Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05

, - kaEaEzsaIzA8 penSation claim,
! is held by the State Board in dis
missing the appeal of the Penn Coal
| Company, of Scranton, in the claim
of Peter Ermel Ermel was injured
! and developed tuberculosis of the
! lungs. The injury was held to have
! brought on the disease or aggravat-
! ed an existing condition.
| In another mine case it is held
! that the claimant was injured while
! engaged in some horse play" which
| caused a barrel to explode from
| steam pressure and compensation IS
/ refused.
The widow of Albert Halvordson,
| Philadelphia, is awarded compensa-
! ton for death of her husband who
| fell overheard from lighter owned
| hy the Porter Gildersleeve Company,
| Philadelphia. He is held to have
! been the watchman and that the
| lighter was not engaged in maritime
! pursuits at the time.
| In the case of widow now con-
| fined in q state hospital for the in
| sanee 1t is held that she can claim
no legal dependency on her husband
! and therefore no claim for compen-
| sation because of his death. The
| Board finds in the case of an en-
! ploye of the Baldwin Locomotive
works, who failed to file a claim in
tie DeTlOu DGCduSG OI pay
| ments made to him, that it must be
| Shown that the payments were con-
+ sidered as compensation. AS the act
| was not complied with an award is
set aside. The ruling is made in Il
! mining case that when an employ
/ er seeks to modify or terminate an
agreement the burden is upon the
elnploye to show that the disability
! has changed
/ The Board dismissed seven appeals
| 2nd ordered a re-hearing in Brady
vs.. Booth, Warren county.
Full Crew Bfiefs-Briefs are now
! being filed in the complaints .alleg-
ing violations of the full crew law
which were recently heard by the
| Public'Service Commission and argu-
! ment will be listed for q date within
the next few weeks. These cases in
Volve the question of what should be
| considered as yard movements.
The commission will have it's first
executive session of the new year on
| Monday and Wednesday will hear
| complaints about withdrawal of
! trains by the Pennsylvania railroad
| between Pottsville and Shenandoah.
Hearings will be held during the
week at Pittsburgh and Johnstown.
Two important appeals from deci-
sion5 of the Public Service Commits
sion are listed for argument in the
supreme court next week, one being
the Ohio Valley water case.
State Board, Called-The State
Board of Education has been called
for session TO be held next Satur-
day to outline the policy for the year,
including the handling of federal aid
for vocational teacher training and
war courses in schools. Plans for
normal schools for the year will also
be discussed.
of Pardons December meeting is an
nounced for Wednesday, January 16.
For the first time in several months
there are no communication cases to
be considered.
Big Increases - Notices of in
| creases of capital stock or bonds run
ming into the millions have been filed
with the Public Service Commission
by state corporations. They include
Bethlehem Gas Company,
Allentown, bonds $4,000; Counties
Gas and Electric Company, Phila-
| delphia bonds, 100000; Wyoming
! Valley Water Supply Company
bonds. $46, 600, stock $205, 200 Phila-
delpbia and Garrettsford Street Rail-
way Company bonds, s22S,000.
just Onc-State educational Of
ficials have no comment to make up
on the protest sent by Owen r. Love
| joy, secretary of an organization in
terested in minor labor. against per-
mitting certificates to work to be is
sued to defective, subnormal or re-
tarded children. The only remark
made was by DR.. j. . George Beeht,
who stated that since the rule had
been made only one certificate had
| been requested in the whole state.
Temporary Job-Theodore ]. Muir
ray, of this city, has been appointed
a temporary messenger in the De-
| partment of Labor and Industry to
succeed Fred Thompson, of Belle
| fonte.
Plans Approved-State officials
have approved plans for parts of the
main collecting sewer of the Wissi-
noming creek collection district in
Philadelphia and for lateral sewers
| in the Delaware river and Frank
| ford creek drainage districts.
Keeping in Touch-Commissio
of Health Samuel G. Dixon, who is
! i'll in a Philadelphia Hospital, is
keeping in touch with his department
by telephone.
Perry County Complaints-Com-
plant against Perry county's two
narrow gauge railroads, the New
I,ort and Sherman's Valley and Sus-
| quehanna River and Western, was
| filed to-day before the Public ~s,crv-
! ice Commission on the ground that
| increases of rates are unreasonable,
| by the Oak Extract Company, OF
Newport. The company also claims
reparation.
Applicant Dics-Luzerne county
officials to-day notified the State
| Board of Pardons not to consider
tho application of Alexander p.
Beckett for a pardon. 1t was stated
IN the letter that Beckett is dead.
Tags Run High-Automobile
license tags issued for 1918 have
run above the 100000 mark, while
| over 10000 trucks have been
licensed. The revenue received for
tho new year is almost a million
and 81 quarter dollars.
Smallpox Outbreak-State medical
inspectors were to-day detailed to
East Pittsburgh to make an iilves-
tigation into an outbreak of snail
! pox which had occurred amcpg
workers at big industrial estab-
| lishments. Extensive quarantine
and vaccination regulations are
| likely to be made.
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