying the execution of Henry Ward
Mottern and Ernest Haines. the JEFF
ferson county murderers, until the
week OF March to permit their cases
to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Counsel for the reprieved youths stated
to-day that except for some dispositions
the appeal in the case of Haines was
ready and that Mottern's case would
be appealed as soon as he could be
| examined by alienists.
Wabash Approved. - The Public
Service Commission to-day approved
the proceedings in the transfer of the
! Pittsburgh-W Wabash Terminal Railroad
case to the Pittsburgh and West Vir-
ginia Railroad Company.
Township After Jitneys.-The town.
ship of Baldwin. Allegheny county,
to-day filed complaint against three
men, charging that they were illegally
| operating jitneyS and that their cars
were permitted to be grossly over
crowded. This is the first instance of
municipality complaining against
| jitneys.
Tariffs Iiled.-The Baltimore and
/ Ohio Railroad Company to-day filed
with the Public Service Commission
tariffs in the Philadelphia commuta-
| ton cases. which are in line with those
filed by other railroads.
Steclton Case Up.-The Public Serv-
ice Commission to-day heard the ap-
plication for approval of the contract
between the Pennsylvania Railroad
and Steelton for changes of tracks in
! Steelton. There was no opposition and
certificate will likely be issued
shortly.