Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

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seventeen are based on homicide of
varying degrees. Only nine appli-
cations were made by persons in
volved in various grades of assault.
There are only half a dozen general
crimes in the whole category pre-
sented this month. an unusual condi-
tion.
Philadelphia has twenty-three of
the applications for clemency, one
of the three rehearing applications
and one of the held over list. 1t will
probably have a special day fixed.
Luzerne. Allegheny. Chester and
York are next with four each, while
Lackawanna and Schuylkill have
three each.
The homicide applicants include
two from Allegheny. who are sem
fenced to electrocution, while there
are three applicants saved from
death some years ago, George L.
Marion. Luzerne; Freda frost and
Louis Q. Hine, Philadelphia. Three
cases are manslaughter and nine are
second degree murder, Lackawanna,
Schuylkill and LuZerne having some
of them. The PiZZimenti case from
Dauphin. in which a man convicted
of second degree murder broke pa
role is up after five appearances be-
fore the board.
The board will not sit again until
September.
Listing Cases. State Compensa-
ton referees have begun to list
claims of aliens in enemy countries
TO secure action in accord with the
recent decision of Chairman Mackey
after the Intervention of the custo-
dian of alien property. Many of
these cases will be continued indeff-
nitely, but in others in which proof
is obtainable they will be pushed
through and any awards will be
taken charge of by the federal au-
thorities.
Compensation Case - The State
Compensation Board in a decision
rendered in Bendle VS.. Elder & Fort
enbaugh, a Cambria county case,
makes the recommendation that pay
ments for injuries should be re-
sumed as long as disability is shown.
but that The claimant should try
to forget his physical ailments, part
of which we think may not be due
to his accident and continue to
search for some work he can do"
This position has been taken by the
board in a number of cases lately,
1t being pointed out that men are
needed in industry and that they
should seek light employment if un-
able to work at former occupations.
In Western Pennsylvania case the
board makes this ruling in an alien
dependency claim. THE mother of
the deceased employe, being an alien
parent and never having resided in
the United States, payments of sums
of money due by the sons earnings
either directly or by the father for
the son should not esta blish de-
pendency either of the mother or of
the father. In the case of Moore
VS.. Tyler Tube e Pipe Co., McKees-
port. 1t is held that an employe who
doctored an injury to his foot, which
later became gangrenous and had to
be amputated. is not entitled to re-
cover any money expended for medi-
cal attention during the first four
teen days of his disability, but is en-
titled TO an award for compensation
for loss of his leg.
Governor to Attend. - Goverdnor
Brumbaugh will attend the ceremon-
les in honor of the opening of a free
bridge between Trenton and Norris
Vile next Saturday in both munich
palities, after which dinner will be
served at the Trenton Country Club.
The event will signalize the initial
victory of the campaign. to levy the
toll for passengers between the COM
nionwealths of New Jersey and Penn
sylvania.
YOrk's DiIemma.-Directors of the
Poor of York county are in a guam
dairy to know what to do in regard
to making the local almshouse a fit
place to live in, says a York dis
patch. They were ordered by state
officials to make the needed repairs,
and after they had taken steps to
do this. they charge. the plans pre-
pared were rejected by the State
Board of Charities. Public sentiment
is declared against the expenditure
Of large sum of money on the old
county building. When bids were
opened for the proposed repairs at a
meeting ii was found that the work
as outlined by the architect would
cost more than 100000. The pres
ent almshouse has been condemned
by the state authorities as a firstrap
and unsanitary.
GirardviIle Case-The Public Serv-
ice Commission to-day handed down
an order dismissing protests and re-
fusing a rehearing on behalf of the
Eastern Pennsylvania Heat, Light
and Power Company. in the matter
of the franchise and street lighting
contract between the borough of
Girardville and the Schuylkill Elec-
tric Company. The franchise, ordi-
nance and the contracts are ap-
proved, but the commission expresses
regret that the presence of the two
companies burdens the borough
with all the weight incident to COM
petitive waste, a condition which we
would not permit if either were
seeking entry in the face of a field
exclusively occupied by the other"
The commission also ordered the
Pittsburgh. Virginia and Charleston
Railroad to submit plans for i'm
provement of it's station facilities at
Frederiektown within ninety days.
New Chaplain-The Rev. DIR. A. E.
Piper, of Wilkes-Barre, was to-day
appointed chaplain with the rank of
captain in the Reserve Militia and
assigned to the Second Infantry.
Ernest l. Sawyer was promoted from
first lieutenant to captain of Com
pany B. Third Infantry, and resigna-
ton of First Lieutenant ]. d. An
drews, Williamsport, accepted.
Widespread Increases of
advances in rates effective about July
/ were filed with the Public Service
Commission to-day by several big
electric companies operating in East
ern Pennsylvania, among them the
Lehigh Navigation, Stroudsburg Elec-
trio Light and Power. Lehigh aYlley
Light and Power Bethlehem Elec-